From the dodge ball Olympics in grade school to the badminton game at your family reunion, your measly career in athletics has always been focused on winning. But you lost. So you figured that being best is for Tom Brady. And just your luck, each year the Beach Bums Golf…
After 21 long months of living room campaigning, the time has finally come for us to cast our ballots and decide the next president of the United States. Yeah, you might be sick of hearing amazing speech after incredible oratory after electrifying discourse from Obama. And even your John McCain/T-Rex…
If you were important enough to have a movie written about your life, we doubt the script would include verbal gems such as “Eat the cake, Anna Mae.” Maybe “Swallow the biscuit, Jimmy Lee” or “Pick up those shoes, Kate.” But to have a line that culminates with the forcing…
Iron Chef is a rare breed of TV program. The stylized Japanese cooking competition made its debut in 1993 and has since revolutionized food preparation. C’mon, you know when you’re slicing and dicing in the privacy of your kitchen, you’re envisioning a panel of rapt judges and a soundtrack of…
The Anime Supercon is finally here: three full days of absolute, balls-out fandom beginning Friday at the Miami Downtown Hilton. Yes, there will be costume contests galore, as both cosplayers and Halloween fanatics fill the halls with gunblades and spiky hair. But there’ll also be videogaming, D&D matches, comic book…
It’s appropriate that the Miami Heat should have the 2008-09 season home opener on Halloween night. Last year’s abysmal 15-win season was a little like thinking you got a bag full of candy but discovering the neighbors gave you a bag of 25-cent condoms. And you went through all that…
Is it any surprise that our favorite verse of the classic Geto Boys hip-hop song “My Mind Playin’ Tricks on Me” belongs to Bushwick Bill? Although the diminutive rapper’s verse turns out to be just a disturbing illusion, we still get excited when we hear someone say, “This year, Halloween…
In the two years since Don Carter’s Kendall Lanes closed, you’ve been in a gutter of grief. Your bowling shoes have a layer of dust on them and your ball has lost its gleam. Since then, the closest you’ve been to knocking down pins is the virtual alley of your…
In recent years, the contemporary art market boom has been sustained by young guys on Wall Street who are now out looking for jobs and can’t afford to buy art anymore,” says Gary Nader, owner of an eponymous gallery in Wynwood. “I guarantee that Art Basel will not be as…
Titling an event “The Most Interesting Show in the World” creates a lot of expectations, especially when it’s on Halloween. A traveling freak show might indeed be the most interesting event going on in town any other night of the year, but to really be “The Most Interesting” on October…
A still from “Untitled” a short film by Nick Knight, via Show Studio Fresh of her starring role in one of the most talked about fashion mag issues of the year, Naomi Campbell will be celebrated with her own retrospective during Art Basel. The exhibition will be in conjunction with…
Gerard Damiano, director of Deep Throat, died over the weekend in Fort Myers at age 80. 1972’s Deep Throat helped, for better or worse, push pornography into the billion-dollar industry it is today, as well as lended its name to the then-anonymous Watergate source. Much of the film, naturally, was…
Cocaine Cowboys, the acclaimed documentary chronicling the Miami drug trade during the ’70s and ’80s produced by local studio Rakontur, got a shout out in the most unlikely of places this month: Live with Regis & Kelly. Kelly and her husband caught the documentary on Showtime, and said it was…
Last night’s South Park found the boys forming a Peruvian flute band to make some extra cash, but they get swept up by a Peruvian flute band crackdown led by Depart of Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff. They’re imprisoned in a makeshift holding camp in Miami under I-95, almost identical…
Next week in a small theater roughly the size of dormitory lounge, a local middle-school teacher named Kimberly Cox will magically transform herself into the most powerful image in the free world. “I already have the bangs and the glasses,” Cox says, “so I just put the blazer on.” Every…
At the Center for Visual Communication, the ghosts of a bygone era rise from the Big Easy in the haunting works of the iconoclastic photographer Clarence John Laughlin, who is often recognized as the first American surrealist. “Clarence John Laughlin: Poet Photographer” marks the first major exhibit of the American…
Pride and Glory doesn’t make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie ever made, save, perhaps, Turner & Hooch. It serves up clichés bound together by a flimsy, bored-out-of-its-own-skull story about bad cops, black sheep, good sons, and…
If Oscars were handed out for fake snow, director John Moore’s bleary, dreary, sub-Sin City big-screen videogame would clean up like Ben-Hur: By the 50th exterior shot strewn with fistfuls of art-directed dandruff, a viewer stuck in this film-noir snow globe feels like W.C. Fields in The Fatal Glass of…
One of the oft-repeated historical curiosities about the Maya is that they conceived the wheel yet never found a practical application for it. Maya kids had wheeled toys and Maya calendars were imagined as wheels … yet when it came to hauling something, your average Maya just heaped his shit…
They call it hump day because you’re finally over half of the workweek, but you’re already prepared to throw in the towel and call it the weekend. Before you sink into a mire of depression at the two long days of labor still staring you in the face, we say…
To children, The Wizard of Oz seems simple. A Midwestern girl who speaks like Sarah Palin gets swept away by a tornado made out of a lady’s stocking. She kills a witch, gets homesick, and returns to Kansas with a click of her heels. As you grow older, you realize…
Local music impresario José El Rey declares, “I’ll be there, and I’m more than enough for all the ladies to come. There will be woofers installed in special devices.” What’s he talkin’ ’bout? It’s Shake, a new party that’ll have you fiending like a junkie every Thursday night. Thank Que…
