Don’t confuse Alissa Christine’s photographic diary of the Magic City with an obsession to record the inexorable tick of time passing. Since January, Christine has been capturing everyday moments as part of a yearlong project to distill the spirit of Miami on a particular day. “It’s not really about time,”…
Many a gay man has blown a load over the postcards of Wilhelm Von Gloeden. In 1877, the self-proclaimed aristocrat settled in the Sicilian town of Taormina, with vast wealth and camera equipment at his disposal. He spent the money to put an army of peasant boys on his payroll,…
Rosie O’Donnell is what some media-savvy types might call “a polarizing figure.” Brash, bold, and blatant in her opinions, O’Donnell is seen by some folks as a loudmouthed troublemaker who gets headlines by speaking her truth and slinging arrows at the likes of Donald Trump, Barbara Walters, and Star Jones…
Somewhere between his dramatic turn as crackhead Pookie in New Jack City and his creation of the hilarious CW hit Everybody Hates Chris, the world had to admit Chris Rock is a damn good actor, writer, and, of course, comedian. He gets us giggling when he talks about anything from…
Thursday night’s dinner and drinks set off Friday night’s drunken debauchery. The weekend flitted by with four hours’ sleep, a vodka breakfast, a MySpace update, and a Saturday/Sunday combo involving a sea of writhing, sweaty bodies tangled in a mass of hot-blooded flesh. And that was after you left the…
Your conscience has been warning you about all of the pointless partying you’ve been doing lately, but each and every night, you have told that little man to shut up and gone on with your debauched good times. But now you have no choice but to listen, er, read, because…
It’s hot, juicy, and just too deliciously bad for you to pass up. We’re talking about fried chicken, but we could just as easily be referring to pornography. And thanks to the gleefully naughty minds at the Upper Eastside Garden, the two decadent delights are coming together in a monthly…
At first glance, it’s hard not to feel sorry for America’s funnyman, Neil Hamburger. A greasy comb-over flops across his sweaty forehead, which is furrowed with discomfort. His fly-eyed glasses continually slink down the bridge of his nose, and with three half-finished drinks cradled against his body with his right…
There are tons of improv sketch comedy groups scattered across the nation, and most of them are filled with hacks who are more annoying than funny. The Groundlings are certainly not among that set. Based in Los Angeles and boasting alum such as Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman, Lisa Kudrow, and…
Think of comedian Lisa Corrao as sort of the den mother to all of South Florida’s nerds. For more than a year, she has hosted Revenge of the Nerd Comics, her own series of shows dedicated to local comedy with a geeky slant. The gigs have been a hit from…
The Florida Marlins came into last month’s draft looking for their catcher of the future. They had their eye on two young studs who’d been wowing scouts for the past year. There was FSU’s Buster Pose and an 18-year-old phenom from Riverside California, Kyle Skipworth. When the Giants took Posey…
It’s 5:30 and you’re dying to get out of the office after a craptastic day. The last thing you want to do is slog through insane highway traffic and then slave over a hot stove for your dinner. Might we offer a suggestion? Head over to cute and romantic restaurant…
For the third day in a row, the leftover chicken casserole you brought for lunch tastes like curry-onion-Manchego-cacciatore casserole after you pull it out of the disgusting refrigerator in the break room. So follow our lead and head to a spot that will turn your hourlong lunch break into your…
It’s Wednesday, you’re suffering from the midweek malaise, and if one more person wishes you a happy hump day, you’ll scream. The good news is La Bodeguita del Medio, one of Miami’s latest and greatest Cuban restaurants, hosts an extended happy hour called Champagne Party all Wednesday long. Yes, siree,…
Interrogating Systems Amilcar Packer sits naked on a wooden chair in a dimly lit space. At first glance, it appears the artist is waiting to be interrogated by someone off-screen. Video #15 features two simultaneous, symmetrically opposed video recordings that collar viewers from both ends of the room. A rumbling…
Nothing snaps a child’s head around quite like a dying parent, especially when the parent is a cantankerous old sod like Arthur Morrison (Jim Broadbent), whose nominally adult son Blake (Colin Firth) still clings to childhood grievances. Directed by Anand Tucker with the same quiet tact he brought to Hilary…
It’s probably a good thing Game On wasn’t around to review Ninja Gaiden when it hit Xbox in 2004 — we probably would’ve written “an awesome, brutal, majestic action masterpiece,” then filled the rest of the space with crude crayon drawings of ninjas. Because really, there’d be nothing else to…
Since moving here from New York City in 1996, Bill Bilowit and Grela Orihuela have had front-row seats to the art brushfire that has engulfed this town. “Art is the currency of Miami now,” Orihuela says. “It’s become a global nexus where art has found a comfortable home,” Bilowit pipes…
As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows get spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It’s an iron law of the culture industry that turns out to be a pleasant surprise in the case of Get Smart, the late-Sixties sitcom…
What a bunch of nonsense — effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. This is what happens when M. Night Shyamalan tries to play both John Carpenter (bloody) and Stanley Kubrick (cold-blooded) while writing and directing what the literalist will either dismiss or embrace as the horror-film…
Black History Month whizzes by like a full bus every February, and it invariably entails the same tributes to the same well-known African-American historical figures — King, X., Parks, Tubman, etc. There are so many other unsung ancestors who made their mark, and so little time. That’s why we’re eternally…
Just because the hurricanes have yet to blow in doesn’t mean Biscayne Bay’s docks aren’t a-rockin’ and a-rollin’. This Thursday, beginning at 7:30 p.m., during the weekly Rock the Dock concert series at Bayside, the concert pier will dip and skank to the ska-lectrifying sounds of Prato Principal and the…
