In a recent Travel & Leisure poll, Miami ranked #4 as the world’s most stylish city – not far behind the #1 New York City. Not too shabby, but also a little bit irksome. Comparing NYC fashion to style in MIA is like comparing apples to oranges — if the…
It’s not the size of the boat, but the motion of the ocean. Or so goes the platitude told to millions of apprehensive boys after their first locker-room strip-down. And for those plagued with the issue of male insecurity, group therapy has arrived in the form of Mark Della Ventura’s…
According to authorities, there’s a good chance that last week’s face-eating incident was the result of mind-altering drugs. (Just say no, kids.) But according to the rest of us, it may signal the beginning of an inevitable threat Hollywood has warned us about for years: a zombie apocalypse. (Just ask…
If you’re anxious to watch Tom Cruise don leather pants, showcase his pole dancing skill, and belt hair metal like he’s channeling Bret Michaels, your wait is almost over. Rock of Ages, the ’80s nostalgia song and dance flick (formerly a Broadway musical) that filmed here in Miami, hits theaters…
Memorial Day weekend is officially upon us. The influx of tourists has already begun, and those locals who haven’t already fled to the Keys or Orlando better get ready to mingle with a couple thousand of their new best friends.In situations like these, telling the tourists from the locals becomes…
Mango season is upon us, which means these sweet, succulent fruits will be falling from trees, rolling under cars and rotting on sidewalks throughout Miami. Every year, an abundance of this fleshy tropical fruit strikes our city, and locals with mango trees are overwhelmed.In an attempt to save Mother Nature’s…
For children of the ’80s, nothing brings back the days of playgrounds and juice boxes like Steven Spielberg’s E.T. This epic tale of an unlikely friendship is the quintessential throwback to pre-CGI filmmaking and a pre-rehab Drew Barrymore. Some observers claim the film has a Christian subtext, others argue it’s…
A Southern fried New York favorite is about to become the newest member of Mary Brickell’s culinary scene. Say “Welcome y’all” to Brother Jimmy’s, a wildly popular barbecue joint and bar with locations across the Big Apple and the Caribbean. It’s been a NYC mainstay since 1989, with six locations…
Look up the word awkward in the dictionary, and next to it you’ll find a photo of a couple frozen in the throes of a first date. From the bailout phone call to the bungling lean in, it’s hard to imagine anything but weirdness in those first few hours alone…
As Miamians, we’re perpetually spoiled by our 250+ days of sunshine each year. Vitamin D is our drug of choice (one of them, anyway), so when rainy days befall us — well, we don’t know what to do with our sun-bronzed selves.That’s especially bad this year, since the rainy summer…
We’ll admit it. Watching 1,000 Ways to Die on Spike is one of our favorite, slightly sick pleasures. So many wacky, wickedly stupid ways to star in your own snuff film, so little time!In that same morbid vein, we were pretty stoked to see #1001MiamiWaystoDie pop up as a trending…
Being a grown-up is pretty lame. Go to work, run errands, pay bills. The daily grind is so boooooring. So who doesn’t love an opportunity to let your kid flag fly? Enter the Color Run, a 5K of straight-up silliness that ends in a cornucopia of chromacity. You haven’t seen…
As Mother’s Day approaches, we’re reminded of the tireless efforts of the women who lovingly raised us into the neuroses-plagued adults we are today. They cooked for us, they cleaned up after us, they dressed our wounds and taught us manners. And along the way, they left us with more…
While some believe flower children vanished with the advent of the Internet, for many, the Age of Aquarius lives on. Commonly known as hippies, these patchouli-scented throwbacks spread the love wherever they roam. Creatures of the counterculture, they’re most commonly discovered west of the Mississippi — in the streets of…
Roller derby ain’t for sissies, and that applies to spectators as well as skaters (hence the term, “suicide seating”). For most of us, Drew Barrymore’s turn in Whip It is as close to this bad-ass sport as we’ve gotten. But trust us when we say: the Heat’s got nothing on…
May Fourth is upon us like Luke Skywalker on his sister. For die-hard fans of science fiction’s most famous saga, Star Wars Day is the prime time to let the force be with you – and indulge in some serious fanboy (or fangirl) action.Official celebrations of this astronomically important holiday…
Fifty years later, the ’60s still reign supreme as the decade of free love, free drugs, and freedom from authority. Sadly, the rebelliousness of that bygone era is little more than a memory, and these days, “the man” has most of us by the balls. But former flower children can…
On Tuesday, Riptide reported that North Miami Beach strip club Swinging Richards is under attack. Despite years of female strip clubs sneaking past the town’s law against serving alcohol in fully nude establishments, the NMB notified the male dancers at Swinging Richards that they’d begin cracking down on them May…
If you’re not familiar with polo, “the sport of kings,” picture this: a manicured lawn, an Armani-clad crowd, a hoard of minions waiting on them hand and foot. And the main event: well-coiffed players straddling hulking, sweaty animals, all while wielding long sticks and whacking heavy balls.Some might say it’s…
If Ozzie Guillen had been thinking straight (please try to suspend your disbelief to consider this premise), he never would have said what he said about Castro. But he could have said it about Dick Clark, who passed away yesterday:”I love Dick Clark. I respect Dick Clark. You know why?…
We love Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk for all the important reasons: free booze, killer visual installations, bizarre conversations with socially awkward artists. And now there’s yet another reason to get psyched for our favorite artistic endeavor: this weekend’s stroll is offering an earful of aria to help pump up…
