Go out and have a frosty beer to celebrate. The sun is shinning, the weather is nice and cool and to top it all off it’s a holiday. December 5th is Repeal Day and Miami is the perfect place to celebrate. The city stood proud (knee deep in booze) against…
If you go to just one art-related even this week, make it the AIPAD Photography Show. It’s that stunning. Really. I’ve been to different Art Basel events over the past few years, and while I’ve been amused, intrigued and bored by much of the art, I’ve never been as blown…
Purple plaid, green drinks Last night, in the heart of Wynwood, just steps away from the Rubell Collection warehouse, I found myself standing in trailer trash. The ripe pungent odor of the preserved, petrified dumpster food that formed part of Luis Adelantado art studio’s Vice exhibit was absolutely breathtaking. So…
This year’s Art Basel gathering will feature a new, food-as-art event called Art Appètit. Twenty of Miami’s top toques are taking part, each presenting their personal artistic vision via edible creations (some of which stand six feet tall). Opening night is tomorrow from 6:30 to 9 p.m.at the Ritz-Carlton South…
If South Beach sex shops, Pleasure Emporium and Déjà vu Love Boutique were porn legend Ron Jeremy, then the brand new sensually glamorous boutique Sex &… is Jeremy shaved, toned, tanned, but still very well endowed. Meaning that Sex &… won’t just help you to get the job done, you’ll…
Asked what would motivate a Miami-Dade County schoolteacher to open an art gallery in Wynwood, Orestes Diaz responds, “$22,000.” That’s how much his artist father unexpectedly snagged during Art Basel two years ago for the first painting he ever sold. “My dad had a painting up at Edge Zones, and…
At Barry University on a recent evening, Antonio Amadeo was showing signs of strain. “All my writers are leaving,” he said as he watched another top-tier SoFla playwright disappear into the night. He looked like a kid whose best friends had bailed at a slumber party. “My prediction is, in…
Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more interested in what was going on outside the classroom window. But there’s one moment from Redford’s academic past that burns brightly in his memory. The year…
Fresh from creating domestic cyber-anarchy in this summer’s Live Free or Die Hard, Timothy Olyphant goes global as top-flight international assassin Agent 47 in producer Luc Besson and director Xavier Gens’s bargain-basement adaptation of the titular videogame. Cut loose by his Orwellian parent organization (known only as “the organization”) following…
Bratz (Lionsgate) Drunken Angel: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Elvis: Blue Suede Collection (Warner Bros.) ESPNU Honor Roll: The Best of College Football (ESPN) Happy Days: The Third Season (Paramount) Hot Fuzz: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition (Universal) The Land Before Time: The Wisdom of Friends (Universal) Laverne & Shirley: The Third Season…
Hot Rod (Paramount) Andy Samberg, best known for stuffing his dick in a box on Saturday Night Live, is Rod Kimble, a wannabe stuntman with very little “man” in him. He lives with his mom (Sissy Spacek, not kidding) and a stepdad (Ian McShane) who needs a new heart at…
There’s no surer sign that a franchise is in trouble than when it blasts into outer space. So you were right to be nervous when Nintendo announced its plans to follow up the subpar game Super Mario Sunshine with something called Super Mario Galaxy, which promised to launch the mustachioed…
The thunderous sound resonates like a swarm of killer bees buzzing around your head. The motorbikes assembled — participants in the Motorcycle Road Racing Championship Cup Series — are four-cylinder speed machines, capable of reaching 200 miles per hour. Intensity grows with each burst of acceleration, as the riders compete…
In a city as diverse as Miami, Café Soul, an intimate lounge in Liberty City, has plenty to offer. Jazz in the City at Café Soul is a secret salon of culture for now, but let’s hope not for long. The weekly event presents live R&B, jazz, and eclectic entertainment…
When George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique made its Paris debut in 1926, his brazen composition literally blew toupees and hats off the public and stirred fistfights in the audience. The performance earned him notoriety as the “Bad Boy of Music.” The composer’s magnum opus featured 16 player pianos, electric bells, a…
At this very moment, in a dorm room far, far away, the MGM lion is roaring for the third time just as some guy named Alec presses play on his Panasonic CD boom box, ushering in the confusing opening silence of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon over the…
Every year the kiddies make their painstakingly scrawled-in-crayon lists – but this year Santa simply can’t deliver everything. Haven’t you been watching the news? It seems like every week there’s a different toy recall of some brand-new item made in China. Instead of gently explaining to your creative little angel…
Today — just in time for the hustle and bustle of Art Basel, in the middle of the Design District – art lovers and culture appreciators will celebrate the opening of the Haitian Heritage Museum. The expansive 60,000-square-foot structure is brand-spankin’-new, but the idea for this spectacular centerpiece in the…
Local art connoisseurs already know about the World Erotic Art Museum, cherubically grandmotherly Naomi Wilzig’s wild display of tastefully depicted phalluses and pudendas. The museum, located smack-dab in the middle of bustling Miami Beach, has a truly spectacular display of genitals throughout history. Hand-carved Chinese penises and voluptuous African nude…
Among the knock-off shoe stores on downtown Miami’s First Street sits a grandiose stone archway that looks like the entrance to a late-19th-century train station. Its interior is cozy and intimate, with bookshelves, couches, and a seemingly mile-high ceiling. The space belongs to adjacent café Soya e Pomodoro, and tonight…
It was fun for about 15 years, wondering when the Boston Celtics were going to come out of their tailspin. They tried everything, from grossly overpaying Rick Pitino to grossly overfeeding Vin Baker, and yet they couldn’t put together a team with more than a few players – okay, only…
So you say you wanna be a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment business? You want the outrageous houses and cars you see on MTV’s Cribs, you want to rock diamonds bigger than your earlobe, and most of all you want your innermost thoughts laid on wax, film…
