PETA recently launched a (typically) controversial ad campaign that features a battered-looking woman walking down the street, complete with neck brace and sling. We discover she sustained her injuries as a result of her boyfriend’s recent conversion to veganism and his resulting new animalistic sex drive and performance.”This is Jessica…
It’s Friday night on Sixth Street in South Beach, and we’re huddled in a cozy little clothing boutique over glasses of wine. After pondering a rack of gray acid-washed jean shorts, a young blond woman reenacts a scene from the English class she teaches at UM, exaggerating her own native…
Forget those pretentious whispers that SoFi — the area south of Fifth Street — is the chicest neighborhood in South Beach. There’s a fashionable, earthy, and hip crop of local shops emerging on 6th St. between Euclid and Meridian Avenues in “NoFi” (north of Fifth), in what used to be…
I’m effin’ pissed. Discovery News published an article yesterday titled “Organic Foods Can Be Loaded with Arsenic.” Lots of similar headlines soon popped up all over the Web.For the casual reader, this header could be translated as, “healthy foods poison you.” I know the first things I think of when I…
“Dancer” is a loaded word. It brings to mind images of borderline anorexic women with great posture and mutilated toes, or hyper-sexual booty-licious music video girls, or strippers. But Pina, German director Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated tribute to daring choreographer Pina Bausch, undermines all the stereotypes. And it opens at the…
If you still doubt that Miami has promise as a budding hotbed for independent film, you’re clearly just not paying attention. Four short films from the Borscht 2011 Film Festival have been selected to be showcased at the 2012 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas,…
With the recession in full effect, and Valentine’s Day dinner reservations at a premium, plenty of couples will be staying in to snuggle over a movie on February 14. But what film to choose?There are thousands of lists of romantic films floating around in cyberspace, and most of them are…
The commercials were easily mistaken for Saturday Night Live skits, with their exaggerated enthusiasm, catchy jingle, and seemingly arbitrary products. Believe it or not, Chia Pets still exist, and the line has been expanded to include donkey, puppy, Shrek, and even President Obama planters.Who knew that while waiting for our…
Often, a movie’s title tells us everything we need to know. Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hoover, and Edward Scissorhands are all aptly titled flicks that deliver what their monikers promise. But for every Psycho or Outbreak, there’s a film that hides its true subject matter behind a clever, ironic…
The B-52s are living proof that sodium bloat and poor chopstick skills are not the only things that come from Chinese restaurants. The band formed in 1976 at such an establishment in Athens, Georgia, and named itself after the Southern slang term for exaggerated bouffant hairdos. The group played its…
This morning there’s a certain liquid noticeably absent from my oatmeal. It’s called soy milk, and the reason for its disappearance is a woman named Brigitte Britton, a petite, wiry, fifty-something-year-old holistic nutrition guru who’s promoting natural wellness in Miami this month. I invited her into my home to see…
We felt a bit out of our depth heading into UM’s screening of Granito: How to Nail a Dictator at the Bill Cosford Cinema last night. The documentary is a follow-up to When the Mountains Tremble, a doc that courageous young director Pamela Yates produced in the early ’80s, exposing…
Based on our many unofficial surveys of Miami residents, public radio listeners are a rare breed in South Florida. For all most Miamians know, Terry Gross is the name of a Garbage Pail Kid, Selected Shorts are the hot pants on sale at Forever 21, and All Things Considered is…
It’s hard out there for a performance artist—or almost anywhere else, for that matter. Performance art is one of the most challenging and unusual forms of creative expression around, and as a result, it fits in almost nowhere. Luckily, the Miami Light Project provides recognition for these artists with its…
With Radiolab bringing its live show to the Fillmore Wednesday night, Miami is about to get a whole lot smarter. But don’t worry; our beloved good times and sexy dancers aren’t going anywhere. We can expect to get our dose of wonder-stimulating scientific inquiry along with a spoonful of side-splitting…
Collagen injections. Corrupt politicians’ promises. Back-room strip club blowjobs. When it comes to lip service, Miamians have an array of temporarily thrilling options to choose. But these widely available “services” all have one sad characteristic in common: They eventually leave you feeling… deflated.Thank goodness for Andrea Askowitz and Esther Martinez,…
A young woman in the act of adultery is dragged out of the local hotel by her disgusted family members. A gap-toothed ex-wife who’s owed a hefty sum of alimony rubs her hands in glee as she talks about her scheme to land her deadbeat baby daddy behind bars. And…
We’ve all seen her many times, her eyes sadly scanning the strip for her peers as she sips coffee or a martini at Segafredo on Lincoln Road. That young woman with the bangin’ body and the face of an angel, hanging on the arm of some dude you’re hoping isn’t…
After attending the Actors’ Playhouse premiere of Next to Normal at the Miracle Theatre, I can see why the musical won the Pulitzer for drama in 2010. The writing of the show is magnificent; every interaction and every word either serves the purpose of developing the plot, yanking deftly at…
Teo Castellanos’ final words fired out at the audience like a cheer through a bullhorn, and the lights came up. I found myself not only standing and clapping, but also awkwardly fighting back tears I couldn’t explain. “Tears of overwhelm,” I decided later, was the best way to describe them,…
So I may be a little late to find out about these amazing foodstuffs, but the funny round plastic-like rice sheets have so infiltrated my daily diet that I can’t help but share my enthusiasm for them.Sure, I’ve eaten spring rolls before, at plenty of Asian restaurants. But I never…
To all the South Beach sugar babies feeling unfulfilled despite their mountains of Prada bags, stacks of Cavalli sunglasses, and streams of spa appointments: Your story is far from new. In fact, Giacomo Puccini composed an opera about this same situation in 1913. Opening at the Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet…
