Despite the news that Nike Inc. sold the United Soccer League to a group from Atlanta, Miami FC is still going strong, and so is its challenge to the fans. Here’s the deal: For every 500 tickets sold to Saturday’s regular-season finale featuring your Miami FC versus the Puerto Rico…
If there were to be only one film title to sum up Miami, there’d be a tie between last year’s Oscar fave, Slumdog Millionaire (a nod to our bling-worshipping culture), and Singin’ in the Rain (for obvious umbrella-related reasons). Since we can’t let anyone know just how red our bank…
Imagine yourself in the courtyard of Books & Books in Coral Gables as the moon reflects off your glass of Pinot Grigio. You’re listening to Aaron Lebos’s guitar hovering above an upright bass and drums. You want to dance, but the waiter brings you a turkey sandwich with mango-chutney butter,…
Sure, the Internet might be infinite, but all of you laptop producers gotta understand it’s not OK to digitally release whatever noise pollution creeps out of your MacBook. And frankly, it’s time to stem the flow. Otherwise, like minimal techno DJ Matt Tolfrey says, “You’re just filling up a virtual…
Some people might dismiss American Idol as vacuous entertainment, but what if voting for your favorite contestant was an act of political defiance? When viewers of Afghan Star, a copycat show in Afghanistan, vote with their cell phones, they risk the wrath of the Taliban, which would like to suppress…
There is little you can do to control your body once Frankie Beverly takes over the stage in his trademark all-white ensemble of shoes, pants, shirt, and baseball cap. In fact, you’d need Kathy Bates and a whole lotta rope to keep your feet from dancing to the music that…
Traffic woes aside, we are very lucky here in Miami. Unlike folks in a lot of white-bread, steak-and-potatoes America, we can walk outside any day and experience a unique confluence of cultures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the music that fills our clubs and bars. This Thursday, the…
Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Texas hold ’em poker. Key West. Tattoo contest. Bikini show. Pool party. Bloody mary brunch. Diabetes. Seven of these things are fun, and one of them sucks. But thanks to the good people at Phil Peterson’s Harley-Davidson of Miami (19400 NW Second Ave., Miami) and Phil Peterson’s Harley-Davidson…
With its indigenous architecture and accurate cultural portrayals (like the guy in the Roman soldier getup hocking pasta in the street), Española Way is South Beach’s own tiny version of Epcot, and Tapas y Tintos is the representative from Spain. Tucked away at the end of the street, the restaurant…
A quarter of a century ago, South Beach was a rundown crime pit populated by cocaine cowboys, pimps, junkies, and quite a few retirees on modest budgets. Then, on September 16, 1984, along came Crockett and Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police vice squad detectives with their trademark pastel Versace suits, fast cars, and…
In February 2007, Tim Hardaway gave a textbook demonstration in career suicide live on Dan LeBatard’s radio show with one of the most cringe-inducing bouts of homophobia an ex-athlete has ever managed. Let’s recap:”You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known,” Hardaway said. “I don’t like…
On paper, unsettling auteur Todd Solondz’s latest flick, Life During Wartime, is a bizarre proposition. It’s a sequel, of sorts, to his 1999 calling card, Happiness, with characters from his breakout film, Welcome to the Dollhouse, thrown in. Except every role is recast or, in some cases, re-imagined: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s pale and…
Despite the dismal economic climate and a gloomy weather forecast, last Saturday night’s Wynwood gallery walk season kickoff opened with a roar, featuring expanded spaces, stellar shows, and even some brisk sales.”I was worried that the torrential rains would put a damper on the evening,” said Lyle O. Reitzel, the…
It’s an awful time to be an artist in Miami. This Thursday, barring a miracle, the county commission will vote to slash $11 million in arts grants in order to help plug a $444 million budget hole.So imagine how Michael George feels.In June, the patron of the Performing Arts Network…
Miami Beach’s own Brett Ratner holds the questionable distinction of being Hollywood’s reigning hack director. Critics abhor the filmmaker for brining an unsatisfactory ending to the X-Men trilogy, stretching racial stereotypes into the three-film Rush Hour series, and helming Red Dragon, the most forgettable film in the Hannibal Lecter series…
No one said that lasting through the summer of 2009 would be easy, but alas, you’ve made it and finally there’s shit to do on the weekend. Major shit to do. Tonight it’s all about the music: Married duo Calahoney jams at Tobacco Road, techno gets the Pickle treatment by Bruno Pronsato,…
Start massaging your art belly because this weekend’s buffet of openings is going to stretch your ocular capacity. (Mixed metaphor disaster…Campbell McGrath, I have failed you!) Tomorrow is the first Second Saturday of the fall season, as gallery owners and artists return from vacations, fellowships, etc., and the schedule is…
Sweat Records’ blog brings news that a strange seven-foot-tall life form with a giant yellow ballon-shaped head going by the name of Bad Brilliance has been hanging around town, silently studying us. Surely the beautiful visitor has been observing our reckless use of neons and pastels, the strange orange hue that many…
This coming Second Saturday’s ridiculous abundance of openings (which the Culture Blog will preview tomorrow morning) is a testament to just how diverse and far-reaching Miami’s art community has become. It also highlights how impossible it is now to see everything that’s happening–even if you limit yourself to just Wynwood–in one…
Dance music. That’s what She Wants Revenge singer/guitarist Justin Warfield says when asked to describe what his band plays. There’s nothing wrong with studying up on Sisters of Mercy and wearing Joy Division on your sleeve, so long as you’re not aping the greats. And despite a few cranky critics’…
Before Donald Trump’s empty condo buildings completely block out the sun in Sunny Isles, run to Samson Oceanfront Park. The beautiful, 2.1-acre facility is one of the last open spaces along the North Miami-Dade oceanfront, and this Wednesday, it will host a Sunny Serenade Concert. From 7:30 to 9 p.m.,…
When you get wasted on Coronas on May 5, you do it because the calendar says so, not necessarily because you’re excited that Mexico defeated the French in the Battle of Puebla that day in 1862. In fact, you probably think you’re knocking back brews for the country’s independence. Guess…
