The Eponymous Chair The Bitch follows liquor marketing strategies closely, motivated by her love of both alcohol and advertising. But the hound was confounded by the confluence of booze and booty promised by a party this past Thursday for “The Glenlivet Chair” at the Falabella Bar in the Albion Hotel…
The best thing about Bee Petting — a one-minute short featuring just that, and nothing else — is also what works best about the Short Attention Span Environmental Film Festival: This assortment finds its stride when it’s just what it says it is. The 2-hour mini-fest plays at Miami Beach…
While we happily hung up our single status months ago, the boy and I do still go our separate ways on an occasional evening. (A girl can’t lose touch with her gay boyfriends, can she?) So this past Saturday night, I put on a flirty and flouncy Betsey Johnson dress…
Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker staff writer and author of best-selling social phenomena books like The Tipping Point, was in town recently at the University of Miami, where he illuminated the subject of his most recent book, Blink. It began with a revelatory anecdote. To paraphrase: So, this guy walks…
A casual reader of the Sept. 14 issue of Miami Today could be excused for a bout of head-scratching. What was this? On one page, an editorial, clearly marked as such, decried a “quagmire of journalistic ethics,” specifically the recent scandal over El Nuevo Herald reporters paid to moonlight as…
“We’re a merged family, like the Brady Bunch,” says Lionel K. Lightbourne. But like the Partridge Family, they sing: Lightbourne, with fiancee Tanya, their children from previous marriages and even a neighbor or two from Liberty City, call themselves The Fans. The song they produced — “Miami Dolphins 4 Life!!!”…
Critical Miami recently called “BULLSHIT” on this article (registration required) by Larry Lebowitz about pothole maintenance on I-95. In a post called What’s up with the holes in I-95?, Critical Miami argues that they are man-made, not accidents in need of fixing. [The article] talks all about the difference between…
Muzzled beneath black tarp-like shrouds, traffic lights stand at the ready at 22 on-ramps along the I-95 corridor, from NW 62nd Street north to Ives Dairy Road. Miami’s ”Metered Stop Ramps” were scheduled to go online in 2005; now mid- to late-2007 is the time when motorists aiming to ascend…
Unlike anything in the multi-billion dollar porn industry, the only hardcore porn broadcast studio in the world is located — where else? — in Miami. In its nondescript warehouse, Pink TV, the brainchild of a 27-year-old entrepreneur named Jan Verleur, has been shooting original programming (e.g., a reality series called…
In yesterday’s Miami Herald, an Associated Press article about a controversial Colombian soap opera contained an altered version of the soap’s title: “Sin [Pechos] no hay Paraiso (Without Breasts There’s No Paradise).” Similarly altered was a quote from the show’s antagonistic character, Jessica. A quick Google search reveals to Riptide…
Willy McQueen, 75, stood on the edge of the “story circle” set up outside the Stephen P. Clark government center, last night. McQueen, who grew up on a bean farm in Boca Raton, leaned his stout torso against an incomplete lamp post near the building’s exterior fountain and gazed through…
Today, candidate Marc Sarnoff channeled former University of Miami football standout Kellen Winslow Jr in describing his credentials as a legit neighborhood results-producing activist. Back in 2003, after a home loss to the Tennessee Volunteers, a ticked-off Winslow described himself to reporters as more than a football player. “I’m f—king…
Jennifer Nicole Lee Jennifer Nicole Lee has legs of Rebar. When the tall model and Fiu Fiu! swimwear designer stamped a high-heeled foot in protest of Monday night’s choking humidity, her limb rippled the way a girder dropped from a forklift hits the (soon to be nearby) Home Depot parking…
George Wackenhut never was much a fan of investigative journalism. The security mogul’s 800-page commissioned biography The Quiet American is practically framed as a condemnation of the field. The book’s introduction decries the media coverage of a 1991 congressional investigation into the company’s shady surveillance tactics in some rather colorful…
Lightspeed Champion This photo was brought to our attention a few weeks ago by basketball blog Free Darko. In Free Darko’s words: “As pictured above, some guy from Test Icicles or Arctic Monkeys or one of those ridiculously overblown bands started a new group with some castaways from some other…
Ray Carson, the American Cancer Society’s Florida Division’s vice president, provided the following statement Tuesday afternoon from the agency’s state headquarters in Tampa regarding the Hope Lodge closing: First, let me say that we are very proud of the Hope Lodge. Since it opened in 1993, it has served about…
Ray Carson, the American Cancer Society’s Florida Division’s vice president, provided the following statement Tuesday afternoon from the agency’s state headquarters in Tampa regarding the Hope Lodge closing: First, let me say that we are very proud of the Hope Lodge. Since it opened in 1993, it has served about…
The past 24 months have been excruciating for Michelle Baker, a free-spirited 23-year-old from Flamingo. In 2004 Baker was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer and began a round of debilitating chemotherapy cycles. Alone in South Florida and unable to make the drive from her home near Everglades National Park to…
A Fish Called Avalon, the long-running seafood restaurant on Ocean Drive, has issued a press release trumpeting its boycott of all Canadian seafood products to protest the clubbing of baby seals. “Canada’s fisheries sell lobster, snow crabs, cod, mackerel, scallops, shrimp, haddock, oysters, herring, perch, mussels, sole, yellow perch, sardines,…
A Fish Called Avalon, the long-running seafood restaurant on Ocean Drive, has issued a press release trumpeting its boycott of all Canadian seafood products to protest the clubbing of baby seals. “Canada’s fisheries sell lobster, snow crabs, cod, mackerel, scallops, shrimp, haddock, oysters, herring, perch, mussels, sole, yellow perch, sardines,…
Tropical Greenways wants you: The American Institute of Architects is looking for volunteers (architects, designers and regular Joes and Janes) for this awesomely ambitious quality of life adrenaline shot. Brainstorm, serve on committees, and/or work on project initiatives including observation towers, overpasses, a visitor center, entrances, crossings and trail modes…
The Bitch had been having trouble figuring out what, exactly, elhood.com is supposed to be. Its early marketing forays using a Space Invaders-style skull logo were kind of allusional to some dark technology, the way those commercials for the Verizon Chocolate with the Goldfrapp song are … maybe elhood.com was…
