Last week, we gave a preview of the New Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire, charging that “a theater troupe really has to have guts to take on” Tennessee Williams’ most celebrated work. Well, in the premier of the show last night, the performers and director Ricky J. Martinez…
Shawn and Marlon Wayans have played characters with names like Ashtray, Slim, Cheapie, Gawain, Snails, and Homeless Guy during the four-year run of their homegrown sitcom in the late ’90s. As the youngsters in their successful comedic blood line, they’ve stuck together through thick and thin, bad movies and worse…
Men will do a lot of things to add size to their bodies. Steroid injections, hours at the gym, and for some South Beach crazies, even ass implants. But Allen Campbell, sous chef at the Gansevoort’s rooftop restaurant, Plunge, took a different approach. He started fasting.”I’ve never been fat. Never,”…
The cows that make up our burgers consume 80 percent of the planet’s farmland, generate 20 percent of our greenhouse emissions, and consume 10 percent of our fresh water. Also, cows don’t like getting killed.Feel bad? You could go vegetarian, but that takes sacrifice. Luckily, modern science has a way…
Where do love and crash dieting intersect? If you’re a typical guy, this question may sound like jibberish. If you’re one of the five women in the country who can eat half a strawberry cheesecake at three in the morning and never gain an ounce, it may confound you, too…
Artist Mark Boulos translated Karl Marx’s idea of commodity fetishism into “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air,” a film exhibit newly acquired by the Miami Art Museum. Titled after a line in Marx’s Communist Manifesto, the work consists of two films played simultaneously on opposing walls. One shows traders…
Gas prices are so high these days, many of us feel like beating up the pump when it’s done tallying up our tabs. But we can’t do much damage to those LCD screens with flappy, impotent little biceps and the pep of salted slugs.Wanna pack a punch the bored gas…
Guilt-ridden java guzzlers, take heart: a recent study in Sweden showed the risk of certain types of breast cancer was significantly reduced in post-menopausal women whose daily coffee intake was higher than five cups a day. Other studies have shown that coffee protects against type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes.Let’s face…
View photos from Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe at the Fillmore Miami Beach here.Hooligans in Wondaland Tour With Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe Fillmore Miami Beach May 11, 2011 Better Than: I thought it would be.Top 40 music has long dealt in mediocre performers who just happened to be plucked…
Just when you thought it was safe to skip a cycle of your dog’s costly Advantix treatments, the bubonic plague stages a comeback — at least in New Mexico. On Friday, a Santa Fe man became the first person to be diagnosed with the plague in 2011.Thought the disease died…
Nurturing. Feminine. Capable. Sensible. Self-sacrificing. The checklist of things that make a mother good at her job is really no joke. Yes, when a woman becomes a mother, everyone knows there’s a chemical change that transforms her from the self-seeking party animal she may have been into a softer, more…
The philosophy of the Primal Blueprint, currently one of the most popular semi-low-carb diets — er, sorry, lifestyles — around, makes more intuitive sense than did The Atkins Diet’s unabashed bacon-slinging.The premise? Man’s biological evolution has not caught up with the evolution of the world we live in, so to…
Miami has lots of decadent gyms. South Beach’s David Barton, for example, has valet parking, steam rooms, a pool, somewhere around 18 classes a day, and an interior that looks more like a nightclub than a sweat factory.The city also has paradisaical weather. It’s astounding how many people choose to…
Music and art programs are dropping out of Miami Dade Public Schools like flies hit by a cloud of Raid. Lucky for us, the private sector is stepping in with programs like Piano Slam to patch the gaping holes left by budget cuts. Piano Slam Volume 3 is a celebration…
A friend and I recently lunched at Thrive (1239 Alton Rd., Miami Beach). We split two entrées and a fresh juice. Our bill came to about $32. For $16, we each had half a portobello mushroom “pizza” topped with cashew nut cheese, a half portion of sweet potato and black…
When you were a kid and you got your first bike, you just wanted to ride wild. You rode in the middle of the street, played chicken with your friends, etc. Now that Miami is making cycling more accessible, with bike lanes and DecoBike rentals popping up all over the…
When I think of opera, I think of things like little binoculars, corpulent singers and wealthy male and female audience members wearing matching purple and chartreuse suits and gowns. While I did witness all of these things last night at the premier of Cyrano at The Ziff Ballet and Opera…
The average middle-schooler isn’t likely to list Bach or Gershwin as a musical idol. The annual event Piano Slam, spearheaded by the Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation, intends to remedy this. While piano duo Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia, Miami hip-hopper Brimstone127, and the Miami Conservatory’s Thomas Armour Youth Ballet…
When divorcing couples fight over assets, kids barter bubble gum for rubber band bracelets, and prostitutes haggle Johns over the price of a BJ, they are all unwittingly exemplifying Karl Marx’s “commodity fetishism,” or when human social relations are expressed as, mediated by, and transformed into objectified relationships between things…
This Friday, April 22, is Earth Day. After you wipe the tree-planting dirt off your hands, you can relax with an eco-conscious dinner and movie that will give you a buzz in more ways than one.Three local, earth-loving organizations join forces to present the Miami debut of The Vanishing of…
Let’s preface this whole thing by saying that I’m not accustomed to attending performances in Miami where a significant percentage of female audience members are wearing fur coats. That said, I imagine that for other opera novices, Don Giovanni is a good one to cut your teeth on. It’s got…
The use of bee pollen as a nutritional supplement is far from new. The ancient Greeks and Egyptians were popping the tiny, mustard-colored granules well before pop culture breathed health food stores and smoothie shops to life. But what is it about bee pollen — a funky, difficult to obtain…
