For years the hair-product marketplace was suffused with potions for straight-haired folks. If you had wavy, kinky, or coily locks, you were fresh outta luck — Pantene, V05, and Herbal Essences didn’t want to hear that. Silky-straight ladies now have to make way. The curly hair market is a booming…
Local graffiti rats Krave, Crome, Typoe, and Monz have earned their street cred by the on-the-cheap dint of pounding institutional authority. They’ve all rubbed their taint across the 305, giving ulcers to the code enforcers who are blind to the fact that art is for aerosols. We say, if you…
Of all the Latin music/reggaeton-inspired car commercials, “Ride It Like a Ford” remains our favorite by far — yes, even more than the inescapable Esserman commercials. The 2006 ad was everything we love and loathe about Miami. Baby-oiled bikini babes, garishly painted vehicles parked near the lapping ocean, and some…
Miami Dolphins fans have been waiting long to get the taste of an awful one-win 2007 season out of their mouths. And now that football guru Bill Parcells is in charge of things, the cock-punching has commenced. And that’s a good thing. Parcells comes into town with a rep for…
A few times a year, we take a break from being critical and judgmental about the scene and throw our own events into Miami’s entertainment atmosphere. We know booze can’t lose, so Beerfest scores major points. But how do you feel about us getting Unzipped? If we strip away all…
Thanks to the Florida Marlins’ refusal to lose and the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies’ refusal to take hold of the division, the top of the NL East is a veritable mishmash of teams vying for first place. A hodgepodge, if you will. A jumble. A clutter. A big…
You inject fictitious, not to mention obnoxious, words into daily conversation. When excited, you shout, “Super-dee-duper!” and rapidly clap your hands. To outsiders, this sounds like a case straight out of famed neurologist Oliver Sack’s files. Parents, however, will instantly recognize the symptoms of severe Barney overload. The only cure…
Google “randy housewife, pre-1980,” and the first result should be a full-cover shot of Julianne Moore, her red hair feathered and layered, smoking a Virginia Slims cigarette. She’s one of the rare people, like George Clooney, whose beauty only fully emerged after 40, and her timing coincided nicely with a…
Snobby locals love to sip their haterade and talk out the side of their mouths about Tobacco Road. It’s only understandable that Miami’s oldest bar has gone in and out of vogue during almost a century of existence — hit the Road on an off night and you might walk…
Emily Eisenhauer taught English to college students in rural China. Patty Phares was a junior high math instructor in the Samoan countryside. Both are members of the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of South Florida, but you’ll catch only one of them drinking Friday night at Shuckers. Eisenhauer says, “I think…
The engineers of our you-can-do-it culture would like you to think that being a DJ takes nothing more than an iPod and a killer playlist. While those things might work in that basement nightclub down the street, try bringing that foolishness to Mansion on a Friday night and see how…
On Earth, people put off, postpone, and procrastinate when it comes to exercising, but on Mars, little green men have trouble coming up with reasons not to get their sweat on for at least an hour a day. Their slimy, globular eyes bug out a little more when someone suggests…
I was 13 when Stephen Sommers’s 1999 remake-in-name-only of The Mummy came out — just about the ideal age. Sommers is definitely some kind of junk-addled auteur, and if The Mummy didn’t achieve its obvious goal of topping Raiders of the Lost Ark, it was close enough as far as…
Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that’s about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it was. The clever premise, which would have seemed like pure science-fiction no more than eight years ago, concerns a U.S. presidential election whose…
The truth is still out there, like an unsold lawn chair at a garage sale, in this just plain lousy second big-screen outing for erstwhile FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). Since we last saw them, she’s become a doctor in a Catholic hospital, he…
“Transforming Light,” a zippy mélange at Dot Fiftyone Gallery, might be thrifty on the electric bill, but it attempts to balance the dim wattage with a focus on concept instead. Don’t expect to be razzle-dazzled by laser beams, brilliant strobes, or mega-candlepower wizardry. With few exceptions, the show is mostly…
VOOM PORTRAITS Robert Wilson Through August 3. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7062, www.bassmuseum.org This sensational exhibition features 26 moving images on large-scale HD plasma flat-screens, including celebs such as Isabella Rossellini, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt. They also show images of a frog, a panther,…
Interested in beautifying your environs? Design District Magazine in conjunction with the MDD Marketing Council are hosting the 8th Eye on the District event. This neighborhood event will feature four prominent businesses: two showrooms (Oggetti and Neoteric Home), an art gallery (Miami Art Group Gallery)Miami Art Group GalleryMiami Art Group…
The Tides South Beach offers a super-glam destination for locals to spend those precious Friday “summer hours.” La Marea’s signature Popsicle Martinis (served with frozen fruit-infused pops) now boasts the fantastic creation of the Limoncello Popsicle Martini, Chef Pietro Rota’s famed limoncello recipe twisted into the summer’s most refreshing cocktail…
The Florida Marlins are among the major-league leaders in game-ending hits this season, with nine. They’re also among the best at celebrating these kinds of victories, seeing that they have plenty of experience. Two weeks ago, in a crucial series against NL East leader Philadelphia, that game-winning hit came off…
“Let me do the talking, angel. I don’t know yet what I’m going to tell them. It’ll be pretty close to the truth.” Humphrey Bogart immortalized these words as a hard-drinking film-noir detective in the 1946 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep. This month’s installment of the…
You may have shaken your groove thang in every club across the 305, but you haven’t lived until you’ve sashayed across a dimly lit dance floor, flirting with your eyes while executing some serious salsa moves with your hips. Whether a lack of rhythm or a lack of partner has…
