Employers and co-workers, today is Secretaries Day, the one slot in the calendar year dedicated to the women and men who fax, answer phones, and deal with your stupid questions every day from 9 to 5. They work hard — usually without much complaint, at least not to your face…
It’s been some years since boxing has seen a puncher like Juan Urango. He’s got a no-holds-barred approach that blends discipline with pure power. It’s a style that brings buzz and excitement to a sport that more often than not lacks it. With his brutal, face-pummeling method of attack, the…
All the major religions have one thing in common: When they hold a spiritually themed concert, there are guaranteed to be squeaky-clean mamas’ boys in their nicest suits onstage singing their hearts out about devotion. But even though today’s Aviv Music Festival will surely make your bubbe a little verklempt,…
Jose D. Duran Click here to see a slide show of the galleries. Under the soft hum of the street lamps, hundreds still flock to the industrial wasteland of Wynwood for the visual delight of the second Saturday Art Walk despite the absence of Art Basel. It is still a…
It was radio gold, a cliffhanger worthy of the best B-movie serial. Comedian Artie Lange, who visits Miami regularly (read here about my visit to his suite last year at the Setai) walked off the Howard Stern Show in a major huff Thursday morning after nearly assaulting his assistant on…
Roy Lichtenstein’s House II It’s really an embarrassment of riches: Botero, Chihuly, and Lichtenstein, all at the Fairchild at once? Good thing they had 83 acres to play with. Play is the operative word. The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden packs some serious beauty and quietude (and, it must be said,…
Dear God, what can be said about Forbidden Broadway? Even the most overwhelmingly devoted theatergoers who see the thing can’t think of much to say on the ride home. Mostly, the postshow wrapup goes something like this: “Hey! Remember when they sang ‘Liza One Note’? That was funny, wasn’t it?”…
It’s nice when a game comes along that pleasantly surprises you. I admit, I judged Viking: Battle for Asgard by the screenshots, writing it off as yet another one of those grimy, violent games so plentiful that they’re almost their own category: the “Bloodletting in Brown Clothes on a Cloudy…
For his current project at Hardcore Contemporary Art Space, Juan-Si Gonzales literally put his balls on the line. A gallery catalogue essay informs that the 47-year-old Cuban artist underwent a vasectomy-reversal operation that allowed him to create his “Stay-at-Home Dad” series of works on display. Gonzales, who lives in Ohio…
Smart people got no reason to live — and, sure, that’s not quite how Randy Newman sang it, but the point still stands. Because in Noam Murro’s directorial bow — one of those Sundance premieres starring famous people slumming it in dingy Indieland — the smart people ain’t doing much…
For a movie built around questions of failed ethics and duplicitous behavior, Street Kings is just as dishonest as its characters. Though conceived as yet another sobering frontline report on law enforcement’s ever-expanding gray area, director David Ayer’s grim police thriller mostly plays as one long dick-measuring competition. You sense…
If you turn the first page of Scott Smith’s The Ruins, a friend said astutely, you won’t put it down — but if you know what it’s about beforehand, you won’t pick it up. So let’s just say that if this reworking never approximates the abandon-all-hope ferocity of Smith’s hair-whitening…
Like the 1986 Celtics, 1988 Lakers, and 1997 Bulls, every now and then there comes along an NBA team that transcends greatness, brilliance, and excellence. The 2007 Miami Heat is not one of those teams. No, this season, Heat fans have pretty much been force-fed one giant shit sandwich, requiring…
It’s gotta be tough being a son of the late reggae legend Robert Nesta Marley. First of all, there’s the pressure of having your dad recognized as the patron saint of the genre — Bob’s music will never die, and consequently his children are expected to perform copious cover tunes…
Boy A meets girl, takes girl to Cuba, slips booze in her drink, and they fall in love. Meanwhile, Boy B is up to his eyeballs in debt, and his fiancée develops a psychosomatic cold she swears won’t go away until they get married. If you’re a Broadway musical virgin,…
Watching The Simple Life makes you irate. You know in your soul that you are a much better match to be Paris Hilton’s BFF than Nicole Richie. And now that the Nickster has traded her flask and sleeping aids for a stroller and a wedding band, Paris is a lone…
The fighters in tonight’s Broker Boxing match have been training for months — flipping through papers, conducting marathon open houses, and putting “Beautiful 2BR, Spacious Balcony” ads all over the place. We’ll see if it has worked tonight at 6, when high-profile Miami real estate types such as Thomas Kramer,…
Who wants to pay 10 bucks to see Steve Martin’s Underpants? We do! And South Florida will get the chance starting tonight, when Martin’s Broadway hit takes the stage at FIU’s Mary Anne Wolfe Theatre. Martin based the play on the early-1900s German work Die Hose, about a woman who…
In New York City, the gospel brunch at Sylvia’s in Harlem is legendary. People of all creeds and races come out for a weekly dose of soul food and singing, and even a cretin such as Bill O’Reilly can’t help but admit there’s a sprinkling of magic and brotherly love…
Though Anna Kournikova was seen roaming around the players’ area at Crandon Park during the Sony Ericsson Open, she wasn’t there to play tennis. Kournikova’s career on the WTA has expired, but her athletic career continues. Today she joins fellow hot athletes Dara Torres (four-time Olympic swimmer) and Katya Myers…
It’s time to nix your weekly trip to Wal-Mart and your couch-side appointment with Mr. Back/ass-scratcher to indulge in a more dignified pastime. Today at 4, the sophisticated folks at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida are embracing the Miami tradition of infusing Old World customs with Latin flair for…
Before today, you thought the stairs leading up to your garden apartment, the two flights at the office, and even those three steps standing between you and the ATM were created for the sole purpose of tormenting you. Not that they were getting you to the next level or giving…
