There are too many hectic hotel parties on Miami Beach, all competing for your attention by offering louder music and more colorful cocktails. For that reason we say skip the done-to-deathness and enjoy a different sort of scene at the Standard. Every Sunday the bayfront spa retreat offers Love Life,…
What does Easter Sunday mean to you? Is it a sacred day to celebrate the ressurection of Jesus Christ, or a time to hide chocolate eggs and give your little ones a sugar rush to rival Halloween? Is it just another excuse to indulge in festive indulgence? How’s about all…
If you’re like us, you get chills simply glancing at a bank statement. And don’t get us started on taxes. Luckily the FIU theater department is offering artistic relaxation, and evidence that numbers can be intriguing, in the form of David Auburn’s Tony Award-winning play, Proof. The play centers on…
Are you ready to samba? Okay, you won’t actually be doing the dancing, but you can still groove in your seat while watching the Brazz Dance Theater perform A Foot for Samba (Pé de Samba) at the Byron Carlyle Theater at 8:00 p.m. Led by artistic director Augusto Soledade, this…
If your last attempt at cooking a meal resulted in a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and a burned meatloaf, maybe it’s time you got some professional help. To help rescue you and your family’s menu, come to the weekly Saturday cooking class at Two Chefs. This week’s educational experience…
Tonight at the Joseph Caleb Auditorium, soul legends will be resurrected. Local artists will embody the spirits of music greats like Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, and Billie Holiday in Butterfly’s Tribute to Missed Voices. The show’s creator and producer, Rebecca “Butterfly” Vaughns, says, “I’m out of the box. I really…
Deicide, the Tampa-based pioneers of satanic death metal, have caused some serious controversy since the band’s formation in 1987. The band’s music, lyrics, and onstage antics have supposedly caused fans to murder priests, sacrifice animals, blow up clubs, and commit suicide (as alleged in the BBC’s 2005 documentary Death Metal…
An afternoon spent at a Florida Marlins game is already a pretty awesome afternoon, but one day of the weekend is about to become even better. Behold Super Saturdays, a hybrid of music, baseball, giveaways, and fireworks designed to bring the fans out for a day worth remembering. To kick…
Traveling the world in a weekend is possible, but only if you venture down to Key West for the journey. The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) is being resurrected for the Southernmost Mini Fest, featuring many of the lauded films from the 2006 festival. Start out with Pittsburgh —…
Are you stuck in a fashion rut? Do you have a perfectly formed groove around your midsection from your excessive use of waist-cinching belts? If you answered yes, maybe your body on a Friday evening and your wardrobe aren’t so different — they’re both in need of some Toxic Cocktails…
A creative compulsion led Miguel Fleitas from early stage aspirations to a career as a photographer, cameraman, and television director. But it was an unshakable passion for modern and contemporary art that recently drove Fleitas to make a switch to the canvas and brush. The self-taught artist has been creating…
Jaded locals scoffed when Arturo Sandoval opened his jazz club last year. The Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club at the Deauville Beach Resort seemed like an anomaly, a throwback to a previous era when Miamians actually listened to instrumental music that wasn’t techno, and live performance didn’t prominently feature a dude…
You call it blasphemy, the economy calls it “cha-ching!” And this month’s holiday/pyramid scheme is represented by snow-white bunnies and an endless hunt for pastel, hard-boiled eggs. Rest assured, parental units, there will be Easter egg hunts at locations across Miami-Dade County — some in the most unexpected places. All…
If your mental picture of a self-help guru involves a comb-over, a speech impediment, and a powder-blue cardigan (because gosh darn it, people like you), allow Christopher Lee Nutter to completely destroy that warm and fuzzy stereotype. First of all, he’s kind of hot. Second of all, the dude has…
Thanks to everyone’s favorite South Beach-residing German design goddess, Project Runway fans worldwide think of Miami as the perfect place to flit about in dazzling “paaahty dresses.” While season three contestant Uli Herzner certainly captured our fair city’s penchant for social events, we know that local fashion can be just…
When you drive through downtown Miami and see a giant tent erected along the causeway’s bank, you think one of two things: Cirque du Soleil, or mass-termite genocide. Those custom-built big tops have become synonymous with Soleil. They usually double as playground and dormitory for the traveling cadre of high-brow…
In the late Nineties there was a musical movement called neo-soul that was characterized by gritty, conscious vocals laid over soul, R&B, or jazz tracks. And with this movement came a bunch of neo-soulsters and soulstresses who are now curiously absent, missing in action, candidates for a Behind the Music…
Finally a true eccentric has joined the pantheon of NBA superstars! Ever since that Jordanian corporate-patty-cake stretch that included his Airness, Vince, Kobe, McGrady, Duncan, et al., it has seemed greatness has required a willingness to kowtow (even Shaquille O’Neal and Dwyane Wade, bless ’em, have rated disturbingly high on…
When was the last time you got sexy? If it was somewhere around the time when Prince was wearing assless pants, it just might be time for you to knock the dust off your come-hither stare, and there’s this chick named Victoria who has the secret to doing just that…
While you are gently whispering sweet nothings to your potted plants this morning, don’t mention driving over to Whole Foods later today to learn how to reduce your carbon dioxide footprint. In conjunction with Earth Month the green supermarket chain is presenting the Whole Earth Weigh-In throughout April. It’s a…
Grace Kelly led a fairy-tale life. She was a beautiful, Academy Award-winning actress who married a prince. But her life didn’t have a happy ending. The American-born princess died at age 52 in a tragic car accident. If you’re captivated by Grace head over to Books & Books (265 Aragon…
My beagle died at the end of February. His name was Ricky, and I’d had him for eleven years. He died a terrible death, poisoned by his own dog food. That same month, my basset hound, Toast, acquired a spinal disease that left his hindquarters paralyzed. Now he has been…
