…Ogggg! Oggggggggggg! Oggggggggggggggggggg! Ogggg! Oggggggggggg! Oggggggggggggggggggg! Ogggg! Oggggggggggg! Oggggggggggggggggggg! Ogggg! Oggggggggggg! Oggggggggggggggggggg!… In sports, the cliche goes, everybody loves a winner. Borderline and mediocre players don’t get any respect. Don’t get product endorsements, don’t get championship rings, don’t get the undying adulation of crowds. Well, don’t believe everything you hear…
This one is a 3:00 a.m. car wreck, DUI probably, a silver Camaro that screamed into an alley just south of the Marina 8 theaters and couldn’t dodge a parked flat-bed stacked high with baling wire. The driver of the car survived, leaving behind a forehead-shaped crimson stain on the…
While starting an overnighting business is now relatively simple – a car, a camera, a map of the city, and any FM radio scanner – technology may soon be complicating the process. Many municipalities, including the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, have switched their police and fire transmissions to…
It is a scene Carmen Dieguez has witnessed again and again, always the same circumstance, the man and the woman standing next to the Xerox machine, casually eyeing one another, waiting for copies. Each time as Dieguez watches, the man asks the woman to join him for lunch. Each time,…
Sexual harassment is not the normal healthy interactions which have been taking place between men and women for as long as there have been men and women. Introduction to Dade County Affirmative Action’s sexual harassment training handbook Sexual harassment legislation, long a murky area in the law, has begun to…
EMF’s “Unbelievable” probably won’t outsell “From a Distance” or “Rush Rush,” but it has done far more to clarify the future. As musical distinctions blur further and once-rigid genres liquefy at the speed of sound, as rap swallows jazz instrumentals and gospel vocals sneak into speed-metal, EMF’s heady fusion of…
All hail the San Dimas, California, duo of William S. Preston, Esq., and Ted “Theodore” Logan, benignly disaffected teens with lazy minds, heavy-metal dreams, and their own special language. Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) first wandered into theaters in 1988, when Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a sleeper…
If you want to see Ronald Reagan rob a bank, hop in the car and drive to the nearest showing of Kathryn Bigelow’s crime-and-surfing drama Point Break. As the leader of a holdup gang called the Ex-Presidents, Reagan terrorizes savings and loans along the Southern California coast. It’s bipartisan felony,…
The thirtyish black man who stands outside the door of the Cash Dome purses his lips distractedly, idly rubbing the videocassette recorder he holds under one arm. Beside him, his wife clasps and unclasps her hands. Inside the Cutler Ridge pawnshop – a lurid pink double-hemisphere that looks like a…
