We Americans are a whiny, complaining bunch. If our spinach is contaminated with E. coli, we raise our flabby arms to the sky and demand that all of those yucky greens be recalled. What we don’t understand, and what Republicans have been trying to tell us for years, is we have…
Long gone are the days when we would play kickball outside anticipating the ice cream truck’s eerily familiar music. Those were replaced by days of huddling over our Nintendo trying to rescue the princess (Peach or Zelda, your choice). At least roaming pedophiles had a harder time snatching us up…
In the infinite wisdom of television executives and snake oil salesmen, VH1 has created a new reality series that links the two subjects Americans are most interested in: food and big personalities.In the new show, Famous Food, so-called celebrities such as Heidi Montag, The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Danielle…
Tonight, the seventh floor of the 1111 Lincoln Road garage will be transformed into a post-modern drive-in for the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The Made in Miami event includes world premieres of Max Emerson’s short films Earwig and DipSpit. The two mark Emerson’s writing and directing debut. A…
The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, (MGLFF) now in its 13th year, is back. The festival open tonight and runs until May 1, with 50 films over 10 days. This year’s selections include all kinds of features, from Tomboy, an animated short about a queer kid, to the documentary…
Remember playing kickball outside with the neighborhood kids? Those days are so over. Now the young’uns are holed up inside, glued to their videogames (at least roaming pedophiles will have a harder time locating potential victims). And gaming isn’t exclusive to whiny brats either. Sure, back when the only game…
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2011 movie picks
As a connoisseur of truly fresh subs — I love a Philly cheesesteak loaded with onions, mushrooms, and green peppers on a whole-wheat hoagie with lettuce, tomatoes, and hot peppers — when I hear the words eat fresh in a Subway commercial or read them on any of the restaurant’s…
What is nanotechnology? Michael Passoff, a senior strategist with shareholder activist group As You Sow, recently wrote an article about nanotechnology and its use in food manufacturing. “Nanotech is already used in vitamins, supplements, and sports drinks,” he says. “It is the next big controversy in food.”I spoke with him…
According to the Entertainment Software Association, 40 percent of all gamers are female. Others put the figure at somewhere between 50 and 70 percent. That is probably the reason that Epic Games, creator of Gears of War, added three playable female characters to the not-yet-released next installment in the testosterone-fueled,…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 53…
View photos from Miami Beach Gay Pride 2011 here.The Third Annual Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade took place this past Saturday and for each of the past three years the parade has begged the question – why did it take so long to start?Even much smaller Florida cities like St…
Oh, we love funny lesbians. Ellen DeGeneres, Lily Tomlin, Bea Arthur — no wait, Maude wasn’t a lesbian. Either way, you get the picture: Sapphic sweethearts can be pretty damn funny. And this fact was proven true yet again at the Lezberados show last night.Funny gals Mimi Gonzalez and Sandra…
Caffe Da Vinci’s chef/owner Eric Druckmann knows his stuff. He also loves food. You can tell when his eyes light up as he explains how he uses liquid nitrogen to freeze vodka so he can use the normally non-freezable alcohol in a dessert recipe. Caffe Da Vinci is a very…
Remember that scrawny, bug-eyed creature from the sketch comedy show In Living Color? How about the overzealous tribal warrior from Ace Venture Pet Detective II: When Nature Calls? Never mind, once you see him on stage tonight at the Miami Improv it will all come back to you.Davidson spreads his…
In the 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet (adapted from Vito Russo’s 1981 book of the same name), Hollywood’s formerly garish and derogatory portrayals of LGBT characters seem almost cartoonish — especially when you think of all the strong, funny, and endearing LGBT characters on the silver screen today. Fortunately, the…
In Charles Perez’s autobiography, Confessions of a Gay Anchorman, he slams the news team at WABC in New York for being a bunch of overpaid, homophobic meanies (with the exception of Sade Baderinwa). He trashes Diana Williams, Liz Cho, Bill Ritter, and particularly Sam Champion, though.Perez started his career in television…
Yum. Look at that plump, juicy… sofa?You might be familiar with pica — the disorder that leads people to eat stuff like soap, chalk, batteries, coins, hair, and dirt — from watching the show My Strange Addiction on TLC. According to some experts, the disorder is caused by a lack of certain…
Okay, so there’s this new trend – gourmet stops. It’s when a gourmet food place is combined with a place where you need to run an errand. For example, a bakery combines with a place to change your oil. Hence, if you have to wait for something to get done,…
In 1988, the first Pollo Tropical restaurant opened in Miami and the Latino population rejoiced. There was finally a Latin fast food restaurant in our city. A real one, unlike Taco Bell. Like a new relationship, it was awesome in the beginning. We were able to get congri, yucca fries,…
Are you tired of collection companies harassing you during your lunch break or pesky foreclosure notices being stapled to the front door of your house? Then New World School of the Arts has a temporary cure for your depressing financial situation. Students from New World will be performing in two…
Last year, the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade featured “Legacy Couples,” LGBT lovebirds who have been together for 20-plus years. As the aging couples drove by, emotions were evident on the faces in the crowd — a crowd that is constantly told that only straight people are permitted to enter…
