There are two kinds of jokes in Rupert Holmes’s Thumbs: good ones and bad ones. I’m going to spoil one of each for you, but you’ll recoup the loss if you decide to see the play. Thumbs is short on many things, but not on jokes. Here’s a good one:…
The Florida Marlins’ plan to get you to the ballpark worked so gloriously last season — a league low in total attendance — they’re doing it again! The Marlins recently announced what they’ve deemed “the much-anticipated return of Super Saturdays for the 2008 season.” They probably use the term much-anticipated…
As a platform for avant-garde poetry, dance, music, and film, Tigertail Productions is always giving us fabulous bites of art and culture to chew on, and it’s high time we return the love. While we’re sure the company enjoys the standing ovations you’ve given so far, tonight you can show…
On Bob Marley’s heavy track “Them Belly Full (But We Hungry),” the reggae legend implored listeners to “forget your troubles and dance.” It often isn’t that easy, when the ends seem impossible to make meet and the cost of living is skyrocketing. The people of Haiti have known desperation, hunger,…
On Tuesday, Barbara Walters is coming to Temple Judea for a book signing of her newly released memoir, Audition. And what a memoir it must be: She tells the tales of her amazing life of interviewing some of the world’s most compelling celebrities, murderers, and political leaders while balancing it…
Sundays are traditionally the de facto day for reggae music. We suppose the concept is to chillax to the max just before the workweek starts, and there’s no better way to do that than with irie riddims to get your head bobbing and your toes tapping. Which explains why every…
The Miami FC Blues dropped another heartbreaker last week with a 1-0 loss to the Carolina Railhawks. The game remained deadlocked at 0-0 for the entire game (soccer is fantastic!), but in the 87th minute, Carolina’s Daniel Antoniuk scored the game winner. The Blues now sit in eighth place in…
Hey, you know what you have that Paris Hilton doesn’t (aside from a healthy adult’s sense of shame)? A free pass to Shine this Friday. Florida residents get into the club gratis until midnight, meaning, yeah, you’ll probably have to line up when the party-vampire crowd is just heading home…
If all you know about prostitution is what you catch on HBO’s Cathouse, honey, you’ve got so much more to learn. The premier cable channel program paints a colorful, fun portrait of the world’s oldest profession; between fulfilling male fantasies, the gals don bonnets, host tea parties, and seem to…
During Cuba’s golden age, the island’s Carnival season drew multitudes into the streets for a raucous celebration that delivered revelers to the outer limits of joy. Entire neighborhoods and fraternal organizations rehearsed for months. Elaborate parade floats were created for the giddy affair. Families made the rounds in their snazzy…
Putting food to mouth is something you can handle, but transforming the goods from raw to yum is where you foul up. You bungle the baking, ruin the roasting, and slip up with the saucepan — but today you can learn how to rock out with your wok out. The…
It’s official. Hip-hop is no longer the “CNN of the streets,” as Chuck D. labeled it back in the heyday. We’re in a postbling era, when Lil Wayne quips he doesn’t do coke because it gives him acne, and Rick Ross has a number one album. No offense to the…
It’s apparently every guy’s fantasy to watch hot chicks make out with each other, but guess what, frat boys? Not every hot chick aspires to be Tila Tequila. We hate to break this to you, but it’s entirely possible that lesbian love doesn’t exist solely for your pornographic pleasure. In…
We kid Katt Williams about his diminutive stature, but we’re hardly the first to make such jokes. Hell, the internationally successful comedian cracks wise about it himself; one of his funniest gags comes during a joke about being friends with Shaq. “It don’t even look right. I can’t even be…
Quick, list the best cool, funky beaches of South Florida. Did you mention North Beach? Nope? North Beach knows it is still undiscovered (meaning there’s still parking available), and the sun-soaked community is determined to experience the overcrowding and littering, plus the heightened revenue stream, of other renowned beaches. Hence,…
The aroma of butter- and sugar-laced confections tickles your nose, alerting you to the fact that baked goods are nearby. So you do what any soul with a mouthful of sweet teeth would do — follow your schnoz to Aventura Mall for the Great American Bake Sale. From noon to…
Mixing spirituality with music is a delicate thing. The peak of success for bands that attempt the feat is usually thousands of weeping, arm-waving teenagers swaying to a ballad about crucifixion. This picture is bleak for music lovers wishing for more depth in lyrics. Honestly, this picture is bleak for…
Each morning you step out of the shower smelling so fresh and so clean-clean, but if it weren’t for that swipe of Speed Stick, your body would probably end the day on a more funky note. You (or we) are not alone, because even the amazingly beautiful orchid goes through…
Being an also-ran from the Sixties British Invasion means you’re always going to be in the shadow of the established greats, but it has its perks. The Spencer Davis Group scored more than 10 Top 10 hits but faded after original singer Steve Winwood left to cement his legendary status…
Robert Rauschenberg’s death Monday night at his home on Captiva Island has prompted the Miami Art Museum to install one of the shape-shifting artist’s acrylic on copper paintings at the entrance of its plaza level galleries in his memory. Executed in 1986, Untitled measures a little more than six-by-three feet…
Jose D. Duran Walking down Lincoln Road not too long ago, I overheard a snooty conversation about art. A man and a woman carrying shopping bags stood in front of a gallery with their heads titled to the side, like a couple of trendy philosophers. “Installations,” the woman said through…
Richard Lewis was a comedic cyclone at the Miami Improv last night – not just in terms of his considerable velocity, but in the way he circles around furiously, nesting topics within topics, opening a subject, switching back and forth, and returning, or maybe not. Even the act of taking…
