Syndee Winters, the multi-talented singer, dancer and actress, has had a passion for the arts since she was an adolescent dreamer growing up in Miami. The youngest of three children, the Palmetto High grad moved here from New York at age 13 to live with her father and grandmother. Now…
Heat forward Chris Bosh went down with an abdominal injury during yesterday’s Eastern Conference Semi-finals Game 1 against the Indiana Pacers.And today, the Heat have announced that an MRI reveals Bosh has a strained abdominal muscle and is “out indefinitely.”…
A lot happened before the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers even got their Eastern Conference semifinals going. For one thing, Pacers head coach Frank Vogel put on a fancy hat and proclaimed himself captain of the SS Douchetanic, and started inexplicably bitching about how the Heat are a bunch of…
After losing Game 4 in New York, and after the Knicks celebrated with streamers and threw a parade down the Canyon of Heroes after winning their first playoff game in 4,024 days, the Miami Heat reminded everyone that it, in fact, is the better team and finally extinguished the Knicks…
Hamlet, William Shakespeare’s brilliant tale of a Dutch prince who goes nuts trying to avenge the death of his father, has enthralled and captivated audiences for more than 400 years. And for good reason. It’s filled with amazing lines, suspense, thrills, a treacherous twist ending, ghosts, and a whole lotta…
The Miami Marlins are not off to a very hot start. Sure, they have a brand-spanking-new stadium, uniforms, and home-run sculpture thing. But none of those things has produced hits or runs or many wins. One of the bigger letdowns has been the lack of hitting and power from outfielder…
GableStage’s Time Stands Still Surveys War’s Damage at Home
The Miami Heat showed up to Madison Square Garden for Game 4 yesterday and, while they have plenty of fucks to give, they must have left them in their other jeans, because for three quarters the Heat played like they had none to give away. None fucks. And so the…
War is the backdrop in Donald Margulies’ stark tale of love and conflict, Time Stands Still, which opened last night at GableStage. The play is ostensibly a study in the impassive cruelty of war through the eyes of a couple drifting towards an uncertain future while fighting to avoid being…
In the annals of human history, people discuss three seminal events: the discovery of fire, the invention of the submarine, and LeBron James always punching the entire city of New York in the asshole. It seemed as if Madison Square Garden would be James’s undoing last night. His first three…
Photojournalist Sarah has just returned to her Brooklyn home after being injured in a roadside bomb while on assignment covering the Iraq War. Her boyfriend James, who is a foreign correspondent, joins her at home. James is a man wracked with guilt after having left Sarah alone in Iraq to…
Becky is a 40-something wife and mother. Her life is good. She has a steady job at a car dealership. She has a loving husband and a son working on a graduate degree in psychology. But something is missing. She’s middle-aged and feeling like her life has hit a rut…
Lily Harrison is a retired firecracker of a woman living in her gulf-front condo in St. Petersburg. And all she wants, in her twilight years, is to learn to dance the waltz. And the foxtrot. And the cha-cha. And the tango. And some contemporary dance thrown in too. So she…
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings at the PlayGround Theatre Through May 25
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks at Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre Through May 20
Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks was all about LeBron James smashing people’s faces with his giant ball sack. Last night’s Game 2 was more of a team effort, with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh turning in big-time performances worthy…
For all the regular season ups and downs, accolades and drama, people celebrating in the streets with pots and pans when the Miami Heat won, people setting themselves on fire when they lost, the real NBA games that count finally got kicked off yesterday. And with everyone saying that the…
It only took 29 years, but the Miami Dolphins finally grew a pair and used a first round pick to select a quarterback. And that quarterback is Ryan Tannehill of Texas A&M.After getting stiffed by Peyton Manning during the offseason, and feeling pretty meh about Matt Flynn, the Dolphins went…
Ever since the Miami Marlins opened Marlins Park (1390 NW Sixth St., Miami), their brand-new stadium in Little Havana, everyone has been clamoring to gawk at its butt-ugly main attraction. No, we’re not talking about Ozzie Guillen. We’re talking about the ostentatious grotesqueness that is the home-run sculpture. The 70-foot…
Let’s face it. Magic hasn’t been the same since Harry Houdini shuffled off this mortal coil. Before Criss Angel was mind-freaking and David Blaine was locking himself in boxes in Central Park, Houdini was flirting with death while chained underwater in his classic Chinese water torture trick, escaping straitjackets with…
Dennis Watkins Defies Death as Harry Houdini at the Arsht
Last night’s game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls at the American Airlines Arena was as close to a playoff atmosphere as you’re going to get in a game that was mostly meaningless, but also mostly amazeballs.Spurred by LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, Miami took down the Bulls 83-72…
