Spring training is a beautiful time for baseball fans. It’s pure. It signals a new beginning. It lacks the corporate feel the regular season seems to choke us with. Maybe it’s because the bleachers are so close to the action. Maybe it’s because of the peculiarly cool, casual uniforms. Sometimes…
It’s Friday night and, as usual, Brickell will be packed with HYTs (hot young things). Except this time, they’ve traded their usual happy-hour, business-casual look for workout gear, running shoes, and iPods. And they’ll be even hotter than usual from sweating it out in the Carnaval Miami 8K Run tonight…
Tonight it won’t matter how fly your shoes are or how much you spent on them, because the real stars walking the red carpet at Jungle Island just might chew up those pumps if they get the urge. The Humane Society of Greater Miami’s annual Adopt-a-Pet fundraiser, Pawpurrazzi, will bring…
When you saw an über-hot Kevin Bacon infect a small town with dance fever in the film Footloose, it made you want to boogie-oogie-oogie up and down Biscayne Boulevard with your version of the moonwalk. If you tried that today, a jolt from a Taser would likely be in the…
This season continues to be one massive cock-punch for the Miami Heat. No matter the day of the week, chances are that somewhere in America, the Heat players are getting their asses handed to them. Small wonder why Dwyane Wade had such a huge smile during the all-star game a…
Strictly speaking, Spam is a cooked-meat product containing bits of many long-dead animals — pigs, chickens, turkeys, clumsy factory workers — jammed together and canned for the gastronomic pleasure of Hawaiians and normal people alike. Spamalot is not a dissimilar product. Part of former Monty Python member Eric Idle’s never-ending…
Nobody sets out to go to court (unless they can legitimately use that “legal insanity” defense), but injustice, bad decisions, or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong-headed police officer can land you in a whole heap of trouble. You’ll find any number of…
In case you had the impression that Winter Party was just another circuit-based excuse for superhot gay men (and the women who love them) to fraternize and make romance under the blazing Miami sun, we’d like to inform you that you’re badly mistaken. Yes, there will be lots of sexy…
Barring an alligator attack, there isn’t much in the Everglades that will make you lose your breath. Even restoration queen Marjory Stoneman Douglas admitted that miles of wet grass don’t make for visual ecstasy, but the organization she founded — Friends of the Everglades — is trying damn hard to…
The sad specimens on the shelf at your grocery store don’t do justice to the notoriously high-maintenance and sorely misunderstood orchid. With endless colors, and sizes ranging from as small as a dime to as large as a human, these ancient plants hold mysteries that are still being unraveled. Eight…
Traditionally the only time you shop for a cause is ’cause you need a new pair of shoes, ’cause you’re depressed, or ’cause it’s Friday night and you just got paid. But at Macy’s Shop for a Cause Day, you can use your hard-earned bucks for good. MACtown, Inc. has…
We’re two months into 2008, and you’re getting that icky feeling that maybe you’re not going to get everything you want this year. Your new year’s resolutions are crumbling, and you’ve developed a deep spiritual malaise that’s threatening to turn into humorless self-pity. Yikes! “Laughter is the best medicine,” says…
For those in the Big Mango jonesing for a bleeding edge theater, dance, or multimedia performance fix, the Miami Light Project’s Here & Now Festival has been the place for a mainline dose for the past 16 years. This year’s head-jolting lineup includes world premieres by Teresa Barcelo, Joanne Barrett,…
Because we can cruise any day of the week to Calle Ocho and enjoy a veritable Latinfest, or venture into Little Haiti for a celebration of all things Kreyol, we always find ourselves especially psyched for the annual Asian Culture Festival at the Fruit and Spice Park. Think of it…
In 1930, the critically insane Howard Hughes produced the film Hell’s Angels, ambitiously using hundreds of real planes to re-create WWI dogfights. A superb pilot and certified wild man, Hughes went on to make incredible advances in aviation, setting multiple speed records. Fifty-odd years later, Tom Cruise (before he became…
So you’ve planned a romantic night with your honey: dinner, wine, dessert, and then a little wink-wink. You’ve got the amorous fixin’s at hand — melted chocolate and jumbo strawberries ready for dipping — but just the thought of preparing the oysterrific main course has been making you nervous all…
Don Rickles came into this world in 1926. Joan Rivers arrived in 1933. In case you were wondering if two comedians who were born before World War II can fill the room at the Seminole Hard Rock, the answer is yes, yes they can. Most of their peers are dead,…
Thanks to Stitch ’n’ Bitch, knitting has passed through the transformative portal from totally lame to supercool and au courant. And if you’re the kind of chick who enjoys a good purl before you hit the club, we’re willing to wager you’re already looking out for the next hot, crafty…
During one fateful night of insomnia in 1894, Frenchman Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe, a portable, hand-cranked film camera that fit into a suitcase one man could easily carry. Soon he began setting it up in places where people gathered — train stops, busy intersections, and riverbanks — trying to…
For as long as you can remember, the only thing your midsection has been good for is parking beers during marathon couch sessions. Although we don’t deny that holding up the ol’ ale is an important job, your gut might love to do something else with its time. And we…
To the sounds of the mildly irritating whistled anthem “Sweet Georgia Brown,” the Harlem Globetrotters will dribble, spin, and free-throw their way into town today at the American Airlines Arena as part of their 2008 “Magic as Ever” world tour. In true Globetrotter fashion, this isn’t exactly a tournament between…
More than a quarter-century after his death, Cuba’s greatest artist is finally getting his due in Miami. “Wifredo Lam in North America,” on view at the Miami Art Museum (MAM), marks the first large-scale solo exhibition of the Chinese-Afro-Cuban master’s work in South Florida. The beautifully encyclopedic show, organized by…
