Miami-Dade is one of the most sport-friendly counties in the nation, with more than 20 golf courses; innumerable baseball, softball, and soccer fields; as well as a plethora of professional sports facilities. With that in mind, the Miami-Dade Sports Commission works to secure sporting events that stimulate an economic payoff…
With the economy on the skids, it’s hard to imagine getting cranked about investing in culture. Even worse, those $300 government cheese rebates we’ve been rubbing our palms to snag are still months away from our mailboxes. You want us to splurge on art when we can’t fill our gas…
One might imagine the Rhythm Foundation is a collection of fortysomething bongo drummers who meet in their parents’ garages Tuesday nights to cover Graceland-era Paul Simon tracks. Wrong. Actually its the nonprofit responsible for bringing to Miami the musicians who inspired Paul Simon, an organization that continually recognizes the vast…
Since Miami is probably the only major city founded by a woman, its residents should have a strong connection to their feminine side. Unfortunately Julia Tuttle isn’t the person who comes to mind when we think of the prototypical Miami woman. Yes, it takes strength to carry pounds of silicone…
We admit it — our initial attraction to comedian Patrice O’Neal was a little silly and a lot self-absorbed. But ever since we laid eyes on the six-foot-five, 300-pound lug, we’ve grown to realize there are plenty of reasons to look out for Patrice O’Neal, same-named-ness aside. The big man…
The Irish love a good story so much that the art of embellishing a tale is often called “Irish liberty.” The legend of Saint Patrick is steeped in such adornments: A Christian missionary about whom very little factual information is known, Saint Patrick is said to have chased the entire…
In the good ol’ days, not even the sight of tourists in unforgiving thongs or the attack from cancerous sun rays could spoil your mood when you were chillaxing on the amazing sands of Miami Beach. But then one day, your Shangri-La was destroyed when you found a cigarette butt…
On March 2, the Miami Heat finally played its best half of basketball of the season. Then everything went to shit. Miami squandered a 23-point lead to Ron Artest and John Salmon’s Sacramento Kings that night — the worst collapse in a season filled with collapses. So to recap, Miami…
Depending on who you ask, legendary writer Zora Neale Hurston is a Floridian. Some say she was born in small-town Eatonville, though others say she was born in Alabama. We’d like to claim this literary gem as our own. As a pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston brought her distinct…
Susan Marshall is a genius. That’s why the choreographer, who uses everyday movements to tell a story, received a $500,000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. It also might have something to do with why she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Choreographer Award, plus the…
Frustrated by the anticlimactic feeling you get when Wynwood and the Design District lower the curtain on the cultural stimuli of their monthly early-evening art walks? Saddened by the fact that the only time the ever-up-and-coming areas get decent foot traffic is once every four weeks, if that? Tonight you…
You vowed to be more philanthropic in 2008, and although giving a couple of dollars to the homeless guy with the “Why lie? I need a cold beer!” sign is a step in the right direction, we think you could definitely be doing more to contribute to society. Tonight join…
It’s one thing to visit a museum of African-American history and lament the loss of the brothers and sisters who were felled along the passage of time. It’s quite another to actually step foot on a plantation where the soil ran red with the blood of slaves, to stand beneath…
What’s better than a gaggle of gays all in one place? Gays on the move! Tonight the streets of South Beach will be crawling with gay men partaking in the first-and-we-hope-not-last Equality Florida Bar Crawl, benefiting gay rights organization Equality Florida. The crawl bops around the various gay bars on…
Some festivals wobble into town with a whimper, others with a cough; then you have Jazz in the Gardens. This two-day extravaganza of smooth grooves is coming down Dan Marino Boulevard riding the sweet sounds of George Benson’s guitar, the immortal pipes of Chaka Khan, and whichever musical trick Wyclef…
This year’s Tropical Baroque Music Festival has been pleasing Miami’s most erudite ears since March 1, with classical music and opera resounding from churches and galleries throughout the city. This evening marks the fest’s finale, and oh what a joyful noise there will be! To breathe life into the festival’s…
The concept is something like doubles tennis for pianists: Every two years, piano teams from all over the globe meet in Miami for the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition. This year 10 duos (that’s four hands playing two pianos at once, times 10) are vying for $55,000 in prize money…
It’s Sunday, and you’ve got your usual weekend chores. Shopping for groceries, doing laundry, and catching up on sleep await, but who are you fooling? Today’s the Calle Ocho festival, meng! You know where you’re bound to inevitably wind up – strolling down Little Havana’s main thoroughfare with a million…
Neither the food nor the scenery at Hooters is certified organic, so downtown workers eager to eat lunch by the bay usually settle for something fried, pesticided, or pumped full of hormones. But not today! The Bayfront Park Farmers’ Market and Lunchtime Experience opens its flaps on the Flagler Promenade,…
“On the sixth day, God created Man, and on the seventh day, he made some of those men into New York Yankees so he could watch some good baseball as he rested.” This was the Gospel according to ex-Yankees manager Joe Torre, until he failed to fulfill the team’s manifest…
We imagined the El Crédito Cigar Factory’s hall of fame as a gilded, smoke-filled room where large portraits of Winston Churchill and George Burns hang on the walls and dedicated smokers talk in hushed tones about Fidel Castro and Bill Clinton’s defamation of the tubular tobacco. Instead it’s the destination…
If you missed Blue Man Group last weekend at American Airlines Arena, you can catch the show this Saturday in Broward County at the BankAtlantic Center. Click here to see a slide show of the event at the AA Arena. Being a Blue Man newbie, I wasn’t really sure what…
