Life as a children’s entertainer is probably pretty tough. Imagine being an adult, constantly engaging in coochie-coo, baby-waby talk, dealing with annoying snot-stained brats who aren’t even your own children, and, perhaps worst of all, having to smile all the time.These characters are held to a higher standard than say,…
Dear Jodie,I’ve always respected you, both as an actress and a director. Your performances in films such as The Accused and The Brave One were both inspired and inspiring. Little Man Tate, your directorial debut, was a piece of masterful filmmaking. Through your films, you’ve given people hope when they…
On National Pancake Day aka February 5, the International House of Pancakes invites you to get your flapjack on with a free stack of IHOP’s signature buttermilk pancakes.Unlike other restaurants’ freebies, like Burger King’s free fry day for example, IHOP is not giving away its namesake food for marketing purposes,…
Sometimes success is a simply a matter of divine intervention. By the end of last year, Wajiro’s restaurant on 127th Avenue and SW Eighth Street was a shadow of its former self. Serendipitously, through a series of seemingly inconsequential events, Otto and Sonia De La Torre took ownership of Wajiro’s…
If you love bikinis, basketball, or women who get into both, Christmas has come early for you this year. The Miami Spice Bikini Basketball team has chosen its roster, and we’re serving up photos and interviews of 12 of its newly named members. Consider it our (extremely belated) Christmas gift…
If you love bikinis, basketball, or women who get into both, Christmas has come early for you this year. The Miami Spice Bikini Basketball team has chosen its roster, and we’re serving up photos and interviews of 12 of its newly named members. Consider it our (extremely belated) Christmas gift…
Fashionistas, erotic-art enthusiasts, and photophiliacs can delight in the fact that the World Erotic Art Museum (1205 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) caters to locals as much as it does Baselites. In cooperation with the Museum der Moderne in Austria, WEAM presents “Helmut Newton: A Liberating Focus” through March 3 —…
If you love bikinis, basketball, or women who get into both, Christmas has come early for you this year. The Miami Spice Bikini Basketball team has chosen its roster, and we’re serving up photos and interviews of 12 of its newly named members. Consider it our Christmas gift to you.A…
There are still a few spots left for the early seating tonight at New Times’ Best Restaurant in Little Havana (2012), Catharsis Restaurant & Lounge. It’s an all-in-one kind of place, where you can eat, drink, and dance to your heart’s content.They will offer the opportunity to choose from three different…
When it came to food news in 2012, there were some real doozies. From murders committed over a disagreement about a snack, to food fetishist teachers, to frivolous 911 calls, people were really freaking cray-cray this year.I’ve put together some of the most unfathomable occurrences from the past 365 days…
If you love bikinis, basketball, or women who get into both, Christmas has come early for you this year. The Miami Spice Bikini Basketball team has chosen its roster, and we’re serving up photos and interviews of 12 of its newly named members. Consider it our (belated) Christmas gift to…
New Year’s Eve is a night when Magic City locals really let loose — we drink and dance the night away, spending hour after sweaty hour in an overcrowded nightclub, racking up a three digit bar tab. Wait, that’s just a regular night in the 305, isn’t it?Why do we…
If you love bikinis, basketball, or women who get into both, Christmas has come early for you this year. The Miami Spice Bikini Basketball team has chosen its roster, and we’re serving up photos and interviews of 12 of its newly named members. Consider it our Christmas gift to you…
We all know that chugging down can after can of Monster, Red Bull, or Rock Star ain’t exactly healthy, yet some of us chug down multiple doses of energy drinks every day.An adult endangering his or her health is one thing, but how about a kid? Energy drinks have become…
Unlike vodka drinkers, Whiskey lovers tend to be somewhat traditional in their choice of libations. You don’t come across Raspberry Jameson or Bushnell’s Citrus, for example. But this past year, the tried and true traditions of whiskey making have taken a turn.First came the onset, and almost immediately popular, honey-flavored…
Dinner with Friends at Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill is an event that every foodie must experience at least once. Fortunately, this coming Monday, December 17, Sugarcane will once again delight a small group of diners to a gastronomic gala. Unfortunately, it will be the last DwF of the year.We attended…
Miami-based Burger King is in the news again, not because of its food, but because of a senseless murder.Jose Reyes Mejia-Varela, the former manager of a BK located in Maryland, has pleaded guilty to the murder of Jacinta “Patty” Ayala, assistant manager at the same location.Ayala, 32, was the mother…
Artists in the 305 are a creative bunch. They find new and unique ways of creating and also performing art, not to mention displaying it. Multimedia artist Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez has done just that — projecting her avant garde film project onto the exteriors of houses during Art Basel.Says…
The freaks were out this week — literally. Production company Riot Development put together Reprise Parisienne Thursday night, a surrealistic fiesta complete with bearded lady, fire dancers, and lions (really — there was a performer in a lion costume), turning Villa 221 into Sideshow de Soleil for the evening…
It must be said that Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock, opening today at Coral Gables Art Cinema, is worth seeing if you’re a fan of old Hollywood, the film industry in general, and/or Hitch himself. If you aren’t, feel free to skip this messy biopic as you’ll probably be bored — cue dramatic…
Randy Polumbo describes his work, Love Stream, like this: “[It] can be a giant kaleidescope, or upon penetrating the interior, a libidinally stimulating reflecting pool,” says the artist.And here we thought it was just an Airstream trailer decorated with pastel-colored glass dildos.Those fortunate enough to have attended Art Public’s opening night…
Sometimes change is not only good but also worth celebrating. This Saturday, the annual Miami Art Museum Ball celebrates MAM’s 29th birthday and its upcoming new digs. Next December, the downtown Miami icon will be renamed the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and relocated to its new Museum Park facility…
