Cyclists are snobby enough. With their commitment to fitness and knowledge that their chosen mode of transport didn’t contribute to any wars in the Middle East, bikers are hard-core idealists, risking life and limb for a chance to get there on two man-powered wheels. So it’s fitting they also demand…
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is the title of one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most popular films, but it could very well be the title of most of the works in his oeuvre. And his 1993 Kika — a satire of exploitive television, with shocking scenes of rape,…
History tells us that over the centuries, people have been inspired to take off across the world in hot pursuit of two things: God and spices. Portuguese explorers sailed all the way around the tip of Africa to get to India and its turmeric, so we don’t want to hear…
Whereas songbird Nina Simone relied heavily on blues and jazz, Roberta Flack brought more folk to the table — perhaps a reflection of her first album coming out so close to the summer of ’69 — as well as groove-heavy Southern soul, showing some of her North Carolina roots. If…
According to the boob tube, Miami is where the lawless hide out to strike like gators crouching in the saw grass. It’s been the backdrop to a machine-gun-wielding Tony Montana, crime-fighting playboys Crockett and Tubbs, and more recently, Dexter as he hacks into another victim; it’s even hosted the hookers…
Here’s how Catholicism works: Before you give up chocolate, meat, or reality TV for Lent, you get to have a big hedonistic carnival. Oh, you crazy papists! And one of the most famous carnivals in the world, Colombia’s Carnaval de Barranquilla, best known for its energetic La Batalla de Flores…
Right on the heels of the Miami Jewish Film Festival, the 24th annual Israel Film Festival (the Miami edition) starts tonight and runs through February 25th. It opens with A Matter of Size, the same movie that opened the Miami Jewish Film Festival, a prime choice because it took home…
Monday: Hey, all you Argentina-philes. Both of you. Española Way’s Tapas & Tintos offers complimentary tango lessons every Monday night, but you should probably shell out for some sangria. Tuesday: We know, we know. Only in Miami is it newsworthy that you can show up to a bar and not…
Fifty percent of you will claim Valentine’s Day is an invention of Hallmark; the other half of you will pitch a fit when flowers don’t arrive. We’re not naming genders here, you know who you are. Whether you feel jipped and jaded about this weekend’s holidays or swoon-able and sentimental,…
A few months ago, we told you about the Miami Beach Cinematheque’s plans to move the theater to City Hall this summer. The impending change made some of you nervous that a new space would denude the MBC of most, if not all of its Española Way charm. Fear not,…
Somewhere in Switzerland, physicists are making two beams of subatomic particles called hadrons travel in opposite directions inside an accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. When the beams eventually collide, these eggheads think they will have re-created the conditions just after the Big Bang. We think we know of a…
Make a little birdhouse in your soul. It was good advice in 1990, before Kurt Cobain came along and told us something smelled like teen spirit, and we all went wild. They Might Be Giants could be considered the OCR (original college rockers), achieving fame via campus gigs and college…
Oscar nominators clearly have a soft spot for Israel. In the past two years, both Beaufort and Waltz With Bashir were contenders but not winners. This year’s Israeli film Ajami just might win, though. The unscripted dialogue is mostly in Arabic; it was codirected by Israeli and Arab-Israeli filmmakers, Yaron…
Never mind that she picked herself up from being the poor daughter of a washerwoman and became the “toast of Paris”; that she was the first African-American female superstar; that she smuggled intelligence to the Nazi resistance in coded sheet music; that she adopted 12 multiethnic orphans, whom she called…
Every day, you fight the temptation as you make that final turn into your job’s parking lot. The temptation to rev the gas and snake down the peninsula over the Seven Mile Bridge toward the desolate Dry Tortugas in search of anonymity laced first with a little speed. And for…
David Bowie showed up for the Ziggy Stardust cover shoot with a Marlene Dietrich photo book in hand. And he wasn’t the only one inspired by this German film star whose look was steeped in the theatrics of the drag balls of 1920s Berlin. Director Josef von Sternberg centered his…
In a city where pythons explode after snacking on alligators and robbers break into the wrong house and rough up abuelos instead of drug lords, you’d expect stand-up comics to be growing out of the sandy soil like weeds. Instead, the local comedy scene often seems as quiet as the…
Carol Leifer, a stand-up comic and writer rumored to be the inspiration for Elaine on Seinfeld, is on a national tour for her new book of essays, When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win. It was recently endorsed by the Jewish Book Council, so Leifer will make a…
We know that some of you lost a couple grand betting on the Colts in addition to shelling out for one of the many high-priced, drink-with-a-celebrity events this weekend. So give your plastic money cards a rest by opting for free events over the next five days. And yes, one…
Can you smell that? The Super Bowl has arrived.FridayEats, Beats and Cleats Festival: You’re late. This Lincoln Road Super Bowl party started yesterday. But you can still catch Jaime Foxx at the Fillmore tonight, NFL athletes playing instruments tomorrow (yes, really), and a giant tailgate party on Lincoln and Euclid…
We all had that rich friend growing up, the one with an elevator in his house, a pet tiger, and the parents who rented a Ferris wheel for his birthday parties. Well, that spoiled brat is all grown up, and he keeps throwing outrageous soirees. This year, he’s hired stone-faced…
Fresh off a fashion show in Costa Rica, designer and artist Karelle Levy spoke with us about her Krelwear boutique that reopens tonight and her solo exhibit at the David Castillo Gallery next week. Her fashions are silhouette-skimming, “toobular” knits cropped for Miami’s oppressive heat. The seemingly contradictory pairing of…
