Forget Miami Swim Week. To find stylin’ men and women the Sunshine State, all you have to do is take a high-speed joyride on the Florida Turnpike. That, at least, is according to a recent poll that has named Florida’s Highway Patrol among the most stylish highway patrolmen in the…
It’s been almost one week since a court in Sanford, Florida, handed down the George Zimmerman verdict, and outrage is still running high. Protests have erupted across the U.S., in cities from Los Angeles to New York — and, yes, in Miami, the city where Trayvon Martin was from. The…
Reese Witherspoon didn’t get to be America’s sweetheart by accident. Long before her Oscar win for Walk the Line and her short-lived romance with Jake Gyllenhall, she won the hearts of the nation in a little film called Legally Blonde. That a story about a ditzy sorority girl who’s secretly…
After an arduous decision-making process, one wrought with scandal, debate, and more than a few impassioned missives to save the Fillmore, Miami Beach commissioners selected ACE as the team to redevelop the Miami Beach Convention Center. What does that mean, exactly? According to the ACE team, it means a whole…
If you’ve seen the 2004 film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, then you know the five D’s of dodgeball: dodge, dip, duck, dive, and dodge. You know that if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. And you know damn near every “balls” pun you can make…
The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami has been one of the leaders of South Florida’s cultural scene, earning an IMLS National Medal for Museum and Library Service earlier this year. The woman credited with the museum’s meteoric rise is Bonnie Clearwater, who served as MOCA’s executive director and…
Last week, a great white shark was spotted off the coast of Key West. Last night, a giant storm left much of Miami under water. This morning, news broke that SyFy’s Twitter-famous TV movie Sharknado is getting a sequel. And it’s set in … New York? Really? See also: Forget…
It’s been a good week for voting on historic properties. On Thursday, Miami City Commissioners voted to approve plans to restore the long-neglected Miami Marine Stadium. And yesterday, commissioners approved another deal, this one to save the Coconut Grove Playhouse, which has fallen into ruin after closing its doors in…
Every year around this time, news begins filtering in about the biggest Art Basel art projects. We mean “biggest” in the physical sense; the giant projects that take months or even years to plan, such as last year’s 230-foot “Gator in the Bay” or giant inflatable psychic dog at Lords…
Nobody’s happy with Florida these days. And for good reason: the George Zimmerman verdict has convinced the better part of the country that there’s little more going on in the Sunshine State than a huge, ongoing, racist murder spree. A MoveOn.org petition urges travelers to boycott the state until Stand…
Bad news for mainland-based lovers of art and haters of causeway traffic: Scope Art Fair, which housed its Miami editions during Art Basel in the tents at Midtown up until last year, is moving to Miami Beach in 2013. “It is with tremendous enthusiasm that SCOPE announces its new location…
We’re not even halfway into the final season of Dexter yet, and it’s already looking like it’s going to be hard to say goodbye to our favorite serial killer. Fortunately, long after the show has met its (hopefully bloody) demise, fans can keep their memories alive with blood slides, just…
So you heard about a tropical storm with South Florida in its path, and you performed your annual hurricane ritual: stocking up on water and booze, filling your gas tank, making sure you have plenty to read. And then Chantal dissipated out in the Caribbean, and you thought you were…
A comic book series about vampires. Zach Braff’s new movie. A new digital projector for an indie movie theater. Cat Girl porn. One of those things is not like the others. The comic, movie, and projector are all projects you might find at the popular crowdfunding website Kickstarter. If you’re…
You’ve seen them on Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, luring the hapless Scott Disick away from his baby daddy duties in favor of racing expensive cars. You’ve seen them on The Real Housewives of Miami, shmoozing with the plastic faces of Miami’s most notorious women. Or maybe you haven’t seen…
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse? It’s OK, I guess. I mean, if you’re into a ton of color and evil internet queens and the idea of a multidimensional space prince playing for the Miami Heat. But what if you’re looking for something a little more serious, a little…
In December, months before news of a new shooting range in Wynwood made the pages of the Miami Herald, guns were everywhere in Miami. You couldn’t escape them. The galleries and fairs of Art Basel were dealing more weapons than the Walmarts of rural Texas. At Art Basel, visitors saw…
Crockett and Tubbs, together again? It’s true. Thanks to a partnership between NBCUniversal Television and Lion Forge Comics, Miami Vice is making a comeback. But this time, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas are headed to your iPad, not your television. The classic ’80s hit is one of five vintage…
As Burn Notice approaches the end of its final season, its former home is also facing extinction. Yep, it’s ka-boom time for the Coconut Grove Convention Center. exMiami reports that “Miami officials are already processing a demolition permit” for the building, which could be approved within a matter of weeks,…
Miami fans, it’s been a bittersweet season. On one hand, the Heat triumphed in a nail-biting seven-game series to clinch its second NBA championship in as many years. Can’t nothing beat that. But on the other hand, the rest of the nation still hates our forever-winning guts. Ask just about…
When Dexter’s seventh season came to an end last December, Deb was having a pretty hard time. She’d found out the truth about her serial killer brother. She struggled with feelings of love toward Dexter that weren’t so brotherly. And she was haunted by her guilt over killing Captain LaGuerta…
You’ve come a long way, Miami. Just three years ago, you were ranked the ninth dumbest city in the nation. But no more. This year, Miami made Movoto’s list of the ten smartest cities in the country. Yes, we’re at the very bottom of that list — but hell, we…
