Dubya has finally managed to pencil it into his busy schedule, so the two main candidates for the position of leader of the free world will come face to face in Miami for their first duel. No, not the Zell Miller glove-slap, pistols-at-dawn kind. This will be a war of…
THU 23 Anyone fearless enough to perch on something protruding from a skyscraper gets our vote as cool. That person would be “Margaret Bourke-White: Modern Woman, Modern Photographer,” who in 1932 was snapped standing on a Chrysler Building gargoyle many stories above Manhattan, and who is also the subject of…
Chuck Palahniuk wrote Fight Club, which became the twitchy 1999 film starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, and bestsellers Lullaby, Survivor, and Invisible Monsters. He’s currently promoting Diary, a morbid tale about artistic inspiration. His upcoming book is a Poe-inspired collection of horror stories, including the gory, controversial Guts, which…
THU 16 Forget all about steroid scandals and get ready for some all-American athletes doing their thing. Yes, a giant Wheaties box will come to life tonight when members of the current men’s and women’s Olympic teams and 2003 World Championships team in gymnastics come to town to bounce around…
THU 9 If you’ve ever seen the Toxic Avenger (1985), the Class of Nuke ’em High (1986), Terror Firmer (1999) or even Tromeo and Juliet (1996), you’ve been touched (or traumatized) by the kooky cultish world of Troma, the fiercely independent film company founded by eccentric Lloyd Kaufman. Yesterday the…
Celebrate Miami’s many cultures SAT 9/4 How many times have you sat at a stoplight in some foreign corner of Miami, far from your turf, and wondered, “Where the hell am I?” Maybe it’s the Haitian gentleman on South Beach, scratching his head at the sight of yarmulke-topped Jewish men…
THU 2 Sure people bust into museums and steal works by Rembrandt, Picasso, and Munch. But has a group of masked men ever stormed a gallery and grabbed a painting by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or Robert Rauschenberg at gunpoint? Not that we know of. That doesn’t make Pop art…
