Arts & Culture

Miami doesn’t have a top-tier professional soccer team, but don’t be fooled into thinking the world’s game doesn’t resonate with the city’s diverse ethnic underbelly. Haven’t you seen those carpeted mini-soccer fields sprouting up like weeds all over town? The Miami Heat might have three kings, but to the city’s…

South Florida isn’t Hawaii, but they’re so damn similar, who cares? Since middle-class Americans discovered Florida was a nice place to spend the winter — and a cheap facsimile of that faraway Pacific island chain — they’ve been putting on grass skirts and making the best of things. And for…

Every year, LGBT people in the tri-county area look forward to June. Aside from being Pride month, the auspicious beginning of summer also brings Out in the Tropics, a different kind of performing arts festival. And by different, we mean gay, queer, transgender, bi, and flexible sexuality. The festival opens…

Love can be a burdensome, vexing mesh of pain, longing, fighting, displaced passion, and angst. In short, love can be a real pain in the ass. Unless, of course, it’s happening to other people. Then it can be entertaining as hell. Get your fill of one couple’s tale of forlorn…

When you talk about American royalty, forget the Kennedys. Our domestic aristocrats are Joe “King” Oliver, Duke Ellington, and, of course, Count Basie. A blues and swing pianist, Basie was also a gifted bandleader, and his bandstand bred even more jazz royalty, such as Lester Young. From Harlem to Kansas…

As if dueling with the Florida Marlins for a playoff position wasn’t incentive enough, two prominent Atlanta Braves will have extra motivation as the team makes its first trip of the season to Sun Life Stadium. It starts with Fredi Gonzalez, the Braves skipper, who also happens to be the…

Are you a liar? Do you have dark thoughts or fantasies? Do you have a guilty conscience? Do you want to confess? Try writing some fiction. There’s no better escape for your inner psycho than composing a narrative. However, telling a story is not as easy as, well, telling a…

Orangutans are the Albert Einsteins of the primate world, even if their coppery hair makes them look like the redheaded stepchildren. They create and use tools to forage for food, break and arrange tree branches to serve as beds, and can hold a scene opposite Clint Eastwood. (See Clyde in…

When Bravo premiered Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2003, it catapulted metrosexuality into mainstream culture. But even South Park noted the absurdity of the show and its gay-looking-but-straight fad. Was it OK for breeders to appropriate everything fun about gay culture without having experienced any of the hardships?…

Twins may be your favorite sibling flick of all time, with Step Brothers trailing closely behind, but there’s a new, sincerer movie that just might push those two off the charts. Gabi on the Roof in July is the kind of authentic indie film we don’t see often enough on…

It was the Literary Death Match versus the Heat/Mavericks game last night at Churchill’s. Not entirely surprisingly, the LDM beat the shit out the NBA Finals, well, at least until the match ended, then it was back to Lebron and Co.The death match brings sassy, thoughtful, and last night, some…

Fashion Breakdown: Red shirt from Angel’s Gossip, tie was found in the closet (It was originally a belt,) skirt from Express, stockings American Apparel, shoes from Canada, rings and bracelet Forever XXI…

That Jason Terry sure has some chutzpah. The Dallas Maverick’s sixth man has a tattoo on his arm of the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy. Only problem is, neither Terry nor the Dallas Mavericks have ever won that trophy. Of course, they aim to change that starting tonight when they tussle…

​Fulano, the Miami Cubanaso, has all the know-how you second-generation Cubericans need to visit the motherland without (hopefully) getting disowned by your exiled grandparents or by your Bay of Pigs veteran old man. Here’s Part Three: How to Get Around.Bro, so in our last bit of advice about paladares, there…