As we wave goodbye to a summer of triple-digit heat indexes and swampy air, we welcome the season that makes Northerners salivate all over their snowy sidewalks. What better time is there in Miami for an outdoor concert? That’s why the folks at the Downtown Development Authority are bringing back…
Long before people thought to desecrate their bodies with dripping ice cubes and chocolate-covered cherries, tattoos were a means of representing your tribe, expressing your point of view, or proving you were, in fact, a total bad-ass. Though we will one day regret the tramp stamp above our butt crack,…
As we’ve all just learned from the FedEx Cup, the best way to suck the drama out of a golf tournament is to turn it into a playoff system that requires a Caltech degree and a TI-82 calculator to understand. So now let’s check out the Puma Open. After a…
A portrait of decadent life in Rome — complete with a love triangle, hard drugs, and elaborate costume changes — is the opening-night flick of the Italian Film Festival this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Regal Cinemas South Beach (1120 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach). Parlami d’Amore (or Talk to Me…
This Thursday, take a break from trying to beat your office record at Snood and go see some art. Pack up the caravan and ride to the Fache Arts and Amy Alonso Gallery, where you can see an “exhibition” (ba-dum-dum) by Carla Fache and RE Sanchez titled “Sexploration.” Apparently the…
This Thursday, take a break from trying to beat your office record at Snood and go see some art. First on the agenda is the “Common Roots” art exhibition at Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Local self-proclaimed art dude Miguel Paredes will explore plants native to South Florida and the Caribbean…
In the early ’60s, a music executive told young Patsy Holte she was “too plain, too dark, and too unattractive” to join his label. Then she sang. He renamed her Patti LaBelle (ironically, “the beautiful” in French), and the rest is R&B/soul history… and hair. Because while everyone knows Miss…
You used to be the happy-go-lucky type, but utility bills, Facebook, and other adult responsibilities have forced you to stray from the spice of life — board games. Remember how exhilarating it was to find out that Colonel Mustard had clocked a muthafucka in the library with a candlestick? Or…
Question: Why do liberal atheists, who wouldn’t walk into a Lutheran church on Sunday if you paid them, suddenly go all Christ-loving when a place such as the Knight Concert Hall hosts Gospel Sundays? Answer: It’s the music. The fact is some of the best pipes in the history of…
The Casanova Freestyle Reunion, this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the James L. Knight Center, is like a Just for Men commercial with hip-hoppers. Instead of Emmitt Smith and his weird beard sitting in a rocking chair, it’s going to be the Sugar Hill Gang poppin’ fish oil capsules and…
Remember that Urbania Fine Art Frames store at 11 NE 39th St. in the Design District? Probably not, but you will soon. In a bit of clever re-appropriation, a group of Miami artists has taken over the vacated space and turned it into a venue for an ad hoc show…
When “The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama” opens this Friday night at the Frost Art Museum, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate won’t be in town for a swig of the complimentary Chablis.”We tried to get him to come for the exhibit, but he wasn’t able to,” says Jessica…
Shhhhhhhh. Listen to that. It’s the sound of hundreds of feisty, cow-size fish making sweet, sweet love. Early October is the height of spawning season for goliath grouper, which means the rare floating horndogs are getting busy in Miami waters as we speak. In early fall, the once-endangered, hermaphroditic giants…
Last year, Miamian Tamien Bain — an ex-con who had served time for robbing a McDonald’s — crafted a rap that nearly won a marketing contest for that same fast-food chain. Now some local high schoolers are finalists in a national dance contest for Baskin-Robbins. Maybe our city has an…
The Miami Science Museum released renderings of its proposed $275 million new building this week, in addition to announcing a new timetable for the construction. Gillian Thomas, president and CEO of the museum, said the building, originally set to open in 2011, is now on course for completion in late…
So the Marlins are shut out of the playoffs again, and the Dolphins have yet to win a game. But when it comes to moronic behavior, South Florida is always the reigning champion. With our apologies to Tomas Regalado — who, if you missed it, had a publicist brazenly lie…
Whenever the national media parachutes into Miami to write about our Chernobyl disaster of a condo market, they usually turn to one man, our own cheerful soothsayer of real estate doom.It’s Peter Zalewski, founder of the delightfully named Condo Vultures. The former Daily Business Review reporter is quick with a…
Romero Britto may be oblivious, but he’s the artistic equivalent of H1N1: The man is Miami’s own personal artsy-fartsy epidemic. Though it seems there are still some people in Miami-Dade in charge of public artwork who prefer the man’s stuff (e.g., Midtown, off I-95 downtown, Bal Harbor, etc.), the vast…
On September 22, Riptide reported on the Funeral Store, a no-frills North Miami coffin emporium offering, via a big sign on the side of its building, “Caskets-4-Less.” A week later, CBS4 ran a “4 Your Money” segment — which can be viewed here — about the same store. We haven’t received…
Traditionally, Wednesdays are a social dead zone, so you have a routine: Cozy up on the couch, sip a little white wine while obsessively browsing online personal ads, and watch excessive amounts of television. Then, when that gets boring, it’s bedtime. Two tokes of Mary Jane and you’re out like…
It’s been nearly 20 years since the Black Crowes dropped their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker, which, though not exactly groundbreaking, kicked serious ass. Following the release, UK music mag Melody Maker dubbed the boys from Atlanta “the most rock ’n’ roll rock ’n’ roll band in the world.”…
Thanks to clubs such as the Vagabond, PS14, and White Room, NE 14th Street has turned into the dope downtown party block. And when the Urbanite Bistro opened nearby in mid-September, it meant the late-night crowd no longer had to rely on hot dogs to fill their vodka-hollowed bellies. They…
