Women are rejoicing from Hialeah to Homestead. Why? Because Aqua Girl is back, which means that at party after party of lesbian, bisexual, and trans women will celebrate their right to make out with each other. And believe us, there will be plenty of making out. Aqua Girl, which runs…
Once upon a time, an unusual German boy named Hansel fell in love with Luther, a U.S. soldier, but East Germany’s communist shackles kept them apart. In order to flee, the two would have to marry as man and woman. So Hansel underwent surgery to take over his mother Hedwig’s…
Smooth jazz and cool cocktails reign at the posh purple speakeasy in the basement of South Beach’s Betsy Hotel, as B Bar hosts a quartet of local vocalists and songwriters crooning the tunes every Thursday night in May. Nicole Henry kicks off the month’s festivities May 5, followed by Leesa…
Sometime between the first nudie silent picture and today’s porn oversaturation, there was a golden era of B-films such as Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon, which titillated us with just the right amount of skin. Actresses such as Sybil Danning and Mamie Van Doren were the…
Miles below France’s soil are dark grottoes and jagged columns covered in prehistoric scrawlings. They offer Shamanistic visions of the underworld — grinning half-man, half-bird beasts — and catalog nature’s power struggles — a pride of lions forcing a herd of bison off a cliff. The scenes wax and wane…
In the early 1800s, the Brothers Grimm traveled Germany transcribing folk tales. Today the pair is little known for creating the first primitive German dictionary and developing a revolutionary theory of philology, but they’ve been practically immortalized by the compilation they created from their German fieldwork. Grimm’s Fairy Tales is…
Thanks to your sedentary lifestyle, you likely engage only three or four of the 33 vertebrae in your spine. But what all of you aging office hunchbacks probably don’t realize is that your longevity, and not just your posture, is linked to the health of your backbone. Circus freaks such…
Quick geography lesson: Where is Suriname located? The former Dutch colony is actually just a plane ride from Miami and perhaps the last place you’d expect as the home turf of an emerging DJ. But South America’s smallest country bore Chuckie, the latest sensation behind the turntables. Calling the Netherlands…
No doubt, vibrators are therapeutic. We women live in a stressful world littered with selfish men. Many a woman’s most satisfying sexual partner is a battery-operated, brightly colored phallus. In fact, in the darker ages of medicine, these little stress-relievers were used by doctors as a treatment for female hysteria…
“The circus is tough and beautiful,” says a talking head in Aaron Schock’s documentary on the small, struggling, family-owned Circo Mexico. It’s an apt description of the film itself, which opens tomorrow at O Cinema. It’s a riveting patchwork of interconnected dramas that include difficult in-laws, arguments about money and…
An important lesson for anyone wanting to remove the beautiful art murals sprinkled throughout Wynwood. The above occurred in Australia after a real estate developer “cleaned up” a building’s wall before leasing the property. Good thing our city doesn’t have any misguided real estate developers. [via Laughing Squid]…
Roselyn Sanchez first erupted onto the big screen with her role as sexy Secret Service agent Isabella Molina in the second installment of Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour. Sultry and exotic, the Puerto Rican beauty sizzled onscreen. And now, a decade later, she’s managed to maintain her career, proving that she…
The countdown to Exxxotica Miami Beach has officially begun — look for a counter at the top of the Miami New Times homepage coming soon (not really). There’s nothing quite as fun in the run up to the Miami’s number one porn event as looking at the long (we’re talking…
Joshua Henry, who graduated from University of Miami’s Frost School of Music in 2006, is nominated for a Tony Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical.” Last Fall, the actor played Haywood Patterson in The Scottsboro Boys at New York’s Lyceum Theatre.The musical,…
In 1981, Adam Chester had just graduated from Miami Beach High, and was living in Los Angeles for college. He was over 3,000-miles away from his mom, Joan, but even though an entire country separated the two, Chester could not escape mom’s unsolicited words of advice. After over 30 years…
Fuck Christopher Hitchens and his lame opinion on funny women. Rachel Dratch and decades of hilarious female cast members on Saturday Night Live demonstrate that humorous females exist in abundance. Dratch told us about working on SNL, “We were a pretty evolved bunch. I never felt any disadvantage.” Women are…
Fashion Breakdown: DIY top, leggings from Denmark, bracelets are both from friends and self-made, and shoes from asos.com…
Great news, spinsters, VH1’s Tough Love is back! Premiering at 9 p.m. on July 10th, the reality show centers around a batch of relationship-challenged women who go to a “Tough Love Boot Camp” where Steve Ward tells them all about themselves in a bad way. And for Tough Love’s third…
The American Airlines Arena was packed to the rafters last night, but it wasn’t to watch the Heat. WWE Monday Night Raw hit Miami with two huge themes: the capture of Osama Bin Laden and the birthday/return of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who made the night as much a celebration…
Rush Limbaugh? Sean Hannity? Bill O’Reilly? All you right-wing gasbags can line up and get ready to kiss Pablo Cano’s ass. Miami’s favorite puppet master has a doozy lined up to give all the Obama haters their just desserts. “It’s very up to date, a whimsical comedy,” Cano says. “I…
Genital insertion on video is a multi-billion dollar industry. If you want your piece of the pie, you’re probably going to need some help navigating your way around the sketchy-ass world of fluffers, strap-ons, and overacting. Luckily for you, I’m just the guy to teach you a thing or two…
Finally, there’s a coffee shop in Wynwood. Lester’s opened its doors on Friday at 9 a.m. with a clean aesthetic, Wi-Fi, beer, and wine. It’s the perfect place for cool kids to get jacked up on espressos, do homework (or freelance work), and then come down again with a few…
