As if we weren’t already choking on pseudo-reality television, executive producer Jennifer Lopez has decided to throw another reality series into an already inundated TV line up. South Beach Tow, which premiered last night, chronicles the profession of the Ashenoff family: Robert Sr., his daughter Christie, and son Robert Jr.,…
I knew it! Some restaurants, both sit down and fast food are downplaying the amount of calories in their menu items, according to an article at Time.com. Susan Roberts, who directs the Energy Metabolism Laboratory of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University, says that “healthy” menu items…
Miami is more than a sum of its parts. It seems that the guys from Mupalia Pictures, Alexander Jaramillo and Joaquin Escobar, intend to reveal that truth to the world.Sick of Hollywood’s trite depictions of our sweltering city, Jaramillo and Escobar want to give voice to all the unique stories…
Leave it to Miami Beach to have its own sex museum. OK, fine, erotic art museum. The World Erotic Art Museum sits in nondescript brilliance, ensconced in the surrounding South Beach splendor. Beginning Monday, the museum will devote space to artist Norman J. Olson for the exhibit “Nudes: Erotic, Poetic,…
I happened to stop by Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti yesterday for lunch and was blessed to find jill-of-all-trades Barbara Eisenhower there. She prepared a fresh batch of shepherd’s pie. After eating the delectable beef meal ($6), I researched the history of the dish and found that the folks at…
The International Hispanic Theatre Festival consistently thumbs its figurative nose at all the Debbie Downers who say that Miami has no culture. Starting today and playing throughout the weekend, El Malentendido , based on the Albert Camus play, The Misunderstanding, will make you ponder self, desperation, the repercussions of war,…
Americans spent about $40 million last year on weight-loss products. If you count the rest of the world, that jumps to about $60 billion. Let’s hope the documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead will change those numbers a bit.The reason we spend so much money on diet books, weight-loss supplements,…
Jake Gyllenhaal was on Man vs. Wild last night. He offered to skin a rotten sheep carcass so that he and Bear Grylls, the host of MvW, could use the sheep’s wool for warmth. He also took off his clothes before wading through water for bigger ratings to keep his clothes…
Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti is a lot of things to a lot of people – pub, dive saloon, sports bar, last bastion of “real” aka analog music, and so on. To scores of rugby and soccer fans, usually English, Irish, or Australian, it’s also a great place for some grub…
The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) comes back to Miami to celebrate the contributions that the African-American community has made to the film industry. And this year the ABFF has yet again compiled a dizzying schedule comprised of four days of film screenings, cocktail receptions, workshops, and “master classes” taught…
If we only knew that comic cons were such a hotbed of debauchery and Animal House style antics, we’d have taken our Darth Vader helmet “out of the closet” years ago. Seriously though, when we read that the Florida Supercon was open until 3 a.m., we thought it was a…
Last night was intense. A bit too intense. Artspoken, an indie, black box theater company, put on a “red carpet” event at its new space in Little Havana. Part of the celebration was to pay homage to the lady of the evening – Alba Raquel Barros.Barros, a very well-known Puerto…
You’d think that a restaurant that declares itself the “house” of anything would rock your world in that department. For example, you should expect some pretty damn good pancakes from the International House of. The House of Subs in Florida City proves this theory wrong. As an admitted sub addict,…
To be honest, what attracted us to Knead a Pizza was the name. We’re a sucker for clever word play. We’re also a sucker for good food, and when it comes to pizza and pasta – Knead a Pizza satisfies your every knead need (sorry, we had to). The girl…
Queers all over the states are cheering the fact that New York has legalized same-sex marriage, although, considering it is New York, you’d think they had jumped on the bandwagon before, oh, we don’t know, Iowa, maybe?Either way, it is a fantastic reason to celebrate (eight states down, only 42…
The future is upon us. Miami’s own Burger King corporation is testing a high-tech, space-age, and basically just kick ass soda dispensing machine. It was developed by the Coca-Cola company, always on the cutting edge of coolness. (The Simpsons/Coca-Cola commercial during the Super Bowl, anyone?)The apparatus offers 125 different libations,…
The idiot box has given Latino actors a bad rap. We’re used to doe-eyed melodramatic performers in every telenovela scene on Spanish-language television — and that’s just the men. Don’t get us started on the crappy, overwritten dialogue. Truth is, Hispanic culture has produced some of the best dramatists in…
I’m over it.First Pollo Tropical decides to Americanize the menu of its restaurants in the Northeast to attract more Anglo diners, then Dunkin’ Donuts comes out with the “Cuban Flatbread Sandwich,” and now, in what just might be one of the most derogatory forms of flattery I have ever seen,…
Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds (yum) as Hal Jordan, the swaggering, yet talented pilot who is bestowed with the power of the ring, was just released in theaters. Although some Miami residents flock to superhero blockbusters every summer without ever having so much as seen the inside of a comic…
Last night at Pax (Performing Arts Exchange), the bongos were thumping, the crowd was swaying, and the scent of patchouli hung thick in the air.Okay, we’re kidding about that last part, but Words & Wine, the weekly open mic event, did have a definite “love everyone” feel to it. The…
Every year the hottest, smartest, hippest, and most talented black Americans gather to celebrate the contributions that the African-American community has made to the film industry. The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) has yet again put together a dizzying four days of film screenings, cocktail receptions, workshops, and master classes…
I don’t think everyone on public assistance is a lazy bum, but I’m happy about the welfare drug-testing bill (the only move Rick Scott has made that I approve of). More importantly, I don’t think food stamps should be used to buy fast food. So far, California, Michigan, and Arizona…
