It’s 10:25 p.m. when Sandra Snowden steers her midnight blue Ford Taurus into the parking lot near a line of tollbooths on Bay Harbor Islands. She flicks off the engine, hops out, and, within seconds, is clambering over the grassy hills that divide the east- and west-bound traffic. Never mind…
This is a story about man-breasts — the protuberances that inspired the Bro (or was it the Manssiere?), the flesh that guarantees membership in the Fat Bastard Club, and in the case of Miles Forman, the goods that make for a great movie. Three years ago, when he weighed a…
Dirty Love (First Look) Dragonball Movie Boxed Set (Funimation) Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Fifth Season (Warner Bros.) Fun With Dick and Jane (1977) (Columbia/Tristar) The Future of Food (Cinema Libre) Gilbert Gottfried: Dirty Jokes (Image) God Save the Queen: Punk Rock Anthology (Music Video Dist.) Hellbound (Warner Bros.) He-Man…
In less than a decade, first-person shooters like Doom and Halo have grown from a niche genre to a cottage industry. Whether it’s our love for their immersiveness, competition, or just old-fashioned bloodlust, the popularity of FPS games shows no sign of waning. They’ve become so much of a draw,…
Cinderella Man (Universal) Back in the Great Depression, boxing matches only cost a nickel, and the ring was uphill both ways. That’s the central message of this well-made if sappy bio of 1930s boxer Jim Braddock. Ron Howard’s direction and a stellar cast save the film from its one-dimensional characters…
Is sushi the new sex? In the big, bad world out there — to which some refer as the real world — sex is the sizzle that sells the deodorant and hair gel and gas-sucking highway mastodons and watery, gruellike beer that has about as much taste and character as…
Most people are probably beginning to understand that Art Basel Miami Beach has spawned a crapload of periphery events all vying for the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Bigbucksartbuyer. Among Basel’s unofficial happenings are a handful of art fairs that have attained a noteworthy stature. Three new fairs will make…
Restaurants, like politicians, have to play to their bases. Two new Miami Beach dining venues — Sam’s Deli and Grill on 41st Street, and Clarke’s, an Irish-style pub located south of Fifth Street in SoBe — are doing just that, and both seem well suited to satisfying the distinctly different…
THU 1 Ask a woman who loves a man in uniform, and she’ll tell you a sooty, sweaty firefighter is the ultimate “working man” fantasy. But there’s no better way to ruin the illusion than to reveal a thick pelt of nasty back hair under the flame-proof garb. Pay homage…
It’s only fitting that Miami, the Jamaican music mecca of the U.S., would host a reggae festival that transcends the typical concert parameters. The South Florida Family Reggae Festival will feature your usual procession of stalwart supergroups such as Third World, Marcia Griffiths, Chrisinti, and the Fourth Dimension Band. But…
Close your eyes and visualize Dennis Rodman. What do you see? A laughing b-baller with leopard-spotted hair, helping lead the Chicago Bulls to victory? A towering vision in wedding-dress drag, drumming up media attention for his book? Or the unexpected winner of the reality-television pot on Celebrity Mole Yucatan? Dennis…
Sick of new-school rockers whose grasp of music history begins with the 1977 release of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks and ends with Gang of Four’s 1981 album Solid Gold? If so, we suggest you check out pop blues group Spiritmachine. There’s a hint of Keith Richards’s bluesy…
When cinema mavericks formed United Artists, studio bigwigs called their efforts a case of the lunatics taking charge of the asylum. Risking similar criticism, indie curator Anat Ebgi and artist Jen DeNike hatched Frisbee — the fun-poking anti-fair set to take control of South Beach’s Cavalier Hotel during Art Basel…
One doesn’t have to be related to Paulie Walnuts or Big Pussy Bonpensiero or their goombahs to hook up with conceptual crew Friends with You. Made-in-Miami Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, who together form the Friends with You gang, are opening up the books at MoCA at the Goldman…
Grand colonnades, triumphant arches, and other equally imposing yet wholly superfluous elements have invaded Miami like an architectural virus, and one local architect wants it to stop. Through December 4, Miami’s Luis Pons will unveil his plastic 30-by-30-by-20-foot Fabulous Floating Inflatable Villa — a satirical monument to the pervasive McMansion…
The Art Basel labyrinth contains treasures aplenty yet nowhere else inside will visitors find the sort of epic installations displayed at OmniArt, a former unofficial Basel favorite. Housed in three nondescript warehouses west of the Miami Performing Arts Center, last year’s OmniArt 1 featured awe-inspiring works like Kaarina Kaikkonen’s And…
No matter how brilliant their art, many galleries don’t have $50,000 to drop on a booth inside the Miami Beach Convention Center. But don’t worry — Art Basel isn’t a complete snob-op. The fair’s selection committee has devised an alternate opportunity: If your gallery is up-and-coming and innovative yet strapped…
Psychedelic punk, narrative noir, or pop Surrealism, whatever you call it, lowbrow art is an irreverent pop culture phenomenon that remains largely ignored by the traditionally highbrow art crowd. “Local galleries have pretty much failed to support us,” says Francesco LoCastro, local painter and curator of “Parallel Universe,” which opens…
Touted as the most successful and prestigious event of its kind in the hemisphere, Art Basel Miami Beach will massage the egos of some of the wealthiest people on the planet. “This is definitely the most significant contemporary art fair in the country, and we’ll be seeing what one could…
During Art Basel, local art dealers exhibiting works on consignment from domestic and international galleries are stocking inventories that include some staggeringly priced pieces and, with art crime statistics on the rise, are leaving nothing to chance by eagerly embracing a host of precautionary measures to safeguard artworks. Interpol ranks…
As Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), considered by many the monster truck of contemporary art fairs, rounds the bend on its varsity season, South Florida finds itself frozen in the international art community’s headlights and quivering over the dynamic transformation the event has effected on the local scene since blazing…
For its fourth incarnation — as with the first three — Art Basel presents one of a few acceptable opportunities each year for locals to behave like tourists, plodding down sidewalks while following “points of interest” maps, craning necks to glimpse celebrities, not being — or at least not acting…
