As much as we love pigging out and receiving gifts, a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners, survival-of-the-fittest, all-you-can-grab shopping marathon is truly our favorite time of the holidays. And it’s not because we haven’t experienced our very own Black Friday trauma. We’ve been pushed. We’ve been shoved. Hey, we’ve even gotten in “I…
or more than 20 years, the phrase Baba Booey has been a battle cry for fans of the Howard Stern Show. It originated in the summer of 1990 when Gary Dell’Abate, Stern’s longtime show producer and friend, mispronounced a cartoon character’s name. In his new book, They Call Me Baba…
Choreographer Merce Cunningham and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg were groundbreaking when they first collaborated from 1954 to 1964, and they kept breaking ground right up through their last collaboration in 2007. The two men believed art referred only to itself, and they created riveting works together. Even now in the…
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Why consume store-bought calories for the holidays when you can create your own. Learn how at the Holiday Desserts class at Culinary Academy at the Biltmore Hotel. Taught by the hotel’s executive pastry chef Olivier Rodriguez, the class takes place on Saturday, Dec. 4, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m…
At Bloomingdale’s in Aventura, the “Go Get Cooking” series of cooking demos continues on Saturday, Dec. 4, with Jennifer Behar, chef-proprietor of Jennifer’s Homemade in Miami, maker of assorted biscotti, breadsticks and flatbreads. All cooking sessions are free and begin at 1 p.m. Sat., Dec. 4, 1 p.m., 2010…
It’s a rather difficult task for Francesco Lo Castro to describe his steadily growing success. After all, he admits he was nearly dead a year ago from the strain of being a curator. “I really almost had a heart attack,” Lo Castro says. “I left that line of work to…
If you’re not among the “chosen people,” all you know about dreidels is probably from that old-time Hanukkah song. But that was then. And Major League Dreidel (MLD) is now. Though it sounds more like a movie spoof (think the Hebrew Hammer meets BASEketball), the MLD is real. And it’s…
Ever since the Miami Heat’s not-so-stellar season debut, the media (along with some incurably irrational Heat fans) has been accusing the team of being “soft.” And while the media fails to tell us exactly what it means to be that way (Are the guys soft like Charmin or soft like…
What does German classical composer Johann Sebastian Bach have to do with the Afro-Cuban roots of salsa? Everything — if you ask the members of Miami-based timba band Tiempo Libre. For one, Cuban salsa and Bach’s compositions have eight bars of melody, something not lost on the seven bandmates, most…
Ever had impure thoughts about your girlfriend’s mom, gone gaga for an octogenarian professor in college, or even had the hots for Golden Girl Blanche or, gulp, Dorothy? If you said yes to any of the above, you’re a cub — a younger guy who likes older women. And come…
The secrets behind chef Cindy Hutson’s “Cuisine of the Sun” are up for grabs at her interactive cooking classes. Classes cost $90 per person are limited to 18 students who split into groups of six to prepare a meal, each group led by one of the chefs at Hutson’s acclaimed…
We bet you’ve been a little worried about how you’d be able to track down some skull accent pieces now that Alexander McQueen’s line has been taken over by Sarah Burton. And if you’re like us, you probably like your kitsch right where you can see it: On your wrist…
Just off shore, miles past South Beach’s glowing neon marquees, there are graceful and ethereal creatures, pulsing with their own natural fluorescence. These jellyfish, zoanthids, and corals, which pirouette and sway out on Miami’s reefs, are the muses of art/science duo Coral Morphologic. Colin Foord and Jared McKay filmed these…
This current exhibit at the University of Miami’s Wynwood Project Space is Ricardo Zulueta’s “Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa 21st Century.” Basically, that means blown-up photos of people in their underwear. And these are the kind of people you don’t usually see in magazines and maybe don’t even want…
Former WBC heavyweight champion Oliver McCall is 45 years old. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at his rock-hard physique. He can kill most men with his mustache. McCall is 54-10 with 37 knockouts in his career, and now he’s looking to become the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing…
A Bill Parcells-led team has not won a playoff game since the Clinton administration. He’s notorious for moving from one organization to the next on a whim. He left the Dallas Cowboys a mess and is routinely given way too much credit for the new Giants teams he coached (but…
Very few films this year have received as much controversial buzz as Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void. Leaving audiences in awe from Cannes to Sundance, the movie has gained equally vocal fans and detractors along the way. It stars Nathaniel Brown and Boardwalk Empire’s Paz de la Huerta as a…
With all the free-booze scheming, artsy schmoozing, rabid-collector fighting, and gallerist drama going down this week, it’s easy to forget the whole point of this Art Basel thing: to pour your soul into a work and hope someone will see enough value to hand you money for rent. Thankfully, opening…
When you think Hello Kitty, the mental montage probably goes something like this: Hallmark, eight-year-old girls, and a white cat with no mouth and exactly six whiskers. Notice that nowhere in that sequence are the words art or basel. Well, all of that is about to change when Sanrio celebrates…
Giant pink snails on South Beach? What’s next, famine and a plagues of locusts? The bubble-gum pink creepers spotted throughout Miami Beach are not a sign of end times. And no, they’re not the work of pink-loving Cristo either. The 45 snails, made from plastic gathered from landfills, are part…
