The waiter pours a swallow of Merlot into your glass and motions for you to sniff, swirl, taste, and approve the grape-licious concoction. You oblige, crumpling your wee nose in disgust as the juice hits your throat. Some people would say you’re a wine drinker who is savvier than most;…
Local musician Steven Guarin needs a bone marrow transplant. He has cancer and Medicaid won’t cover it, so his friends in the Miami music community are doing something about it. They’ve already received a $1,500 donation from Music Cares, the charity foundation set up by the Recording Academy, AKA the…
If the Dunkin Donuts folks tried to charge you $100 for a Boston cream, you’d laugh in their faces, but if your mortgage company offered to reduce your monthly payment to the same amount, you’d jump for joy. Point being: There are some things that make a Benjamin seem insignificant,…
It probably has happened to you before. You want to go out but are torn between taking in a live music show or seeing a DJ. This can be considered a privileged choice or material for an existential crisis, depending on where you happen to be in life and/or your…
There’s something to be said about the romanticism of the old-time comedian. The cufflinks, the coif, the three-piece band, the “ladies and gentlemen” politeness, the warnings to cover the kids’ ears (“earmuffs!”), and timeless jokes about grandmothers and taxes. Now take the cufflinks, the coif, and the three-piece band. Mix…
Your Midwestern kin have 26 hours to kill before their cruise ship coasts out of the Port of Miami and on to a place where you don’t have to watch Aunt Esther’s toenail-trimming sessions live and in person. They’ve grown tired of Big Pink’s head-size waffles and are bowing to…
The Florida Marlins have come out of the gates firing on all cylinders. They absolutely leveled the Nationals in an opening series sweep while storming out to the only undefeated record in the bigs. Then they brought down the hurt on the hated Mets with a two-to-one series beatdown, culminating…
In 2008, we saw Meshaun Labrone Arnold’s production of The Hate You Gave: The Tupac Shakur Story and declared it a remarkable show that pummels your guts and breaks your heart before it goes to work on your head. The Miami-based actor, playwright, and teacher is back and bringing his…
Until the 2001 release of Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump, a compilation of West African funk, most of us in the States had no idea the art form we’d invented had been perfected overseas. In short, there’s a reason why more than 27 women signed up to marry Afrobeat founder Fela…
Still hung over from the last citywide smorgasbord of Sauvignon Blanc and seared scallops? There’s no time to recuperate — you’re better off treating the Miami Food and Wine Festival as the hair of the dog and keeping the party going. From this Thursday through Saturday, a menagerie of local…
The final two outdoor, organic, paradisiacal dinners of 2009 take place this month. The groovy gastronomic get-togethers down at Gabriele Marewski’s Paradise Farms always bring great food and wine (from Stacole Fine Wines). Fellow diners tend to be in amiable, festive spirits, and the setting is simply unbeatable. This Sunday…
Has the Marlins stadium fiasco made you feel powerless? Looking for a way to positively affect the city of Miami? This Thursday the Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) will unveil a brand-new community service networking group called the Wolf Pack Gives Back. Former FIU professor and self-proclaimed rabble-rouser Ted…
The story is this: A woman is hired to teach theater to a bunch of tenth-graders in the Bronx. They jeer at her. They test her. But she challenges them and, against long, long odds, wins them over. Ugh. Ugh, ugh, ugh. To say that No Child… bears an unfortunate…
The series of works comprise 134 postcards bearing the same headshot of the artist, Bert Rodriguez, whose entire head has been shaved. Last year, Rodriguez printed 1,000 postcards with instructions inviting the public to work his image over by adding hair, clothing, accessories, or makeup using the media of their…
We’ve come to count on The Standard for a lot of different essential items for South Beach survival: mini-cheeseburgers, spa treatments, poolside cocktails, etc., but who knew they were also projecting free kick-ass films on the last Monday of every month? Well, no one did because this is the first…
If your inner van Gogh is in revolt with your stick-figure talents, ArtCenter/South Florida is offering a series of creative workshops designed to unleash the dormant master. “It’s very challenging for people to find time for themselves, so we at ArtCenter do our best to present affordable education programs that…
Ignore the political reading of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly when you see the famous opera. Even though the male lead, Pinkerton, is an American soldier, is named after a notoriously violent detective agency for corporate hire, and takes advantage of a young, innocent Asian woman while he’s stationed in her…
Venezuelans have an expression for things that don’t go well together — “arroz con mango” — while Americans have several quaint ones for things that do, like “peas in a pod,” but where is the expression for things that shouldn’t work together but do anyway? Tuesday’s double feature at the…
Lascivious cousin of Italian bocce, petanque prefers to stand in the shadows, twirling its mustache, sipping absinthe, and plotting the demise of its crass American archrival, horseshoes. “Horse-shu,” it says, “your date wiz total obscurity eez coming. I have waited in zee shadows long enough. Now I will strike every…
Started in 1999 as a record label specializing in house music, Hed Kandi has grown into a worldwide brand incorporating parties, fashion, radio, web TV, and even a partnership with Monarch airlines to do special flights from London to Ibiza. Now, Hed Kandi’s lounge in Miami Beach has launched a…
If you haven’t read it yet, take a break from the expert prose styling of Miami New Times and go slumming through our archrival the Gray Lady for A.O. Scott’s Sunday magazine piece about the Neo-Neo Realism movement in contemporary American film. Or Google Wendy and Lucy and read through…
In a bid to cut 10% of its operating budget this year the Miami Art Museum will cut 3 employees, reduce executive salaries, make one-week furloughs mandatory, and cutting back on the number of exhibits, according to the Miami Herald. This will however not effect the development of MAM’s new…
