An American in Paris pedaling ahead of a peloton and staging a comeback from a life-threatening ailment to win the Tour de France? Has to be Lance Armstrong, right? Pas si vite. (That means not so fast.) Before Armstrong there was Greg LeMond, the first American to win cycling’s Holy…
People who don’t like chocolate are never to be trusted. What’s not to like? The intoxicating aroma of cocoa, the sweet, creamy way chocolate becomes one with your tongue, and the swirl that coats your esophagus as you ingest — it’s practically sexual. In fact, chocolate has aphrodisiac properties induced…
We’ve all seen the grainy and morbid Zapruder film of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963. Imagine what it must have been like to be an actual witness. Now, imagine you were one of those responsible for safeguarding JFK. “There are not many jobs where you can be…
A bunch of phonies like saying they read the New York Times. They think it makes them sound smart. Here’s a quick test to measure their Times pedigree. Throw out the name Thomas Friedman and watch their reaction. If you get a blank stare, they’re stinking fibbers. If they nod,…
Art Basel brought Miami’s art scene to national and international prominence over the past decade. But really, what does that mean for the local museums? It has to be positive, right? The publicity, excitement, and sheer number of visitors with a cultured palette bodes well for the arts in general…
Ever get so mad at Miami–maybe your boyfriend can’t stop looking at all its hot models, or your A/C breaks in the summer and you have sweat through the night–that you promise to ditch the Magic City at first chance? Or maybe, you fall in love with her all over…
When the Chinese built the first kites 2,800 years ago, they turned to materials close at hand — silk and bamboo. They weren’t alone. Each culture that has tried sailing fabric in the air has used native materials.Ask Dan Ward, owner of the Skyward Kites at Haulover Park. For 18…
The Italians have Al Capone. The Colombians claim Pablo Escobar. America has George W. And Jamaica has Gary Oldman in True Romance. Every nationality, ethnicity, and race has its own charismatic villain. The same goes for the Jews. And though “Bugsy” Siegel might have a bit more name recognition, his…
Irvin Rosenfeld is a record-breaking pot head who claims to have smoked 115,000 joints over little more than a quarter century. But unlike other brothers-in-pot, the 57-year-old Fort Lauderdale stockbroker smokes spliffs to ease the symptoms of a rare case of bone cancer. And he does so with the blessing…
It’s easy to miss Redland. Actually, it’s harder to find, even for lifelong Miamians (unless you’re on your way to the Keys without a Tom Tom, take an errant right turn off U.S.1, drive absentmindedly for miles, and stumble across it). Redland is one of South Florida’s last remaining agricultural…
Every country has its own particular style of kites. Dan Ward, owner of the Skyward Kites at Haulover Park knows this better than most. For 18 years he’s operated the kite shop in one of South Florida’s best sites to fly kites, and has heard countless stories from patrons who…
Somewhere on the road to artistic maturity a chasm developed in Miami’s fine art offerings. You have Art Basel and its galaxy of satellite fairs for the upper echelon connoisseurs–the real nose lifters. And then there are the weekend art warriors who think getting blitzed at mainstream art festivals like…
Somewhere on the road to artistic maturity a chasm developed in Miami’s fine art offerings. You have Art Basel and its galaxy of satellite fairs for the upper echelon connoisseurs–the real nose lifters. And then there are the weekend art warriors who think getting blitzed at mainstream art festivals like…
There’s nothing quite as titillating as indulging your base instincts in the name of art. When high brow and low brow mix deliciously nobody knows exactly where the night will end. We believe in the notion some much that we’ve even devoted a special party to the concept and this…
By now, the whole New Year’s resolution thing is so played out that the only thing more tired than talking about resolutions is talking about how tired you are about talking about resolutions. Even so, it’s important to look to forward. This is the only time where as a society…
Long before incredibly successful Cirque du Soleil pitched a tent in its native Canada in the ’80s, China’s Golden Dragon Acrobats toured this country with their own troupe of contortionist characters in 1967. The group performed all manner of gravity defying feats: fitting ten acrobats on a single bike, doing…
Just because Christmas and New Years Eve are behind us, it doesn’t signal the end of gift-receiving. Every January, Latino kids run to their closets or look under their beds in anticipation of gifts left by the Three Kings (and no, we don’t mean an NBA trophy from LeBron and…
Millions of years ago, the Earth’s crust was one big hunk of land called Pangaea. But then tectonic plates began shifting and that hunk ’o land was broken into a handful of pieces. Brazil and Africa, once conjoined, were separated forever by the Atlantic Ocean. Yet they continue to share…
Some of us got stuck at the office this week, a strange five-day limbo that falls between Christmas and New Year’s. You may have blown your load on vacation days too early or your bosses just felt like acting like bosses and forced you to come in. So you should…
In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys. Courtesy of Jonathan David Kane 51. Jonathan David Kane By now, most discussions involving Miami’s fledgling film…
At 26 years old, R&B songster Trey Songz is already the envy of 99.9 percent of the music industry. He toured with Jay Z last year and is traveling with Usher this year; he also collaborated with Drake and Soulja Boy Tell’em. And he’s launched four popular albums, including one…
For 64 years, the King Orange Jamboree Parade traveled up and down Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami every New Year’s Eve. But the expensive and poorly run event disappeared after 2002, never to return. Luckily, by that time, junior was ready to take over where daddy left off. Now running…
