Sick of spilling cheese at the strip club? We have something better for you. Allow us to paint you a visual picture of the sights, sounds, and smells you are certain to behold when Nastie’s Female Wrestling returns tonight to Studio A. Scantily clad women will be rolling around in…
As a kid, you were taught wolves were evil. Hell, the Big Bad Wolf even made you think twice about taking a basket of goodies to your ailing grandma. But then you hit puberty and that monster turned into the coolest thing ever, and you wished Michael J. Fox’s Teen…
Sure, Miami is marketed nowadays as a multicultural melting pot – a population with a wonderfully wide variety of ethnicities and cultures living together in bilingual harmony. But way back when, Miami was a whole lot more “Southern,” in the traditional, exclusionist, prejudiced sense of the word. Notable artists of…
It’s safe to say that in 1989, when Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds released his album Tender Lover, “the game” – a.k.a. male/female relations — was changed forever. Not because the superpretty R&B soulster came out with a song crooning about whip appeal in a way that was all sex appeal and…
When you hear the picking of a banjo, your thoughts instinctively drift to Ned Beatty, canoes, Burt Reynolds’s mustache, and anal rape courtesy of unsavory inbred mountain dwellers. As far as you’re concerned, bluegrass is the soundtrack of the Bible belt. It’s music for people who fly the Confederate flag…
Itching to try out your bad-ass first-person shooter gaming skills, but not quite ready for combat in Iraq? Well then, do the next best thing – paintball tournament! MZ Indoor Paintball Park is bringing alive the art of combat via harmless paintballs and inflatable obstacles in a five-man Rookie Paintball…
South Florida fetish folks have been without whipping grounds since the closing of Club Kink, and the scene has become a worthless little piggy because of it. The kind of scene you just want to spank because it’s been so naughty. The kind you want to put in a leather…
No blonde wig. No pink lipstick. The fabulous creation known as Shelley Novak isn’t meeting me at the Quarterdeck restaurant on Alton Road today – instead, I’m sitting across from Tommy Strangie, the man behind the makeup. He’s got a scruffy beard and a black skullcap. His build can best…
Photo by Omar Vega Kimbo Slice flexed after making quick work of Tank Abbot. Ever seen two mastodons go at it? Me neither. Not till last night at BankUnited, anyway. The occasion: Kimbo Slice vs Tank Abbott for the EliteXC Street Certified championship, of course. And I was cage-side. But…
Jose D. Duran Poor Coconut Grove Arts Festival, with the arrival of Art Basel seven years ago to the sunny shores of Miami Beach, it has become the city’s ugly duckling of art events, diminished to an arts and crafts show focusing on mass-produced Brittos and hippie knick-knacks. Then again,…
Elvis Ramirez Click here to view a slide show from the Miami International Boat Show. The Yacht and Brokerage Show, which continues until President’s Day, was a good display of boats – and vanity. “[I can afford this] I have a house in the mountains, actually I have three,” I…
So you may be spending Valentine’s Day alone, and even if you are not, you need to take a break from all the romanticism. Take a gander at the following videos and enjoy a laugh on us. And if you are alone, don’t despair, things could be worse. You could…
No Reservations (Warner Bros.) From its cheap, mid-’90s-looking package to its woefully scant extras (one pre-chewed Food Network behind-the-scenes, blech) to its wide-screen/full-screen option, this feels like something dropped right into the discount bins; it probably debuts at half off this week. And this soufflé of a romantic comedy deserves…
When it comes to giving a game a vibe, “awesome” is an easy mark to hit. Explosions, hot chicks, macho one-liners, and salivating mutants are all awesome. And it’s just about impossible to overdo the awesome: More explosions, more hot chicks, more machismo, and more mutants are only more awesome…
The Amateurs (First Look) The Beatrix Potter Collection (BBC Warner) Becoming Jane (Miramax) Blade: The Series — The Complete Series (New Line) Blue State (MGM) Charlie Chan: Volume 4 (Fox) Dallas: The Complete Eighth Season (Warner Bros.)Dedication (Weinstein) The Equalizer: Season One (Universal) Family Ties: The Third Season (Paramount) General…
It’s a recent Monday evening, and Steven Gagnon has brought traffic to a halt a stone’s throw from the Shrine of Saint Philomena Catholic Church in Little Havana. His Border Cruiser “mobile video sculpture” is parked on the corner of SW Sixth Street and 17th Avenue, where a crowd of…
Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection: The show features 59 works in a mind-boggling hodgepodge of media by artists ranging from Damien Hirst to Olafur Eliasson and José Antonio Hernández-Diez. It “proposes a playful, imaginative, curious, and unexpected approach to objects used in daily life,” curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill says…
Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. “If you run that fast, your ankles will snap off,” says Jason Creed (Josh Close) to fellow film student Ridley (Philip Riccio), the gauze-wrapped lead of his no-budget mummy opus The Death of Death. Pausing to regroup, cast and…
No celebrity hairdresser should ever be allowed near Colin Farrell’s eyebrows with a tweezer. Black, fluffy, and gloriously unilateral, they still aren’t the prettiest things about In Bruges — that honor falls to the Belgian city itself, known for its scenic medieval turrets, bourgeois tedium, and unfavorable comparisons to Amsterdam…
Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up Definitely, Maybe is a surprisingly rewarding romantic comedy. Imagine, really, old-school Woody Allen starring that shit-eating smirker from Van Wilder, Ryan Reynolds. If this isn’t exactly Annie Hall or Manhattan, the mere fact it aspires to…
Levee James begins as a fond family reminiscence, with a woman visiting her brother-in-law and his children on a cotton farm in rural Georgia. This, the first of four scenes, should be when playwright S.M. Shephard-Massat gets his exposition out of the way: who Levee James is, what has brought…
Skip the bouquet and forego the clichés. Tonight you should do something that makes you LOL. Whether you’re a dynamic duo or a solo act, make this Valentine’s Day one to remember by heading to the Miami Improv, because Aaron Karo (a.k.a. The Recovering Frat Boy) will be kicking off…
