Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously — least of all the enthusiasm of their fans — the brothers surely got a chuckle from an upcoming academic tome, The Philosophy of the Coen…
Bebo Valdés’s story is familiar to fans of Cuban music: A great bandleader in the Forties and Fifties who created his own rhythm (in this case, the speedy and complicated batanga), he was forced into early retirement and expatriation by the revolution. Valdés then migrated to the piano bars of…
“Who were the ad geniuses who came up with this one?” The good people at Pollo Tropical are launching their new Cuban Wrap menu items, and to usher in this new wave of flavor, they’re inviting locals to come into their stores, dressed in costume. Kind of. If you arrive…
Purvis Young’s first public art project appeared in the early Seventies — he painted hundreds of pictures on plywood, using house paint, to boarded-up buildings along a stretch of Fourteenth Street in Overtown known as Goodbread Alley. Since then, he has become an iconic Miami painter whose work has been…
Hobby actors, take heed. The Miami Stage Company is holding a casting call for its 2009 theater program. If you strut around calling yourself a “Method actor” and bragging about your high school starring role in Once upon a Mattress, this could be your big break! Any old schmo is…
You’re getting sleeeeepy, and you can’t move from the chair you’re sitting in. You hear fingers snap, and suddenly some dude in a P. Diddy-esque shiny suit is playing you like a deck of cards. We’re not talking about your dickhead boss at the Christmas party; we’re referring to the…
You can go to rehab for addictions to alcohol and drugs, sex and gambling. But where, oh where can the struggling chocoholic go? If you turn up at an AA meeting, you’ll probably get chastised for trivializing the 12-step method. And Weight Watchers might help you lose the pounds, but…
Picture a trip to a Miami-Dade electronics-recycling site. The dude behind the counter says, “Throw whatever you’ve got in bin number three.” You feel weird dropping two CRT monitors on top of the food wrappers, twigs, and soda cans. You shrug and leave, feeling like an eco-failure. Now picture the…
Typically only bipeds are allowed to stroll the beautiful grounds of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, but this year the historic gates will open for the first Dog Day at Fairchild. Because what pooch doesn’t love frolicking in big, open green spaces? The 83 acres of lush landscape feature a rain…
In the summer of ’69, this film brought the counterculture to the silver screen. Hippies smuggling dope, riding hogs, picking up hitchhikers across the USA, and tripping on LSD with hookers were all a part of the Easy Rider landscape. Now, almost 40 years later — notwithstanding Dennis Hopper’s excitable…
The last time your knees touched the sand, you were young enough to enjoy building sandcastles but too old to take a dump in the water. This Saturday, Zephyrhills is inviting you back to the beach to indulge in some sports, sun, and sexy athletes at the annual Dig the…
In the Seventies, everyone on the party scene thought they were so fabulous while dancing under flashing lights, wearing ridiculous outfits, and shoving coke spoons up their noses. If you stumble into any South Beach or downtown nightclub, you can find the exact same thing happening to this day. Only…
An ill wind called Gustav recently upstaged John McCain. A conga line of hurricanes and tropical storms has ripped across the national consciousness, emitting howls of Doppler feedback and stirring unwarranted panic for days. And local artists are rising to the challenge for the much-anticipated return of Wynwood’s Second Saturday…
According to Christopher Witecki, Soulgarden.tv’s daily astrological weatherman, “Things don’t have to change; they have to completely change.” He’s talking about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and how it relates to EarthDance 2008, the world’s largest simultaneous music and dance event. “This is not your cheesy, bullshit, granola…
Getting a massage can be a decadent indulgence — try any spa in South Beach or Sunny Isles and you’ll learn quickly that hands-on therapy can cost a bundle. But massage is about more than relaxing at a high-end spa. A good therapist can help improve the health of your…
The minute you enter the realm of Aerobar, you’ll realize you ain’t in Kansas anymore, sweetie. With bright neon lights cascading across a gunmetal background, the club resembles a cooler-than-thou airport terminal that could house vessels built to take you to a place where rules don’t exist. And you’re right…
Christian or Muslim, Jew or Hindu, agnostic or atheist — we can all agree on one thing: This world is in need of a whole lot less war and a whole lot more peace. Although world peace might seem like a tall order to anyone with an IQ higher than…
It’s cool to be kind in an era of food and fuel crises, scarce access to healthcare, and fears over depleted natural resources, and that charitable trend has even caught on in sometimes-frivolous Miami Beach. This Friday at 10:30 p.m., a group of local artists will band together at The…
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh is best known for his slang-laced tales of existential debauchery in the damp, booze-soaked climes of his native Edinburgh (the most famous of those being Trainspotting). But his latest novel, Crime, heads farther south, to the damp, booze-soaked climes of Miami. An impromptu virgin visit to…
In our Internet-based culture, it can be difficult to get the family together around a heaping bowl of Hamburger Helper, let alone some actual physical activity. And when it is time for some action, your kids want to play basketball with their friends, not you. We can bet that your…
In “Geisha”, her most recent exhibit, Venezuelan artist Katiuska chooses to concentrate on beauty as a balm. She became acquainted with the many facets of Japanese aesthetic in Paris during the late nineties. In her work she has remained in tune with Japanese artistic simplicity, psychological and spiritual depth. Sept…
Your crowning glory awaits at Van Michael Miami Salon which celebrates the movie release of The Duchess with a pampering beauty package fit for the movie’s leading lady, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer, played by actress Keira Knightley. The enchanting royal treatment promotion includes professional hair and makeup services,…
