Most Miami Heat fans were hoping that in his quest to land a proven veteran post presence, Pat Riley wouldn’t sacrifice the future before the recent trade deadline. There were reports flying everywhere of Riley’s infatuation with Suns forward Amar’e Stoudemire and his desire to land him at all costs…
The weekend is a sacred fun zone and no bummers whatsoever will be accepted. Therefore, the following things are unconditionally outlawed: 1) Glowstick fists, 2) drunken emo rants about your ex, and 3) dudes in rhinestone dragon tees. Oh, and another note: The idea of carb-counting — or counting of…
An artist’s hymen is truly broken when he or she does time in New York City’s infamous Chelsea Hotel. Documenting the time served by artistic inmates including everyone from Thomas Wolfe to Janis Joplin, director Abel Ferrara’s Chelsea on the Rocks is one of several films liquefying reality into stirring…
Wait. Do you want to know a secret? About what goes on? It won’t be long. Ask me why. I want to tell you: Beatlemania Now! A rock and roll musical. A magical mystery tour. Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Strawberry fields forever. Yellow submarine. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…
If Marie Antoinette were a Miami resident, she would have ditched her famed cake proclamation and instead gone with “Let them eat pastelitos.” It’s clear from the dulce de leche menu items at McDonald’s, and the fact that in some areas of the city, the E in ESL stands for…
Two Sundays ago, Academy Awards host Hugh Jackman triumphantly declared, “I am Wolverine!” in a powerful, firework-aided falsetto that ended his introductory routine and simultaneously confirmed just how far Hollywood’s self-esteem has fallen. Ironically enough, Jackman’s jab at himself was the funniest moment of the night, but it begs the…
You can recognize cubicle dwellers by our sun-starved skin tone, the knots in our upper backs, and an unhealthy obsession with lunchtime. That hour of the day when we can put work on hold and focus on food now has a new face: the Pool & Beach Bar at The…
Miami’s Upper Eastside has been slow to break free from its red-light-district past, but that hasn’t deterred some locals from trying to shift its transformation into high gear. Nightlife newcomer Patrick Walsh, along with Animals of the Arctic’s Alex Puentes and Ricardo Guerrero, has given the area its first weekly…
There are at least two men hiding in John Patrick Shanley’s 59-year-old corpus: Shanley The Pedant and Shanley The Unsure. The former is a long-winded brat who writes plays such as the unwatchable Dirty Story, which presumed to tell us what, when, and how to think about geopolitics in the…
New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is over and done with – and the models can eat (rice cakes) again. Each winter, the tents at New York’s Bryant Park bubble over with clothes, accessories and fashionistas directing the entire world towards what’s hot and chic for the upcoming fall season. This…
On any given Friday night, singles across the Magic City find themselves at Blockbuster, perusing the aisles for new releases, classics, and foreign films with enough captions to fill a book. And plenty of these same people would never be caught dead going to the theater alone. To us, a…
Ayesha D’Mello is on a mission to spice up Miami, and she’s armed with an arsenal of recipes that would have made George Dubya back down and retreat. In a city where you can count the Indian restaurants on one hand, her cooking classes have foodies buzzing about the tantalizing…
If a weekly party in Miami gets titled Good Clean Fun, you can bet the adjectives are dipped in a vat of irony, especially if that party takes place at Rokbar, where no one need ask the walls to talk — simply show up and don’t close your eyes. But…
Inside the Spinello Gallery on the city’s Upper Eastside, a life-size plastic skeleton stands at the entrance, its arms crossed over its rib cage. The skeleton wears a pair of size 8 1/2 Supra kicks, a heart-shaped medallion, and a black bandanna over the bottom half of its skull. “The…
Haven’t we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over treats the subject of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles with the same vulgarity Kramer brought to his 2006 children-in-peril thriller Running Scared, this time (barely) concealed under a paper-thin plaster of Oscar-worthy…
Miami’s Art Basel hangover lasts for at least a month or two, and then the natives start getting restless again. And Saturday night’s all right for gallery crawls, but sometimes an art fan just needs more than passé exhibits, thimble-size cups of tepid wine, and ubiquitous bottles of Grolsch to…
When we last saw Tyler Perry’s signature character — the bosomy, blunt-smoking, Glock-yielding Georgia granny — she and her brother, Joe (also Perry), were being pulled over by the po-po in a cameo in last March’s Meet the Browns (this is Perry’s third film in 11 months). Wearing a fat…
See if this makes you uncomfortable: Picture Andy Griffith — lovable, huggable, grandfatherly Griffith. Next to him is Liz Sheridan — you might remember her as Jerry Seinfeld’s doting mother Helen on the hit series Seinfeld. The two are floating in a sea of plush pillows atop a round bed…
“Got everybody watching what I do/Come walk in my shoes/And see the way I’m living if you really want to…,” sings Rihanna on the hook of T.I.’s “Live Your Life.” And the words are oh so appropriate for the self-proclaimed King of the South — a man who has been…
If you’re looking for something to do that’s a little historic and a lot cheap, the Taste of MiMo’s second installment is ripe and ready for the tasting. This culinary neighborhood showcase is presented by the Biscayne MiMo Association. For the regional-acronym-deficient, MiMo refers to the Miami Modern architectural design…
Orchids are as edible as they are beautiful, and when chefs include them as a side dish with fish or meat, it’s always with a warning that you are about to swallow a flower. But not just any flower — the princess of them all. Once sold for outer-galactic prices,…
Under constant threat from snarky bloggers and 24-hour tabloid television, the average celebrity lifespan has been cut from 15 minutes to mere nanoseconds. The result: a terrorized star population with a mania for “expanding the brand!” And the wired world should probably just surrender, because diversification isn’t only for stockbrokers…
