Super Bowl weekend is to football-fanatical guys what tax-free week is to shopaholic women: a few days of Shangri-La. And sometimes, just sometimes, there’s an event where both sexes can experience this bliss. One of those events is Off the Field’s sixth annual Players’ Wives Fashion Extravaganza, hosted by Patricia…
VH1 isn’t just for B- and C-list stars hoping to move their way up – or on their way down — the celeb food chain. Even your Z-list ass might be able to grab a few seconds of fame: You, Kanye West, John Legend, and Fergie will be performing at…
It’s Super Bowl weekend, and South Florida is in a frenzy. Every little neighborhood bar is putting together some kind of shindig, but how does a discriminating reveler know where to go? It all depends on the size of your money clip. There are happenings for the high-end, the low-end,…
I have a confession. Sometimes, at 8:00 p.m., I turn to the Food Network and watch Emeril Live. I know, I know — all that bam-ming can grate on your last nerve. But there’s something magical about Emeril at work, and watching the audience groan and grin like idiots can…
It has been threatening our city for months, and whether you plan on putting up your Super Bowl shutters or heading outside for a look-see, there’s no escaping this storm. The big game is days away, but today you and the other early birds can celebrate at the NFL Experience,…
Chic parties on white sands under the stars, an amorous and glamorous rose-color champagne room … Nikki Beach didn’t need Justin to bring its sexy back. The star-studded location has been oozing the stuff for the past ten years. To celebrate, the beach club that spawned spinoffs from New York…
You are here. If you love maps, here should be the Miami-Dade Cultural Center, where the Historical Museum of Southern Florida is hosting the fourteenth annual Miami International Map Fair, a weekend in which tons of antique maps in various shapes and sizes will be on display. This celebration of…
The tradition began wayyyy off-Broadway, when theatergoing snobs used to (un)affectionately refer to stage plays marked by gospel sangin’ and inspirational story lines as “chitlin’ theater.” These dramatic expressions of heartbreak and redemption featured the black stars of Seventies sitcoms and Eighties R&B. But when Tyler Perry’s stage-bred, cross-dressing Madea…
Was it ever confirmed that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet? Would a play by Shakespeare be as good if it were written by Fakespeare? William himself entertains the art of deception in his classic (but then which of his plays aren’t?) Twelfth Night. This comedy…
Gunfire; political corruption; a beautiful, tormented woman; and bottomless shot glasses. Sure it sounds like what you did last summer, but it’s also what Jack Swyteck does in the latest installment of author James Grippando’s mystery series about the adventures of this lawyer/perpetual bachelor. When Darkness Falls is a gripping…
So what if you’re a tomboy who can play with the big boys? As the late, great James Brown once screamed, “This is a man’s world,” so the ladies need to have each other’s backs. Simone Kelly-Brown, president and CEO of Gots to Have It Marketing, has created a venue…
Mento and ska provided the backbeat for good times, but reggae became Jamaica’s pounding platform for addressing serious and difficult issues. Artists like Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Culture, Burning Spear, and Jacob Miller sounded the boom shot heard around the world. The power of reggae has been compressed into an…
By day he’s a paranormal baseball star. By night he’s double-dating with Beyoncé and Jay-Z. But today Alex Rodriguez will be hobnobbing with a legendary celebrity we all know and love — the guy with the red hair and that big-ass smile. (What’s really in those Happy Meals, Ronald?) The…
The Parisian press dubbed him the “Sculptor of Flowers.” The term floral arrangements doesn’t do his work justice; he composes verdant, blossoming masterpieces. Melding the beauty of nature with the spontaneity of design, Emilio Robba creates pieces (yes, pieces) that will have your little Publix bouquet crying Miracle-Gro-saturated tears of…
We’ve all seen that photo of political, and now pop, icon Che Guevara — rockin’ that beret, hair blowing in the wind, eyes all steely and intense. But few know the man behind the camera, the man who told El Che: “One, two, three … say, ‘Socialist revolutionary!’” All right,…
Remember Lamb Chop? Shari Lewis’s sock puppet with the weird hair was kinda scary, but Pablo Cano’s Musical Marionettes put that little lady to shame. Using objects that have been discarded by people with zero artistic vision, Cano creates puppets, large and small, that tell stories through song and jerky…
Different name, but just as sweet. In its 30th year, what was previously called the Redland Natural Arts Festival is now the Redland Festival, and what was once fun for the whole family still is. This three-day event celebrates the deep culture and history of the Fruit and Spice Park,…
Different name, but just as sweet. In its 30th year, what was previously called the Redland Natural Arts Festival is now the Redland Festival, and what was once fun for the whole family still is. This three-day event celebrates the deep culture and history of the Fruit and Spice Park,…
You’ll find no broken toasters or semi-used exercise equipment here; the most exclusive garage sale ever to hit the shores of Miami Beach is the real deal. More than 1000 exhibitors from around the globe will hit the Miami Beach Convention Center for the Original Miami Beach Antique Show. For…
When he declared in 1963 he had a dream, America was captivated. As racially embroiled as the nation was, the dream of change resonated. Whether it was the Vietnam War or the civil rights movement, change was on the minds of many. Today, when speakers blare that gripping, sermonlike speech,…
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to become more artistically sound, then Asser Saint-Val is a name you should learn and learn well. A Miami resident and Haiti native, Saint-Val has adopted an abstract figurative style to approach a topic that even in the 21st century is still…
For a truly ethereal Sunday brunch experience, Yage Bay Club’s Boogie Brunch is the spot. You can sprawl on plush cabana beds while gazing at the Miami skyline (try to ignore all the scaffolding) from the Tiki Hut lounge as you sip five-dollar mimosas and munch on delicious breakfast treats…
