Malecón. Just the word makes Lazaro Perez — a.k.a. Lashy — homesick. “Malecón, Malecón, Malecón. What a special place, especially at night, woooow,” says reggaeton artist Lashy, in a lilting accent. The Arizona-based Cuban transplant is performing at the Calle Ocho Festival this Sunday, and spoke with New Times on…
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and its fifteen-year-old Majesty of the Seas could use a little good news. The Miami-based company has been under assault lately. On January 20 the Los Angeles Times reported the world’s second-largest cruise ship firm had apparently tried to bury reports of 200-plus rapes, batteries, and…
Inside the Krispy Kreme store on NE 167th Street, hundreds of donuts chug along conveyor belts, waiting to be filled, glazed, and eaten. A few dozen finished ones fill several metal racks, sprinkled with sparkly sugars and lacquered with thick chocolate. During a ten-minute interval at midday last Wednesday, three…
John Connolly didn’t look dangerous sitting there in Room 7-3 of the Miami-Dade County Courthouse alongside the carjackers, rapists, and robbers. No, Connolly looked exactly like what he was: a short, stocky 66-year-old guy in handcuffs. His wide face was puffy and red, as if his blood pressure were a…
Hey, Super Bowl tourists. The only topic the sports pages, TV, and Internet want to discuss before the February 4 Super Bowl is Peyton and Rex. The unstoppable offense versus the brick wall defense. Chi-Town versus that other pueblo next door. But forget about that stuff. Down here we have…
What are the holidays without a little singing? In this day and age, we can’t go a-caroling door-to-door (imagine that in Miami), but we can go to the beach and belt out a tried-and-true holiday tune. At least today we can – when the Lincoln Road Concert Series begins with…
They sound like something out of a snow-covered, quaint New England Christmas: horse-drawn carriage rides. Except this holiday season, carriages will roll past palm trees, swank stores, and Mediterranean architecture in downtown Coral Gables. As part of the Holidays in Downtown promotion, free fifteen-minute carriage rides will be offered to…
Stone Gets Spanked Filed under: News In 2003 HBO yanked Comandante, Oliver Stone’s puff-piece documentary about Fidel Castro. Bad timing, according to HBO: The Cuban dictator had just jailed 75 dissidents and executed three others. Now Stone is in hot water over Cuba once again. On December 1, the Department…
These are chaotic times, what with the war and the housing market and all that miserable traffic everywhere. Buddha once said, “Peace comes from within.” Begin your journey of inner peace this month at the Wat Buddharangsi, the Thai Buddhist monastery (yes, there is such a thing here in Miami)…
Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Ezra Pound had their atelier at 24 Rue de Fleurus in Paris in the Twenties. Andy Warhol and his gang had Studio 54 in New York in the Seventies. Supremus Roots have Miami in December. Okay, these locals aren’t famous yet, but they are hoping…
Shanty Talk Filed under: News One should always be wary when city officials declare they are “listening” to the people’s problems. Activist Max Rameau knew this on Wednesday, when Miami City Manager Pedro Hernandez journeyed out to Umoja, Rameau’s five-week-old shantytown for the homeless in Liberty City. “I’m here to…
Most of us don’t have the funds to buy anything at Art Basel. But there is one event where you might be able to purchase an original piece and have a few cocktails: the third annual Masters’ Mystery Art Show at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach. More than 1500 original postcards…
It was one of Art Basel’s most interactive, innovative shows in 2005, and now it’s back. Pimp My Kart is a touring art show — a socially conscious extravaganza that rolls along the streets of Miami — that was inspired by a homeless man who transformed two carts into a…
Ah, the holiday shopping season. It usually goes something like this: battle traffic; wade through the mall; buy overpriced, useless, generic crap; fight with significant other; go home and worry about the credit card bill. This year promise yourself that you will give – and receive — some genuine holiday…
Think back on your life. What if one moment, one detail, had been drastically different? Would your life be different today? That is why we love movies like Pulp Fiction, Groundhog Day, and Kill Bill; they take us on nonlinear journeys without all of the mess. One of the genre’s…
Writer Joyce Maynard once said, “A good home must be made and not bought.” Whatever. We all know that if we had a cool million dollars, we would buy the perfect beach condo and decorate it with the most expensive designer furniture possible. Beginning today, you can get ideas for…
Miami might be the land of the beautiful, but let’s face facts: One in five Floridians is obese. Despite the myriad of reasons to exercise (plentiful sunshine, 24-hour gyms, and yoga/pilates/pole-dancing classes), many of us never get off the couch. Well, here’s a good excuse to do just that: The…
