photo courtesy of Franchesca Ramsey Franchesca Ramsey is our new favorite South Florida celebrity interviewer (sorry Señorita Maria Salas), and she’s not even a pro. She spends her days as the communications manager and graphic designer for the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, but a contest sponsored by People.com and…
There’s a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy issues — fucking in a cramped airplane bathroom, on a barnyard’s itchy haystack, in a grimy toilet stall, in a hospital chapel even…
Hello, Kitty: I wasn’t exactly hot as a teen, but when I hit 25, I became a stud and subsequently went on a decade-long dating spree. Recently I decided to drop the bachelor life and start hunting for someone to spend my life with. It hasn’t been easy; no one…
In the latest play from the Edge Theatre’s artistic director, Jim Tommaney, a young, queer drama critic (like me) works for an alternative newsweekly in South Florida (like this one, but called CityTimes) and writes nasty, bitchy notices about everything he sees, regardless of quality (“It’s not about the play!”…
In the Fifties sci-fi classic The Blob, a meteor, pregnant with a deadly strain of star jelly, crashes near a small town, where the goop begins swallowing members of the community. Teenagers race to where the meteor landed and discover an elderly man whose hand has been infected by the…
On some level, you’ve got to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put together the financing for a three-hour war movie lacking any marquee names and performed largely in Italian and German with English subtitles. Spielberg…
“You’re a woman scorned with no prenup. That’s a recipe for good livin'” is just one of the zingers Kathy Bates gets to deliver as Charlotte Cartwright, a rich Southern matriarch whose son (Cole Hauser) is having an affair with Andrea (Sanaa Lathan), the social-climbing daughter of Charlotte’s Bible-waving best…
During this historic political season, two famous (or infamous, depending on which side of the party line you’re on) female politicians alluded to a glass ceiling with an enormous number of cracks. The ceiling might have sustained some damage during the campaign, but with a gender-wage gap, not to mention…
Join the Notorious Nastie and Buffalo for the coolest conglomeration of the arts that you’ve ever seen. Hosted by Cuci from Afrobeta, tonight promises to please with performances and exhibitions from creatives of all mediums. If you choose to indulge you’ll be blessed with the presence of artists such as…
In the style of New York’s “Seventh off Fifth” and LA¹s “Clothing off Our Backs,” Coconut Grove Cares will host Miami’s version of the ultimate charity sales event with the 2nd annual Fashionably Conscious fundraiser Sept. 26 to 27 at Mary Brickell Village. The event will feature luxe labels from…
It’s an awesome foursome of Miami bands tonight at Tobacco Road. Gentlemen and Scholars kick it off at 9 p.m., followed by Rebel at 10, Nimencia at 11, and SuperSonic at the stroke of midnight. Thu., Sept. 25, 2008…
Xavier Cortada’s Reclamation Project at the Miami Science Museum is ambitious and admirable. This participatory eco-art project was developed by the Miami artist to help restore native habitats for plants and animals across the community. Today, volunteers will plant 1100 mangrove seedlings on Virginia Key. Will you join them? Even…
Twenties Berlin was notorious for its neon signs and automobile traffic, modern department stores and movie palaces, jazz bars and flophouses, theaters and thousand-seat cafés, artists and paramilitaries, rent boys and cross-dressers — and above all, cabaret. Cabaret, based on a play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher…
If you told us you didn’t care about fashion, we wouldn’t believe you. Sure, Zac Posen’s latest couture collection might not tickle your fancy, and you might not particularly care about the Karl Lagerfeld teddy bear, but an appreciation of style doesn’t always have to lean toward the high-end. Your…
Nelly burst onto the scene in 2000, spitting nursery-rhyme-inspired raps that had hip-hop purists cringing in their fitted caps. But soon everyone was chanting “Down, down baby” as his first album debuted at number three on the Billboard charts, and it seemed like the St. Lunatic was gonna be in…
It figures. Miami goes practically all summer long without a serving of sweet soul music, and now that the high season is about to begin — wham! — two soulful divas gotta face off on the same night, forcing music fans to make some tough decisions. In this corner, taking…
You can valet park to see a blockbuster film at any of the big cinema chains, but do you really need to pay good money to see Nicolas Cage mumble laughable action-hero dialogue, or watch Katherine Heigl desperately mug for chuckles? There are some great films to be found in…
Nature lovers, break out your waders and dust off your life jackets. You can get to know your local bodies of water on a first-name basis during an afternoon of aquatic activities. Greenies can get their mangrove on with Xavier Cortada’s Reclamation Project and plant 1,100 seedlings on Virginia Key…
Coral Gables will likely witness its toughest crowd ever when TNA Wrestling makes a stop at the University of Miami’s BankUnited Center. Six-year-old TNA is full of familiar faces. World Heavyweight Champ Samoa Joe, Booker T, A.J. Styles, and Christian Cage are just a few of the well-known stars who…
The promise of spiritual enlightenment and a more relaxed state of mind wasn’t enough to woo you to a life of toting a foamy yoga mat under your arm three times a week. And when your yogi buddy said you’d have a stronger, leaner, more toned body if you would…
Since the early Eighties, Henry Rollins has been on a mission. The former Black Flag frontman, now 47 years old, has written countless books of poetry and nonfiction, has appeared in blockbuster movies, hosts his own television and radio talk shows, and has made a number of USO tours in…
The generations of stoners born in the Eighties realize one thing from those nostalgic VH1 flashback specials: the THC content in Mary Jane might be stronger now, but man, cats in the Seventies knew how to party. Any Cheech and Chong film from the era proves that. The two avowed…
