House of Style Is Coming Back, MTV Announces

Sad to see the end of another Swim Week? Here’s some news that might cheer you up: MTV is bringing new episodes of House of Style to your screen — well, your computer screen, at least.The network announced today that it plans to revive the ’90s show focused on supermodels,…

Red Carter Represents Miami at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim

See our full coverage of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim 2012.When Red Carter’s models took to the runway yesterday, it was clear that the designer, who launched his brand in Miami in 2004, had achieved “hometown hero” status.We’re gonna level with you: After Sunday’s downpours, nobody appeared particularly enthused to be…

Emmy Nominations 2012: Sofia Vergara, Michael C. Hall Honored

See Sofia Vergara is the Highest Paid Actress on TV.This year just keeps getting better for Sofia Vergara. Yesterday, we told you that she’s the highest paid woman on television. And now she’s among its most celebrated actors, too, snagging an Emmy nomination for supporting actress in a comedy.There weren’t…

The Ultimate Bikini Bash

For South Florida’s foodies, there’s the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Dade County art-aholics get to fawn all over themselves at Art Basel. The film-o-philes of the three-oh-five spend a couple of weeks each year inside the dark arthouses of the Miami International Film Festival. So what do the…

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim: How to Win a Seat by the Runway

Pity the poor fashion-loving pleebs this weekend. As Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim rages on, collecting sexy celebrities, sexier bikinis, and super-ultra-sexy models in private functions from Thursday to Monday, most normal folks in Miami will have to make do with quick glimpses of fashion’s one percent as they travel from…

Sofia Vergara Is the Highest Paid Actress on Television

Old news: If you want to make real money in television these days, it helps to be incredibly good-looking.New news: It also helps to speak Spanish.That’s the takeaway from Forbes’ list of the highest paid women in TV, anyway. Colombian Modern Family star Sofia Vergara took the number one spot…

New World Symphony Co-Founder Lin Arison Wins Arts Education Award

Americans for the Arts’ annual National Arts Awards are no joke. In the past, they’ve honored actors Angela Lansbury, Gabourey Sidibe, Robert Redford, and Yoko Ono. And this year, one of Miami’s own will join their ranks.Lin Arison, who started the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in 1981,…

Last Night’s Episode of Louie Was a Love Letter to Miami

See Louis C.K. in Miami! Watch Scenes From the Louie Episode Shot in South Florida.The promos for “Miami,” the third episode of comedian Louis C.K.’s FX comedy Louie this season, focused on typical outsiders’ complaints about Miami: The vacuous model types strolling South Beach, their entitled behavior, and shameful way…

Bill Murray Is Probably Not Going to Crash Your House Party

Imagine this: actor, comedian, and lovable weirdo Bill Murray traveling from coast to coast, showing up on the doorsteps of strangers’ homes to drink their booze, belt out a few verses of karaoke, and crash on their futons for the night.Now imagine one of the stops on this party crashing…

Chad Johnson Already Annoyed By New Wife Evelyn Lozada

If Basketball Wives’ Evelyn Lozada hoped to kick off a fairy tale romance when she married Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson yesterday, this morning probably served as a rude awakening.Johnson, who’s known as much for his frequent Twitter posts as for his skills on the football field these days, naturally…

No Unitard Required

As art genres go, performance art is perhaps to most easily mocked. You know the stereotype: a guy in an embarrassingly snug unitard takes the stage and does the whole “cocoon-to-butterfly dance” thing. Small wonder it’s so easily written off by audiences. Charo Oquet is out to change that. She’s…

Bugging Out

Insects. Here in the tropics, they’re everywhere. And now that it’s summer, there’s a good chance at least five are sucking blood from your skin this very second. Makes you want to douse yourself in DDT, doesn’t it? Thankfully, we have William Burroughs’s cautionary tale Naked Lunch to keep us…

High on Life

On your good days, you’re convinced that life is made up of a series of tiny victories all strung together. On your bad days, you consider it an accomplishment just to have survived your very existence. Either way, when you clock out of work for the day, you deserve a…

Anderson Cooper Is Gay, Officially

“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud,” Anderson Cooper writes in an open letter to Andrew Sullivan, published this afternoon.Cooper’s coming out won’t be a surprise to anyone who’s paid attention to the career…