Not Lady Gaga. Not Justin Bieber. Not even Oprah.No, according to Forbes, the world’s most powerful celebrity right now is Jennifer Lopez.So what makes the humble Jenny from the Block such a power player?”It used to be enough for a celebrity to act or sing or swing a bat really…
Leather is the traditional gift for a three-year anniversary. But you don’t have to go shopping at Exxxotica’s fetishwear stalls to give GAB Studio owner and artist Bridges Aderhold what he wants for his gallery’s celebration of three years in business. All he wants is for you to party with…
Bonsai Opens at Tower Theater May 18
Chinese Take-Away Opens at Tower Theater May 18
If there are two things South Beach does well, it’s color and skin. The strip of sand across the causeway is one of the nation’s brightest, visually, thanks to all the tropical plants, pastel-hued buildings, and unhealthy dose of Britto artwork on every corner. The Beach also ranks among the…
Poor Matthew Broderick. Life’s been rough for the actor since his Ferris Bueller’s Day Off days. He never made another good movie. He’s gotten old and gray. The tabloids announced to the world that he cheated on wife Sarah Jessica Parker in 2008 and again in 2009. And through it…
Ah, the cold, refreshing taste of the Rockies. Gross. If you’re not a sportsperson, your only association with the Rocky Mountains is probably Coors Light, a brew that competes year-round for first place in the World’s Swilliest Beer contest. The only thing worse than Coors Light are Coors Light commercials…
Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner, and you know what that means: three days of trying to sleep as tourists cruise past your apartment blasting music loud enough to shake your walls; putting up with cops on every corner of South Beach; and the biggest traffic nightmares of…
Yeah, baby. You know you want it.Tickets to Exxxotica, that is.The largest sex expo in the country is back in Miami Beach this weekend, bringing the biggest names in porn, a giant load (heh) of sex toys, a bus where people will film you doin’ it, and a giant, pink,…
All the signs of the apocalypse were there. Global warming. That Mayan calendar business. The existence of this.We knew the end was coming. But we still weren’t prepared for this.NBC President Robert Greenblatt announced today that 30 Rock will end its seventh season with a series finale. Not season finale…
It’s the end of an era. An era of fake South Florida scenery, shlocky one-liners, and lots and lots of dead people, but an era all the same.After 10 seasons, CBS has canned CSI: Miami. The announcement came Sunday, from a spokesperson who broke the news with a long pause…
In these modern, scary times, it’s nice to know that the Miami-Dade court system is focusing on what’s important: Billy Corben’s social media practices.A Miami-Dade judge has ordered the filmmaker to appear in court May 25 to explain his reasons for sending Twitter and Facebook messages while he was serving…
As eye candy goes, Danielle Colby Cushman is the whole package. A self-described “dysfunctional rockabilly princess,” Cushman has some serious, pin-up style sex appeal, rocking retro eyeliner and ’50s hairstyles along with the tattoos that cover her chest.But don’t write Cushman off as just a chick on the side. On…
HIV and AIDS are not pretty subjects. But the way cultures around the world address those subjects just might be. That’s the thinking behind “Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010,” opening Friday at the Wolfsonian-FIU. The museum has rounded up more than 150 AIDS awareness and…
O Cinema’s Comic Book Weekend Features Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
Jungle Island animal caretakers have proven a suspicion we’ve had all along: Steve Jobs disciples are all just a bunch of trend-happy apes.(That, at least, is what we’re choosing to believe as we type this story out on our slow-ass Dell.)The zoo’s orangutans have been using iPads to learn and…
Jose Mas, son of the late Cuban exile leader and terrorism supporter Jorge Mas Canosa, will gain a little notoriety the old-fashioned way Friday night when MasTec, the Coral Gables-based company his father started and which he now runs, features on the season finale of Undercover Boss.”Can he live up…
Hello, sailor.The women of the Real Housewives franchise are generally known to be self-obsessed wastes of space whose vanity projects only showcase how talentless they really are. (See Dana Wilkey of the Beverly Hills edition, whose new song is an homage to a pair of sunglasses priced at $25,000. Seriously.)In…
This weekend’s all about winners. Some expensive animal will win the Kentucky Derby. The Miami Vice City Rollers will undoubtedly win their first-ever home game. And as we all send another round of tequila shots into our bellies, we’ll sure as hell feel like winners. Until the next week, anyway…
Each week, Vh1 viewers are treated to the gossip-talking, hair-pulling, wine-bottle-throwing antics of the ladies (for lack of a better word) of Basketball Wives. Is it guilty fun to watch in hour-long segments? Sure.But now the world of the Wives could be headed to the big screen.Fox Searchlight plans to…
Miami’s ban on pit bulls heads to the ballot in August, letting South Florida animal lovers decide whether they’re willing to allow the dogs back into the 305. The breed has been characterized by some as dangerous and violent, in part due to a 1989 case in which a dog…
Marilyn Monroe: She’s arguably the most objectified woman of the 20th Century. Used in her own time by everyone from athletes to playwrights to presidents, she was immortalized by Andy Warhol, turned into a massive sculpture that’s widely regarded as the worst thing to happen to Chicago since the 1871…
