You weren’t the only one who shed a tear when the Clevelander Hotel announced it would be closing for renovations. We also get a little emotional at the thought of losing one of our best friends, even temporarily. Where would we go to laugh at drunken, beet-faced tourists? Who would…
Mmmm, we’re hungry. The only problem is, we have no idea what we’re jonesing for. New American cuisine sounds good; so does Asian fusion. And we’d die for some locally produced seafood, cooked gourmet style. If all of that and more sounds delicious to you, join us at Share Our…
By their meager standards, the Colorado Rockies are having a decent year in the toughest division in baseball, but to this point in the season, they’re best known for their aversion to groundskeeping. In Denver during the last game before the All-Star break, with the Rockies down 5-4 to the…
They once stood as an alternative to the Hollywood bad-moviemaking industrial complex. Now it seems every city, town, village, and intersection has a film festival. Our alternative to the alternative, the 48 Hour Film Project, includes Greater Miami, and the immediate (everything about this event is immediate) results are ready…
Despite what your grammy says, sin is in. Those who agree will be at Gallery 138 (2633 NW 20th St., Miami) tonight at 8:00 for the art exhibit “The Devil Made Me Do It.” José Carrera and John Vale of OchoPlacas Tattoo, along with more than 20 other artists, will…
Unless you are Michael Jordan or Jason Taylor, you probably know what it feels like to be picked last for a sports team. Whether that moment was in grade school or at last summer’s family reunion, it is unforgettable. The embarrassment of being the last man standing, followed by the…
The Magic City has a long and storied history of boxing, but some of the old-school luster has faded with time. Enthusiasts are starving for a resurgence of the glory days, when men like Bobby Dykes were the biggest draw in town, and Ferdie “The Fight Doctor” Pacheco stood ringside…
How does one explain a Sandra Bernhard show? Is it a musical revue? Is it stand-up comedy? Is it a one-woman rant about the demise of society? Yes to all of the above. Experiencing a Sandra Bernhard show is like crawling into her brain and rolling around in the chaos…
Miami native Edward Berounsky is an architect and a sculptor. The artist’s latest exhibit, “Heavy Metal,” is no reflection on his musical taste. “I listen to Willie Nelson,” he says during a phone interview from his office in South Miami. “The exhibit is called ‘Heavy Metal’ because my metal sculptures…
My Tuesday morning started in Nigeria. Listening to how gas flares contribute to global warming, I made silent excuses as to why I wasn’t recycling the cereal box I just emptied. To purge this environmental sin, I walked ten blocks to a global warming press conference at 15th Street and…
Only Barton G could dream up the Felliniesque gay-themed circus that was the VIP launch of the Design District’s Moore Building and Garden Lounge as event venue. Last night, we were treated to pulsating House music, shirtless buff bald boy toys and a naked Amanda Lepore, the transexxual oddity whose…
This summer, while you’re lounging by the pool, mix up a shaker of martinis and read a good book. We suggest The Silent Don, a book by Tampa author Scott Deitche. It’s about Florida mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., his family and their underworld legacy. We caught up with Scott –…
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Shout!) Avenue Montaigne (THINKfilm) Baxter (Lionsgate) The Best of the Colgate Comedy Hour (Passport) Beer Drinkers in Space (Tempe) Birdman & the Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series (Turner) Esther Williams: Volume 1 (Warner Bros.) Gunsmoke: The First Season (Paramount) The Happy Hooker Trilogy (MGM) The…
There is a foul, slipshod odor emanating from the Cintas Foundation exhibit at the Frost Art Museum. The show features the work of Alexandre Arrechea, María Martínez-Cañas, Gean Moreno, Wilfredo Prieto, and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, the five finalists for the $15,000 Cintas visual arts fellowship for 2007. The foundation was established…
Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted: This probing autopsy of Rufino Tamayo’s work and life marks his first major U.S. exhibition in nearly 30 years and features close to 100 paintings culled from private and institutional collections from across the globe. The show offers an incisive look at what made the…
Red Dawn: Collector’s Edition (MGM) John Milius’s 1984 war pic was a mighty bonkers release even back then; not since the Fifties had something come down the pike so rife with Commie paranoia. Russian and Cuban forces invade the United States with tanks and choppers and the whole shebang, only…
Julius Caesar: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend us your butts: William Shakespeare’s play about the fall of Rome’s most storied dictator comes to the New Theatre as the latest installment in its Shakespeare & Friends Festival. The Bard wrote The Tragedy of Julius Cæsar, more commonly known as Julius Caesar, in…
I wanted to hate I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, truly I did. Two straight guys pretending to be gay (insert fiscal excuse here); been there, done that (insert all known variants on The Odd Couple here). Rampant homophobia hiding behind liberal pleas for tolerance — blech. And it’s…
Napoleon Dynamite looks like Cary Grant next to the hero of this Kiwi quirk-a-thon: a hulking, sullen creep named Jarrod (Jemaine Clement, costar of HBO’s new Flight of the Conchords) whose goony, sulking, petulant, selfishness, and dweeby videogame obsession somehow works like Spanish fly on mousy burger-flipper Lily (Loren Horsley)…
The last hour of The Darkness is exactly what the game should have been from its opening moments: a magnificent, bloodthirsty mix of firepower and hellish wrath. Playing the role of Jackie Estacado — a hit man who inherited demonic powers via a family curse — you will spend the…
A concert for babies, one man’s riveting take on being Latino and gay, a silent comedy about two women squabbling over an airport bench, and an intimate portrait of three women stuck in a cheap motel room: This year’s International Hispanic Theater Festival delivers something for everyone. Running through July…
Comedian Chris Porter was just beginning to headline clubs when he tried out for the 2006 season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Though he came in second, Porter notes that the show “sent my career to another level in a matter of months.” After touring relentlessly, he took a month…
