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…
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…
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…
THUR 11/6 It came from Portland. We assume that’s the hip West Coast city in Oregon, not the crusty East Coast bastion in Maine. “It” is something called the Clouds and 3D’s Ril Music Tour starring States Rights Records folkie-turned-electronica-artist Bobby Birdman and labelmates Yacht, plus DJ Maxx Bass, and…
SUN 11/9 “So castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.” Maybe so, Jimi Hendrix, but that’s no reason not to have another sandcastle-building contest. As part of the nearly month-long American Institute of Architects’ Miami Architecture Week, local firms will compete for best design during Sandblast 2003, now…
THUR 11/6 Cultural wasteland. Culturally deprived. Culturally backward. We’ve all heard the knocks about the level of aesthetic goings-on in Miami. How aware, we wonder, are those naysayers of the fact that in 1973, the county decided to set aside 1.5 percent of the construction cost of all new county…
If you’re an avid viewer of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, you already know the name Lewis Black. Wednesday night’s Back in Black segments feature his apoplectic musings on subjects as varied as the merits of monkeys, the mysterious beverage Clamato, and the failings of Bill Clinton,…
Thursday 10/30 Here’s a shocker: Over the next three years, Verizon, BellSouth, and Sprint want to raise their basic local residential rates, single-line business rates, and connection charges too. They’re also determined to lower the fees they charge long-distance providers to access their networks. Feel free to pick yourself up…
FRI 10/31 With all those swanky condos on Miami Beach, it’s hard to believe the million-dollar sandbar can offer an affordable place to reside. But two years ago Fernwood Apartments, a housing project for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS, opened. That building is just a small piece of progress in…
WED 11/5 You already know the little yellow mousecar. The VW Beetle with attached ears and tail? It was likely the first car you ever wanted to drive until you reached puberty and realized it was only an ad for pest extermination. Thankfully, postmodern irony allows you to fall in…
SAT 11/1 Since the early days of flying machines, Man has enjoyed marveling at the ridiculous ways experimental aircraft can crash and disintegrate. But why sit and watch archival biplane footage when one can view sillier contraptions plunge into the sea just down the street? Flügtag, which means “flying day”…
It’s Halloween! Time for trendsetters to be wondering: Whatever can we serve at our “Creepy Creature Feature” parties that, in terms of hideous yuckiness, will blow even J.Lo and Ben’s last flick outta the water? Debbie Fritz-Quincy, director of Hobe Sound Nature Center, has the answer: Edible insects. Homemakers who…
You’ve had your eye on that property for years. Built in 1141 in Segovia, Spain, it’s a bit old and far far away. But piece by piece, you can have it shipped to America and re-assembled stone by stone. You’ll be the envy of all your neighbors living in their…
Thursday 10/23 Setting the table can be easy unless you’re one of the 40 local architects, fashion designers, florists, or interior decorators participating in this year’s Dining by Design. Then the pressure is on. The creative types will be dreaming up outrageous and elegant tablescapes at this exclusive event devoted…
SAT 10/25 Beneath the layers of makeup and industrial-strength anti-aging remedies, Cher is a pickled old hag. Yet for some reason, middle-age gym queens jump and yip like chihuahuas whenever the old broad is brought up in conversation. Perhaps it’s a Pavlovian reaction reinforced by prime-time TV. Or maybe Cher-mania…
SAT 10/25 For years you’ve lusted after that Eames lounge chair. All sinewy white fiberglass, the piece begs — no, screams — to be in your living room. But at $6000-plus, you’d have to sell your firstborn to afford it. Yet there’s a way around your dilemma without resorting to…
FRI 10/24 1970s B-movie queen Linda Blair got her start modeling as a baby. Who would have thought that some years later she’d be spitting up torrents of green puke and pulling a 360 with her cranium? Brooke Shields, eternal starlet, also began her career as the Ivory Snow baby…
THUR 10/23 “Jeter — Cheater,” a woman shrieks as golden boy Derek bats in the final inning of Game 1. The Fish are winning, but there are two Yanks on base. The woman screams like a ditched girlfriend on a bender. “Jeter — Cheater,” her voice rises an octave, “Piece…
THUR 10/23 Picking up its cues from the civil rights movement, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, organized by a broad coalition of union-friendly groups and one cerebral celeb, recently launched a reform campaign targeting laws hurtful to new arrivals. Three weeks ago dozens of activist-laden buses departed from various American…
Thursday 10/16 Duende, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is the ability to attract others through personal magnetism and charm. It’s an appropriately neat and tidy definition for the antiseptic modern American world. But the true concept of duende lives in the fiery ways of Gypsy culture. It’s not always…
THUR 10/16 Speeding your bike Evel Knievel-style over ramps crudely constructed of plywood planks and concrete blocks. Suffering an assload of road rash after wiping out on the pavement. Jumping off the roof of your house into the swimming pool. Breaking your arms on the concrete patio. Sure, you’re a…
There is no way of knowing at press time what the fate of the Marlins will be. We tried consulting Miss Cleo, but she’s been impossible to track since entering the FBI witness protection program. As you read this, scores of fly-by-night Marlins fans, newly christened by the glow of…
