Some things just go together. Peanut butter and jelly. Cookies and milk. The Captain and Tennille. And, apparently, comedy and cigars. Each and every Wednesday night at 10, Aromas of Havana Cigar Lounge will host Professional Standup Comedy nights. The shows are headlined by comics from BET’s Comic View and…
Being a Miami football fan these days is akin to being a prisoner of war. The experience just keeps getting worse, with no end in sight. As the anxiety sinks into desperation, you want to do something, anything, to better the situation, but you’re trapped and your captors are out…
Your eyes tear and nostrils sear as you coolly attempt to mask your intolerance for pain, having boasted about your affinity for “real” jerk chicken only moments ago. As the scent of Caribbean spices and the blur of pastel colors jolt you back to reality, you find yourself chowing down…
Broken bones? Blood? Swollen-shut eyes? Yes, please! Since the dawn of time, man has been fascinated with organized violence. Whether it’s cheering on the gladiators of Rome or the gridiron gladiators of the NFL, we’re more than eager to pay good money to watch people beat the tar out of…
The Irish greet tragedy with a smile and a beer. Throughout a history rife with difficulty — from the potato famine to occupation to a less-than-friendly welcome at Ellis Island — the good people of the green isle have survived and prospered, thanks mostly to their unmatched penchant for merriment…
The value of the condo you bought two years ago is racing George Bush’s approval ratings to the bottom. Hurricanes are churning in the Atlantic, and buyers are scattering like pit bulls at a Vick family barbecue. Looks like you’ll be staying put for a while. But don’t panic. There’s…
Long before Gianni Versace turned a seaside tenement into the diamond-studded, velvet rope-strewn glamour parade that is South Beach, there was Coconut Grove. One of Miami’s oldest and most culture-rich neighborhoods, the Grove was once considered the East Village of the South. Poets, artists, beatniks, and hippies mingled under the…
Since the Seventies, Lou Gramm has wanted to know what love is. He wants us to show him. We’ll get a chance to do just that when the longtime Foreigner frontman brings his powerhouse vocals to Gulfstream Park tonight, assuming of course that Mr. Gramm won’t be nursing a fever…
The stateside arrival of global icon David Beckham has put soccer on the collective radar of the American populace for the first time since Pelé and his New York Cosmos teammates rubbed elbows with Mick Jagger at Studio 54 in the Seventies. There is good reason to hope this time…
Maybe you spent the Eighties playing with your Transformers or Teddy Ruxpin. Perhaps you spent them moping around the corridors of your high school channeling your inner Morrissey. Or just possibly you spent countless hours trying to perfect the break-dancing moves of Turbo and Ozone. No matter. Twenty years later,…
