In the past, the words blondes and books rarely went together. Well, nowadays, that just isn’t the case. With ladies such as Lauren Conrad and Chelsea Handler topping the New York Times best-seller list, it seems that even those with great hair genes (or a superb colorist) can achieve book…
If you’re like a certain unnamed New Times colleague, you only listen to NPR’s This American Life if you want to fall asleep. If you’re like me, you had to stop listening to the podcast at work because you kept bursting out in loud sobs. Then there’s the man behind…
Miami art this week: Virgin Mary and Jesus at the Bass
Lebanon: The best movie of the year
On a recent Thursday morning in his new Wynwood arts megaplex, artist Gino Tozzi is busy welding a steel beam and sweltering under a shower of blazing sparks that cloak his body like a swirl of fireflies. When an assistant approaches, he turns off his torch and lifts the plastic…
Machete: Robert Rodriguez’s latest is LOL-funny
The Tillman Story sets the record straight
Miami has plenty of expats who have spent time rotting in Cuban prisons. So when you hear of a novel titled Havana Harvest by somebody who has seen the inside of a Cuban clink, you figure the author is local or at least Cuban. But Robert Landori is neither. Now…
The final week of August was pretty much a condensed version of the Category 5 crap-storm that’s been the Florida Marlins’ 2010 season. It began with the team’s financial documents being leaked, exposing owner Jeffrey Loria and team president David Samson as liars who cried poor so that the city…
The final week of August was pretty much a condensed version of the Category 5 crap-storm that’s been the Florida Marlins’ 2010 season. It began with the team’s financial documents being leaked, exposing owner Jeffrey Loria and team president David Samson as liars who cried poor so that the city…
How do you kill an Argentine? Make him stand on his ego and jump. So goes the old Colombian joke as told by Sabina, a Colombian-American girl from New Jersey, the daughter of immigrants, and the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Vida. In one of Vida’s nine stories, Sabina spends time…
The only Chilean filmmaking that comes to mind are the videos that those poor trapped miners are sending up to their relatives. That’s perhaps all the more reason to check out this week’s Cine! Chilean Film Festival at the Tower Theater. The festival, which showcases some of Chile’s best films,…
The original Prada-wearing devil, Anna Wintour, concocted the illustrious Fashion’s Night Out last year to tempt consumers to shop and support the fashion industry during tough economic times. Sponsored by fashion bible Vogue and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, this year’s event will be a who’s who of…
We don’t necessarily hate cops. Last week, a nice policeman helped us chase a crackhead down Biscayne Boulevard after an incident involving some expensive headphones, a vintage Walkman, and a butter knife. (Hey, they’re sharper than they look.) But as for the cop who gave us that ticket for lewd…
Way back in the First or maybe the Third Century AD, there was a Greek rhetorician and literary critic named Longinus who wrote a little treatise titled On the Sublime. He riffed on its essence (“the echo of greatness of soul”), championed risky writers (“bold, lawless, and original”), and tried…
How do you kill an Argentine? Make him stand on his ego and jump. So goes the old Colombian joke as told by Sabina, a Colombian-American girl from New Jersey, the daughter of immigrants, and the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Vida. In one of Vida’s nine stories, Sabina spends time…
As a guy who gets his genes from two notoriously tiny-penised races — the Irish and the Asian — comedian Steve Byrne could very well be one of the most underendowed males on Earth. If so, he’s probably cool with it. “That Asian stereotype is not bad at all. ‘Asian…
We don’t know what will surprise you more — the dancing, flickering images bouncing off the trees at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens or the fact that there are actually people in a Miami-Dade park. This Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m., experimental film lovers and curious passersby will swarm…
The final week of August was pretty much a condensed version of the Category 5 crap-storm that’s been the Florida Marlins’ 2010 season. It began with the team’s financial documents being leaked, exposing owner Jeffrey Loria and team president David Samson as liars who cried poor so that the city…
Normally, if we were to recommend a coming-of-age novel, we’d suggest simply re-reading The Catcher in the Rye. But have you heard that sociologists have coined a new phrase to describe the life phase of today’s 20-somethings? They’re calling it “emerging adulthood,” but that’s just a fancy name for a…
There was a time when Miami was more likely to host a festival called Farts for All than Fall for the Arts. But the stink of being a cultural wasteland is gone. In its place is the sweet aroma of performing arts, and the Arsht Center has become the epicenter…
Let’s be honest. For most people, ballet is just a blur of leaping, turning, and pointed toes. But for the true devotee, there are great differences between the flowing movement of Italy’s Cecchetti and the long lines emphasized by the Balanchine method of the New York City Ballet, not to…
