McRib is Back: McDonald’s Succumbs To New Times Demand

Maybe it’s a coincidence. But maybe, just maybe Mickey D’s heard loud and clear when Miami New Times complained less than a month ago that we were tired of being McRib-teased to death. Whatever the reason, Ronald McDonald relented and now it’s official–the McRib is coming back.Starting November 2 the…

Gables Hispanic Cultural Festival Announces Schedule

[jump] Besides celebrating a common heritage, the festival shines a spotlight on Hispanic artists and specifically Cuban artist Cundo Bermudez (1914-2008). “He was like the Picasso of Cuban art,” says Emilio Sauma, Jr., festival founder who worked with Bermudez for more than a decade. The late artist’s estate allowed use…

Lady Dick

Like watching Burn Notice or reading a Carl Hiaasen novel, part of the fun of living in Miami is trying to distinguish what rings true in the fictional depictions of our city (out of disrespect, we won’t even mention Nip/Tuck). Enter the latest Lupe Solano mystery from local novelist Carolina…

The Daily Show of Improv

Improvisational theater, the kind doled out by Chasing Tales at Just the Funny Theater, isn’t simply about comedy. Sure, it’s funny. But that’s mostly circumstantial. The point is to tell a story. And getting the gist of the story is the real fun of improv. At least that’s how member…

Guayaberas and Guava in the Gables

Nothing says Hispanic culture like old-timers in guayaberas playing dominoes under a thick cloud of cigar smoke. Throw in some Hispanic folk music, paella, and other Latino delicacies, and you have a certified celebration. Now you just need a reason to celebrate. Luckily, it’s Hispanic Heritage Month, and that’s more…

Call in the Hostage Negotiator

A terrorist, hijacker, or kidnapper picks up the phone, and magically there’s a law enforcement officer on the other end: “What are your demands?” Then the dance starts. The bad guy gets mad and orders a pizza. The negotiator plays good cop/bad cop and eventually utters, “I just want everyone…

Waltz This Way

At the risk of sounding like major-league homers, we’re not sure how the last So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD, the longest acronym in television history) ended up without any South Floridians in the finals. Remember androgynous Billy Bell and chongo b-boy Jose Ruiz? They represented SoFla with flamboyance…

Top Sex Scenes Shot in Miami

This is Miami. There’s a level of gratuitous sex that’s part of everyday life. Whether its bumping and grinding (and let’s face it, dry humping) in a club or coming dangerously close to being groped by a frisky group of tranny street-walkers on the Metrorail, there’s no escaping the lewd…

Spastic Dance Floor Moves Attract Women, Study Finds

OK. Now we get it. We’ve been trying to make sense of what goes on at South Beach dance floors for years. Finally, we have an answer, and it’s come from all the way over in England. A group of evolutionary psychologists from Northumbria University just released the results of…

South Dade Getting Ballet and Symphony But Not Until Spring 2011

They’re going to build a international-level performing arts center where? South Miami-Dade County? Yes, specifically in Cutler Bay, formerly Cutler Ridge (before that known as the sticks or boonies). That’s right. It’s coming. And even if the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center is several years behind schedule, county officials are…

Foodborne Illnesses 101: Eat and Run (To the Bathroom)

Last year it was peanut butter. Last month it was eggs. Who knows what food-borne illness outbreak will hit us this month. Seems like outbreaks are coming at us faster than New Jersey-based reality TV shows these days. But besides satisfying morbid curiosity by checking out what’s cooking on the…

Coconut Water Done Reggae Style

Madonna swears by it and invested $1.5 million in it. And Coke and Pepsi have acquired companies who sell it. But if you’re looking for coconut water, you don’t need to go any further than Allapattah and JCS Reggae Country Style Brand’s Jelly Coconut Water (with pulp). The Kingston-Miami Trading…

New Tony Tango Comedy Inspires Borscht Filmmakers to Go Green

First, Leonardo DiCaprio started driving a Prius, then M. Night Shyamalan wrote a movie about trees killing people, and now the green movement has finally invaded Miami moviemaking. The cinephiles that founded the Borscht Film Festival are pledging to go green when they start filming their shorts this winter, which…