From Ashy to Classy

Your skin is mad at you — shedding like crazy, getting away from you little by little — and you won’t do so much as slather on some cream to persuade it to stick around. Sure, your dermis invites its BFFs Whitehead and Blackhead to dinner at the wrong times,…

Décor for Your Cardboard Box

Homes are like brides: You should always have something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue on display. Those items give your space character, and after all, we can’t all afford to fill our abodes with $39K Steinway pianos and $65K silverware sets à la Ruth Madoff. Each year,…

Get Jazzed in the Gardens

Jazz might not be the first type of music that pops into your head when you think of Miami, but our city actually has quite a bit of the difficult-to-define yet highly infectious sound in its colorful past. Big names such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Nat King Cole…

Feed Us, Seymour

Sundays are for lovers. Festival lovers, that is. A good one will make you want to peel yourself from your favorite loafing spot and yank on some elastic-waist pants so you can roam from booth to booth inhaling foods wrapped in wax paper or served in cardboard boats fit for…

No Need to Forge a Check Tonight

With all due respect to the country’s financial woes, we’re sick of the bitching and moaning. Pinch pennies, conserve energy, and stretch dollars on your own time, America — we’ve been struggling for years and now we have to push past even more people at the bar when we want…

Don’t Be A Wise Guy, Meet a Wise Guy

The series finale of The Sopranos left much to the imagination. Did someone come in and blow Tony and company away in a hail of machine-gun fire? Was that creepy guy the one who would finally put the boss to sleep with the fishes? Did Carmella order the Caprese salad?…

Dolphin Shorts, Optional

There are few souls more energetic than fitness legend Richard Simmons. In fact, I’m sure that he’s a life-sized jumping bean. Seriously. Have you seen this video? He’s known for his dolphin shorts and curly fro, but his commitment to health and fitness for regular folk is what he’ll go…

Unique Auto Sports Spreads It’s Lamborghini Doors to Miami

You’ve watched Will Castro trick out Lebron James’ 2003 Hummer H2 and pimped Jeff Gordon’s Monte Carlo on the Speed Channel’s hit show, “Unique Whips,” and now South Florida is getting the opportunity to put some shiny rims on our Toyotas. The new 40,000 square foot customization shop features a…

Spongebob Pajamapants

You know that match.com commercial where the woman promises her beau that she’ll never wear flannel pajamas, and he asks her to just promise to never wear pajamas at all? Those two aren’t welcome at West End Park today from 3 to 7 p.m. While the hipsters are out getting…

Bon Appetit for Cheap

Your wallet is telling you to eat in. Your savings account is begging you to break out the Tupperware and bring your lunch to work instead of ordering that $8 ham and cheese sandwich. But your belly is clamoring for something elegant and skillfully prepared, so feed it, Seymour. Only…

Shake Your Pom Poms

Their job is to excite stadiums full of screaming football fanatics. And week after week, clad in teeny tiny uniforms, they do just that. No, not the guys hawking the cotton candy – the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders. Guys love ’em, (some) girls wanna be ’em, and everyone must admit that…

Soul Sister Love

Your girls’-nights-in have been fun, but it’s time for you and your collective of fierce females to take a night out. And this time you won’t need to rustle up dollars for Vince Black and Sage at Goldfellas. Support another group of women today by showing up at the SWAN…

Kitty Says Man Up!

Hello, Kitty: Two weeks ago, my girl came down from Orlando to visit for the weekend. I was stoked to spend time with her because we’ve been in a long-distance relationship since January and have seen each other only six times since then. I made plans for us to do…

Watch Pussy Play Poker

Big Pussy at Hot Tuna pushing Sleeping Fish sounds like a porno flick that takes place on a sunny day at the wharf starring a legendary prostitute and an American Indian. Really it’s an ex-Soprano appearing at a Coyote Ugly-esque bar and hawking a newItalian-inspired sushi roll. Vincent “Big Pussy”…

Break a Leg, Rover

According to Warhol, we humans are only allotted 15 measly minutes of fame. If one year is actually seven in a dog’s life, does that mean that they get 105 minutes to be celebrated by the masses for their incomparable talents? I’m not whining that man’s best friend gets a…

Kitty Jumps into the Jacuzzi

Hello, Kitty: My company has a Jacuzzi on the 15th floor of our office building and I’m dying to try it out. There is a special guy in my life, but I’m thinking water sports should involve someone I can get wild and crazy with, i.e., my biker ex-boyfriend. Prior…

Swing Your Racket Towards Fashion

The news just broke about Maria Sharapova pulling out of the Sony Ericsson Open due to a shoulder injury she’s been grappling with for the past few months, but have no fear, you can still see your favorite blonde tennis phenom and hawker of photography products in the flesh. Today…

Turn the Tables on Poor Design

“Grab the china, honey!” Yes, dear. “And buff those forks before you bring them out here, the baby threw up all over them last Christmas.” Yes, dear. The plastic forks are being buffed as we speak. “Thanks lover, and those plates?” Somebody ripped them. If this sounds like the pre-dinner…

Love–This Game

At last year’s Sony Ericsson Open, we embarrassed all of our friends by throwing popcorn at legally blind referees, booing when a player didn’t dive for a base line drive, and chanting “Hey, hey, hey, go-odbyyyyyye” when our guy won. For the past 364 days, we’ve been boning up on…

Shop (and Drink) Till You Drop

Clotheshorse researchers have determined that people spend more money at the mall if they’re allowed a cocktail and a sick soundtrack for their shopping pleasure. Sure — give us a few vodka tonics and we’ll make out with the mannequin and slap up the store’s manager. That’s right, we’re gonna…

Where’s the Hamburglar When You Need Him?

The Cheeseburger bill has yet to be passed, so if you feel like McDonald’s Big Macs are the catalyst for your back fat, go ahead and sue Ol’ Ronald Mc. Or you can abandon the drive-thrus altogether for your meat-on-bread needs and have a bite at the 8 Oz. Burger…

Solo Sushi Needs Soy Sauce. Akashi Has Soy Sauce.

9:39 p.m. last night, my friend texted me, “Loving [Lil’] Kim on Dancing With the Stars!” While he was home watching B & C-Listers do the cha-cha – wasabi, crab and fresh-out-the-water tuna was doing the electric boogaloo on my tongue. Akashi’s South Miami outpost is potentially one of the…