Imanuel Tafari has a cure for what ails you. As the proud owner of Garden of Eatin’, a vegan restaurant and juice bar tucked away just off of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, he’s become a healer for the health-conscious community. “We use no animal products whatsoever. Not even honey…
Whether you’re a true believer or so skeptical you won’t even accept that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, a paperback entitled Madonna of the Toast is bound to grab your attention. Fortunately you’ll be fascinated by it either way. The latest from writer, journalist, and ecodesigner…
Smits This fall CBS will premiere Cane, a new series set in South Florida about a rum-producing dynasty. It stars NYPD Blue’s Jimmy Smits as heir to the sugar cane fortune of the fictional Duque family. Advertised as a “steamy seductive drama about bitter rivals and their dangerous battles for…
Long before recording the first of over 70 albums and embarking on a career which spans five decades, Oscar D’ Leon would keep his piercing and rangy voice in tone by welcoming passengers with snippets of Benny More songs as he maneuvered the steering wheel of a taxi cab. On…
Fidel and his good buddy King Juan Carlos of Spain Anyone who has been to Cuba knows that the country of Spain plays a huge role in the island’s tourism sector. Because of relaxed foreign investment rules, Spanish companies have sunk mucho dinero into Cuban hotels — $75 million as…
Your typical student film is a brief, unmemorable affair, which attempts to tell a compelling story with the flailing abilities of an amateur cast. That was totally not what Verena Faden wanted for her thesis project. This 23 year old Miami filmmaker had big dreams when it came time to…
Is a band playing with arena-style theatrics to a crowd of less than 100 prescient or pretentious? Confident or cocksure? Wednesday night’s performance by hard rockers Godhead and American Head Charge, at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale, did little to dispel the notion that the answer to both questions…
Amy and her on-again beau One of our favorite celebrity blogs, Dlisted, is reporting that heartbroken chanteuse Amy Winehouse is planning to get hitched right here in Miami over the weekend. Her fiancé, Blake Fielder-Civil, bears more than a passing resemblance to Pete Doherty. As big Amy Winehouse fans, we’re…
This Saturday, the Wallflower Gallery, located in downtown Miami, will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. Miami can be a hard place for lefties, activists, anarchists, and freaky, crusty artsy types to find a little company; for ten years, the Wallflower Gallery has been a kind of radical refuge…
Impossible though it is to watch Adrienne Shelly’s posthumously released comedy without thinking of the actress-writer-director’s gruesome murder last November (the indie stalwart was killed by a construction worker in her New York office), it’s unclear what kind of notice Waitress would have received had she not died such an…
“Delivered”: In his photos on exhibit in “Delivered,” a group show curated by Orestes Diaz of the nomadic ISM Gallery and on view at the Fire Haus Project in West Miami-Dade County, Nestor Arenas uses road kill, action figures, and toy soldiers to depict a world where violence is the…
Army of Shadows: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Arthur & the Invisibles (Genius) Bill/Bill on His Own (Brentwood) Bunny Whipped (Think) Caddyshack: 20th Anniversary (Warner Bros.) Chasing Liberty (Warner Bros.) Curse of the Zodiac (Lionsgate) The Dead Girl (First Look) Denzel Washington: Spotlight Collection (Universal) ER: The Complete Seventh Season (Warner…
If you’re looking for a laugh, find a kid raised on Grand Theft Auto and introduce him to Pac-Man for the first time. As he stares at you blankly, explain the addictive joy of eating dots and the simplistic genius of the neon-blue maze. When he sneers, “That’s it? It’s…
Pan’s Labyrinth (New Line) Guillermo Del Toro has made a career of mixing slam-bang special effects (Hellboy, Blade II) with creepy atmospheres (Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone). But with Pan’s Labyrinth, he’s used his entire palette for what will likely be remembered as his masterpiece. Mixing Franco’s Spain with fairy tales,…
Coming out of Shrek the Third, I asked the two smart preteen girls I had in tow what they had liked about the picture. Projectile vomiting and multiple farts, they said promptly, best Shrek ever. Ordinarily I’m not big on poop and flatulence, but in this instance I sympathized —…
“Splendid. This is a splendid play.” That is my date speaking. He is beautiful and smart, but I’m beginning to wonder if he’s not also slightly damaged; twisted in some subtle way that only makes itself known at world premiers of touchy-feely plays about malnourished Russian children and the yuppies…
For the record, we totally agree that you could get your ass kicked for trivializing our weekly malaise as a mere “case of the Mondays.” The first day of the work week sucks. John Lee Hooker called them stormy, and Garfield is proud to say he won’t do them. There’s…
File this under “what will the gossips come up with next?” — a recent rumor blazed through the blogosphere that Anderson Cooper, CNN anchorman extraordinare, showers in his boxer briefs at the gym to guard against the prying eyes who wonder if the carpet matches his famously silver drapes. To…
Across the street from the federal courthouse, there’s a handpainted door and a funky sign. On a recent evening the street is desolate, except for a disparate group of people who keep opening the door and heading up the green staircase. A bike riding lady wearing a bandana. A middle-age…
There are enough Italian movies to keep even the most indulgent cineaste satisfied. In fact tonight there will be an overflowing indulgence of imported films to satisfy local audiences. Miami Dade College and the Italian Film Festival will kick off Cinema Italia 2007, a free screening series that will bring…
We grumble about having to go to work every day, having to drive in bumper-to-bumper traffic on our daily commute, and having to pay our stupid bills every stupid month. Imagine for a second that you aren’t able to do any of those things, that the everyday routines that most…
When you think of Celia Cruz, bright colors come immediately to mind. She presented herself as a resplendent figure, clad in primary-color stage costumes, always smiling broadly and infecting audiences with her strident voice and salsa rhythms. Her career spanned six decades, and in that time she innovated Latin music…
