That new posh restaurant Christabelle’s Quarter, doesn’t fit into its neighborhood at all. The three-story Cajun-style building looms over its low-lying surroundings, and the nonstop parade of fancy Ferraris and polished Porsches zooming up to valet park is bringing a new sort of clientele to the normally casual Grove scene…
For 20 years Craig Biggio has manned second base for the Houston Astros — the longest such stint in the majors. So the club was seen as justified in letting Biggio fight through injuries (and their concomitant impediments to his skills) to try to reach a Cooperstown-ready 3000 career hits…
It’s been tackled in films, on television, in memoirs, diaries, novels, and nonfiction. And despite all of those words and perspectives, there’s still plenty to be said about the war in Vietnam and its riveting effect on American society. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel adds to the discourse by…
For the past couple of months you’ve probably noticed zombies roaming around Lincoln Road, hungry for some department store lovin’ and yearning for the one-stop shopping that makes the humongous stores so darn irresistible. As of today, all of those Shaun of the Dead-style zombie-shoppers will get their fix because…
Lately you’ve been thinking there are too many things in this world that are out of your spiritual realm. And honestly, your thrice-daily bowl of Lucky Charms and odd fascination with your next-door neighbor Jesus are kind of making us agree with you. Although we refuse to be your Captain…
Fancy restaurants are closing left and right in this city, and the foodies are fretful. Okay, so maybe this is a tough town with few locations for a top-rated chef to hang his poofy white hat. But Miami’s gourmands are indubitably hungry, and few months reveal that more than August…
Maybe you spent the Eighties playing with your Transformers or Teddy Ruxpin. Perhaps you spent them moping around the corridors of your high school channeling your inner Morrissey. Or just possibly you spent countless hours trying to perfect the break-dancing moves of Turbo and Ozone. No matter. Twenty years later,…
“First of all, we need a limo. A Lincoln Town Car will not suffice. Second, we need a dress that’s sexy but not slutty, and obviously expensive. We’re talkin’ sequins and silk here. And third, we gotta have the hottest Miami musical performer out there. Get us DJ Khaled. What…
It was a Monday night on South Beach, and John Q. was sitting in the back of O Asian Grill. The brim of his baseball cap was positioned just low enough so no one could see his eyes, yet high enough that he could keep watch over the entire room…
One disadvantage to living in New York is its overwhelming excess of “new American plays.” How do you know which ones are worth seeing and which ones are merely “new”? But in order for a small theater company in Miami to produce a contemporary play, it must be certain the…
Just about anything goes tonight as Studio A is transformed into a Cybersexual Electro Fetish Playground. And these tricks ain’t for kids. Tonight you can bend over the spanking booth, writhe as hot wax is poured on your skin, get your nipples pierced, or watch yourself on the live-video projection…
It’s Friday night and you’re feeling like a total schizoid. You want to hear some music, but you also feel like laughing. And you definitely want a drink, but you’re not in the mood to club-hop. You could just stay home and channel-surf while you pound back those three-year-old beers…
The thick molasses of memory and the pulsing beat of conga drums are the essence of Cuban artist Humberto Benitez’s energetic, flamboyantly hued work. The painter creates canvases rich with imagery of his homeland’s music, landscape, people, and customs in exuberant, jazzy compositions that reflect his soulful yearning for a…
You might think you’re too old for books with illustrations, but we promise that after you crack open a copy of Sam Grant’s The Opposite Sex: A Graphic Novel, you will change your mind. You’ll fall in love with the main character, an individual we will just call interesting, and…
What is there not to love about brunch? It combines the best of breakfast and the most luscious of lunch and smooshes the disparate menus together in one magnificent celebration of eggs, steak, fruit, and fish, all washed down with a mimosa. You’d think this city would be overrun with…
In case you didn’t already know, all the cool kids are totally into yoga. Seriously, paparazzi have snapped just about every A-list celebrity toting a yoga mat. But yoga isn’t just the athletic equivalent of a teacup-size dog to the rich and famous. It’s popular because it actually works. By…
It’s no secret that on South Beach, glitz rules. Even a naive tourist whose knowledge of the Magic City stems from a few episodes of Miami Ink can tell you that. But it takes a true 305 native to know where to find underground art and music. Usually it’s on…
You’ve heard tons about the Mandarin Oriental Miami: The spa is fabulous, the grounds are meticulously kept, and the employees are sickeningly polite. But the last time you checked, your salary won’t allow you a stay in one of the luxury suites or even an appetizer at Azul. Rejoice, frugal…
2006 Miami team Flicker-Show Films works on their film “Crazy Love” If you were on South Beach last weekend you might have seen a frenzied film crew sprinting between locations with two days worth of stubble and a crazed, caffeine-flooded stare in their eyes. What you witnessed, disguised in wrinkled…
Welcome to the new Miami! “Connected sky top gardens,” said one response. “Breathable fabric required,” the next. Good evening, my name is Julia Tuttle, typed the woman at the old-fashioned desk. She was wearing a billowy floral print dress and 19-th century bonnet and wouldn’t speak. She would only type,…
Sandra Bernhard Photo by Lydia Marcus An Evening With Sandra Bernhard The Colony Theater July 27, 2007 Better Than: A drag show Sandra Bernhard can channel Mick Jagger better than any chick rocker. Last night, in her show at the Colony Theater, the 5-foot, 10-inch comedian showed off her legs…
Go Arena! They came, they posed, and one of them may have conquered. 23 year old Miami girl Arena Turner was chosen from the curvy pack at last year’s audition for Mo’Nique’s F.A.T. Chance, which took place on March 5, 2006 at the Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay. If you’d like…
