THUR 10/9 Every year when National Depression Screening Day rolls around, your interest is piqued but you just can’t seem to get off your ass and get to one of their free and anonymous screenings. It’s not that you’re lazy, maybe just … depressed? Depression does spread its ominous cloud…
NOW 24/7 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a miracle of another feather. It’s the 60-by-60-foot labyrinth on the parking lot blacktop of the Unity on the Bay church. The cheeky diva of Miami’s holy houses has spawned a veritable “happening” with this blue-on-black meditative walking…
Lipstick lesbian, lang-thang, dyke on a bike, professional tennis player. Young closeted lesbian, you don’t have to live pigeonholed in one of these categories. As painful as the coming-out process can be, once you’re out, chances are you’ll be more confident, proud of yourself, and reassured with the direction of…
THURSDAY 10/2 Whiskey and chewing gum: We certainly can’t dream up a better combination, except maybe beer and Fruit Loops. But someone thought the former was a good idea because among the many sponsors of the Latino Comedy Series is the Jack Daniel’s brand and Chiclets gum. Sounds comical to…
SUN 10/5 Oye, it’s time for the second annual Urban Latin Music Festival and you know what that means. Lots of rump-shakin’, bass-thumpin’ Latin and hip-hop music. All the musical bases are covered with the bachata band Aventura, Huey Dunbar doing tropical and salsa, the Spanish hip-hop of Majic Juan,…
MON 10/6 Food. You love it. But is it better enjoyed alone in the privacy of your home? Or with a group of, say, 15 other possibly lonely, possibly gregarious, possibly gluttonous food lovers just like you? For the last couple of weeks Ortanique on the Mile (278 Miracle Mile,…
MON 10/6 Kids, what do you do with a day off school? You sit around the living room playing video games or run around outside wreaking havoc in your hood. No! Take advantage of Florida’s beautiful fall weather and sign yourself up for the Cane Pole Fishing Contest at Bill…
SAT 10/4 Soccer is the universal sport. All around the world kids understand that fun and good-natured competition happens when you take a ball and begin kicking it around. The City of Miami kicks off a new soccer program today that is free of charge for disadvantaged inner-city children. The…
SUN 10/5 According to Celtic legend, Stingy Jack was a thieving reprobate, a chap so nasty he tricked the Devil himself on several occasions. Banned from both Heaven and Hell, Jack had nowhere to go when he died and began roaming the night looking for mischief to perform. Because he…
Thursday 9/25 Joey Galvan, Mark Stuart, Deane Cote, and Clark Stacer are all Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash. Don’t be alarmed: It’s not what you’re thinking. We don’t intend to be disrespectful. Nor do we mean to insinuate that over the years the late great Man in Black was doing…
SAT 9/27 The best thing about Grand Prix Americas is the idea of downtown Miami turning into a stoplight- and speed-limit-free supersonic racetrack for 3 days. Plus, it’s free to stand around the track, unless you’re a serious race fan and enter the infield ($45) or sit in the grandstands…
NOW 24/7 There’s a huge difference between professional architectural photographs and those random snapshots of fascinating buildings that caught your eye when you were on vacation in some swanky European capital or small American town. Or is there? Both types of works are liable to give people a fresh perspective…
For a purely Miami-centric take on former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, one need look no further than 1996, when a Cuban military gunner shot down the Cessna planes of Brothers to the Rescue. Admonishing both the bloody act and the celebratory response of the Cuban pilots, Albright said of…
Thursday 9/18 Born in Haiti, photographer Carl Juste (at the Miami Herald since 1991) has seen the world through his lens, covering events in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, to name a few countries, and racking up prestigious prizes such as the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. See a varied selection…
SUN 9/21 Yeah, baby! She began as an icon in swinging ’60s London; had a nude scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s controversial film Blowup; lived in Paris with her incomparably hip husband, musician Serge Gainsbourg; and was immortalized as the breathy vocalist in the scandalously sexy song “Je T’aime Moi Non…
FRI 9/19 Remember the good old days when our greatest fear was not terrorists but communists? Compared with what’s gone on in the world lately, domestic agitators like the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers seem almost innocuous these days. Our preferred kick-ass activist of the past? Angela Davis. She…
THUR 9/18 Excuse us, but where the hell has Grover been? You know, the blue Muppet with the big round head, skinny body and limbs, and unidentifiable accent. A popular fixture on the kiddie show Sesame Street for many years, Grover, overshadowed by newbies like Zoe, Rosita, and the third-person-obsessed…
NOW 24/7 “Don’t turn right on Grand,” insists the passenger as the car hits the intersection of Grand Avenue and McDonald Street in Coconut Grove. To the left are the drunks and the din of CocoWalk. To the right lies that amorphous entity known as the West Grove. The Black…
To hear Alejandro Rios, director of Miami-Dade College’s Festival of Alternative Cuban Cinema, tell it, the world is obsessed with the island nation. Perhaps it’s a universal case of rubbernecking, or else the tropical glamour spot of old has retained its sexy cachet in our collective imaginations. Rios, a media…
South Beach is famous for its frenzied and bootylicious nightlife, its beaches and all-out debauchery. The profile is brought to life on any given holiday weekend as the place erupts with pleasure-seekers from all over the world. Unfortunately one claim to fame is often ignored by glossy travel brochures and…
Most of us can remember where we were on September 11, 2001. We don’t need to rewind the video footage of the World Trade Center collapsing to remind ourselves of how we felt and what we did, specifically, in our initial shock. Although we can recall that dreary day with…
Thursday September 4 She’s a weird chick, that winsome and wispy Tori Amos. She’s a preacher’s daughter who sings about an unreliable god, self-crucifixion, and murder. In other words, we love her. Currently touring in support of her album Scarlet’s Walk, Amos promises to satisfy the droves of her fans…
