She comes onstage with the flowing brown hair and piercing green eyes of a modern-day screen siren, but once she grabs the mike, you know Tammy Pescatelli is there to do more than play the girlfriend to some corny, tight-shirt-wearing hero. Then she says, “Hi, my name’s Tammy Pescatelli. Yeah,…

There’s something about a live musical performance that can turn an average night into an awesome experience; the energy emanating from the stage seems to infect the entire room and the music is transformed into a living, breathing thing. After what seems to be a lifetime of hearing prerecorded tracks…

Every year since 2000, on the eve of Memorial Day, a silent yet audible warning cry ascends from the high-rise condos and garden apartments of South Beach. The hip-hoppers are coming! The hip-hoppers are coming! And like clockwork, locals roll out and clear the way for one of the largest…

Let’s face it, you overdid it last night. You got so excited that you didn’t have to face rush hour traffic, your boss, or that prick at the water cooler today that you decided to drink with reckless abandon and watch the late-night repeat of The Sopranos. So now you’re…

There is an abundance of hard-bodied men and women in Miami drinking wheatgrass, ordering salads as — gasp — entrées, and exercising as if training for a marathon. Then there’s another group of people who drink Diet Cokes, consider their daily trek to the mailbox a workout, and think that…

Night after night, the hundreds of restaurants in the Magic City compete for your hard-earned dollars. On Ocean Drive they harass you as you walk by, while in other parts of the city, they use a slightly gentler touch and coerce you with tantalizing aromas and to-die-for decor. In Coral…

Did you know that laughing burns like 10 calories an hour? We’re happy to know that there’s a way you can burn calories while sitting on your rear. This can’t be a sitcom giggle or a couple of movie chuckles, though — it has to be nonstop, hold-your-sides howling. And…

Every day you drink café con leche, eat a pastelito, order your rum and coke as a Cuba Libre, and have no idea what any of it means. We suggest Google for the first two, but maybe we’ll slide you one delicious freebie. Daniel Guiteras, whose family owns the Globe…

Seems like everybody has something to say about your drinking, telling you that you’re selfish and that it’s messing up your liver. Okay, so maybe the hooch isn’t so great for your vital organs, but dammit, you’re not selfish! You can prove that and get a little sauced at today’s…

Professional basketball has changed so much since its inception. The uniform has evolved from booty shorts to culottes, the players are in the local sections of their local papers more, and a big-mouthed fan just might catch a championship ring in his eye if he yells out the wrong thing…

The Maria Verdeja School of the Arts is celebrating its twentieth birthday this year — almost legal, girls! Over the past two decades the school has taught bushels of little girls to dance; little girls who grew up to be women that embarrass you on the dance floor. And tonight…

You’re having the week from hell: You got a pink slip for that incident in the break room, you left the keys in your convertible and made some lucky car thief’s day, and you missed the finale of America’s Next Top Model. To say that you’re down in the dumps…

Marianne Williamson is a spiritual activist and internationally acclaimed author and lecturer with four number one New York Times bestsellers. She’s the chairman of the Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a Department of Peace. And Newsweek magazine named her one of the 50 most influential…

In the oversaturated world of Miami party promoting, it seems like the key to success is to shove as many flyers in as many people’s hands as possible, lying all the while about all of the “special invited guests” who are coming. FYI promoters: Sending LL Cool J a MySpace…

When the mainstream was first introduced to Tracy Morgan in 1996, when he became a cast member on Saturday Night Live, a wee bit of his comedic allure was due to the fact that he had the belly of a woman in her third trimester. Yes, his delivery and flawless…

Bored with American style? Have you been wishing ill upon those rags hanging in your closet? Damn you, blue jeans! Die, T-shirt! Back away from the closet, crazy. To pay homage to the creativity and beauty of Colombian fashion, the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce is hosting Expo Moda 2007…

Five days a week, you can curl up in front of your TV and watch Judge Greg Mathis hand down judgments to wronged mistresses and slow-talking dope-fiends. But today and tomorrow, the judge will be settling a different kind of case: Youth vs. Premarital Sex. Why? “Having faced so many…

You shimmied hard when the Ying Yang Twins told you to “sh-shake it like a salt shaker,” and after Shakira bragged that her “Hips Don’t Lie” you couldn’t walk for three days. By the way, your hips lied like a rug. So tonight give your shake a rest and watch…

To you and I, Samantha from Bewitched might have been just a blond broad with some mean allergies, and Jeannie the “genie” little more than a subservient vagabond. But occult expert and Wiccan High Priestess Rev. Sandra Cheryl Richardson felt a kinship with these sitcom characters. “I always had a…

What’s tall and bald and brown all over? No, not that. Get your mind out of the gutter. We’re talking about Damon Wayans, a member of the side-splitting Wayans clan, a family that has written, produced, and starred in some of the funniest comedies of the last twenty years. Remember…

Forget yelling at the TV screen like you did during the 2006 NFL draft. This year you can be up close and personal when Coach Cameron chooses the next Miami Dolphin you’ll love to hate. The team is hosting its very own draft party in the practice bubble at the…

You’ve been practicing your Jim Jones “Balllinnnn!” fadeaway for months, and your two-step is damn near perfect, so the time has come to show the world what you’ve got. And what better place to do that than at the 2007 Springfest? Over 30 hip-hop, R&B, and reggae performers will hit…