This weekend Coconut Grove will awaken with the sights, smells, and sounds of the Bahamas for the annual Goombay Festival. For your eyes and ears, there’ll be writhing Junkanoos and musicians adorned in kaleidoscopic costumes. For your belly, hundreds of vendors will be lining the streets, selling Bahamian and spicy…
Over the years, your relationship with nature’s candy, also known as fruit, has been one of trickery and fraud. You’ve discovered that beans are not the only musical fruit, and after sinking your teeth into that wax apple last year, you just don’t know what to believe anymore. Lucky for…
In a bit of top-shelf irony, the Diabetes Research Institute invites you to booze it up, but heck, it’s for a great cause. The sixteenth annual Feast Among the Grapes, held in cooperation with Wine Spectator magazine, claims to be the “hippest happy hour in town,” and there’s no doubt…
Remember the scene in Top Gun when Maverick and Iceman finally give in to their carnal desire for each other? How about Rocky’s dramatic heavyweight title match against Chewbacca? Or the one in which Marty McFly travels into the future to fight Bill and Ted in the Thunderdome? Of course…
As spontaneous as you like to tell people you are, some things in your life are predictable and damn near dull. Like your morning coffee, for example: one sugar, no cream, and all types of boring. And your Saturday-afternoon ritual at the mall, bouncing from store to unimpressive store. But…
All things considered, Paul McCartney should be thoroughly enjoying his 2007 birthday celebration. The year started out rough for the preternaturally baby-faced songwriting legend, with a messy divorce from uni-legged model-turned-Dancing with the Stars loser Heather Mills. But Macca is out of the tabloids for now, having recently come to…
Next time you’re on an airplane, drown out the torturous cries of the wailing babies and the sniffling cabin mates and try to forget that the air you’re sucking on is as used as the blanket you’ve just swaddled yourself in. As the plane lifts off, imagine you’re the pilot,…
When foreigners think of music from Trinidad, the syncopated rhythms of soca music and the beachy lilt of traditional calypso most immediately come to mind. But surprise, surprise – Trinidad also has a pretty happening rock scene, ranging from Dave Matthews-esque jam band-ness to crunchy alternative garage angst anthems. Up-and-coming…
Our local basketball season came to a pretty pathetic end, and the Marlins continue to flail about, in their standard mediocre fashion, to a typically empty stadium. What’s a local sports fan to do? Come out today and throw all of your support behind Miami FC, that’s what. We’re currently…
There’s art aplenty in the Gables tonight @cal body 1 no indent:Call the City Beautiful’s first Friday of the month gallery night an “arts crawl,” and organizers will likely respond as if suffering from an attack of cramped bowels. It’s the Great Gables Gallery Stroll for the much more Rotarian…
We’ve got to be honest. Although our city plays host to a fair number of film festivals throughout the year, not all of them are worth attending. We’re not going to name names, but any old collection of ancient flicks from a distant land do not make for a memorable…
Although he went uncredited and uttered nary a line in the 1998 stoner cult comedy Half Baked, many younger folks instantly recognize comedian Steven Wright as the guy on the couch. Wright is what’s known as a comedian’s comedian, and in casting his film, Dave Chappelle was wise to call…
The reading public loves to gobble up the exploits of romantically challenged but neurotically lovable women writers. During the past decade, Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones became household names thanks to their intriguing (albeit fictional) pen strokes. On a similar track is Nynne. This Danish title character came to life…
Cheers closed back in 1993, but some of us still yearn to go to a place where everybody knows our name. May we suggest Tropical Nights at the Hyatt’s Alcazaba Lounge? Instead of Norm reaching for a bowl of stale pretzels, waiters will offer you buttery arroz con frijoles. Diane-like…
It’s a popular misconception that South Miami’s SW 59th Avenue is actually called Deli Lane. The cute cobblestone street (within walking distance from the Shops at Sunset Place) has become the epicenter of the neighborhood’s hip and happening bar and restaurant scene. But Deli Lane isn’t a street; it’s a…
Ten years gone It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since beautiful troubadour Jeff Buckley went for a final midnight swim in the mighty Mississippi. Ten years since Grace, ten years since that last, haunting “Hallelujah.” But like so many other stars with silver screen looks who have…
It’s no surprise when a local restaurant closes the kitchen and makes way for overpriced cocktails and amateur booty-shaking. And for this holiday weekend in particular, New Times has received countless e-mails hawking this and that Memorial Day blowout and “No work on Monday” party. And while most had us…
The most volatile, least easily psychoanalyzed of Seventies auteurs in Peter Biskind’s classic New Hollywood tell-all Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, William Friedkin may have mellowed since unleashing The Exorcist, sliding into box-office hell, and marrying a major studio boss. Indeed the recovering bad-boy movie brat — now 71 years old,…
You could make a case that any movie in which Mexicans and rednecks become best of friends is a net positive for society. But to do that you’d have to ignore the severe boredom that sets in about halfway through this comedy — a Three Amigos with fewer laughs —…
Allete Simmons-Jimenez sounds a bit like Aretha Franklin when discussing her reasons for opening Artformz Alternative, her artist-run space in the Design District, four years ago. “My idea for starting this whole thing was to get a little respect,” the 55-year-old dynamo explains. Not that the artist felt she wasn’t…
“Sol LeWitt x 2”: Sol LeWitt earned himself a place in history books as one of the Johnny Appleseeds of the minimal and conceptual art movements during the Sixties. He’s also among the most prolific artists of the mid-Twentieth Century. “Sol LeWitt x 2,” a two-part exhibition at the Miami…
Porky’s: The Ultimate Collection (Fox) When writer-director Bob Clark was killed by a drunk driver in April, the obits trumpeted his holiday classic A Christmas Story . . . but were somewhat reluctant to mention that, oh, yeah, he also wrote and directed Porky’s. But there’s no question which is…
