Comedy can be more competitive than a monkey knife fight, so thank heaven that local comedy promoters the Have-Nots have made it their personal mission to put Miami on the national comedic map. Their latest attempt has one simple goal: Get a lot of Florida’s best talent on one stage,…

This game was circled for months. David Stern and all the other bigwigs in the NBA were salivating at the idea of a single game featuring seven superstars: Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh, Pau Gasol, and Steve Nash. What should have been touted as a…

This world can be a complicated place. Days spent working, dealing with traffic, wrangling children, and fighting for the remote control can be overwhelming. Thankfully, there’s a simple answer to dealing with life’s difficulties: a 10,000-pound truck smashing a 1994 Buick LeSabre with its six-foot-tall tires pushed by a 1,000…

The Miami Heat’s 2012-2013 season has been marred with lack of effort, a stretch of ten games where six were lost, and a lot of worry over head coach Eric Spoelstra’s small ball strategy. Still, the Heat are in first place in the Eastern Conference, and the rival Los Angeles…

As the Miami Heat approaches the midpoint of the season, the team has proven it can coast through entire months of play and still find itself in first place in the Eastern Conference. Though that might not be the best selling point for a sports franchise (and drives its fan…

After the 2011 NBA summer free agency brought Chris Bosh and LeBron James to the Miami Heat, Cleveland burned LeBron’s number-23 jersey in the streets. Torontonians, meanwhile, were resigned to say goodbye to Bosh, yet another superstar lost to a team within America’s borders. Not that it was much of…

Nothing brings people together like a thick-accented New York Italian barking orders and baking cakes. No, this isn’t a Martin Scorsese and Rachael Ray mashup. This is the star of TLC’s Cake Boss, Buddy Valastro, coming to the Fillmore (1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) this Sunday at 8 p.m. The…

Remember a time when wrestling was a “sport” that featured guys like Dusty Rhodes or characters named Tugboat and Earthquake? Guys so ugly they earned nicknames like “The Animal” and whose bellies were so large they were the main focus of their characters’ finishing moves? Remember when plot lines carelessly…

These are the matchups that true fans look forward to all year: rival games. For the past ten years, as the New York Knicks stank up the league, the Miami Heat were grinding their teeth against the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls played spoiler to the Heat and swept Miami out…

The Miami Heat has some deep-seated issues when it comes to the Dallas Mavericks. Meeting in the NBA Finals twice in four years, both have played spoiler to the other, with arguably the lesser team winning each time. Oddly, the team that wins usually goes on to implode its roster…

Not to be confused with the BCS Championship game happening January 7, this year’s Orange Bowl, played New Year’s Day at Sun Life Stadium (347 Don Shula Dr., Miami Gardens) will pit perennial powerhouse Florida State University against first-time BCS challenger Northern Illinois University. FSU finds itself in the game…

Sunday marks the final home game for the Miami Dolphins, and it’s time to reflect on another playoff-less season. It’s been a decade of pain for the Dolphins, and fans are letting the city’s former favorite team know that year after year of losing football will turn its fan base…

For Miami basketball fans, it might be difficult to tear away from inbound extended family, reruns of Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and other holiday distractions to give much attention to the Miami Heat. But ’tis the season for some monster NBA matchups and the mark of the beginning of the…

The Miami Heat’s season is turning into that moment in Fight Club when one member of Project Mayhem tries to insult Jared Leto’s character, Angel Face: “You are too f***ing… blond!” You can try to find something wrong with this team, but you’ll probably just come away stammering a halfhearted…

Enough with the Warhols, Banksys, and an entire convention center filled with the new and innovative. There is a limit to any art fan’s ability to analyze a sculpture she’s sure looks like a phallus even though the artist insists it’s a representation of his mother. After a week’s worth…

One full month into the NBA season, and what have we learned about the Miami Heat? LeBron James is still very, very good. He’s so good he’s averaging career highs in rebounds, three-point percentage, and giant receding-hairline-covering headbands. We’re just joking, LeBron, but seriously, you might want to consider switching…

The phrase “The Art of Basketball” is redundant. Especially when you’re talking about our own Miami Heat, the reigning NBA Champions, and Miami’s current favorite sports franchise.NBA players are called the world’s greatest professional athletes for a reason. Whether it’s Dwayne Wade two-stepping his way through a double team, or…

It’s become a matter of sadistic pride. Any true fan of Miami Heat superstar LeBron James looks forward to his encounters with his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. Maybe its leftover schadenfreude from watching dejected Cavs fans burning James’s jersey the night of “The Decision.” Maybe it’s ire toward Cavs…

Our beloved Three Kings are still basking in the glowing warmth of the Larry O’Brien Trophy, so it’s easy to forgive them for the flat-footed performance against the rival New York Knicks. It really wouldn’t have been fair to dropkick the once-favored team of a city that was just ravaged…

If there’s anything to be learned from Comedy Central Roast specials, it’s that celebrities are easy targets — and that Lisa Lampanelli is a very, very mean lady. Her hard-hitting humor stabs so deep that it doesn’t elicit laughter, just wide-mouthed gasps. Lampanelli has so perfected her craft that she’s…