Let me preface this whole thing by saying that this is not a restaurant review. The “buffet” that’s offered in the building behind the Hare Krishna Cultural Center in Coconut Grove (Govinda’s dining club, five days out of the week) is not comparable to Jumbo’s 24-Hour All-You-Can-Eat. Every Sunday, the temple begins…
As writers, we were totally annoyed by Lip Service at the Miracle Theatre last night. How dare they choose an attorney, a marketing teacher, and a television communications director to stand on stage and read their writing to a full house of eager listeners? In our book, writers are supposed…
You can find almost any health food item your tree hugging heart desires at Life Natural Foods — in theory, at least. You may have to dig deep through stacks of bagged herbs, protein powders, bee pollen, detox teas, powdered goat milk, organic juices, and probiotic supplements, but somewhere in…
High heels and red jeans or a Christian Dior evening gown? Deciding what to wear to Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Symphony for the Dance Floor might be tricky. The Margate native has created a performance that melds nightclub and classical music elements. The show mingles choreography, lights, photography, film, and Roumain’s…
Eating too much bad food kills us off early. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the annual obesity-related death count in the United States is around 325,000. That means you’re nearly eight times more likely to die at the hand of a doughnut than in a…
You can hardly blame Chris Tucker for being a little distracted during his show Saturday night at the Fillmore Miami Beach. If we owed the IRS $11 million, we’d probably be preoccupied too. But unlike Tucker, we don’t have huge hilarious bulging eyeballs to effortlessly smooth over glitches in our…
If you woke up from a blackout in the middle of Azucar Ice Cream Company’s store, you’d still have little confusion about what Miami street you were on. There’s a huge portrait of Cuban-American salsa singer Celia Cruz on the wall. There are T-shirts for sale with phrases like “Ya…
If you haven’t heard about CrossFit, what treadmill have you been hiding under? It’s the fitness craze that has members slamming heavy balls against the floor, scaling ropes, lifting, sprinting, squatting, pressing, pushing, and thrusting, sometimes crying, and then coming back, begging for more. (Is anyone else turned on right…
British ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is famous for his contributions to our understanding of natural selection and evolution, both as they pertain to biology and to ideas. His 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, popularized the gene-centered view of evolution. It also introduced the concept of the “meme,” which…
The DocMiami International Film Festival will showcase more than 90 flicks from local, national, and international filmmakers. The event includes an award ceremony with categories such as Best Feature Documentary, Best Contemporary Issue Documentary, Best Investigative Documentary, and Best Local Documentary. Screenings will include The Invocation, an exploration of God…
Derek Tresize has an unreal body. The 24-year-old has been bodybuilding on a plant-based diet for five years. This summer, he took third place in his class at the North American Natural Bodybuilding Federation competition, his second contest.He grew up a multitalented athlete in San Diego. At age 19, he…
“Get big. Get big. Get big!”In Miami, it’s the mantra that rings in many young men’s ears as they wrap their throats around piles of red meat, chicken, tuna, and chalky shake mixes with names like XPlode, NeuroCore, and Hemo-Rage. They eat whey protein to bulk up, nitric oxide to…
This year’s DocMiami International Film Festival will showcase more than 90 flicks from local, national, and international filmmakers. The event will also feature an awards ceremony with categories such as Best Feature Documentary, Best Contemporary Issue Documentary, Best Investigative Documentary, and Best Local Documentary. Screenings will include The Invocation, an…
If you still relish the memory of that middle school dance where your classmates crowned you ruler of the dance floor based on your unusually low limbo or stellar steps on the conga line, you may not want to attend the “So You Think You Can Dance” live show. Watching…
If Bacardi 151 is the most outrageous thing you’ve ever drunk, you have a lot to learn about drinking.Alcohol is so passé. Take these new-age libations to a vegan potluck, and we guarantee you’ll get laid just as easily as you would if Captain Morgan were facilitating.Bonus: You’ll remember the…
“You guys open every day?” asks a young woman at the restaurant counter while her restless four-year-old wanders about, picking up tubs of African Shea Butter and examining bins of natural chips.”Every day except Saturday,” answers owner Hakin Hill, his hair pulled back in a bulbous black Rastafari cap.”The busiest…
“So we’re just gonna sit here and talk for a couple of hours, and then you’re going to kill yourself.” Actress Sally Bondi, who plays Mama Thelma in the Alliance Theatre Lab’s production of ‘Night Mother, sums up the plot of this play by Marsha Norman (which was also made…
Welcome to Short Order Show & Tell, where one of us brings a local delicacy to our weekly staff meeting and we all weigh in on its deliciousness.This week, we tried the “No Bull” vegan barbecue short ribs with cranberry quinoa and a vegetable medley from Vegetarian Restaurant by Hakin…
We’re standing in the kitchen, watching ghostly trails ooze off sticks of silver in a jam jar filled with distilled water. The kitchen, the jar, the silver, and the machine sending an electronic charge through the metal all belong to Graham Garnos, an agricultural business owner and an alternative healing…
If you still relish the memory of that middle school dance where your classmates crowned you ruler of the dance floor based on your unusually low limbo or stellar steps in the conga line, you might not want to attend the So You Think You Can Dance live show. Watching…
3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy at Coral Gables Art Cinema
If you’ve been putting off taking in a show at Coral Gables’s New Theatre under the assumption that the venue ain’t going anywhere, you may want to bump your night at the theater up on your priority list. The theatre is going somewhere — namely, to pieces.The Laguna Street location…
