Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in “body art” into the 2004 hit Super Size Me, returns — this time expanding his horizons rather than his girth. Paraphrasing the title of a venerable computer game, Where in the World…
During George W. Bush’s fourth term as president, the administration’s desire for crises and predisposition toward fuckups leads to the creation of a zombie virus that the government hopes will help replenish troops for its various overseas conflicts. Infected women become superstrong and maintain their intelligence, but the men remain…
Before either was famous, Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler were roommates in Los Angeles, where they both worked the stand-up circuit and awaited their big breaks. Those breaks would come: Sandler has been one of the most bankable performers in Hollywood for the past decade, while screenwriter/director/producer Apatow is singularly…
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in recent TV history, both of which occurred during the sole season of NBC’s Freaks and Geeks, on which Segel played bright-eyed burnout Nick Andopolis. On the episode “I’m with the Band,” Nick imagined himself an arena-size drummer…
The martini has seen better days. Years ago, when men wore hats, afternoon martinis signaled glamour and success. Nowadays a lunchtime martini drinker seems more silly than suave, conjuring those cocktail napkins that feature witticisms such as “Tee many martoonis!” But Badrutt’s Place wishes to erase this image from the…
The superman dances and the Teddy Riley-esque choruses just aren’t feeding your hip-hop spirit like the joints from yesteryear. Before you keel over from musical malnourishment, chew on this: Today is the second day of the Miami Hip-Hop Arts Festival, at the Joseph Caleb Auditorium four-day fiesta features something for…
You enter the stadium-like theater as the previews roll and “’scuse me, ’scuse me, ’scuse me” your way across the sticky floor, only to park your keister in a seat full of nacho cheese. You bought a $15 ticket, $9 glorified Orville Redenbacher munchies, and a $6 bucket of watery…
HIV/AIDS took the spotlight in the early Nineties with movies such as Philadelphia and TV shows including The Real World San Francisco, presenting us with a reality no one wants to face. Our sunny city has some bleak statistics regarding AIDS, with the highest rate in the nation, and ranking…
If you think playing cameraman at a six-year-old’s sugar-saturated birthday party is difficult, try racing around South Beach pointing, shooting, and clicking in pursuit of cash and prizes. Although you might spend today doing the former, scores of amateur and professional photographers will be doing the more adventurous latter for…
College kids and reluctant adults have had this date mentally circled all year, and finally it’s time to kick back and celebrate the high life. Yup, yup, it’s 4/20. To nonstoners, allow us to explain. For some reason — check out Wikipedia for possible origins, although the history is understandably…
Look out, weekend, here you come — with a yen for live music and good times. If you’re not sure where to go, and the usual venues leave you less than enthusiastic, you can enjoy two very divergent sonic experiences at places that are off the beaten path when it…
They call soccer the beautiful game. In most parts of the world — such as Brazil, Italy, Argentina, and England — this is true. Here in the States, not so much. With 11 teams, give or take a club folding up every other season, the United Soccer League (USL) is…
You flip through those glossy pages and you want, want, want: the poutiest lip plumper, the slinkiest silk sheath designer dress, the sexiest Christian Louboutins or Jimmy Choos or Manolo Blahniks. You get it. You know what’s hot, because the fashion bible tells you so. But where can you get…
Three years ago, Sweat Records was struggling, trying to anchor a fledgling business district that never fully took flight. Then Hurricane Wilma blew through in October and washed those dreams away. What’s an up-and-coming indie record store to do? Proprietor Lauren “Lolo” Reskin found a new home at rock and…
For years, ecologists had been saying we were forcing our planet into a crisis, but not until our fave VP Al Gore presented us with (and won an Oscar for) An Inconvenient Truth did we actually listen. Now that winters are warm and summers scorching, we’re finally realizing why Mother…
What is it about the current crop of British musical imports? They’re all female, sassy, fresh, and irreverent, and so far, the most prominent two — Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen — seem to be squandering their talents on tawdry tabloid antics. And then there’s Estelle, who stands out from…
Take a ride along Biscayne Boulevard or Miracle Mile and you can’t miss the new-age Americana floating past your window. Hip-pop music blares from tinny speakers, crushed Big Mac boxes speckle the sidewalk, and garish tabloid magazines roll in the street like tumbleweeds. Is this what historians from the year…
The first time you saw her, your eyes traveled from her perfectly coiffed shock of platinum-blond hair to those famous brown bedroom peepers, down to her even more notorious lips, and along all of those curves. From just a glance, you figured her heart belonged to Daddy and that diamonds…
Coconut Grove is filled with secrets: hidden little streets, covert cafés, lovers you visit when you say you’re out with friends…. Oh wait, is that just us? Too much information — sorry. But you can learn some of the Grove’s more G-rated (but still interesting) revelations from the Historical Museum…
Any guys (or gals, for that matter) who list babe-watching as a hobby should bring their binoculars to Nikki Beach (1 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach) today, because the chic beach club will be overflowing with swimwear-clad cuties of all shapes and sizes. We know, it’s always like that, but today…
Maybe you never recognized the marvels of the flute ’cause back in eighth grade you had to puff out the Smurfs theme song in marching band. That’ll all change when award-winning Cuban flutist Nestor Torres unfurls a sweet mix of rumba-symphonic compositions. Torres, who won a Latin Grammy for his…
They don’t call the GOP presidential candidate “McNasty” for nothing. His wife is a ringer for Stormy Daniels, the buxom porn babe. We’re sure the Wicked Pictures contract star could elicit a stiff patriotic salute from J. Mac with her X-rated hit Operation Desert Stormy, in which the camouflage-clad bombshell…
