Oh, we see your handle and your spout, and we are so ready to tip you over and pour you out, what with that perfectly round bottom and cute little top. And even though you’ve been around since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), you’ve aged so well, little teapot. Now we’re…
Whenever pundits want to wax philosophical about hip-hop, they always look back to the Eighties with rose-colored retrospect and talk about Salt-n-Pepa, MC Lyte, and Queen Latifah. Now flip on Rap City and look for a strong female role model. Good luck. “We’re in the bling-bling phase, where it’s really…
There’s something a bit strange about the name The Brand New Heavies. The group has been laying down effortlessly transcendent acid jazzy grooves for more than fifteen years. Rather than change the name à la New Kids on the Block (whose NKOTB alteration impressed no one), the Heavies are winning…
You can walk into almost any bar in this town and get a mojito. The Cuban mint julep — made with mint leaves muddled with lime juice and sugar, shaken with light rum, and topped off with club soda — was Colin Farrell’s drink of choice in this summer’s big-screen…
Nothing beats the freeing feeling of flying a kite on a fall day. What’s that you say? You don’t have a kite? No worries: Skyward Kites will give you the hookup at today’s fifteenth annual Kitetoberfest. Event organizer Dan Ward describes the fest as a “family fun day” filled with…
We like freebies. And we like being outside once the humidity and temperature finally drop. So it’s the right time for Surfside’s Jazz on the Beach, a free concert presented by the Town of Surfside Tourist Bureau and KCC productions. Today you can relax to the sounds of the surf…
The jazz hands. The sequined costumes. The flags and poorly choreographed, unsynchronized leaps that detract from the main event. Have you ever wondered where those enthusiastic halftime performers come from? They’re found at Boston Market, silly. If you are between the ages of twelve and twenty, you can audition for…
Feeling a bit sluggish lately? Need a reason to slide off the couch, brush the cheesy snack dust off of your shirt, and get moving? How about some grim statistics? This year 211,240 women will develop breast cancer and 40,410 will die from it, while 1690 men will develop it…
Hair got so boring once the Eighties ended. Everyone threw out the Aqua Net and put away the crimping iron. Relive those days of excess and get your tease on at the second annual Big Wig Costume Ball and Silent Auction. “It’s a blast! Some people really tease their own…
Nothing quite girds you for an aural assault like the intense underground imagery of a handmade rock poster announcing that your favorite wailers are in town. By the time the house lights go down and the band strikes up a chord at the honky-tonk, your scalp is itching with anticipation…
Ever since you saw that crappy film starring Piper Perabo, Maria Bello, and — oh yes — Tyra Banks, you have dreamed of dressing like a slutty cowgirl and dancing on a bar for a bunch of hollerin’ construction workers. Well, wake up and smell the cheap tequila, honey, because…
It was once said that people dance the tango because they have secrets. It goes beyond technique: The tango is sensual, seductive, and passionate. Watching two people tango is so intimate at times that it can make the audience blush. No one knows this better than Maria Pradilla, a World…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 89.8 million unmarried and single residents in this country in 2005. That equals 41 percent of all Americans age eighteen and older. And 54 percent of those singles are women. So why in hell is it so difficult to get a date?…
The PLUG Independent Music Awards is a beloved celebration of independent musicians held annually in New York. Winners typically go on to become cool new bands. Former victors include Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dangerdoom, Mr. Lif, and Gnarls Barkley. “It’s like the opposite of the Grammys; PLUG actually gives…
Fill up the gas tank and pack all the, um, supplies you’ll need for a fun car ride down to the Keys. It’s that time of year again, when the southernmost point in the continental United States goes on a ten-day bender of costumes, culture, and debauchery. You won’t want…
For a city that is just about as far south as you can get in the U.S., Miami is curiously void of Southern drawls, Confederate flags, and square dancing. The only cowboy boots in these parts are diamond-encrusted designer brands. There are plenty of young bucks and pretty fillies ready…
In the Seventies and early Eighties there were Last Tango in Paris, Midnight Cowboy, and The Blue Lagoon — all unabashedly sexual films that found mainstream cinematic success. Nowadays violence is the new sex. Moviegoers are typically more comfortable watching some guy’s head being blown away than, well, you know…
While frat guys like the University of Florida’s troubled Pi Kappa Alphas fuel the stereotype of boys who like to paddle each other and ply unsuspecting girls with panty-dropping shooters, there are others who take their philanthropy seriously. Take Delta Lambda Phi, a national social fraternity founded in 1986, which…
Bravo TV You know what to do. October 18, not a particularly special day. Two hundred and thirty years ago some drunk guy saw a bird tail decorating the wall of a New York bar and decided to be funny and order a cock tail, thus spawning a cultural phenomenon…
Who you calling thin-voiced? Alex at Stuck on the Palmetto wants to “open a window into the culture and the society” of Cuba. In a post called Vamos a Cuba, he links to YouTube video of Silvio Rodriguez, “the most popular singer in Cuba.” Alex rhapsodizes: “His were the songs…
The Museum of Contemporary Art offered up a gift too good to be true this past Saturday evening in Wynwood: A free live performance by De La Soul to cap off Moca’s e-merce b-boy block party. Unfortunately, it was all just a dream, the kind of stuff you read about…
The first episode of Telemundo’s newest soap opera, Marina, is available for viewing online, if you simply can’t wait another eight hours for it to air on television (8:30p.m.). The plot revolves around Marina, a virtuous Mexican girl raised in the humble shacks of Acapulco who suddenly finds herself luxuriously…
