Miami is quiet this weekend. We can only guess it’s because everyone is either knee deep in Harry Potter fandom in NYC, gawking at royals Will and Kate in Los Angeles, or still have their toochises parked outside the Casey Anthony courtroom. (You can come home now. They’re not going…
According to actor John Turturro, if you sing in the streets of Naples, Italy, someone will join in and sing along. Want to waltz down the piazza? No problem — every passerby is a willing dance partner. But thanks to the 2008 film Gomorrah, the Neapolitan metropolis is better known…
If you’ve ever taken an awesome yoga class, thank the Beatles. The practice grew wildly popular in the West only after Hindu guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became the Fab Four’s spiritual advisor in the late ’60s. Studying under him in India, they learned transcendental mediation and the asanas — or…
Although Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim begins Thursday, none of you average-size, nonindustry folk will be able to sneak past its velvet ropes. It’s invitation only. But like the big soirees of Art Basel and Ultra, sometimes the satellite events promise better times anyway. The more accessible Funkshion Swim opens Thursday…
As Dag’s fictional character Oliver asks in the 1991 novel Generation X, “‘You mean to tell me that we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don’t have the weentiest inkling that something, somewhere, has gone very…
We love that there were dancing wolfmen, full-on raves, and nerdy karaoke at this weekend’s Florida Supercon (see videos of all three here). But the best part of any comic con are the fan outfits. And we know our photo slideshows are painfully slow to load, so we’ve pulled out…
Viva la long weekend! Except if you don’t start making plans soon, you’ll probably spend the next four days watching a Saved by the Bell marathon with a straw stuck in your Jimmy Buffet brand margarita machine. But planning a weekend trip from Miami ain’t easy. We’re surrounded by water…
Just as journalists embedded themselves in Afghanistan, filmmaker Andrew Rossi bunkered down in the newsroom of the New York Times. His documentary Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times shows a paper considering its own extinction for the first time in its 160-year history. In the battlefield of…
Although she growled, “I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation,” Joan Jett’s rock prestige is actually pretty stellar. She joined the Runaways at age 15, befriended and recorded with the Sex Pistols, and produced the Germs. She was a pioneer in femme guitar tricks and was eventually honored…
Thongs are boring. What really get us excited are burqinis, that is, burqa-style bikinis. Perhaps it’s because the full-body spandex and built-in hoods remind us of superheros or that all that covered skin leaves so much to our filthy imaginations. On Wednesday, the eve of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim, we…
In the early ’80s, U2 and the Psychedelic Furs played the German TV show Rockpalast. Thirty years later, Bono is filling Sun Life Stadium while the Furs play Culture Room. What happened? Both acts were influenced by the Jam, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, and the Sex Pistols. But as Bono’s…
Who’s ready for another I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry? Kevin James (who played Larry) has written a comedic script about Miami guys in their 40s who work as valet, and he’s trying to get Adam Sandler to sign on for the project. As Chuck & Larry managed to…
Has a reality TV show ever inspired more lawsuits than Basketball Wives? Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh famously filed a lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend Allison Mathis to prevent her from appearing on Season 3 of Basketball Wives. Royce Reed, former Miami Heat dancer and current cast member of Basketball Wives, was…
When ABC airs Pan Am, its new series about the glory days of air travel in the ’60s, will it include Miami? After all, the airline began and ended in our city despite living out its heyday at its NYC headquarters. But the Magic City’s engagement with aviation doesn’t stop…
In The Princess Bride, as Buttercup prepares to commit suicide with a dagger, Westley says, “There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.” What a mensch! Well, this weekend, you have a chance to meet Cary Elwes, the actor who played…
HBO is advertising its online streaming web site with the tag: “The story you could be watching is better than the one you’re in.” Sounds like a challenge to us. This weekend, drink more hooch and hug more whores than Steve Buscemi on Boardwalk Empire. Blow more horns and dance…
Much has been made of the Getty photo from Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riots, which showed a couple swapping spit in the midst of smoked-tinged chaos. Many of us admonished husbands and boyfriends for not executing similar spontaneous bodice-ripping-style affection in our own lives. But a new video (above) clearly shows…
This weekend, the Hyatt Regency will be filled with people who penetrate others for money. We’re talking needles here, and no it’s not a methadone convention. It’s TattooLaPaLooza, the third annual tats expo where those that ink and those who love to get inked congregate to bleed and show off…
A year after winning a Grammy for “Jackson,” his duet with June Carter, Johnny Cash nearly died in an underground cave. He had crawled deep inside a Tennessee cavern like a drug-addled wildebeest looking for shelter and got lost in the dark, airless crevices of both his mind and the…
Miami Beach’s North Shore is the new South Beach. And we mean the SoBe that existed before Chris Paciello opened Liquid in 1995 and turned the neighborhood into a throbbing clubland. If you’re nostalgic for sleepy, ocean-breeze-kissed streets filled with art deco buildings and leathery-tan seniors, venture 60 blocks up…
The M Ensemble does Crossroad Blues
Blond:ish at Arkadia June 24
