Ben Mezrich’s 2002 best seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions was a smart narrative about … well, you saw the subtitle, right? Mezrich more or less recounted a fantastic tale spun by an old acquaintance from Boston, an MIT…
Film noir and melodrama cast a long shadow over Ira Sachs’s look back at the rotting heart of the Fifties nuclear family, but his movie rarely breaks a sweat. Slow, deliberate, and russet to a fault, this quietly controlled chamber piece, based on a 1959 murder mystery by British writer…
Developers seem to believe that their first-person games are required to include online modes. Blame it on the few narrow-minded gamers (and critics) who constantly hammer away with that boneheaded message. At best, it’s a strange logic of inheritance: Since the earliest first-person shooters were playable online, every first-person game…
Plenty of bad things have their partisans. Vegemite, for example. Leonardo DiCaprio, for another. Industrial pork farming. Ralph Reed. American Idol. And so it goes with The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, a wonderful play by Tennessee Williams being brutally murdered by Jim Tommaney and the giddy psychopaths at…
Even when you’re as bloated as a beached jellyfish, you will still find yourself sprinting slightly and weaving drunkenly between the more than 30 tables of tasty fare at the Coral Gables Wine & Food Festival this evening. After all, you must make the best of the two hours allotted…
In case you didn’t know, wine is not to be chugged like a six-pack of cold beers at a frat party. Whether you take it from a bottle or a box, there’s an art to it. Don’t worry, you’ll still reach the tipsy finish line, but you’ll do it with…
Art Basel and Winter Music Conference. What do these two hugely popular Miami events have in common? They both attract throngs of ridiculously wealthy tourists, they both seem to be a siren call for Europeans and the scantily clad women who love them, and they’re both heavily concentrated on South…
You’ve been longing for months to wear that pair of bright yellow Versace jeans you rocked the first day of junior high school, wondering if it’s too soon to reinsert them into your rotation of fly gear. Heads up: The rule is that if the clothes were made anywhere between…
You can’t find Chinese worth a damn, and forget landing on an Indian restaurant everyone can agree on. The good Caribbean and soul food is mostly on the north end of the county. Lucky for dwellers south of Dadeland, today is a brilliant day for binging, thanks to the Deering…
You were at the gates of Miami Metrozoo with cigars and champagne when the Oriental small-clawed otters were born, and you’ve seen the black-naped fruit dove so many times he knows your name. It’s no secret you’re a loyal supporter of our very own county-run-and-owned zoo. But the 740-acre animal…
Want a good way to sort out your real longtime local-and-proud-of-it Miamians from your newly replanted, stick-to-their-enclave residents? Ask them if they’re ever had (or heard of) Frankie’s Pizza. The 50-plus-year-old pizza joint has lasted through hellish hurricanes and rapid development, weathering torrential storms of competition from national half-hour-delivery chain…
Today marks the end of Funkshion Fashion Week, and if you’re like us, the sight of one more jutting collarbone is going to make you shove a turkey down someone’s throat. So tonight we’ll be front row in the tent at 10th Street and Ocean Drive for the Jockstarzz Fashion…
Every year Hoop It Up tours the nation, providing everyday joes with a shot at proving their worth in pick-up basketball. The premier three-on-three basketball tournament in the country breaks it down into 20 divisions that range from boys and girls ages 13 to 18, to men and women ages…
Women’s History Month is just about over, but hang on a minute! The last gasp of the month is bringing us two of the biggest fem-centric events in the city. So uh … what took you so long, ladies? Instead of complaining, we’re just gonna let it all hang out…
Just in case you weren’t aware, It’s National Poetry Month, you square. Kick it with spoken-word at the Bohemia Room, You won’t see rappin’ Karl Rove — Just real-word weavers wielding their loom, Tonight at 3390 Mary St., in Coconut Grove. The event is hosted by Ingrid B., And until…
When Ikea — the Wal-Mart of furniture stores — landed in South Florida, the hurricane of cheap couches in vibrant colors gave you a bad case of vertigo, and the oodles of white-lacquered furnishings for the buildin’ had you in hex key hell. Don’t fret — the cure has arrived…
There will be a melding of artistic minds tonight, with strange creative bedfellows uniting as one of America’s most innovative choreographers and a British pop music genius mix it up with our own Miami City Ballet. Twyla Tharp (who has danced with Martha Graham and collaborated with director Milos Forman…
If there’s any truth to the old adage “You are what you eat,” we gotta admit we’re a little scared of the culinary outlook at the Miami-Dade County Fair & Exposition. Sure, there’s the usual stuff — elephant ears, funnel cake, corn dogs, and turkey legs. You know — fair…
The Cleveland Orchestra loves Miami. Why? Probably because it’s from Cleveland. If you had a chance to defect from the land of freezing snow, furry hats with ear flaps, rising rivers, and Drew Carey fans for Miami’s subtropical climate, wouldn’t you? It’s hardly any wonder the acclaimed Cleveland Orchestra signed…
The lights dim in the theater and you tighten your grip on part one of your two-drink minimum. You try to let the vodka numb your brain cells, but the side effects of your hellish workweek won’t allow it. Maybe you’re munching on a plate of conch fritters, or maybe…
At ArteAmericas 2008, the cultural compass turns south, whisking us to the contemporary landscape of art production in Latin America. It features dazzling examples of painting, sculpture, and multimedia works straddling names from Rufino Tamayo to José Bedia. For its sixth edition, the fair brings together 80 top-flight galleries from…
Though the Florida Marlins finished dead last in the division in 2007, they ended the season with a highly satisfying victory over the New York Mets. The Mets, having dropped 12 of their last 17 games, needed to win the final day to prevent the surging Philadelphia Phillies from clinching…
