Nina Agdal Takes Kate Upton’s Would-Be Date to Prom

Imagine you’re a lonely, dorky high school senior in L.A. You’re Jewish, 5’9″ on a good day, and you can’t dance. All you have are your skills with a digital camera and your Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, the one with Kate Upton on the cover. You sure as hell don’t…

Art Basel Miami Beach Gets New Name: Art Basel In Miami Beach

Just when you finally taught all your friends to pronounce the word Basel correctly, the ginormous art fair has news for you: It’s rebranding. Art Basel, which stages high-profile art fairs in Basel, Switzerland, and Hong Kong in addition to the long weekend of culture and shmoozy, boozy parties that…

Christian Slater Bought a Coconut Grove Home for $2.2 Million

Christian Slater hasn’t given up on you, Miami-Dade County. Sure, you screwed him out of participating in the electoral process last November, when he waited in line on Election Day only to discover the vote he eventually cast wasn’t counted. You even misidentified him as “Christina Slater.” What, haven’t you…

The Ten Wackiest Miami Heat Items on Etsy

A new Miami Heat playoff series starts tonight, this time against the Indiana Pacers — and dammit, you simply have nothing to wear. Sure, there’s your Miami Heat baseball cap and your D-Wade jersey, both of which pair nicely with your Heat logo tattoo. But everyone in town has that…

The First 48 May Not Return to Miami

Earlier this year, New Times columnist Uncle Luke complained that The First 48, A&E’s reality series that follows Miami police as they attempt to solve homicides, was unfairly depicting the city’s black neighborhoods as “war zones.” Maybe the Miami cops agreed. The department has asked The First 48’s producers to…

The Office Finale’s Perfect, Unexpected Miami Connection

Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilery details about last night’s episode of The Office. Last night’s series finale of The Office was full of moments designed to make the show’s fans choke up — flashbacks, resurrected recurring jokes from earlier seasons, touching documentary-style interviews. But for South Florida viewers, one…

Topless Bea Arthur Painting Sells for $1.9 Million (NSFW)

“Thank you for being a friend”? No, Bea Arthur — thank you. From All In the Family to Maude to the Golden Girls, the quintessential Miami sitcom, Bea Arthur’s 60-year career showed off her many sides. But you probably haven’t seen her as Brooklyn artist John Currin pictures her in…

He’s On A Boat

If you didn’t see Life of Pi while it was in theaters last year, you missed out. The epic story of a young man who survives a disaster at sea only to find himself inside a small boat with a Bengal tiger may have been bested in the acting and…

How I Scammed the Disney World Wheelchair Line System

In 1993, when I was 11 years old, my family went to Disney World. We piled into our station wagon — my mother and father in front, my little sister and I in the back — and set out from our home in rural Pennsylvania, driving two full days until…

Hialeah Is the Bang With Friends User Capital of Florida

Bang With Friends, an app that lets you know when one of your Facebook connections is interested in doing some real-life poking, made headlines when it launched in January. Today, the site boasts hundreds of thousands of users. And a huge chunk of them reside right here in Hialeah. According…

Colombian Women Are the World’s Sexiest, Survey Finds

You can call it the Sofia Vergara effect. You can call it racist fetishism. Or you can just call it the hot, wet truth. Either way, Colombian women are now considered to be the sexiest lady specimens the world over. That’s according to a poll conducted by MissTravel.com, which asked…