What do model Anna Kournikova, the Bachelor’s Andy Baldwin, and Gold-medal Olympic skier Sarah Burke have in common, besides of course that all three will be half-naked and running on the beach together today with numbers drawn onto their legs and arms? Answer: nothing. But that shouldn’t stop you from…
When Fascist soldiers intercepted Walter Benjamin as he attempted to sneak across the Pyrenees into Spain in 1940, they took away the briefcase containing his magnum opus, The Arcades Project, a sprawling, unfinished tome that attempts to describe the whole of Parisian social life during the 19th Century. After being…
Branford Marsalis, the oldest of the virtuoso Marsalis brothers, just might be one of the hardest-working men in showbiz. The New Orleans-born saxophonist began his career in the ’80s with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and thanks to his musical eclecticism, he has also performed as a sideman with the likes…
If you missed the United States vs. Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic last week, there’s another opportunity to get your race-war entertainment on. Only this time, it’s…window explosion, side leap in your face, finger snaps… Jets vs. Sharks! Hell’s Kitchen carves out a nook in Sweetwater this Saturday…
If dance can cure all ills — including these recession doldrums, natch —the sixth annual Miami Dance Festival is the ultimate monthlong panacea. It seems like artists in all fields are responding to the economic debacle in one way or another, and nimble-bodied dancers are no exception. To wit, check…
You spend a lot of time drinking sherry, smoking a pipe, and ordering every foreign film ever reissued by the Criterion Collection — La Jetée, Jules & Jim, The Naked Kiss, Yojimbo — during which you dream up the strange adventure that will carry you away from Miami and into…
Electric Pickle. Would a club by any other name sound as sour? In a city where hoity-toity monikers such as Mansion and Louis are de rigueur, a handle that sounds like a mad science project makes our lips pucker in a weird, refreshing way. Would you rather drown your workweek…
“I don’t care who I piss off,” Daddy Yankee spat at a New York Post interviewer last year. “This is about my ideals, not about making friends.” We love a man with conviction, but he wasn’t exactly defending his most heinous offense: the ambiguously raunchy lyrics of his 2004 megahit,…
What’s soft, gray, and salaciously slurp-able? No, not that. The million-dollar answer: oysters! And what better time for mollusk gluttons to get their freak on than after eight hours of staring at the wall of their cubicle — or watching their assistant stare at the wall of her cubicle. Manny’s…
Want further proof that craft beer is the newest liquor du jour? Take a look at the Thursday-night beer-tasting going down at ritzy, vintage-format steak house Angelo & Maxie’s. A&M’s comes from New York City stock — think Madison Avenue suits hoisting a rocks glass in one hand and a…
Winter Music Conference left a trail of audio destruction in its wake, but local music aficionados know that the Rhythm Foundation, now in its 21st year, puts on more than 300 shows a year in South Florida, and the Heineken Transatlantic Festival promises a month of high-caliber international bookings. The…
Deep-sea fishing, great food, live music, and cash prizes. This is what God invented South Florida for. The 2009 Yamaha Contender Miami Billfish Tournament kicks off this weekend for three days of seaside festivities. With more than $230,000 in cash prizes, the tourney has been drawing the most ardent deep-sea…
Everyone has seen Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, but the rich tradition of Japanese woodblock print has much more to offer. Collectors Shirley and Gilbert Luber spent one month every year for 30 years scouring Japan for the best examples of this exquisite art form. Now their efforts will…
Ladies, quick question. Do you like shoes? (Two billion heads nod.) Do you like cocktails? (Two billion heads nod.) How’d you like to go to a cocktail reception inside a Saks Fifth Avenue shoe department? (Two billion heads explode from overexcitement.) Heart and Sole not only bridges the gap between…
If you haven’t watched author Dave Eggers’s speech on TED.com, stop reading this and go watch it. Done? Good. Now you understand how important writing is to kids, and how awesome it is that local poet Denise Lanier was awarded one of Eggers’s Once upon a School challenge prizes. Lanier…
Your gran’s house is kind of like a museum — filled with old stuff that’s guarded by a bulldog you’d never want to meet in a dark alley. At her archive of old stuff, the café is a kitchen outfitted with unique appliances and the bookstore contains a copy of…
When the economic apocalypse flares up out of nowhere — or from the muck of “subprime mortgages,” if you believe CNBC — what are those of modest means to do? It’s a simple fact that mouths need food and landlords need cash. And while certain reactionaries say we ought to…
Like Obama says, time to get that cash reflowing, people. And what better way to indulge in some liquidity than by going to Vizcaya Museum’s Evening Under the Stars Auction? Then at least your dollars are contributing to charity, and you’ll still bring home some quality ephemeral objects: jewelry by…
If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick’s 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in which the bored, blue-haired 11-year-old of the title (voiced by Dakota Fanning) travels through the looking glass and ends up in a world that strangely resembles her own —…
Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers and knee socks clinging to lower extremities than for the legions of pre-Internet Luddites who gather, like the apes at the start of 2001,…
Like a frat boy who’s ten years too old and 20 pounds too heavy, Kyle Cease peddles Ritalin-addled, stream-of-consciousness comedy that touches on subjects as varied as septuagenarian nudists, original Nintendo, and the sexual exploits of the Pillsbury doughboy. His rambling, giggle-laced delivery is similar to that of fellow 30-something…
Truly, the secret to Les Misérables’ stunning success is its target demographic. This is theater for people who do not like theater, a musical filled with characters you don’t have to get to know, espousing a message you don’t have to think about (indeed, which crumbles on contact with anything…
