Stone Gets Spanked Filed under: News In 2003 HBO yanked Comandante, Oliver Stone’s puff-piece documentary about Fidel Castro. Bad timing, according to HBO: The Cuban dictator had just jailed 75 dissidents and executed three others. Now Stone is in hot water over Cuba once again. On December 1, the Department…
The Bitch was recently put in touch with Will Johnson after a brief email exchange with Coconut Grove community activist Sue McConnell about criminal activity in the McMansion-happy hood. Specifically, the hound had asked, “What’s the suggested course of action when .. drug dealing is going on at the home…
As police study the grainy video recorded by security cameras during the North Miami Beach shooting of former University of Miami basketball player Bradley Timpf, one has to marvel at the black cloud that has descended over the University of Miami sports community this year. First, in July, junior safety…
What would He do? Sweet baby Jesus would be so proud of the people running Family New Life Center in Wynwood. The homeless family shelter is run by Catholic Charities, a non-profit social service division of the Archdiocese of Miami. The wrought-iron gated 15-room facility provides downtrodden families rooms for…
indiewire.com Old friends Busted! The U.S. Government has fined director Oliver Stone for illegally traveling to Cuba. According to a tersely-worded Department of Treasury document released Dec. 1, the IXTLAN Corp. of Santa Monica, Ca. — Stone’s production company — will pay $6,322.20 to “resolve allegations of violations of the…
There’s something seductive about new condo projects. The slick marketing, the efficient floor plans, the free booze at the launch party. New condos promise a new life, an organized life, a tidy, clean, no-pet-furballs-rolling-across-the-floor life. Maybe that’s why, one night last week, I tried to convince my boyfriend that a…
MoCA Cano with his princess Far from the hustle of Art Basel’s sundry fairs, Pablo Cano’s City Beneath the Sea, the artist’s ninth annual marionette show, played this weekend to a less-than-rapt audience of children — and their dazzled parents — at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami…
Crumbling no more Lisa Mazique, head of Miami’s economic development department since June, had her New Orleans home razed this past weekend. New Times wrote about Mazique’s legal wrangling over the rundown Victorian house in September. She came to our fair city from flood-ravaged New Orleans, where she had run…
Hey there, tourists! Help yourself to one of several guides, booklets, pamphlets and maps being provided at the Miami Beach Convention Center in conjunction with Art Basel this year. Should you be interested in this one, the latest issue of The Adventures of Bi Bi & Friends (right), have at…
Sweet stuff Before a crowd of hundreds packed onto the sand at Collins Park’s Art Positions late Wednesday night, digital dominatrix Peaches took off her undies. No doubt the gathered Art Baselites were not the sort of audience for whom the bikini clad rocker was used to performing, but this…
Brancolini Grimaldi Arte contemporanea Roma/Firenze Strolling into the Wynwood district’s Soho building on Tuesday night for the inaugural Photo Miami fair opening, I breathed a sigh of relief. See, I love art. Never really sure what I’m supposed to seeing though. Sure, I’ll coo and gasp in Art Basel-style awe,…
Nobody said Art Basel was a bastion of high-mindedness. As the hordes of well-washed, champagne-sipping masses poured in to the opening night vernissage yesterday, the first thing many saw at the door was a copy of The Art Newspaper, its front page blaring a report on Miami Beach hotel price…
The sounds are spectral. They drift into the cavernous courtyard of Vizcaya as though borne aloft by lumbering ghosts. Each note is a product of the South Miami Avenue estate’s 1917 organ, but some sound like deep, rumbling gongs, others like delicate, trilling flutes. Organic Pipes is a sound installation…
Just be glad you can’t smell it. Apparently, the kids at William A. Chapman Elementary School in Homestead aren’t exactly getting the “supportive and healthy environment” their school’s website promises. A Chapman source who requested anonymity claims raw sewage has been bubbling up under a “portable” classroom for almost a…
Miami’s own Mikey Butders has ridden his porn dreams all the way to L.A. and Platinum Blue Productions, which recently announced his signing. Butders was found by Nick Manning, star, director and producer of more than 200 adult films, including Sick Girls Need Sick Boys and Lust in Leather. The…
Alex at Stuck on the Palmetto writes about the improbably fond memories he and others share about “la escuela al campo, the program in which every Cuban kid between 7th and 12th grade goes to do agricultural work for a period of 30 or 45 days.” Despite the fact that…
They came by the thousands, young women wearing their tightest Venezuelan flag tank tops and young men wearing t-shirts that read “Si, se va” (Yes, he goes), “Atrevete a cambiar” (dare yourself to change), and “Lo mio es Venezuela,” (mine is Venezuela). Outside of the Orange Bowl on Sunday the…
Miami 21, the long awaited plan to overhaul the city’s zoning code to make it better equipped to manage growth, is behind schedule. No surprise there. Discussing the plan, newly elected City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff told the Herald, ”I don’t see the public having opportunity for input but when that…
Snap out of it! The ideas at play in Up Wake are simple: Life is short. People are not machines. Pay attention to the things that count. Contemplate. Despite the passion performer Natasha Tsakos brings to these themes in her one-woman show, playing through Saturday at the Carnival Center’s Studio…
In June 1981, scientists reported the first clinical evidence of a disease that would become known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. Twenty five years later news of the pandemic is relatively sparse in the U.S. But the global battle against AIDS is far from won. Indeed, today marks the…
Chuck Rabin’s Herald story today about the most recent lawsuit against the county by the Homestead Air Base Developers, Inc. or HABDI, has an abbreviated history of the development group’s shady dealings. If you want a more in-depth look at the no-bid contract the county awarded HABDI to build a…
One should always be wary when city officials declare they are “listening” to the people’s problems. Activist Max Rameau knew this on Wednesday, when Miami City Manager Pedro Hernandez journeyed out to Umoja, Rameau’s five-week-old shantytown village for the homeless in Liberty City. “I’m here to listen to your problems,”…
