SAT 12/27 “Uh, you know, we’re really, uh, just like getting, the, uh, like, you know, the, uh, kids together, like it’s really cool that there’s, uh, so many kids in the, uh, city, who, you know, like, uh …” What Matt Cantor, creator of Control Skate Park, is trying…
Identifying a jazz singer as the heir to Billie Holiday is almost always an act of hyperbole. In Abbey Lincoln’s case, doing so is merely imprecise. Born of the same straight-ahead approach as Holiday, with a similar range and a melancholy patina, she is often compared to the tragic chanteuse…
NOW 24/7 Pudge, Pudge, Pudge. How we loved chanting your name this championship season. Your chubby image spoke of determination and guts, team spirit and flavor. Pudge was cute. Pudge symbolized a tough and hungry underdog squad. In fact we got used to seeing your big J.Lo butt flabbing around…
THU 12/18 Two names: Antonio Wilson, Charles Bouie. Six feet 2 inches, 6 feet 8 inches, respectively. Each of these 200-plus-pound Pahokee High School hoopsters has the raw talent and physicality that can morph into a super-freak like Lebron James. This weekend’s Zoned-Out Shootout Basketball Tournament, the brainchild of local…
FRI 12/12 Well, of course you’ve seen it before. Onstage. On TV. On ice even. Mushrooms dance to its music in Fantasia. Barbie pays homage in a ballet costume (and an animated video, in case you were curious). But you decorate the tree every year too. Does that ever get…
FRI 12/12 Babes and booze and good food, but forget the ménage à trois: We’re talking strictly foursomes, about 20 of them, if last year was a credible gauge. Oh, and then there’s the golfing. The Fourth Annual Playboy Scramble Golf Tournament comes to South Florida for the second time…
SAT 12/6 While Scottish actor Billy Connolly is busy frittering his talent away on that Crichtonian cow of a flick, Timeline, Florida Scots will be making their own, more enlightened, noise at the St. Andrew’s Pipe Band of Miami’s Annual Christmas Dance. When the pipers stop pipin’ hot, musical duties…
NOW 24/7 P. Diddy, O.J., Lenny Kravitz, Iggy Pop, Ben Affleck, Michael Jackson: You never can be sure what celeb-hunk-or-junk sighting you’re in for in South Florida. But if you’re a famous single male wintering here, you’re almost sure to get laid. Not so for one Sunshine State winter guest,…
SAT 11/29 Hail the Big Art Openings for the Big Art Event. Miami’s galleries and museums are hanging up their top guns for the arrival of Art Basel — and for the Museum of Contemporary Art that means a solo show from William Cordova: “No More Lonely Nights.” He’s known…
FRI 11/28 It’s easy to overlook the cheerleaders. They can be seen on the game-day sidelines in their matching uniforms. Black and gold for the Liberty City Warriors. Red, white, and black for the Northwest Boys & Girls Clubs Falcons. Not many people realize that these girls battle it out…
SAT 11/29 Miami-Dade County police Ofcr. Clarence Coffee has probably seen it all in his 31 years of active duty. Today muscle fans will see nearly all of him as he sports a Speedo in his first bodybuilding competition. The 51-year-old father of 5, in a tribute to his recently…
It was the best of times; the streets seething with idealists, organizers, stinky dreadlocked youth, real-live Communists, and Montanans. It was the worst of times; rows of little men and women swaddled in riot gear playing “superhero.” It was a dangerous circus of the absurd, a fabulous spectacle that eclipsed…
SAT 11/22 Six years ago Floridian Linda Murphy bought a bike so she could enjoy cycling with her family. She pedaled with her peeps, and then some. Last year she also won the Masters World Championship in cross-country mountain biking. Yeah: best on the planet. This week Murphy offers Girls…
NOW 24/7 “It’s an underground thing,” says Joe Aronesty, explaining the nuances of the wig business, which serves the needs, mostly, of women who’ve lost their hair. So Joe, who is all tact, quietly runs his “head” shop from the hidden recesses of his Lincoln Road clothing store. The shingle…
SUN 11/9 “So castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.” Maybe so, Jimi Hendrix, but that’s no reason not to have another sandcastle-building contest. As part of the nearly month-long American Institute of Architects’ Miami Architecture Week, local firms will compete for best design during Sandblast 2003, now…
Even the untimely death of Bee Gee and squirt-gun/firearm enthusiast Maurice Gibb could not halt the surging of the upstart gel-sport paintball. The fifth and final leg of the National Professional Paintball League Super 7 World Series will be held in Miami. An avid paintballer in his time, Gibb fielded…
SAT 10/25 For years you’ve lusted after that Eames lounge chair. All sinewy white fiberglass, the piece begs — no, screams — to be in your living room. But at $6000-plus, you’d have to sell your firstborn to afford it. Yet there’s a way around your dilemma without resorting to…
THUR 10/23 Picking up its cues from the civil rights movement, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, organized by a broad coalition of union-friendly groups and one cerebral celeb, recently launched a reform campaign targeting laws hurtful to new arrivals. Three weeks ago dozens of activist-laden buses departed from various American…
THUR 10/16 In 1945 the Chicago Cubs were jinxed with the Curse of the Billy Goat. A fan miffed because his goateed pet was refused entry into the ballpark told the press that there would never be another World Series played in Wrigley Field. This year it fell on our…
NOW 24/7 Every playa knows pimpin’ ain’t easy. Late-night hours are a must and low energy a bust. No surprise then that a whole new lineup of nightlife energy elixirs has hit the marketplace, each hoping to replace Red Bull as the premier stay-awake party drink. Last month we saw…
SAT 10/11 In a world where high-schoolers need to be schooled on the overuse of the N-word, it’s no wonder getting old-school manners means going back to school. The Kid’s Village Youth Etiquette Camp gives youngsters the cues they need to gracefully navigate through precarious social events like greeting our…
NOW 24/7 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a miracle of another feather. It’s the 60-by-60-foot labyrinth on the parking lot blacktop of the Unity on the Bay church. The cheeky diva of Miami’s holy houses has spawned a veritable “happening” with this blue-on-black meditative walking…
