It’s almost midnight, and there is something evil-looking about your hands. Is it the chipped, cheap, hooker-red nail polish? The scraggly, chewed-up cuticles? The pointy daggers you call fingernails? Honey, it is all that and more. Hide those monsters in your Williams-Sonoma oven mitts and rush to get a Midnight…
Dwyane Wade is back to leading off headlines — “Wade’s heroics …” — and was recently named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated. But a better example of why the NBA and your Miami Heat are the coolest things going came a couple of weeks ago in a game…
Sony Pictures South Beach has such history Anybody who has seen the new James Bond flick knows that the scenes in “Miami” look somewhat unfamiliar. They’ve replaced the MIA La Carreta with some sort of luxury clothing boutique. The scary Bodies exhibition where Bond hunts Le Chiffre’s henchmen is in…
It took Norman Mailer seven years and 1282 pages to write 1991’s Harlot’s Ghost: A Novel of the CIA, and if memory serves, it took me twelve years to actually finish it. So director Robert De Niro and screenwriter Eric Roth can be forgiven for taking 2 hours 40 minutes…
It is said that a great actor or actress can “bring down the house,” but before I saw (and heard) the 25-year-old American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson in the film version of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, I couldn’t recall the last time I truly feared for the architectural stability…
Breathe easy: Gary Winick’s new, live-action Charlotte’s Web pic does not screw up one of the seminal works of American children’s literature. In fact the film modernizes this classic tale without losing the gravity and essential dignity of animals grappling with mortality. Winick skillfully undercuts the seriousness of the subject…
City Beneath the Sea: The story of a young girl who saves an underwater metropolis from the powers of evil, played out through sparkling marionette sea creatures, is Pablo Cano’s ninth marionette production at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This musical production consists of hand-crafted puppets made from cookie cutters,…
Tackling “Toffee Armistice: British Art Now” at Lemon Sky Projects’ new space can be vexing. Without a guide, one might be mystified by the intricate labyrinth of cross-references informing this brawny yet intelligent show. Curated by artist/writer Martin Sexton, the exhibit brings together 26 UK artists whose work collectively delivers…
I’m So Much Better than You: Magnus Sigurdarson’s installation features four tons of Miami New Times papers interlocked like bricks to form a curving hip-high wall. It houses a DVD player and monitor where the artist is seen performing a puppet show in Xiamen, China. Sigurdarson, who was born in…
When the Levees Broke (HBO) Spike Lee’s four-part doc, easily the best non-fiction film of 2006, gets a fifth part on DVD: a 105-minute epilogue that reveals just how little has changed since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in August 2005. Featuring new interviews with the displaced and displeased,…
Aside from that new ball, NBA Live 07 may be the worst product to bear the league’s name this year. The new basketball game from Electronic Arts is so glitchy that scores of buyers launched an online petition demanding a do-over. Luckily for the rest of us, consumers have a…
Miami’s official celebration of Hanukkah (which began this past Friday night) will take the Festival of Lights to a truly sensory level, featuring a twelve-foot-long, six-foot-high menorah with candles illuminated by showers of Fourth of July-style sparks. Mayor Manny Diaz will be the first of many dignitaries to light a…
Udonis Haslem has a great local-boy-made-good story. The 26-year-old forward from Liberty City worked hard to make it from the trenches of French professional basketball back into the NBA’s good graces, and last season Haslem made his hometown especially proud. The blingtastic NBA Championship ring he’s sporting nowadays is the…
You have the idea in your mind — the perfect shoe to go with your New Year’s Eve ensemble — but you can’t find it anywhere, and you have the mileage on your car and the blisters on your feet to prove it. If you can hold out for a…
A winter wonderland this is not, but you can still bust out the mittens and scarves and sit around a cool hunk of ice if you choose to cheer on the Florida Panthers as they face the Philadelphia Flyers tonight. The Cats have slipped into last place in the Southeast…
Who’s the Boss? There’s only one. And if you answered Tony or Angela, run to Books & Books tonight at 8:00 to get schooled by Bruce Springsteen biographer and best-selling rock writer Dave Marsh. Acquaint yourself with one of America’s most legendary singer/songwriter/storytellers through a photographic timeline titled Bruce Springsteen…
Generally speaking, the 27th birthday isn’t particularly special. You have long passed the legal drinking age, so nobody is pressuring you to choke down test tubes of Jägermeister. The quarter-century feels like a more significant landmark (cheaper car insurance rates!) and is worthy of a no-holds-barred commemoration. The typical 27th…
My call for festive libations went unanswered, so I have decided to use my mad Martha skills to mix up some of my favorite holiday beverages and share the best recipes with you. Little Miss Sunrise: It is never too early to commence drinking during the month of December, so…
Okay, so the Dolphins aren’t headed to the playoffs this year. Does that really matter when swarms of transplanted New Yorkers – ahem — descend upon the stadium in Jets gear and act like they own the place? With a significant portion of the stadium occupied by enemy fans, the…
Let’s face it: Foodwise, Thanksgiving, not Christmas, is the holiday that’s about hours of stirring pots and basting turkeys in a hot kitchen. After all, you’ve spent the past few weeks with your elbow in some other holiday shoppers’ rib cage, or with your foot on someone’s neck while you…
Although reunion shows by the likes of the Cure and Violent Femmes do exist, you’ll most likely have to dish out a Jackson or two and settle for half the original lineup. The cover band Radioactive might not boast Robert Smith or Gordon Gano crooning to the audience, but the…
Local hero Udonis Haslem has shown himself again and again to be reliable, talented, versatile, and, perhaps most important, uninjured. But the Miami Heat has struggled much with the question of what to do at the other forward spot. Both Antoine Walker and James Posey have demonstrated ample skill, but…
