Feel-Good Fun

We understand if you’re all art-ed out after Art Basel, but tonight’s event at the Wallflower Gallery is one with a heart, not just beautiful people schmoozing and raping the open bar. You know the Wallflower as a local mecca for creative types who infiltrate the scene with dance, spoken…

Burn Rubber

Sure, riding your rusty 10-speed through Miami can be cool, but try sitting behind the wheel of a tricked-out Mitsubishi floating on a cloud of neon lights, blasting more bass than a Sunday night at Opium. Now that’s a ride that will get the old heart pumping. Unfortunately your Huffy…

Park Life

Our national parks are protected from the intrusion of bulldozers as much for the benefit of the indigenous plants and wildlife as for the enjoyment of all who wish to frolic upon the grounds. But those good intentions are worthless when cans, condoms, and contraband litter these oases. The National…

Teetering at Tipsy

Let us school you on one fact: Tipsy-dialing can be kind of sexy, because you’re just a little bolder and slightly more confident than your sober self. But once you’ve crossed that “drunk” threshold, the call becomes plagued with tears and screams. Not so sexy. Let us walk you through…

Sippin’ on Liqueur

It’s been up and running since November 9, but have you visited the house that Casa Décor built yet? Well it’s not a house so much as a parking garage transformed into an interior design Shangri-La. This year’s exhibition includes outdoor installations, too, one in the form of the Cointreau…

Let’s Get High

You might have noticed the huge white balloon coasting above the Biscayne Bay shoreline and wondered, Is it a bird? Or a plane? No, dummy, it’s the Miami Skylift. And though we bet you’ve been high plenty of times when you’ve seen Miami, now the Skylift is here to show…

Be a Doll

As a child, you had an affinity for dolls — whether Barbie or G.I. Joe – that was encouraged and accepted. As an adult, not so much. But it’s totally cool for anyone to love Pablo Cano’s life-size marionettes and rod puppets made from found objects, which include fanciful creations…

A Party with Heart

So you survived the Thanksgiving tryptophan massacre, but that only means the holiday party season is officially in full gear. This year we suggest you take time out of your grueling schedule of celebrating to eat, drink, and dance for a good cause. Tonight’s first annual Unlock the Cells is…

Who Let the Dogs Out?

This morning the sound of Daft Punk blaring from your clock radio jerked you from a blissful state. You felt a draft swirling over your body, looked down, and found your bed sheets torn to shreds. At first you thought your booty call had somehow transformed into Edward Scissorhands, but…

Whole Lotta Shaking Going On

After a few lemon drop shots, you might think you’re the funniest thing since the 2000 election, and your equally drunk friends just may agree. But we’re here to tell you the awful truth: You’re awful. To see comedy at its finest, take your corny ass to the Miami Improv…

They Call It Stormy Friday

The sky is pitch-black at 5:30 p.m., that damn writers’ strike has plunged your favorite TV show into reruns already, and your Christmas budget looks like the dollar menu at McDonald’s. We understand if you have a case of the blues. And we don’t expect you to be happy even…

The Blueprint

So you say you wanna be a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment business? You want the outrageous houses and cars you see on MTV’s Cribs, you want to rock diamonds bigger than your earlobe, and most of all you want your innermost thoughts laid on wax, film…

No Need to Wipe Your Feet

You’ve seen the sign: No shirt, no shoes, no service. But each Friday at the Mandarin Oriental, they get a little tolerant of the “no shoes” part. Well, not the whole hotel — don’t tell them we told you to walk unshod through the gorgeous lobby. Only at the Moroccan-theme…

Run, Forrest, Run

For the past 365 days, you’ve been plotting on Aunt Jean’s cranberry stuffing and framing up your attack on Mom’s candied yams. Last night you cased the family kitchen, searching for some wayward morsel or a casserole corner that wouldn’t reveal your culinary burglary. But no luck; the fridge is…

Moonlighting Movies

So you and your honey have carved butt-prints into the couch from rampant DVD-watching, and all of the polyester-vest-wearing teens at your local megaplex know you by “large Coke Icee, pack of Twizzlers, and extra-buttery popcorn.” We think it might be time for you two to get a new hobby,…

Just Move Your Lips

When your mom told you that your singing voice is painfully off key, you just assumed she didn’t want to lose her baby in a corrupt world of fame and fortune. Then you went on American Idol and heard the producers tell you they loved you, only to later find…

Indian Winter

While you’re complaining about the chills that accompany our joke of a fall season, our northern brethren are huddling around fireplaces, sipping hot toddies, and planning to party indoors for the next five months. We should feel damn lucky all we have to do is throw on one extra layer…

Dreaming of a White Christmas?

One day in January 1981, a light dusting of snow fell on Miami. The bizarre weather wasn’t significant enough to affect the city in any major way, but it was just enough to give each resident the bragging rights to a South Florida anomaly — a white winter. And just…

Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough

In the years leading up to your senior prom, you imagined it would be a magical night of balloon arches and corsage/cummerbund coalescence. Instead it was a Cisco-induced blur that ended with your mom’s station wagon reeking of vomit. But tonight at Sweat Records’ Eighties Prom, you’ll have a chance…

Moon over Miami Beach

If you pay attention to pop culture’s portrayal of love in Miami Beach, you would think it’s all about sex, drugs, and models. It isn’t? Apparently not, because the Miami Design Preservation League has been screening a whole film series, called Square Pegs in Round Holes, that focuses on characters…

Basketball Jones

Today’s the day to Febreze the spicy scent of mothballs out of your charmed number 23 jersey and pull your lucky sweatband out of its frosted glass case. Burger King’s Kings of the Court 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament is coming to Miami. Forget American Idol — you’ve been waiting all your…

Lox and Tunes

The next time you wake up on a Sunday and can’t decide whether you want pancakes or a flank steak, try something new for the most ambiguous meal of the day. We know you’ve had brunch with the in-laws more times than you’d like to remember, and the same chock…