March 27 An anonymous guy from Miami Springs tells us that some Miami-Dade police officers have no respect for the law. This intrepid soul says parked cop cars block the sidewalk in his neighborhood almost every day between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. They can usually be found on the…
Astrid Hadad The long lines blocking the sidewalk in front of the Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road this past Saturday night had locals and tourists alike asking What show is this for? The diverse crowd — ranging from college students to retirees, but leaning heavily towards Latino — was patiently…
Clowning Around Brian Ruiz had a lot of challenges on Sunday night. The lead dancer in Petrouchka, the Art Ballet Theater of Florida’s production in North Miami Beach, put up with a lousy sound system. The show started 20 minutes late, then there were technical difficulties that delayed it even…
Joann Biondi When journalist Joann Biondi began writing Miami Beach Memories, she knew she had a sprawling, extraordinary project on her hands. Her goal was to depict a full and clear picture of the evolution of Miami Beach into the SoBe we know today, and to reveal the star power…
My life is informed by film, and when I am having a particularly terrible terrible awful experience, I often suspend the trauma by framing it through someone else’s celluloid suffering, conjuring an imaginary foil the way Jimi Mistry invented Kyle MacLachlan as Cary Grant in A Touch of Pink. On…
At the corner of Seventh Street and NW Fifth Avenue, young black men in baggy shorts and wife-beaters were scanning slow-moving cars for the next deal. It was Friday morning and, unbeknownst to the street corner hustlers, a renaissance was unfolding two blocks away. In a shaded quarter-acre lot behind…
INDEMAND What, Me Worry? Well, not really, but according to the National Enquirer, notorious Miamian O.J. Simpson is writing a “hypothetical” book in which he will “speculate” about the events of June 12, 1994 — the night Nicole Brown Simpson and friend Ron Goldman were murdered. “O.J. prefaces these key…
The building at 9851 Kendall Drive used to be just another gas station, contending with the Shell station across the street and the Chevron on the corner. But intrepid entrepreneur Michael Touma saw opportunity when the skyrocketing gasoline prices and glut of competition overwhelmed the Texaco station. He removed the…
The building at 9851 Kendall Drive used to be just another gas station, contending with the Shell station across the street and the Chevron on the corner. But intrepid entrepreneur Michael Touma saw opportunity when the skyrocketing gasoline prices and glut of competition overwhelmed the Texaco station. He removed the…
What is a real Grove restaurant?Coconut Grove Grapevine asks the question today: “If a tourist asked you which restaurant in the Grove actually says ‘Coconut Grove,’ which would it be?”…
What is a real Grove restaurant?Coconut Grove Grapevine asks the question today: “If a tourist asked you which restaurant in the Grove actually says ‘Coconut Grove,’ which would it be?”…
Since mid-September, Miami City Commission candidate Mark Sarnoff has been obsessed with proving opponent Frank Rollason is being less than forthright about what role, if any, he had in the creation of the controversial and unconstitutional fire fee. (If elected, Rollason has promised to do away with the fire fee…
Um, fill it to the top please! Your car is not a phone booth. Your car is not your office. As much as you would like to think you can multitask, the reality is you can’t. That is why the “gods” (Jobs & Gates) created computers… to fill the gap…
When the Miami-Dade County Elections Department announced that it would put its touch-screen electronic voting machines through a “rigorous test” today, I pictured a real-life cast of traditionally disenfranchised voters: A self-proclaimed Luddite; someone with only hooks for hands; a couple of elderly folks with a record of butterfly ballots;…
Loft 3 Miami Vision Blogarama! has a post today handing something called its “Big Idea Award” to Jorge Perez, CEO of the Related Group, for Loft 3, “the first really affordable workforce housing in downtown Miami that you would actually want to live in.” Units in the 32-story, 495-condo tower…
Bravo TV You know what to do. October 18, not a particularly special day. Two hundred and thirty years ago some drunk guy saw a bird tail decorating the wall of a New York bar and decided to be funny and order a cock tail, thus spawning a cultural phenomenon…
Maria Now in her fourth year as host of one of Telemundo’s most popular and critically-respected programs, Al Rojo Vivo con Mar�a Celeste, Maria Celeste Arraras is certainly entitled to act all Katie Couric if she wants to, detaining airplanes and menacing her minions. Yet Arraras is so unassuming and…
Who you calling thin-voiced? Alex at Stuck on the Palmetto wants to “open a window into the culture and the society” of Cuba. In a post called Vamos a Cuba, he links to YouTube video of Silvio Rodriguez, “the most popular singer in Cuba.” Alex rhapsodizes: “His were the songs…
Lyssa Oberkreser Lauren Frances shows off her Ph. Double Ds The lure of gift bags once again pried my bottom from my Pottery Barn sofa and away from my daunting stack of library books. Monday night’s party was for the launch of Victoria’s Secret (901 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach) Very…
The Museum of Contemporary Art offered up a gift too good to be true this past Saturday evening in Wynwood: A free live performance by De La Soul to cap off Moca’s e-merce b-boy block party. Unfortunately, it was all just a dream, the kind of stuff you read about…
The first episode of Telemundo’s newest soap opera, Marina, is available for viewing online, if you simply can’t wait another eight hours for it to air on television (8:30p.m.). The plot revolves around Marina, a virtuous Mexican girl raised in the humble shacks of Acapulco who suddenly finds herself luxuriously…
Yes, violins. Yes, hip-hop. Kev Marcus and Wil-B, the hip-hop string-playing duo known as Black Violin, are tired of explaining what they do to the incredulous and sarcastic. It doesn’t look like the 24-year-olds — both former FIU students — will have to do much more explaining. The last few…
