With ten games remaining, Miami FC needs to close strong to finish in the top half of the standings, which would be fairly impressive for a rookie franchise. Two games — the recently scheduled August 2 scrimmage against Deportivo Alaves and the August 9 battle against Guatemalan champs CSD Municipal…
We commonly cut Miami FC slack because the team is new. That’s probably misguided, considering the club is owned by Traffic Sports. You know the Copa America and Copa Sudamericana? That Traffic Sports. The South American power broker owns more, including our fledgling heroes, whose fearless leader is Romário, star…
The sweat pours down your neck and puddles at the front of your T-shirt. Strike one, looking. You sip — okay, chug — the frosty beer and let your head tilt back, closing your eyes against the outfield lights, ghost circles expanding and exploding on the backs of your eyelids…
If not for Hong Kong exploitation films, master movie plagiarist Quentin Tarantino would still be working at a video-rental store. If not for Bollywood, a billion fans of high-end motion pictures would be lost, unable, of course, to rely on Hollywood for anything exceeding schlock. Despite the staggering financial aspects,…
Oranges. Limes. Grapefruit. Carambola. South Florida is a pretty fruity place, the kind of place you just want to, um, squeeze into juice. Something like that. More exotic tree-grown treats (key lime, litchi, mango, avocado) will likely steal the stage — nothing is forbidden at this fruit fest, including the…
In earlier collections such as “Nudes/Portraits” and “Still Lifes,” British photographer Allan Jenkins reveals an ability to canvas fine art using camera and film. His fondness for form (particularly curves), his fine sense of composition, and his simple good taste elevate him from picture-taker to artist and illustrate a technique…
It’s what keeps the barbarians at the gate, separates us from the lesser world, makes livin’ in the U.S.A. so sweet. It is supposedly what kids in Iraq and Afghanistan are dying for. Yet in this century our nation has not been able to run free elections without protest and…
The hook for playing poker in a bar is that, should you be losing, you can drown your sorrows; if you are winning, you can celebrate with a cold one. Oh yeah, you can bet we know our multiple addictions. Whether you’re a degenerate or not, you can beat the…
As the Miami Heat’s recently concluded best season ever amply demonstrated, this city’s sports fans have only one mode of transportation: bandwagon. Sunshine fans in the Sunshine State. If our team loses a few, we disown it. It wins, we break out our T-shirts and pennants and pose about how…
You gotta love Fidel Castro. Although it might not outweigh his prodigious wrongdoing, what he has done for South Florida is unmatched by any other individual. The people, the food, the entertainment — it’s a revolution he never intended, a positive one. One of the many cultural contributions that may…
Something good must come from George W. Bush’s horrific presidency. It’s the American way. And maybe something already has: a renewal of the revolutionary spirit upon which this nation was founded, a return to the Sixties sensibility of protesting evil doings by the government. A brutal, unjust, and seemingly endless…
The way time is zoned, the World Cup matches in Germany are being televised in the morning and afternoon here, leaving no conflict for the predominantly evening games played by Miami FC, including a 5:00 p.m. scrimmage against the Seattle Sounders today. And after spending every day watching the best…
If you want to see the Atlanta Braves at their best, now would be the time. Perennial contenders, the Braves traditionally begin each season slowly and, just when everyone thinks the mighty franchise has fallen on hard times, they start winning. And do not stop. It’s difficult to figure how…
Miami Springs is a nice place. Nice in the sense of comfortable (house prices begin at $350K), quiet, verdant. Fishing and yard sales are the prime avocations. And the people are nice, in the sense of being generous. Two prime examples this week: The Miami Springs Optimist Club Charity Dolphin…
More so than any genre, the blues embrace aging. Players in their sixties are kids to the stars who’ve made it to their seventies, eighties — the legendary Diamond Teeth Mary McClain played annual shows in Miami well into her nineties. So it’s pretty perfect that blues legend Buddy Guy,…
A scan of team names in the Independent Women’s Football League reveals how sweetly feminine the chick version of the NFL is: the Crush, Chaos, Demolition, Rage, Scorchers, Predators, and Miami’s own Fury, to name some of the 31 franchises. This Saturday at 7:00 p.m. our girlies bust up the…
It is the ultimate Zen exercise, and the way gas prices are rising, walking will also soon be a key element of America’s transportation system. When it comes to hiking trails, Miami offers plenty of compelling options: the loop at Shark Valley, the boardwalk at the main entrance of Everglades…
The deadline has passed and the Florida Marlins will not become the San Antonio Sandspurs, or whatever the Texas city was going to call the team it tried to lure with promises of $200 million for a state-of-the-art stadium. Major League Baseball nixed the move, saying the Fish should stay…
Miami FC fans know why Onandi Lowe is gone (attitude problems), why Rodriguez is called “El Loco,” that Romario’s other nickname is Shorty, that the very cool drummers who give rhythm to games sit in the east-side stands. They also know for a new USL team, winning is not everything…
Yes, the Florida Marlins suck. Suck like I-95 at 5:00 p.m. Suck like Rachael Ray on the Food Network. Suck like President Bush doing Shakespeare. They really, really suck. But the Chicago Cubs are not exactly the Chicago White Sox. As of a couple of weeks ago, the Cubbies were…
The season opener indicated South Florida’s new soccer team is competitive: Miami FC played the Montreal Impact, which had the best regular-season record in the USL last year, in a 0-0 tie. An April 29 scrimmage against local Haitian team OKAP also indicated FC is keen to develop a good…
The caveat for really cool stuff is the longer it exists, the less cool it becomes. BoardUp is Miami’s first Pro-Am Wakeboard Championship, which makes it pretty cool (although wakeboarding is already a $90-billion-per-year industry). The sport is also known as skurfing because it combines water skiing and surfing –…
