With the death of Nora Ephron, the rom-com genre loses a rock star. Ephron, who passed yesterday at age 71, was the queen of snappy wit and tear-jerking chick flicks.From the spot-on gender dichotomy of Harry and Sally to the starry-eyed sweetness of Sleepless in Seattle, her all-too-apt portrayals of…
There’s something weird going on in Greece. No, we’re not referring to its people’s decision to vote for austerity measures after overstretching the EU’s credit. We’re talking about the country’s cinema. For a country known as a source of theatrical drama, several filmmakers are breaking the rules of the art…
Boy meets girl. Boy gets kidnapped by militants in Colombia. Girl cheats with boy’s best friend. Boy is released and goes with girl and best friend on a diving trip in Miami. Things go wrong. If it sounds like an only-in-Miami story, that’s because it is; El Empantanado (The Muddy)…
See Will Dexter Swap Sex for Serial Killing?First they came for CSI: Miami, and we said nothing. (Well, actually, we kind of celebrated a little.)But then they came for Dexter, and there was no one left to speak for him… because he had already killed everyone, bagged them up, and…
It was just a few months ago that we were enjoying the Miami International Film Festival’s 2012 edition — heaping praise on The Strawberry Tree and Chinese Take-Away, mingling with Magic City’s stars at their red carpet screening, and being awed at the sheer number of films that had been…
For a guy widely considered to be among the world’s most attractive men, Channing Tatum was looking pretty rough.Don’t get us wrong. Tatum’s still sporting the fine-tuned physique and square-jawed features that earned him a spot on People’s list of most beautiful celebrities in 2010. But when we sat down…
According to Total Beauty, Miami Beach is the most heavily tattooed city in the states. No surprise there — we need something to accentuate our bare, bronzed skin.Anywhere there are legions of inked up people, there must also exist artists aplenty to do the inking. That’s why the Oxygen network…
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Remember way back in 2009, when Vince Shlomi, better known as the ShamWow informercial guy, got into a violent, tongue-biting battle with a prostitute at the Setai? Well, he’s back in the saddle, hawking a new product called the Schticky. And he’s using the Miami incident to do it. Prior…
In the very particular universe of reality TV weight-loss and workout show personalities, superstar trainer Jackie Warner is neither the most punishing nor the most manic. Her past shows for Bravo — Work Out and Thintervention — were, of course, edited for maximum drama. With her clients themselves, though, Warner…
Strip club King of Diamonds is going mainstream. Maybe.The club, subject of a recent New Times feature chronicling the lives of its owner, promoters, and dancers, could make the leap from niche hip-hop fame to full-fledged celebrity with a new reality show set right up on the main stage, according…
Elizabeth Banks is one lucky bitch. She’s made out with Alec Baldwin. She’s rubbed up on Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey. She starred in one of this year’s most successful films, The Hunger Games, and also appears on 30 Rock, one of the best shows on television.For all these reasons…
Hollywood, Hallmark, and our moms and dads have all provided us with pretty concrete ideas of what relationships and families are supposed to look like, even if those models of what to expect and aspire to often fail. It seems like the ideas of “normalcy” these sources supply are so…
Pick up any issue of Backwoods Home magazine and you’ll find a myriad of articles on how to make paper at home and do-it-yourself fruit canning. Yet for all its helpful tips on rural living, the magazine will most likely be remembered for a small classified ad that ran in…
