Miami Beach is known to gay and lesbian tourists as a friendly destination. Events like White Party Week and the Winter Party attract international gay and lesbian travelers who pump millions into the economy and bolster community fundraising efforts. What’s more, the city’s human-rights ordinance includes a prohibition against discrimination…
SAT 11/29 If amiable, silver-haired folkie Jack Williams ever ends up at your house as a guest, you may want to keep him away from the guitars. Don’t worry: He’s not going to play rock star and smash your collection of Precious Moments figurines to bits with your Fender Strat…
SAT 11/29 Hail the Big Art Openings for the Big Art Event. Miami’s galleries and museums are hanging up their top guns for the arrival of Art Basel — and for the Museum of Contemporary Art that means a solo show from William Cordova: “No More Lonely Nights.” He’s known…
Thursday 11/27 It’s turkey day. Thanksgiving, that double-bladed holiday where you are supposed to honor the good things in life, such as family, friends, and good food. You get a long weekend, decent weather, and all you can do is hang around the house smelling the roasting bird and other…
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the global corporatization über-fuck at the heart of modern-day culture? Does the gestapo-chic aesthetic espoused by Kenneth Cole and Prada make you think about the message you’re sending by wearing their styles? Social rigors demand that in order to have some say in the direction…
Thursday 11/20 Imagine this entry from the diaries of Lewis & Clark, trekking their way through our country in 1805: “Dear Diary: We’re itching less; there’s fewer mosquitoes the further west we go. As we make our way down the Columbia River, we’re surprised to find chicks! Tons of them…
FRI 11/21 Talk about pedigree. With a grandfather like Francisco Formell, arranger extraordinaire for Ernesto Lecuona’s Cuban Boys, and father Juan Formell, the founder/leader of Los Van Van, the musical gods were bound to smile on the talented Juan-Carlos Formell. But it wasn’t until the native Cubano found himself in…
SUN 11/23 No, that’s not the live version of the Paris Hilton sex video you’re watching. Just a run-of-the-mill performance by French underground artist/musician Jean-Louis Costes. Currently trekking through 22 cities of this vibrant, tolerant country, he’ll bring his Holy Virgin Cult Tour to Churchill’s (5501 NE 2nd Ave.). It’s…
SAT 11/22 Whether children know her as Princess Aurora, Briar Rose, or just plain ol’ Sleeping Beauty, this ancient fairy tale has never failed to enchant them, especially in a live theater setting. The story is very old. Scholars believe it to have origins in the Volsunga Sagas and Arthurian…
SAT 11/22 Six years ago Floridian Linda Murphy bought a bike so she could enjoy cycling with her family. She pedaled with her peeps, and then some. Last year she also won the Masters World Championship in cross-country mountain biking. Yeah: best on the planet. This week Murphy offers Girls…
NOW 24/7 “It’s an underground thing,” says Joe Aronesty, explaining the nuances of the wig business, which serves the needs, mostly, of women who’ve lost their hair. So Joe, who is all tact, quietly runs his “head” shop from the hidden recesses of his Lincoln Road clothing store. The shingle…
The pressures and hassles of life in the big bad city can really do a number on your soul. The lines of pushy preholiday shoppers. The wife. The ex-girlfriend. The snotty teenage stepkids. Bastards. Some other guy’s offspring. You hurtle your SUV through traffic with a vengeance. You imagine inflicting…
Thursday 11/13 Kick up your heels for joy. Or maybe you should leave that to the professionals? A good reason to be thrilled is you’ll finally get to see the hallowed Radio City Christmas Spectacular without having to trek to New York City in what could be snowy weather. Yes,…
THUR 11/13 Stupid New York. Stupid Macy’s parade. They get all the fun. Enormous puppets bouncing down the street, in between the Woody Woodpecker and Snoopy balloons. But perhaps Pia Fraus can help. The world-traveling Brazilian theater company returns to Miami to perform Animals of Brazil, featuring Macy’s-sized puppets –…
SUN 11/16 The first and probably last Argentine rock star, the man who reinvented the hotel-trashing role reserved for the very few, Charly García (below), will be in town for Rock En Miami II at noon at Bayfront Park (401 Biscayne Blvd.). He’ll bring his band, which will mean lots…
SAT 11/14 Not to be confused with ABC-TV’s lusty horndog Bob the Bachelor is the infinitely handier if less-handsome Bob the Builder, title character of the animated television series on Nick Jr. and star of wildly successful videos like Bob’s White Christmas and Celebrate with Bob. The hard-hatted he-man will…
FRI 11/14 So you want to be a bodybuilder, eh? Okay. First be born with the right body type; genetics are more than half the equation. Then spend hours a day in the gym, working out harder than most people work on the first day of a new job. We’re…
SAT 11/15 Walking through the tropical hammock of Pinewood Cemetery in Coral Gables, a serene 4-acre site filled with native gumbo limbo, coco plum, palmettos, bromeliads, and orchids, you stumble across the headstone of one of the first recorded burials in the area south of the Miami River: George T…
Oh, the marvels of a book. From a bound volume of pages loaded with words, comes forth the keys to the universe, the liberation of people, the indoctrination of acolytes, Thanksgiving recipes, and the dirty thoughts of prepubescent boys reading the good parts of a Judy Blume novel. As the…
Chilean novelist Alberto Fuguet leaped to the forefront of contemporary Latin American literature as an editor of McOndo, a 1996 anthology of short stories from a new generation of South American writers, all under the age of 35. He has been vilified by traditionalists and compared to rapper Eminem, in…
Miami is known for its combustible mix of people from all points on the sociopolitical spectrum. At Home Depot the wealthy former somocista bumps into the Sandinista commander who appropriated his Managua mansion. The retired Medellín cocaine kingpin lives in the same Key Biscayne condo as the attorney general who…
Thursday 11/6 Hey, classical music fans: If you want to catch conductor/violinist Pinchas Zukerman down here, this may be your only chance. See, he also had some gigs arranged with a local orchestra that recently disappeared into thin air. You know who we’re talking about, and you know if you…
