Let’s face it — there aren’t many reasons to see the Miami Heat right now. The games are meaningless, and without Wade, the prospects of playing spoiler to playoff bubble teams are slim to laughable. Tonight the New Orleans Hornets come to town, and we should all pay attention (as…
Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has proven to be the rarest kind of cultural phenomenon – a literary work beloved by adults and children alike, one that has transcended adaptations from novel to stage to film and sustained popularity for more than a century. If you ask…
Few awards carry the same prestige as the championship of Dancing with the Stars and the Billboard trophy for best pop/rock group. Once someone has either of those on the shelf, they know they’ve reached the zenith of human achievement. For some, the pain of knowing they’ll never be able…
Joe Ferrero says goodbye to his locks on the radio. Yesterday the entire cast of El Show de Enrique y Joe on La Kalle 98.3 FM shaved their heads on-air to promote world peace. “With the violence reigning in Colombia and Venezuela, the war in Iraq and the fact that…
No sooner had twenty-somethings Andrew Moore and Chad Draizen walked up to the bar at Kingdom (Biscayne & Northwest 67th) when they were approached by two attractive young women, who engaged them immediately and enthusiastically in conversation. Moore and Draizen were amazed – had they become, suddenly and without knowing…
Animals: Although you won’t find a Napoleon, Bluebell, or Snowball in Juan Erlich’s mutant menagerie, his eye-popping c-prints on Plexiglas evoke a sense of Orwell’s Animal Farm. His bizarre beasties appear in lush natural settings devoid of any signs of human life, hinting at a dystopian future, or the aftermath…
Rare is the star vehicle that is as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor, which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless Army deserter and con man, able to fool people into believing he’s both a substitute teacher and a master of hand-to-hand combat. It’s a part that requires…
Remember that scene in The Warriors where the Turnbull ACs chase the heroes in a pimped-out bus? Whoa! And remember that part in Escape from New York where Snake Plissken pulls the switcheroo on the commander-in-chief? Cool! How about that showdown in The Road Warrior with all the modified hot…
Sometimes it’s the terrible ideas — say, a TV show about nothing, or stirring corn into your mashed potatoes — that turn out to be genius. Super Smash Bros. landed on the Nintendo 64 nearly 10 years ago, kicking off a concept that initially sounded nauseating: “lovable Nintendo characters in…
While growing up in Cuba, Fabian Peña became fascinated by the patterns left by bug splatter on the floors and walls of his home. “My grandfather would swat insects with a rolled-up copy of Granma, and their squashed remains made an impression on me,” he recalls. “Later on in my…
You sign up for the military because you’re a patriot, because it seems like a great way to pay for tertiary education, because you know in your heart it’s the right thing to do for yourself, your family, and your country. Then you get sent off to war. You grow…
Winter Music Conference blows into town tomorrow. It’s going to tantalize you with a flurry of sights and sounds (and drugs) and then leave you shaking in the gutter fiending for more. We’re totally looking forward to that feeling, but you might be into something with a bit more longevity…
It’s in your soda. It’s in your snacks. It’s in your spaghetti sauce, syrup, and salad dressing. If you eat a hot dog or hamburger, it’s in the bun, the meat, and the ketchup you slather on it. It’s corn. And we’re wondering: WTF is the deal with this basic…
You’re a two-time foosball champ and can beat any fourth-grader in a game of arcade hoops, but your athletic prowess pretty much ends there. People like you are the reason some guy invented no-sweat versions of the classic sports, and we love you for it. Besides, no one can say…
It’s hard being a hippie. You claim to be about peace and love, but others see you as a self-righteous drug addict. Your groovy threads are a fashion faux pas, and the long hair isn’t so much rebellious as it is a sign of your chronic (pun intended) unemployment. And…
Technically Easter is the most important religious feast of the Christian calendar, but we all know it’s so much more than a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nothing against our main man J.C.; we’re just reminiscing about Easters of yore. Mom and Dad might have forced us to…
Best known in America as “The Man Who Made the Film that Was Remade into Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,” the neo-realist Vittorio De Sica ranks as one of Europe’s finest directors and a sort of anti-Fellini in the Italian oeuvre. The one exception to his roll call of great tragedies is…
In the past year, you’ve journeyed to the exact same urban oasis on Biscayne Boulevard, but for a variety of reasons. On Thursdays the movies lured you, on Tuesdays free piña coladas and 18 artsy holes of minigolf called your name, and on Saturday mornings it was the promise of…
They hover above the aqua waters, charmingly interrupting the horizon on the mud flats near Key Biscayne. Locals often gaze at Stiltsville in wonder from the shore or from boats as they cruise by. The history of the offshore community is as rich as the now-crumbling houses are beautiful. History…
For 10 bucks, you can learn a little something today about the Everglades: Why we need it, how we are destroying it, and what you can do to save it. Oh, yeah, and you can also hear live music that runs the gamut from jazz, tribal rhythms, and traditional Peruvian…
From the low-budget runway shows you put on for Mom and Dad as a kid, to the way you stare longingly into boutique windows — it’s safe to say you’ve always had a bit of a thread-lust. Now that you’re an adult, your tastes have matured with you. While you…
Given the ridiculous prices people pay for overrated clubs that assault patrons with crappy music, Purdy Lounge could probably make a mint off Bemba. But that’s not what this new event is about. It’s about the people and the music that shaped the Miami sound. You know it when you…
