After a long week of writing TPS reports and suffering through discussions about a prolonged recession, you’ll need to recharge, refresh, and reload. Or forget. Drive your Toyota Corolla to Coconut Grove and cruise by the cocky peacocks wandering in traffic on Tigertail Avenue while you blast Bob Dylan until…
Since 1990, the Alhambra Orchestra has performed high-class music throughout Miami-Dade County. The orchestra gives amateurs a chance to be heard and provides Miami-Dade residents with a way to get their live classical music fix without emptying their bank accounts, says Jody Atwood, a longtime cellist and former president of…
Though the New York fashion set likes to tease that Miami style is all about skin-tight dresses and Ed Hardy T-shirts, let us not be judged by the dodgy clothing choices of the tourists we attract. Sure, we don’t have four full, defined seasons, and the weather lands us in…
It might have taken a whole year for pundit Glenn Beck to start hating the families of 9/11 victims, but it took the rest of us about two minutes to start hating Glenn Beck. Who cares if he flip-flops on the issue of health care, hits on attractive female visitors…
For sure, Miami street fighting is the shit, but even the most biased 305-homer has to concede that a lot of these bare-knuckle matches are unfairly one-sided, pairing a legitimate fighter such as Rene “Level” Martinez against some chump who just sobered up. That’s why it’s nice to see Martinez…
Get thee to a nunnery, said William Shakespeare in Hamlet. As a scholar would point out, what Will really meant was, “You belong in a whorehouse.” Hardly tame material, yet sometimes it takes a modern twist to breathe life back into the Ol’ English. Enter writer Vanessa Garcia and her…
When Art Basel rolls into town, try not to be blinded by its international glamour and I’m-so-cool-I-come-to-Miami-only-once-a-year bravado. Our advice: Keep your 305 spirit high and patronize the local artists who grind it out year-round. The folks at Miami’s It are all about keeping the spotlight on South Florida. Just…
Some women will trek to the far corners of the world (Sawgrass Mills, Dolphin Mall) for a chance at a discounted shopping spree. And when it comes to throwing elbows at fellow customers and rummaging through the racks for hidden treasures, some treat it like an Olympic sport. So when…
When Dave Chappelle went off his rocker, Comedy Central found itself with a large void in its risqué programming block. More reruns of South Park? Dane Cook comedy specials on a nightly basis? Give — gasp — Paul Mooney his own show? Regardless of how awesome a Blackstrodamus or Ask…
Remember those good feelings during the hockey off-season? All of that talk about how losing a stud defenseman won’t cripple the Florida Panthers and how the young players will take the next step? It’s nearly a quarter of the way through the season, and all of that talk seems like…
You normally don’t want to associate strikes with football, but Lucky Strike Lanes has been putting its own positive twist on Monday Night Football get-togethers since this season began. So, if you’ve got some dollars riding on Aaron Rodgers getting disassembled by Ray Lewis’ and the vicious Ravens defense, head…
After God warmed up by making man and woman, he set his sights on creating a truly perfect creature — the pig. What part of the Great and Holy Pig is not tasty? Hoofs? Tasty. Tail? Tasty. Nose? Tasty. If the finger-wagging vegan right wing is correct and humans were…
If watching things repeatedly going in circles doesn’t make you dizzy, and the smell of gas, oil, and burning rubber is a turn-on, the Ford 400 can fulfill your needs. This Sunday, Homestead-Miami Speedway will host the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale, and Jimmie Johnson, who has won the…
The Miami Heat is off to its hottest start in franchise history. Much of the ball-bashing goodness is due, of course, to Dwyane Wade’s usual bad-ass-ness. And watching Michael Beasley grow up before our eyes as the once-and-future starting power forward has been a delight. But an unsung hero seems…
From pictures, you can still compare him to that archetypal guy next door or assume his heart is 24-karat, but if you search his name on any news website, you’ll find some very conflicting accounts of who Chris Brown is. However, if you keep it musical and Google his name,…
If you’re one of the two people who still haven’t checked out the Vagabond, this weekend is the time to hit up the downtown venue. Why? Because Saturday-night host Back Door Bamby will bring in the heavy hitter of house, Little Louie Vega, for a night called Dance Ritual. Vega…
Though legend says he stole his style from another shiny-headed, combat-boot-wearing R&B crooner, R. Kelly delivers timeless tunes about going halvsies on a baby or making women’s bodies go “toot, toot” and “beep, beep” that have proven he’s the only chrome dome that matters. He’s even hit legend status, flying…
No matter how well known and lusted over the South Beach club scene is, if you’re a local, it can still feel a tad overrated, even sometimes predictable. We become so used to openings, debuts, and special events that we get a bit jaded. Yet there’s always a chance the…
Ladies, if you’re on the market for fun, men, and party music, and there’s even a sliver of a shard of a chance that this as-yet-hypothetical hookup could develop into full-blown domestic bliss with babies and a refrigerator, listen up. First, a few prerequisites: (1) He’s gotta be a hometown…
I remember the first time I saw a fixed gear bicycle. It was 2003 in Berlin, and the kid had had it for a week and had already been in like six accidents. No brakes? I thought he was nuts. But now the movement’s pretty much universal, and here in…
Why is Jonathan Safron Foer, young novelist and lit celebrity, appearing in Miami two days after the Miami Book Fair International? Kind of weird, but also pretty awesome for those of us who missed some of our favorite authors–Tao Lin, Jonathan Lethem–to the inevitable choices one has to make between…
Is it just us, or does Family Feud invariably pit a white family against a black family? It’s like the show’s producers are daring you to not root for your own race, like the O.J. Simpson trial all over again. It could be argued that race relations in America will…
