Just as Academy Awards pundits look to the Golden Globes to make predictions, horseracing odds-makers look to the Florida Derby to figure out how the spring’s biggest races will play out. Last year’s winner, Big Brown, went on to conquer both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, which begs the…
Jazz might not be the first type of music that pops into your head when you think of Miami, but our city actually has quite a bit of the difficult-to-define yet highly infectious sound in its colorful past. Big names such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Nat King Cole…
Is there any place better suited for an animation festival than Miami Beach? Every Ray-Banned, man-pursed, Pomeranian-holstering, deep-V-necked dude on the street could pass for a figment of Chuck Jones’s imagination. So embrace your Steamboat Willie and take a chunk of time this weekend to escape from the horrendous animation…
If you’re not at Churchill’s this Friday night for the Black Lips show, we’ll know why. Because you drive a BMW. Because your soul has been crippled by the weight of your bourgeoisie possessions. Because you don’t feel like riding the steel-and-teak elevator 20 floors down when you have Sushi…
Homes are like brides: You should always have something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue on display. Those items give your space character, and after all, we can’t all afford to fill our abodes with $39K Steinway pianos and $65K silverware sets à la Ruth Madoff. Each year,…
Your skin is mad at you — shedding like crazy, getting away from you little by little — and you won’t do so much as slather on some cream to persuade it to stick around. Sure, your dermis invites its BFFs Whitehead and Blackhead to dinner at the wrong times,…
With prison looming for T.I. on his road to redemption, the impending question for Funkshion Fashion Week Miami Beach is: Will he be present during his AKOO by T.I. fashion show? “We don’t know,” says Funkshion founder Sale Stojanovic. “But whether he goes to prison or not, they’ve signed the…
Any combo of seafood, booze, and shaking your ass sounds like a seriously noxious cocktail, the gastro-intestinal — not to mention social — equivalent of a suicide bomb. Yet leading PhDs of party science appear to have found the perfect fusion of these three superexplosive elements. Their formula: two parts…
Indian cornbread and a buttery Chardonnay. Carved bison and a sweet-spicy Pinot Noir. Doesn’t sound like the typical Sauvignon-Blanc-and-herbed-goat-cheese-on-a-stale-baguette motif, does it? This Thursday at the Coral Gables Wine & Food Festival, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida will celebrate cuisine and vino in a way that is reflective…
University of Miami students who are trying to get to that next level with the girl from Comp 1102: the Miami New Times, in the infinite wisdom it has gained from hanging around lots of undergraduate co-eds, has a fail-safe plan for you. Buy her tickets to the Miami Civic…
When Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad put their wall of sound up around “Mamma Mia” it was a hit. When the play of the samen name (and an exclamation point on the end) was nominated for a Tony award for best musical, audiences weren’t surprised. And…
Welcome to the Magic City — a mystical place where the sun kisses the sand and the coffee comes con leche. Our city’s nickname comes from the fact that fairydusted construction workers twinkle their ruddy noses and cause condos to spring up like weeds. Yes, our moon is really the…
Once West Side Story hit Broadway, the stage’s landscape changed. Dark themes, a complex soundscape, intricate dance sequences, and a tinge of reality enthralled audiences. The story of forbidden love is one that many folks can’t relate to because a large segment of the population is afraid to leap. The…
If the iconic 1950s show Lassie were remade today, it would be Timmy who’d be running to tell Lassie that Aunt May fell into an irrigation ditch, but Lassie’s second personal assistant, Jeff, would stop him at the screen door. “I could maybe pencil you in for a week from…
After being pivotal in the recent Fado revival (the blues-like genre native to Lisbon) with her honest and impassioned interpretation, this Mozambique-born songstress dares to take the genre into a new direction by adding different instruments and influences on her new disc, Terra (World Connection). Continuing her love affair with…
Now that Langerado has sunk back into the swamp from whence it came, Ultra Music Festival assumes a larger role of persuading rock bands to take a detour to Miami. Enter Bloc Party, the biggest English band since Oasis. Their new album, Intimacy, has them back on track after the…
Nick Cannon is a Rapper-actor-TV host-sometime comedian, but ever since his 2008 marriage to the Queen of Pop, some people like to call him Mr. Carey. As in, the better half of Mariah. But when he’s on the 1’s and 2’s, playing sound selector for parties from Vegas to NY…
Hikaru Utada is the biggest pop star you don’t know about. She’s not out getting married in Vegas or beating Hondas with umbrellas, but the Japanese starlet sold over 50 million records without getting involved in the dramz. Did we mention that she’s quite easy on the eyes? Sephora took…
As a child, artist Carol Prusa used to lie in bed at night contemplating her place in the universe. “I would close my eyes and try to get rid of the planets and everything else until all that was left was me,” she says. “And then I would be left…
At the end of 2008, DreamWorks Animation bossman Jeffrey Katzenberg embarked on a cross-country tour, toting 20 minutes’ worth of Monsters vs. Aliens. The reason for his trek? To convince critics that 3-D movies are no longer the snake-oil salesman’s hustle, but the future of filmmaking — if not the…
We all know most productions about womens’ prisons staged in Miami tend to err on the sexier side, to say the least. So it’s no surprise that when the legendary Broadway show Chicago stages its run at the end of May at the Arsht Center, a bombshell will be filling…
Well, this certainly wins the award for most haunting image to ever peak out from the slide shows sidebar here on Riptide. The Agatha Ruiz De La Prada outfit looks as if Plumpy and Jolly from Candyland double-teamed Grace Jones in the ’80s (something that, quite frankly, very well could have happened)…
