See more photos from Florida Supercon 2012; A N00b’s Guide to Florida Supercon; Five Reasons Florida Supercon is Better Than Any South Beach Club.Florida Supercon was back last weekend, bringing out comic book, anime, animation, video game, fantasy, and Sci-Fi superfans in geek chick style. Was it just us, or did…
We arguably live in one of the best cities in America, and that should be enough to be grateful for this Independence Day. But while we’re all gorging on hot dogs, potato salad, and pastelitos, let’s not forget all the other things for which we should be thanking the stars…
For a major metropolis, Miami’s cycling scene has often been described as sub-par. From a lack of bike lanes to discourteous driving, it ain’t easy spinning your wheels in the Magic City. When it comes to bicycles as a viable alternative to gas guzzlers, we have a long ride ahead…
July, July! Not only is it a choice tune by The Decemberists, but it is a midsummer month filled with illegal fireworks, pool parties and barbecues with so much lighter fluid your Uncle Hank singes off both his eyebrows–again. Some of us are already nursing painful sunburns, but it’s worth…
See Balls Out; New Times’ review of Magic Mike.Joe Manganiello, who stars in the male stripper flick Magic Mike, opening this weekend, is a multidimensional guy. He’s a classically trained actor, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA before joining the cast of True Blood as werewolf Alcide. He’s…
There are few things more quintessentially New York than Woody Allen. No matter how many reruns of Sex and the City I watch, or how many visits to the MET, the city that never sleeps always brings to mind Woody Allen, arguably America’s greatest living filmmaker.I’m hardly alone in associating…
Most people think bloggers are just lazy slobs, holed up in their apartments all day and working in their pjs with sloppy bed head and a lukewarm cup of joe. But that myth got debunked last night, when Ricochet hosted Fashion Bloggers Do It Better. Turns out, we do, in fact,…
See Miami City Ballet Names Lourdes Lopez New Director, But the Controversy Isn’t Over; Lourdes Lopez: On Top of Miami City Ballet Without Stepping on Toes; Miami City Ballet’s Founder and Director Edward Villella Announces Retirement.Just a few months after the controversial appointment of Lourdes Lopez as the MCB’s director,…
The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare! Hooray, hooray! No more giving fake names at emergency rooms and trying to set broken arms with a tree branch and duct tape! Though we’re thrilled to get affordable health care, we can’t help but wish that Obamacare had been passed years and years ago. Just…
See Pepe Billete’s Open Letter to Miami Heat Haters.Now that the Miami Heat have stuffed their haters’ mouths with something to keep them gagging until the next season, I want to address another aspect of hate that extends beyond the Heat. Last week, I talked a little about how the…
Sweet Baby Jesus, y’all. It’s finally Friday.In all seriousness, though: Didn’t this week seem to just drag on and on? But how exciting is it when a week of lagging turns into a weekend of drinking. Yes, that was a statement, not a question.Let us stow away all of the…
Read Cultist’s review of Bill W.Dan Carracino and Kevin Hanlon were friends who played with the idea of making a movie for years. But when they actually sat down and got to it, the result was far from playful screenplay.Instead, they spent eight years creating Bill W., a documentary that…
See “A N00b’s Guide to Florida Supercon.”Looking for a crazy time this weekend? Crazy outfits, great music, and plenty of debauchery?There’s no need to take your talents to South Beach. All the real freaky fun is at Florida Supercon, delivers your weekend entertainment all wrapped up in a pretty, geeky…
Miami is known for many things: hurricanes, nightlife, our beaches, hot people, etc. But just a few years back, we were named the fattest city in America. Pretty sad, especially for a town where you can’t walk two blocks without hearing LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It.”Being large and in…
Before “planking” convinced the nation’s alternative sports junkies that you didn’t have to be athletic to bust out some sweet moves in public, there was parkour.Before Hurricane Andrew tore through South Florida in 1992, there was the Miami Marine Stadium.Both things still exist, of course. They’re just not talked about…
The Real Housewives, Snooki, and the Kardashians have plenty in common. They’re stars of the small screen. They’re women that much of America loves to hate. And yes, they have their own clothing lines. But can you really take them seriously as fashion designers? Not while they’re still making out…
Two lawsuits filed in West Virginia are seeking restraining orders against Kim Kardashian. Guess why.No, really. Guess. Think on it long and hard. You can even use the hints in the headline, which are only a small part of the batshit insane fantasies described in the complaints. Go ahead and…
“The Afterlife” at ArtCenter and “Charles LeDray: Bass Museum of Art”
According to Total Beauty, Miami Beach is the most heavily tattooed city in the states. No surprise there — we need something to accentuate our bare, bronzed skin. Anywhere there are legions of inked up people, there must also exist artists aplenty to do the inking. That’s why the Oxygen…
Compared to our Canadian cousins to the north, Miami’s quite lacking in semi-aquatic buck-toothed rodents. But we’re certainly not short on appreciation for the mighty beaver in its, uh, other incarnations. This eternal love of the feminine mystique has found its platform with Chalk’s upcoming girl-friendly “Beaver Fever” weekend, featuring…
So the Heat won the NBA Finals and now all you want is LeBron’s face tattooed on the back of your calf like that guy you saw on the Internet. We strongly encourage you to think before you ink, but if you’re set on commemorating this occasion with permanent body…
It’s hard out there for an image-conscious lady in the Miami summer. Your self-esteem has already been frayed to shreds by living among perky, perfect, plastically enhanced Real Housewives year-round. Then summer comes along and turns your hair into a greasy Brillo pad and your skin into a red, peeling…
