If Miami Spice threw any more chef events, we’d have to call it Miami Spice Cabinet. Still, for free cooking tips from some of the area’s best chefs, you can’t beat ’em with a whisk. Coming up at Macy’s in Dadeland Mall on Saturday is chef Edgardo Lopez of Morton’s…
After the death of legendary actress Joan Crawford, her daughter published a book that has gone down as one of the most unflattering tell-alls in history. Cristina Crawford claimed her mother was an alcoholic who was ruthlessly careerist and abusive, capable of attempted strangling, and prone to fits of rage…
Psychological profiles of serial killers often reveal that they start on their path to evil by torturing small animals. And you don’t have to be a psychologist to know there’s something wrong with anybody who doesn’t like dogs. So unless you don’t mind being mistaken for a murderer, there’s really…
It’s what we’ve all been waiting for, whether we admit it or not: 3-D invading porn. Well, not porn exactly, but definitely eroticism. Who’da thunk it was Red China that spent big money to have bodily fluids appear to float offscreen. OK, so that’s an exaggeration, but there will be…
We all know what she looks like, but the only way to see the original La Joconde is to take a trip to the Louvre in Paris. Naturally, the most famous painting in the world has been copied and reinterpreted over the centuries. It was this trail of re-imagined portraits…
She’s voluptuous. She wants to make you scream. And, well, she’s a little bitchy. Glam kitten Misty Eyez wouldn’t be caught dead at your grandmother’s bingo game. Instead, she uses her superheroine drag powers to conjure a dash (all right, it’s more of a hearty pour) of sass at Fort…
When L’Age d’Or screened in 1930, crazed audience members threw ink at the screen and destroyed artworks by Salvador Dalí and Man Ray in the lobby. The uprising could have had something to do with the scene of a girl performing fellatio on a religious statue’s toe. Or it could…
William Shakespeare’s plays are well known for their sad soliloquies and tragic endings, and mothers sleeping with their sons, and men dressed as women. But some folks might not appreciate the fact that the Bard also knew how to write stirring, badass, motivational speeches. They can be found mostly in…
People wondering when the next homegrown art star will be minted usually cast their peepers at Miami’s New World School of the Arts for its impressive record of producing bumper crops of fresh local talent. Mind you, NWSA is not one of those dippy art school chorizo factories cranking out…
Nova Scotia native Rich Aucoin is overly ambitious. For those less talented, that could spell disaster. But for Aucoin, constructing the perfect electro-pop melody just might be an attainable goal. His 2010 EP, Public Publication, features only four cuts, yet it took two years to create and relied on more…
Is it too soon to start talking about life post University of Miami football? The bodies are not even cold yet, and already we’re thinking about what how UM can redirect money and effort that once went to the soon-to-be euthanized program. On a quick note, UM football will never…
There’s plenty going on over at NW 25th Street in Wynwood. This sprawling mural involves a possible Che, a topless Frida Kahlo, gorillas, Donnie Darko-style bunny heads, and Tim Burton-esque ghouls…
Turning a New York Times best seller into a movie is a daunting task. No director or star of a film wants to hear, “The book was better.” And Octavia Spencer, one of the stars of the new novel turned screenplay The Help, has absolutely nothing to worry about.Getting her…
In Mad Cat’s So My Grandmother Died, Blah, Blah, Blah, Polly Chekhov, a comedy writer living in Hollywood, California, flies home to Hollywood, Florida, for her grandmother’s funeral. She then gets a nasty case of writer’s block when it comes time to write the eulogy. This becomes the kick-starter to…
Fashion Breakdown: Romper by Rampage, watch by Cartier, clutch by Louis Vuitton, and stilettos by Christian Louboutin…
Yesterday, British newspaper the Guardian reported that artist Shepherd Fairey was attacked after a gallery opening in Copenhagen. The 41-year-old artist gained a cult following for his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign and then crossed over into mainstream consciousness via his iconic Barack Obama “Hope” poster. He…
If he hadn’t died of leukemia in 1994, Charles Bukowski would have been 91 years old today. And with the rumors that James Franco is adapting the author’s semiautobiographical novel Ham on Rye for the screen, we’d like to remind everyone of the bizarre, true facts from ol’ Hank’s life…
August is half over, and while usually this means we get a little melancholic about the end of summer, it’s always comforting to know that the fall TV season is just around the corner. No show is getting more buzz than NBC’s The Playboy Club, a ’60s look back at…
When somebody mentions Brazil, it probably reminds you that you need to schedule either a waxing appointment or a vacation. Though the country’s film scene might not be the first thing that pops into your mind, Brazilian film has been thriving for years and continues to do so. And when…
No matter if you’re a Real Housewives or even a Real World fan, if you watch reality TV, your favorite part of the season is probably the reunion. Why? Because all the drama is brought out onto the table. And no one does it better than Basketball Wives on VH1.Last night…
The monthly Downtown Full Moon Party is ostensibly a holistic journey geared to getting our earthly bodies closer to their spiritual being so they can harmoniously connect with the rhythms of the universe. But it’s really just another excuse to get shit-faced and watch some dude swing a stick of…
Is the below video a dancetastic flash mob or an ad for the Ikea in Sunrise? That store is crowded enough without the added publicity. (If someone doesn’t already know where to buy disposable Swedish home décor, let’s not tell them, okay?) Hats off to choreographer Jackie Vilarino of the…
