There’s been a lot of back-and-forth (and even entire Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes) about the real-life inspirations for George and Kramer from Seinfeld, but somehow Elaine has escaped such scrutiny. One suspect is stand-up comic and writer Carol Leifer, who dated Jerry Seinfeld, has remained good friends with him, and…
Forget David Copperfield and Siegfried & Roy. For the past three years, the Big Mango’s own Kevin Jeffrey and Augustine “Gus” Caruso have put such Las Vegas idols to shame. Kevin & Caruso’s Magic & Comedy Show combines the best of Vegas-style illusions and showmanship with jaw-dropping sleight of hand…
Here are three ways to sneak into the tickets-start-at-$2,000 Super Bowl: Parachute into the stadium, place an ad as a high-priced escort looking for someone with an extra ticket, or jump a beer vendor and steal his uniform. But if you’re not comfortable putting a crazy scheme into action, you…
Greynolds Park could make McGruff the Crime Dog blush. Known by locals for its restroom glory holes and sexual-predator warning signs, the park has been hosting hippie love-ins and bluegrass festivals to fight that image. For connoisseurs, the idea of a bluegrass festival will conjure up images of Del McCoury…
After garnering international recognition for her Cannes-selected 1990 experimental film, Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy, Australian artist Tracey Moffatt has spent 20 years dissecting sex, race, and the machinations of modern celebrity. Using photography and video, she is known for her essentialist approach to narrative, appropriation of media images, and…
The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has always seemed a bit like the Jersey Shore. With tough guys playing poker, middle-aged divorcées plugging away at the slots, and chongas standing in for guidettes, it’s the subtropical version of Atlantic City. So Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons should feel…
The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has always seemed a bit like the Jersey Shore. With tough guys playing poker, middle-aged divorcées plugging away at the slots, and chongas standing in for guidettes, it’s the subtropical version of Atlantic City. So Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons should feel…
Remember that Vikings vs. Saints playoff game? The nail-biting fumbles. The deep sweats in overtime. The inevitable realization that fate had dealt its unflinching hand. Well, Lingerie Bowl VII: The Ultimate Cat Fight won’t be anything like that. We promise. The Lingerie Bowl became a Super Bowl halftime sensation by…
Some University of Miami rich kids have nice cars, but they’ll be looking bootleg when East Coast Ryders are in town. This Saturday, the Rock ‘n’ Ride Car Show and Concert will take over UM’s BankUnited Center, attracting every NFL player with a whip in the 305 and featuring local…
If a Brit, not that horny Nabokov, wrote Lolita, you’d have something along the lines of the film An Education, where a precocious teenage girl turns her nose up at Oxford for a chance at nabbing and shagging a charming older man. The film, which won the Audience Choice and…
Ever since Tyson-Holyfield II went bust in a blaze of near-cannibalism, the grand American game of boxing has slipped into listlessness and mediocrity. For decades, the USA has failed to produce a fighter at any weight who recalls great homegrown champs such as Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, or crazy…
Instead of commercial breaks, the ancient Greeks would pause their athletic games every so often to pray and sacrifice to the gods. This would (a) keep the gods happy long enough so they could continue with the entertainment and (b) encourage the gods to send more strength and prowess their…
If Paul Revere rode into town this week, he’d be yelling, “The celebrities are coming!” Thanks to the Super Bowl, our fine city is about to become supersaturated with the rich and famous. This weekend’s Hotel 944 party at the $170 million, recently renovated Eden Roc Renaissance Resort (4525 Collins…
If we’ve learned anything from Miami native Jeff Lindsay’s first three Dexter Morgan books and the Showtime series they spawned, it’s that compulsive murderers can be nice people too. The title character has proven himself to be a loving boyfriend and husband, model father, and topnotch blood spatter analyst for…
Take to the streets this Thursday night for the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam on South Beach, and you can spend the night with Rihanna, singer Justin Bieber, and legions of other fans. The two young performers (that Bieber fella is only 15) will headline the first night of this…
In the ongoing drama of the hipsters’ love-hate relationship with the Internet and our increasingly immaterial world, cool kids worldwide continue to fetishize obsolete audio formats. First it was vinyl. Then it was audiocassettes. What’s next? A Sony MiniDisc craze? Whatever the new wave, Roofless Records, our favorite local source…
Think of Los Lobos as an expansive oak tree — its trunk thick with decades of growth and its roots sucking up nutrients from the norteños of Mexico, the blues of Chicago, the country twang of Texas, and even Louisiana’s kooky zydeco. You might know it for the 1987 hit…
If, like us, you’re one of the many people on this Earth for whom human laughter sounds like Satan’s screams (a condition otherwise known as geliophobia), you’ll want to stay home this Saturday. Why? Well, because the Royal Comedy Tour is gonna fill the James L. Knight Center with hee-hees…
Even on the most mundane days, Miami’s streets are crawling with cat killers, amateur plastic surgeons, half-naked D-list celebs, thieves on roller skates, and rappers with beards large enough to conceal a corrections officer’s past. But this Sunday, the Magic City freak parade will explode tenfold as unnatural examples of…
From hovering around .500 to being stuck in third place in the Southeast Division to Michael Beasley and his amazing fourth-quarter disappearing acts, the Miami Heat has been maddeningly inconsistent all year. They look utterly unstoppable one night and then completely craptastic the next. They can take down a perennial…
Remember when her milkshakes brought all the boys to the yard? When she reminded you she was the first girl to scream on a track? If there is anyone who has been totally misunderstood by her peers, it’s R&B singer Kelis. She never truly found superstar success, but album after…
Wynwood’s eclectic Gallery Diet (174 NW 23rd St., Miami) and Charley Friedman’s quixotic vision will whisk you away to a whimsical wonderland. “Magical Powers,” Friedman’s second solo show at the always-surprising space, features a mixed-media buffet of seductive offerings that incites a belly roll. On one wall, a plush hand…
