WED 3/24 Reschedule your appointments. Forward your calls to voice mail. Call in sick. It’s Wednesday and the Florida Marlins Spring Training Camp is in full swing. What better reason, especially after the World Series championship, to take the day off and see for yourself what to look forward to…
NOW 24/7 Croaking in a public place. Can there be anything more annoying (or mortifying)? With a poverty level highest in the nation, refugees periodically washing up on our shores, traffic congestion and road rage increasing on a daily basis, life in Miami is stressful enough without having to think…
Thursday 3/11 With an army of top DJs from around the world, a bevy of cool places in which to party, and a zillion buff men in tight-fitting party wear, the Winter Party is set to rock gay Miami once again. The kickoff bash features DJs Marc Scott, Twisted Dee,…
FRI 3/12 If Morrissey’s call to hang the DJ is carried out tonight, then his onetime Smiths bandmates Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce may be seen dangling from a gibbet. Thankfully the bassist and drummer for the legendary Manchester quartet don’t take Mozzer very seriously. Still why is the duo…
FRI 3/12 A labyrinth of love and passion. The choice between exile and conformity. In the end it’s the human spirit that takes flight in Milan Kundera’s novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Cuban expat Marianela Boan premieres The Unbearable Lightness, her latest dance work based on Kundera’s classic. Boan…
SUN 3/14 The Calle Ocho Festival has een described as the hottest street fair in America. With a mix of Latin music legends, hoochie-coochie starlets, and up-and-coming acts, the party gets beamed via Spanish television networks all over the world. Despite its grand scale, the event sneaks up on us…
The luck of the Irish gets stuffed into a multicultural empanada every time St. Patrick’s Day arrives in Miami. Cheap green beer specials always bring everybody to drink. In this town that means you’re bound to find a St. Patrick’s party where you hear just about every accent in the…
As hard as we may wish and pray for it to happen, Alicia Keys will probably never serve any of her acolytes a steaming cup of hot chocolate (made with cream, not water). It’s something we dream about every time we hear her cell phone conversation in her current chart-topper,…
Thursday 3/4 Skate rats and nouveau punks will be getting their fiercest attitude together as Linkin Park, the rocking clash of old-school hip-hop and hard-driving rock and roll, brings its Meteora tour to town. The altmetal quintet packs a loud and energetic wallop despite the fact that its members are…
Violin master Malcolm Goldstein laughs when he is reminded that his work is considered experimental music. It’s not that he rejects the label. Instead Goldstein, renowned worldwide for virtually reinventing the way the violin is played, responds as if the classification is too simplistic an explanation for what he does…
SAT 3/6 Miami filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar laments the dearth of countercultural icons in a world rife with war, corporate greed, and disease. He bemoans the growing apathy in cities and the eerie quiet that comes with assimilation. Once-radical heroes such as John Waters, he observes, maintain a comfort in…
MON 3/8 Your days of screaming obscenities at the television screen are over. Don’t get too excited: Hardball, Chris Matthews’s annoying MSNBC gab fest, hasn’t been canceled — yet! The silver-haired pundit continues to offer up in-depth political analysis with weighty guests such as comedian Bill Maher. But if you…
THU 3/4 The common denominator unifying creatures is the passing of time. After all, the same sun rises and sets in its daily cycle for all of us. Right? Wrong. Some creatures live in their own bubbles of time. For instance the Aldabra tortoise, named for its native Aldabra Atoll…
FRI 3/5 For some people, guarding orchid-growing secrets is tantamount to the Department of Defense protecting information about nuclear warheads. They steal, they lie, they hire spies. You wouldn’t believe it. In case you haven’t read the book The Orchid Thief or seen the film Adaptation, you should know that…
The end of Sex and the City left fans of the TV phenomenon without their weekly revelations about city women’s feminine mystique. No more jokes involving pubic hair, female farts, or romps with sexy yoga instructors. We caught Candace Bushnell, author of the book that started it all, in a…
Thursday 2/26 Don’t count on hearing gripping stories about the Titanic or the Andrea Doria or even the S.S. Minnow from Gilligan’s Island when you pay a visit to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida’s (101 W. Flagler St.) latest exhibition, “Shipwrecks and Rescues: 1550-2000.” The disasters and heroic events…
FRI 2/27 In Sidney Lumet’s 1976 film Network, Peter Finch plays a washed-up television anchorman who begins to lose his sanity. When in a rage he encourages his audience on live television to stick their heads out their windows and shout at the top of their lungs “I’m mad as…
SUN 2/29 At last, a wrestling outfit that knows that fighting is all about the mask. Along with a range of over-the-top identities, many of the fighters who participate in Lucha Xtreme Wrestling possess some of the most compelling costumes in the sport. The Mark of the Mask tour, which…
We barely had time to scream our tits off. We bitched when we heard that the Cactus Bar and Grill, Miami’s longest-running gay bar and home to Biscayne Boulevard rough trade, was closing. We lamented the passing of glam and grift, once hallmarks of the gay underworld and fodder for…
God is coming. Put away your prayer books and slip on your boogie shoes because he’s gonna scoop you up with a chunky bass line, heavenly vocals, and phat-phat glam. In case you didn’t know, God is Nile Rodgers, the prolific producer of disco megahits and the man responsible for…
Thursday 2/19 For years Spanish master guitarist Paco de Lucia has been taking flamenco music to new frontiers. His collaborations with jazz artists have forged his signature style of nuevo flamenco, a sound many critics consider a harbinger of the renaissance of Andalusian music. A consummate artist, de Lucia takes…
SAT 2/21 We all know the poem: “A Dream Deferred.” Langston Hughes wrote it, if you hadn’t heard. “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — and then run?” One of the greatest black literary figures of the 20th Century, Hughes was…
