Wow, Andre Pierre. You really wanted to meet the Kardashians, huh?I mean, we get it. Millions of TV viewers are obsessed with them. They’ve got all kinds of famous connections. They’re pretty hot.But using your title as North Miami mayor to stage an “official welcome ceremony” in which you give…
Lucille Bliss, a voice actor best known for voicing Smurfette on the 1980s cartoon The Smurfs, died earlier this month at the age of 96. And that’s sad for a whole generation of former Reagan-era brats who ate their Cheerios in front of the Saturday morning cartoon lineup each week.But…
Naomi Wolf has spent her career defending women from the culture they live in, from 1991’s The Beauty Myth, an assault on the value of women’s physical appearance in society, to Misconceptions, a feminist examination of the world’s response to pregnancy and childbirth. But in her latest work, she’s defending…
You might not know Italian gallery Ca’ d’Oro by name, but if you were in Miami during Art Basel in 2010, you know its work. This was the gallery that brought the infamous giant pink snails to town. And this year, they’re adding even more enormous animals to their improbably…
Ladies, are you looking for an edge in Miami’s difficult dating scene? Uncomfortably prostitute-y dating site WhatsYourPrice.com, which lets men pay for dates with women, can help. It surveyed its male members living in Miami to determine what features make women most attractive to the opposite sex — the ones…
Usually it’s Miami’s sports teams that make changes to personnel during the off-season. But this year, Miami’s arts organizations made some big moves too. Miami City Ballet, for instance, brought in hometown girl Lourdes Lopez to succeed company founder Edward Villella in the season that opened last month. And Florida…
Feeling nostalgic for the ’80s? It’s easy to understand why. From synthesized beats on the radio to neon colors and leggings on the world’s hipsters, much of today’s culture has its roots in the Reagan era. But if you’re the kind of ’80s freak still into crimping hair and saying…
After she won the fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance, Jeanine Mason, the Miami-born dancer who ranks among the show’s most popular contestants, told reporters that she’d be putting down her dancing shoes to study journalism at UCLA — kind of an anticlimactic end to a series…
As an animal rights activist, Real Housewives of Miami star and bitchslap victim Joanna Krupa refuses to wear fur. And as a professional model, she doesn’t get to sport much, uh, “fur” of her own in the bikini line department.Until now, anyway. Krupa’s latest PETA ad shows the Polish blonde…
When news of the Marlins’ devastating trades of many of its best players to the Toronto Blue Jays broke yesterday, the city’s sports fans had a collective aneurism. And for good reason. After all, we did build the team a brand new $515 million ballpark this year — a park…
Things you’ll see at Art Basel: Tight dresses. Flamboyant suits. Artsy types speaking theatrically. Sinister-looking dudes with goatees.Things you’ll see at Club Silencio, the freaky nightspot in David Lynch’s 2001 film Mulholland Drive: pretty much those same things.So it’s only natural that Silencio, the real-life Paris nightclub version of that…
When you think of the theater capitals of the world, you think of London, with its famed West End, and New York, with its Great White Way and dozens of other highly regarded companies. And at about this time next year, Miami will be one step closer to joining them…
In Miami Beach, culture can be hard to come by. This is, after all, a town for whom celebrities turned out in force for the opening of a retail clothing chain.So when real culture’s within your grasp, you’ve gotta act. Like now, for instance. We’re giving away two tickets to…
UR1, the music and art festival hitting Bayfront Park during Art Basel, is hosting a slew of big celebrities: Lenny Kravitz, Kanye West, Santigold, Animal Collective.But the biggest name to appear at UR1 is undoubtedly Andy Warhol.See also:- UR1 Festival Brings Giant Laser Beam to Downtown MiamiThe pop artist, famous…
Smash a mirror. Step on a crack. Walk beneath a ladder and lure a stray black cat to cross your path. Don’t knock wood, cross your fingers, or toss a single grain of salt over your shoulder. Go ahead, jinx yourself as many ways as you can imagine. Then head…
Smash a mirror. Step on a crack. Walk beneath a ladder and lure a stray black cat to cross your path. Don’t knock wood, cross your fingers, or toss a single grain of salt over your shoulder. Go ahead, jinx yourself as many ways as you can imagine. Then head…
He’s handsome and suave, in a rugged, don’t-mess-with-me way. He’s handy with gadgets and guns. He has a way with the ladies and enjoys a strong drink with maximum agitation. Even with a brain-numbingly boring name like James Bond, Ian Fleming’s fictional British secret agent was the most interesting man…
Contrary to popular belief, Miami is an incredibly literary city. We have University of Wynwood bringing poets to town year-round. We have Books & Books, an indie bookstore with near-daily author events. And we have the annual Miami Book Fair International at Miami Dade College (NE Fourth Street at NE…
We no-name schlubs weren’t the only ones nervously biting our nails as we watched Florida flutter between President Obama and Governor Romney last night. Some of the biggest entertainers associated with our city were tracking the election, too — with varying degrees of success…
Kids these days have problems. No, seriously: There’s teen pregnancy and substance abuse and mental issues and sexual pressure, in addition to all the “finding yourself” you’re supposed to be doing in high school. These are problems that deserve a serious, thoughtful, mature approach, both in real life and when…
When I woke up at 7 a.m. on Saturday and checked the wait times for early voting at my local polling place, the Lemon City library, the Miami-Dade website said I’d spend 45 minutes in line. I remembered the horror stories about voting in 2008, and I knew the polls…
Handsome and suave, in a rugged, don’t-f*ck-with-me way. Handy with gadgets and guns. Has a way with the ladies. Enjoys a strong drink with maximum agitation. Even with a brain-numbingly boring name like James Bond, Ian Fleming’s fictional British secret agent was the most interesting man in the world long…
