When Pat Riley said after the Miami Heat’s January 8 loss to NBA-worst Minnesota that he might quit as coach to focus on his other job as team president, he felt compelled to add, “But that’s after this season. That’s not now.” The natural follow-up question from the press gallery…
Professional boxers have earned a special type of respect. While we tend to avoid physical confrontations at all costs, they willingly walk into a roped-off square and order a can of whoop-ass. Yes, there’s a referee to make sure things don’t get too ugly, but we’re more comfortable outside the…
After the massive success of Paul Chan’s November staging of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, one hopes theater companies across the nation will begin to see the potential for outdoor performances. Just imagine Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in the lobby of an aborted condominium project,…
Just when you thought South Beach was only for Eurotrash tourists and low-rent hip-hop clubs, culture comes to town: Art Deco Weekend is here, still running strong after 31 years. The weekend celebrating architectural history kicks off tonight with the Light Up the Night parade at 7:30 on Ocean Drive,…
In case you were wondering, the increased amount of hair on your chest can be attributed to the rising of a full moon, not that 100-proof Absolut you drank last night. And in honor of this monthly lunar phenomenon, the über-cool organization Alchemical Courtyard is bringing you Moon over Miami,…
Ten years ago you thought that buying a $140 pair of Nike Air Jordans would give you the ups you needed to soar into the sky, but the only thing that went up was the balance on your credit card. We say it’s time to revisit your flight dreams, but…
Thanks to the writers’ strike, the availability of fresh episodes of your favorite scripted shows is nil. But the bounty of reality shows across the dial can appease even the most discerning couch potato, whether you’re into business, beauty, or just basic BS. For all you aspiring twinkle-toes, there’s the…
Warning: Those sitting in the first two rows may receive kicks to the face, licks of the chest, lap dances from smarmy lounge lizards, and/or biting criticism. No one is safe from the Gazillionaire’s acerbic wit, not even the cast. He points to a jacked-like-Schwarzenegger bodybuilder in the second row…
Photo by Elvis Ramirez A painting by Mitch O’Connell at the Harold Golen Gallery Click here to view a slideshow of the Wynwood Art Walk. After a fire burned most of Harold Golen’s gallery to the ground in December, he relocated temporarily to a warehouse on NW 24th Street. He…
This weekend, Paul Mooney brought his trademark brand of in-your-face observational comedy to the Miami Improv. For over an hour and a half, he sat on a stool in front of a mixed crowd of over 200 people and ripped on race relations, celebrities, and our favorite source of comedic…
We used the name, sure, but we were never really sold on “The Carnival” as a suitable moniker for Miami’s performing arts center. Little did we know it could get worse. “The Arsht”? Yeah, right. My arsht. No offense to banker and philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, whose $30 million gift to…
Click here to view the Flamingo Photo Project slideshow. Production of the original plastic pink flamingo, designed in 1957 by Don Featherstone, ceased in June, 2006, just shy of its 50th birthday. Its manufacturer, Union Products of Leominster, Mass., closed the factory. The plastic pink flamingo proliferated front yards during…
Joshua (Fox) George Ratliff’s movie, a sort of satirical take on Rosemary’s Baby, came and went upon its release; seems no one got the joke about how parents (Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga, in this case) are scared shitless of their own children — especially the titular Joshua, played by…
Since promising Armageddon in the leadoff bars of Straight Outta Compton, star/producer Ice Cube has been one canny career man. In recent years he has pulled up stake in the foundering rap game and doesn’t seem to think twice about the cred damage that could come from pratfalling through PG…
First: Just register the laziness of that title. All right. The Inspiring True Story behind Great Debaters is the 1930s championship streak of East Texas’s all-black Wiley College debate team, coached by poet and teacher Melvin B. Tolson. This bit of historicity is the excuse for an educational tour of…
When I was 12 years old, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway totally screwed me over. After visiting the famed Brickyard and eagerly paying 10 bucks to take “a lap around the track,” I was placed in a golf cart that putted around the asphalt at a not-entirely-death-defying nine miles per hour…
Jeffrey Ross is famous for, among other things, posing this question to Courtney Love and a viewing audience of millions in 2005: “How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?” Ralphie May is famous for, among other things, making fun of retarded people’s inability to pronounce…
Harold Golen felt like a prizefighter dropped by a dirty shot to the kidney when he arrived at his eponymous Wynwood gallery the morning of December 11 and found it ablaze. The fire gutted the place and destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of artworks, collectibles, and furniture. “I…
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a 39-acre park just south of Miami where you can find more than 500 types of fruits, herbs, spices, vegetables, and nuts from around the world. That’s right, the Redland Fruit & Spice Park is a veritable produce section — huge, amazing, and in…
It was 1994 when the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding scandal showed the world that the seemingly lily-white sport of figure skating was really no safer than a night at Fight Club. And just a couple of months ago, Ingrid Marie Rivera, Miss Puerto Rico Universe, had to make a quick change…
During the mid-19th Century, paradise meant different things to the Anglo-American population than to African-Americans. In the Fifties, white visions might have neatly lined up with Leave It to Beaver’s depiction of a rose-color America – a big TV set in every living room, a tail-finned car in the driveway,…
Aramis Gutierrez lights the fuse on the year’s first Wynwood arts crawl with an arsenal of combustible works that revel in the uncanny and grotesque. “Even Now, in the Final Hour of My Life, I’m Falling in Love Again,” opening tonight at 7 at the David Castillo Gallery (2234 NW…
