Wasn’t it just Miami Beach Pride Week? And the week after that was the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Good Lord, do we really need another gay event in Miami? Of course we do, silly. This is Miami, after all, damn near the only safe haven in the highly…
Y’know what’s great about having tons and tons of money? You can buy really expensive things without ever having to use them. Take celebrity-by-circumstance Khloe Kardashian and her husband, NBA player Lamar Odom, for example. The couple has reportedly purchased and is renovating a mansion in Miami. But don’t start…
Admit it: The first time you saw heard about Kim Kardashian’s sex tape with Ray J, you wondered, “What would Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia have to say about this video, which I hear exists but certainly have no interest in seeing for myself?”Sadly, you’ll never know, because original Golden…
It was the pinnacle of suspense in an all-around suspenseful show. Dennis Watkins, as Harry Houdini, hung upside down from his feet, descending slowly into a tall glass box filled with water. The audience had been warned repeatedly that silence was paramount to the actor’s successful escape.But Death and Harry…
Anailin de la Rua de la Torre and Javier Nuñez Florian, the actors who disappeared at the Miami airport during a layover between their home in Cuba and New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival, appeared on Spanish-language station America TeVe last weekend.The pair said they are safe and healthy, and…
Forget the over-the-top spectacles of David Blaine and Criss Angel. The most effective illusions are the simplest: an ordinary subject, a distraction or two, and an incredibly skilled performer.That also happens to be Death and Harry Houdini’s recipe for its performance at the Arsht last night. The ordinary subject: Death…
In the Dominican Republic, married women aren’t beautiful.That’s the message we’re taking away from today’s news that Carlina Duran, who won the 2012 Miss Dominican Republic beauty pageant a little over a week ago, has been dethroned after the pageant discovered she’s been married since 2009.Duran, age 25, appears qualified…
Are you pretty? Are you broke? Do you desperately want to see the world?There’s hope. No, we’re not talking about the Peace Corps. We’re talking about Miss Travel, dating site entrepreneur Brandon Wade’s newest venture that pairs rich people with travel companions — as long as they’re good-looking.The site predictably…
Search your brain for every little thing you know about acoustic guitars. Gather it all into a pile: the stereotypes of hippies and folk music and fifth-year college seniors seducing freshman girls on the quad. Don’t leave out the sleepy, bored sensation you get when you hear acoustic guitar music…
Carmen Sandiego taught us that being Dutch was all about wooden clogs and boatloads of tulips. And because she was such a stunner in that red trench coat and fedora, we bought it. Little did we know that the Dutch are quite possibly the most bad-ass people on the planet…
Manatees are ugly creatures. They’re all pudgy and grey, with a face like a cross between Wilford Brimley and the Elephant Man. Yes, they’re precious and valuable life forms, and it sucks that they’re endangered. (Don’t email us, hippies.) Maybe — maybe — you could argue that they’re so ugly…
Miami’s seen its share of homages to the Miami Heat trio of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh: murals, shout-outs in song lyrics, and a healthy portion of the “Stuff Miami Heat Fans Say” video.But Prime Time Amusements is the only one guaranteed to haunt your dreams.The arcade company’s…
Plenty of documentary filmmakers have dreams of setting a man free through the power of their words.But this is probably not what Billy Corben had in mind.Angelo Williams, a Florida City man, claims his armed robbery conviction should be thrown out because Corben, serving as the jury foreman, sent messages…
Who’s sick enough to come up with the idea to insert “comemierda” into random movie titles for fun?And who has the Miami star power to turn that idea into a trending Twitter hashtag?Only Pepe Billete, Escoria Films’ puppet-in-chief whose mouth is dirtier than the entire cast of Avenue Q combined…
In Havana, accused and desperate, Raul is forced to run. Ninety miles of treacherous ocean stand between him and his dream.Three kids. One night. No return.That’s the synopsis of the film Una Noche, New York director Lucy Mulloy’s story of Cuban teens who plot to escape their country that screened…
It’s 4:20 p.m. on April 20.If you’re not already giggling stupidly at a cat video on the Internet, now’s the time.We’ve compiled a few of our favorites after the jump.You’re welcome…
Here’s one more film to watch during your blissed-out smokefest tonight: Square Grouper, Miami media studio Rakontur’s documentary offering an inside look into ’70s pot smuggling in our fair city.The Billy Corben-directed movie makes its TV debut tonight on Showtime at 8 p.m., giving you another chance to revisit the…
Oh no they didn’t.In a cheeky little column this morning, the Tampa Tribune announced that the Cuban sandwich is now Tampa’s official sandwich. It went on to claim that the Tampa version of that sandwich is superior to Miami’s. Between jabs at the 305’s personal injury lawyers and Tony Montana…
This is it, guys. Your last chance to be kind of, sort of, not really at all famous by scoring a role as an extra in Pain and Gain, the Michael Bay-directed film currently shooting around Miami. The benefits are obvious. You’ll have the bragging rights inherent in having appeared…
Last night, at its annual Reach for the Stars Gala Auction, Actors’ Playhouse raised over $150,000 to fund its operating costs for the upcoming 2012-13 season.Meanwhile, in the neighborhood next door, the Coconut Grove Playhouse sits empty, mired in debt that nobody wants to shoulder.The Coconut Grove community’s Give It…
It doesn’t matter who you are. When you hear “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers, you think of Ghost, the 1990 movie that broke ground by being the first film to present pottery-throwing as foreplay. That famous, clay-caked scene harks back to a more innocent time, when Demi Moore looked…
When Mad Men debuted in 2007, it revived ’50s- and ’60s-era style for present-day fashionistas. Across the nation, what was old became new again as fashion-hungry shoppers raided consignment shops for vintage clothes and accessories. Well, except in Miami. Something about the stiff construction and thick materials that Betty Draper…
