Hello, Kitty: I fell in love and was intimate with an American guy overseas. He is 57 years old and divorced with two kids, and I am 46. He told me I’m a “special woman” and the best person he has ever met in his whole life. I am a…
Attention, Jews of generations X through Z: In case you missed it, novelist Joseph Epstein laid down a pretty severe gauntlet in last week’s issue of Newsweek. After deriding your parents for giving you inflated trust funds and WASPy first names, he accused you of frivolity, assimilation, and too-frequent intermarriage…
Brendan “Kids’ Choice” Fraser returns to the multiplex day-care as “Mo” Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer. In Inkheart’s opening chapter, he’s identified as a member of a race of “Silvertongues” — those who, when they read aloud, can suck people out of and into the texts from which they’re reciting. Mo has abstained…
In theory, 3-D filmmaking should amplify the effect Roland Barthes foresaw in Cinemascope — that of the viewer becoming a “little god” free to float about at will in the frame’s capacious space. In practice, it’s typically like watching a shitty movie with the added sensation of getting poked in…
Kissing, a brand-new play now making its world premiere at the New Theatre in Coral Gables, is so precious it ought to trigger your gag reflex. It doesn’t. It bypasses the alimentary canal altogether and burrows straight to the heart. Cynics and hipsters might feel annoyed, but they shouldn’t. Kissing…
The Miami Beach Botanical Garden sits in a neighborhood where the indigenous greenery could easily be the kind you stuff in a pipe and smoke. Not that SoBe-ers don’t appreciate the nuances of nature’s beauty, but located a block from Lincoln Road and a short stroll to this season’s hottest…
For those of you who might have seen the billboards around town and wondered, “Wasn’t Cirque du Soleil here like a month ago?” here’s the good news: You’re not crazy. The arguably most famous avant-garde acrobatic troupe just completed a run in downtown Miami, c’est vrai. And now a slightly…
If we throw a ball down the aisle in our office, it would be called harassment. But if you do it this Thursday night at Lucky Strike Lanes during the fourth annual Zo’s “King Pin” Classic, you’ll be doing it for a good cause. You can rustle up a group…
For 99 percent of the folks reading this calendar, you’ve already decided whether you’re going to attend the Miami Jewish Film Festival based on the words Miami Jewish Film Festival. Either you went the past 11 years, you’ll go this year, and you’ll go for the next 111, or Jewish…
Set your alarm for the darkest hours of the morning and prepare to witness a rarely seen Miami spectacle. Beginning at 6:15 a.m., a whole lot of Miamians are about to make their New Year’s resolutions come to life. That’s right — this Sunday is the ING Miami Marathon, and…
The scheme: Dress up a Mexican cooking class as a manly man’s preparation for the “football feeding frenzy” that is the Big Game. The result: the Real Men Cook Mexican Demonstration and Luncheon at Rosa Mexicano . The event is planned to be the official guide to a Mexican Super…
You can have it drizzled onto ice cream or eat an entire block of it whole. Some say it will make you horny, but if your name is Charlie and you own the whole damn factory, we’re sure that myth has gotten old. Since most of us aren’t that lucky,…
Miami Heat versus Orlando Magic has been one of the hottest in-state rivalries in the NBA, if you can call one team thoroughly dominating the other a “rivalry.” Because it really hasn’t been much of one at all lately, thanks to Orlando holding a 10-game regular-season winning streak over the…
You might be able to look into our eyes and deduce we’ve just finished hitting the ol’ bong, but don’t mistake our chill demeanor for apathy. Our red-eyed intensity isn’t saved for the enforcement of “puff, puff, pass,” and we voted yes for the initiative “no stoner left behind.” Imagine…
After eight years of inadvertent tragicomedy at the hands of the malapropism-spewing president of the United States, comedy fans are understandably concerned. What will our joke-tellers amuse us with when our prez is cooler than a polar bear’s toenails? A general survey of the acts performing at the South Beach…
Hip-hop magazines and websites love to come up with annual Best Rapper Alive lists. But as the genre nobody ever thought would take it this far progresses, we notice that few folks cast an eye back to celebrate the trailblazers. Allow us to begin with our number one pick for…
If you thought the holiday revelry was over, let us remind you the Chinese haven’t had their time in the sun yet. January 26 is Chinese New Year, day one of the year of the earth ox. It’s your excuse to play an Asian-themed remix. You can totally celebrate at…
Six hundred-pound wrestler Maximum Capacity is a sight to behold: He’s a mammoth of a man, towering tall and wide above his already large opponents. The hair on his head is shaved into a wide Mohawk, tracing down into a braided mullet. He wears a menacing grimace, buttressed by an…
For Asser Saint-Val, explorations of identity lead to a focus on differences under the skin. The Haitian-born artist began a lengthy investigation of the pigment that distinguishes diverse ethnic groups from each other. “In the course of my search for my own identity, the issue of melanin is continually surfacing…
In 1995, a legendary Miami bass group by the name of 95 South released a song called “Rodeo.” The lyrics went like this: “Come on get wild, girl. I’ll be the horse and you can be the cowgirl.” Do any of y’all bareback-riding, tie-down-roping drill teams know what we’re talkin’…
You learn a lot in junior high and high school, but the most valuable lesson of all is one that remains true throughout life: Surround yourself with other quality, driven humans and create something great together. Students of the Paul Green School of Rock Music in Miami learned this lesson…
Lucky Superbowl fans will be treated to a live performance by Bruce Springsteen at this year’s half time show. Well lucky Miami fans will just lag a few letters behind. Not the E, but the B-Street Band are scheduled to perform at Kitchen 305. The Sunny Isles Beach eatery plans…
