The Upper Eastside Garden has established itself as a go-to spot for benign, family-friendly fun. Artistic mini golf, complimentary piña coladas with paid entry, and a variety of exotic plants available for purchase are just a few of the draws. Every Thursday the verdant retreat also offers Janus Film Night,…
Take a look at the sky, or at your social calendar, and a weighty, inescapable fact presses down on you. We’re in the middle of summer, and the heat has dried up many of the usual fun things to do. Summer in the city reduces our population to die-hard locals,…
Good TV shows air Sunday nights because people tend to stay home then. Music clubs consider Sunday a dead night. Smart club bosses – you can count trumpet master Arturo Sandoval among them – simply turn their venues over to open mikes or jam sessions. This can work out well…
Usually, to call someone a snob is to suggest he or she is a name-dropper or a snooty Suzie. But there are times when being called a snob isn’t so bad. If you’re a vodka snob, it means you’re picky about the degree of burn that comes after a straight…
Are you looking for a different kind of date? One that will drive your companion wild with animal passion? Tonight Miami Metrozoo might have just what you need to kick-start a successfully romantic evening. Instead of shutting down at the usual 5:30 p.m., the zoo will stay open until 8:00…
For the price of one unscratched Lucky 7’s lottery ticket (a buck), you can enter Purple Sabbath. Hand the ticket to the doorman, step into the Firefly, check out the artwork, and enjoy the live music. Beginning at 7:00 tonight, the collection of lottery tickets will be transferred to the…
Pamplona’s world-famous bull-running festival kicks off this week, and in celebration a Miami comedy troupe has organized its own stampede this weekend. Twelve purebred Spanish bulls will be released on Lincoln Road tonight at 9:00; they will run a course from Alton to Washington, kicking over dinner tables, goring unsuspecting…
Back in the day, when the lights went down and the bass went up, party people busted moves like the typewriter and the running man. Nowadays dance moves have made way for moves that are usually reserved for in between the sheets. We know who came up with the “chicken…
Remember the time you were listening to R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly,” and by the time Kellz sang, “I believe I can touch the sky,” you were trying to leap head-first out of your first-story window? You might blame it on that hand-rolled cigarette, but we blame it…
Let’s be honest: All the effort you put into being healthy isn’t only to feel good; you want to look great too. But it’s kind of difficult to do that while wearing an oversize white cotton tee with yellow pit stains. Ditch the rags and head to Lululemon Athletica this…
Fast Company has named Miami one of its “30 Fastest Cities in the World” this year. Calling it a “culture center,” the lowly intern given the task of researching Miami on the Internet came up with examples like ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, architecture firm Arquitectonica, and Cesar Pelli’s…
The ebb in Miami’s modeling industry looks set to start flowing again. Fashion TV, the Paris-based 24-hour television channel dedicated to all things fashion, is set to open a new studio in the heart of South Beach. On July 15, Fashion TVs US director fashion photographer Duncan Ross and Womb…
When we think of Diana Abu Jaber, we think of delicious, warm, sweet things. Diana puts on her serious author face Her first novels – Arabian Jazz, Crescent, and The Language of Baklava – touched upon issues of Middle Eastern identity and family, intermingling traditional recipes with homespun wisdom and…
Growing up in the ‘90s, I had my fair amount of exposure to drugs. Sure, unlike my parents, I didn’t witness the drug-heavy hippie-era, but at 13 years-old, I did sing along with Dr. Dre as he promised to “smoke weed everyday.” Although the opportunities were there, I never did…
Watch that hand! On June 22, 1986, before the days of instant replay, in a quarter-final World Cup match-up between England and Argentina in Mexico City, Diego Maradona had the game of his life. He scored two goals, securing Argentina’s 2-1 victory, and while the second came to be called…
We’re Americans. We go into other countries when we need to. It’s tricky, but it works.” So declares Michael Moore in the midst of his new documentary, Sicko. Moore may be riffing on the war in Iraq, to name only our most recent intervention, but he’s actually referring to U.S…
“Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.” So goes the personal mantra of the late celebrity chef Auguste Gusteau, whose disembodied spirit materializes — Jiminy Cricket-style — to guide the rodent hero of Brad Bird’s Ratatouille toward his goal of gastronomic excellence. He also seems to be…
Originally set to be released during the Oscar-bait months as an odd sort of counterprogramming, DOA is likely to work far better in the season of sunshine and school breaks. Corey Yuen (The Transporter) delivers one of the year’s purest entertainments, the best butt-kicking PG-13 bikini jigglefest since the first…
After more than 48 months in an incubator, Brian Dursum’s baby has finally hatched. Christened “Clay and Brush: The Ceramic Art of China,” the Lowe Art Museum’s new exhibit is a penetrating historical survey of the development of Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period to the 21st Century, drawn entirely…
Smut is either the least sexy show about sex in the history of theater, or theater’s most subversive pro-abstinence statement. These things are always fifty-fifty, and Joseph Adler is usually at his best when he’s courting ambiguity. Intentionally, I mean. Neither Adler nor anybody else is at his or her…
Maybe the reason summer movies tend to be so bland, bloated, and generic is that we’re a captive audience. Where else are we going to go on a blazing 100-degree day? And the truth is, maybe our standards are lowered ever so slightly by that cool rush of conditioned air…
Black Snake Moan (Paramount) The best place to see Craig Brewer’s mash-up of blood-boiling exploitation elements would be a Mississippi drive-in circa 1972. His tale of a black bluesman (Samuel L. Jackson) who chains up a seething, scantily clad cracker nympho (Christina Ricci) would’ve had the lot under martial law…
