While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris did a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy’s in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, “The SantaLand Diaries,” which he read on…
Twain versus Shaw at New Theatre
In this series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami’s tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans something more than boring garden salads.Escopazzo, chef Giancarla Bodoni’s elegant little organic Italian nook, has a solid rep. There are high-quality ingredients and prices to match. Less discussed is the extensive selection…
Like your drunk uncle slurring “Jingle Bells” and your nieces and nephews whining over whose turn it is to mess around with the new Wii games, Ebenezer Scrooge’s iconic humbugging is an irreplaceable sound bite from many Americans’ Christmases.But what would Scrooge’s tale of rebirth be without the ominous haunting…
Toward the end of the drive out to the New Theatre’s new location inside the Roxy Performing Arts Center in a strip mall in West Kendall, we half expected to see cow pastures crop up on either side of the road. Dramatic? Yes. But hell, we’re writers, and if there’s anything…
He’s not the ultimate cliche, but he’s not totally novel either. That tawny-skinned, unwaveringly confident, effortlessly good-looking guy of unclear ethnicity, we mean. He tumbles around the planet appearing penniless, but his mysterious refusal to talk about his past gives the distinct impression that he’s no simple, carefree cosmopolitan vagabond.This…
Those passing by the Greenview Hotel this weekend might be alerted to the art show inside by the fact that there’s a bed cloaked in silver glitter sitting on the little outdoor patio. Then again, with all the deliciously nutty sights Art Basel brings to our sunny little town (including…
While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy’s in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on…
Chambers Stevens just sounds like a guy who’d write a play about Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw sitting down to lunch. In fact, it sounds like a guy who might have attended such a lunch. Truth is, the playwright of the show making its world premier December 2 at…
Iconic Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a master of the Dutch Golden Age – not a master of golden showers. Or was he?Probably not. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t create works that were considered risque for the 1600s. A collection of 20 of Rembrandt’s etchings, which historians, curators,…
Black Friday deals this year will be even better than usual. According to Bloomberg, if customers bought everything on the Toys “R” Us circular this year, they would save $12,500, up from $11,000 last year. Stores are opening earlier, giving you and the other ravenous holiday deal shoppers even more…
Chambers Stevens sounds like the name of a guy who would write a play about Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw lunching together. In fact, it sounds like the name of a guy who might have attended such a lunch. The truth is that the playwright of the show making…
In early September, the New Theatre announced that it had been bought by Henry and Peter Torres of Astor Development and was slated for demolition. The 25-year-old theater company had inhabited the space on Laguna Street in Coral Gables for 10 years. Not ready to let a little thing like homelessness…
Every vegan has heard the oh-so-clever jeers about his or her Thanksgiving prospects.”What are you gonna eat? Tofurky?” some guy inevitably interjects as he shoves a couple more pieces of Stove Top into the hollow of his dead bird.Some of these tofu-phobes may not even realize that Tofurky is more…
Saturday night is usually a time for counterbalancing all the healthful food you ate during the workweek by dumping large amounts of alcohol and greasy restaurant food into your system. This past Saturday, though, more than 300 people made alternative “choices” by popping nutritious vegan hors d’oeuvres and sipping organic…
It’s Friday night and we’re watching a couple of writers in a spelling contest, mulling over the phonetics of famous authors’ last names – Jeffrey “Eugenides,” for example.How’d we get duped into this? Well, clever Literary Death Match creator Todd Zuniga went and put the brainy Miami Book Fair event…
Holy crap, this thing is delicious. And unlike some wheat gluten- and soy-based turkey stand-ins, it’s unequivocally good for you.The vegetable flavors harmonize lusciously, and the quinoa, chickpeas, and walnuts give it a nice protein lift — without soy. Whatever you do, don’t skip the sun-dried tomatoes! They give the…
So Choices Vegan Café actually opened its doors in September, in the same quiet yet convenient off-Brickell spot where Om Garden used to cater to local veg heads.Since then, brothers Alex and Jorge Cuevas have been tinkering with recipes, taking customer feedback, and testing out themed events. They’re now ready for all of…
Gut bacteria: Those are two nasty words. But the one quadrillion microorganisms in your intestines are a beautiful thing, when they’re kept in healthy balance.Together, they can work just like another organ in the digestive system, breaking down unused food particles, fending off or thwarting growth of harmful microorganisms, and…
In this series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami’s tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.Barceloneta, the Pubbelly crew’s newest gastro-enterprise on 20th Street in South Beach, opened its doors less than a month ago. So, perhaps to publicize the new…
But once the show was under way, it took only minutes to realize it was worth the wait. As we closed our eyes to the soul-startling voice of Amparo Navarro (the singer who starred as Luisa Fernanda), we swore we could feel our brain waves slow and reset. We became…
Last Night, the Alliance Theatre Lab production of Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero was ushered in by Eminem’s “Without Me.” It’s final scene was capped by some sappy elevator melody (fitting for a play that centers around a doorman — er, security guard — we suppose). It would make it easy for…
