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Night&Day
Scarlet Fever
You’ll be seeing red at the Biltmore tonight.
By Raina McLeod
Published: February 7, 2008
Fans of flowery frocks and mustard-brown muumuus, step aside. It’s takes a bold babe to handle the pressures of rocking a little red dress (LRD) during a night on the...
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Night&Day
Binge on Culture
See and do it all during Miami Museum Members Month.
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: February 7, 2008
What Miami really needs is a museum that speaks to our interests. Where, for instance, is the I-95 Roadside Collision Drivetarium? Or the William Brickell Institute for the $18...
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Night&Day
Can You Hum a Few Bars?
By Raina McLeod
Published: February 7, 2008
After years of singing along to the radio, you thought you had a voice that would make you the next American Idol. So you went to the auditions, got shut down, and ended up on...
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Night&Day
Before Madonna and Brangelina
Josephine Baker set the benchmark for fabulosity.
By MARA LEVENTHAL
Published: February 7, 2008
Miami is supposed to be one of the world’s sexiest cities. Unfortunately the sex here has as much feminist power as sales racks of Victoria’s Secret lingerie. Thank...
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Night&Day
Still Purring
La Gata shows these youngsters how the damn thing is done.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: February 7, 2008
Young, sexy, fresh. New blood -- that seems to be all fickle Miamians want. If you’re a seasoned veteran of your art, that doesn’t matter to some of these ageist...
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Night&Day
It’s Getting Hot in Here
Dancers strip, crash, and sizzle in Alaska.
By Dan Renzi
Published: February 7, 2008
Alaska is getting hotter these days, and we can feel it here in Miami. But it's not global warming – not yet anyway. The Diana Szeinblum Dance Company is taking up...
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Night&Day
Chuckle Redemption
Snag a second chance for laughs with Mike Epps.
By Raina McLeod
Published: February 7, 2008
The last time comedian Mike Epps hit a Miami stage, we were too wasted to remember what happened. Did he or didn’t he discuss Martha Stewart’s incarceration and say,...
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Metro
Homeless Sex Offenders Face Eviction
State officials scrap under-the-bridge policy.
By Isaiah Thompson
Published: February 7, 2008
Around 8 p.m. last Friday, a taxi sat on the westbound shoulder of the Julia Tuttle Causeway, blinkers flashing, awaiting its passenger. He emerged from the shadows beneath the...
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Metro
Parks Bond Languishes
Miami leaders scared voters into approving a $255-million bond that's gone nowhere.
By Janine Zeitlin
Published: February 7, 2008
A Sunday at Roberto Clemente Park in Wynwood: Working-class families cluster to hear conga drums accompanied by squeaking swings and shouts of glee. By the bleachers, sellers...
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Riptide
Counting the Down
Miami tallies its homeless.
By Isaiah Thompson, Francisco Alvarado and Jason Handelsman
Published: February 7, 2008
Counting the Down Filed under: News Nick Basquez pulled his van under an I-95 overpass in downtown Miami, where a dozen people lay sleeping in piles of rags. A man was...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of February 7, 2008
"Cycling feels more like cautious creeping to avoid being killed by speeding cars and clueless pedestrians."
Published: February 7, 2008
Move Over, Motorists! Chicken, egg, and spoke: Thanks for Isaiah Thompson's article about cycling in Miami, "Share the F***ing Road" (January 31). Eric Tullberg is rapidly...
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Music
They Got the Beat
Talking with Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's.
By Annie Zaleski
Published: February 7, 2008
In the early Eighties, the Go-Go's were considered the quintessential California girls, mainly thanks to sunny New Wave songs such as "Vacation" and "We Got the Beat." But...
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Music
It's in the Mix
What not to put on that Valentine's Day CD.
By Cole Haddon
Published: February 7, 2008
Every music geek has made at least one. The romantic mix CD is a sure-fire way to woo a would-be lover's heart or, if your goals are more base, just get laid. But the wrong...
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Suicide Blonde
In Flames
High on Fire rocks Churchill's.
By Arielle Castillo
Published: February 7, 2008
Last Friday the crowd at Churchill's included hesher types, bikers in Motörhead jackets, crusty bicycle people wearing shorts and stitched-up leather fanny packs, and a...
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Burner
Playing It by Ear
The Blind Boys of Alabama don’t need sight to sing their sweet soul.
By Abel Folgar
Published: February 7, 2008
Let's begin with one impressive fact: The Blind Boys of Alabama have been performing for 69 years. Formed in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, this soul/gospel...
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Burner
Dan Quayle Loves the Kids
Former veep tracks musicians' drug use, world yawns.
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: February 7, 2008
Overlooked amid the hoopla surrounding the recent Mitchell Report — former Sen. George Mitchell's investigation into the use of steroids and human growth hormone in Major...
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Burner
Industrial Revolution
Dan Kennedy's Rock On: An Office Power Ballad.
By Jonah Bayer
Published: February 7, 2008
Anyone who's ever worked in the music industry is probably aware of the massive difference between the executives who release records and the consumers who buy them. But no one...
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Livewire
Agent Orange
By Abel Folgar
Published: February 7, 2008
Well, we've certainly come a long way since 1979. And we will most certainly not delve into any kind of bizarre correlations between the melting surf-guitar-driven punk rock of...
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Livewire
Black Sun Empire
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: February 7, 2008
Operating out of Utrecht, the Netherlands, the three-piece collaborative known as Black Sun Empire is now in its 10th year of tearing up dance floors and producing tunes both...
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Livewire
Bang Camaro
By Abel Folgar
Published: February 7, 2008
Bang Camaro is hard to pin down — bass, drum, three guitars, and a vocals choir that can include up to 18 people. Is it cacophony? Discordance? Full-fledged riot? Or just...
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