Like any good Miamian, you probably have a healthy curiosity about and enjoyment of all things Cuban. We’re not talking just extra-strong coffee and kicked-up ham-and-cheese sandwiches. You’ve often wondered about son music, and during late nights on the couch, you’ve wished you could speak español fluently and flipped to…
Tonight you might notice hordes of well-dressed men heading to Bird Bowl. The attraction? It’s the beginning of the Gay Bowling League’s season! The evening kicks off with an organizational meeting at 7:00, when teams will be divvied up into groups of three bowlers each. “Practice” bowling starts at 8:00;…
There was a time when this stuff was known generically as ultimate fighting, and it looked like a cross between boxing and a bar brawl, except that if some wiry Brazilian guy were to pin a barfly and issue a series of uppercuts to the poor bastard’s groin, the barkeep…
We’ve all heard the cliché “You are what you eat.” Some people take it a step further and believe “You are what you wear.” If that’s true, you might need to stash that “If That’s Your Boyfriend, He Wasn’t Last Night” T-shirt. We hear karma can be a real so-and-so…
When American Idol auditions recently breezed through town, the reality-TV fame-seeker you are had a little itch to go out there and try your hand at it. After all, you can out-mumble William Hung, and your hair is fiercer than Sanjaya’s on its worst day. You were prepared to bring…
Visit the world of Karen Kilimnik and you’ll find a gothic landscape cloaked in a gossamer web of memory. At times her work can be like the contents of one of those kitschy wind-up jewelry boxes in which a ballerina pirouettes to “Swan Lake,” or akin to the pages of…
Firefighters are our real-life supermen — hardy, masculine, courageous, and damn sexy in uniform. They are firemen in every sense of the word — extinguishing flames by day and igniting them in women’s hearts by night. Tonight the ladies at Martini Bar might need to be hosed down during the…
When you need a tasty coffee-friendly treat to go with your Grande Soy Ubora Blend, what do you choose — blueberry muffin or apple pecan biscotti? No pressure, but now there is a right answer. Starbucks has hired chef, author, and TV host Marcus Samuelsson to create pairings for the…
Local graffiti artist and socially conscious dude Aholsniffsglue has a favorite word. “I say whatever all the time, man. I’m getting a tattoo that says whatever,” he declares during a recent phone interview. Before he gets inked, he’ll be hosting the appropriately titled Whatever Jam at PS 14. Featuring Movie…
Here’s why Animal Planet rocks: The perennially entertaining cable channel appeals equally to comedy lovers, crunchy granola types, and college stoners because it gives us humans a good look at real wildlife. Animals simply don’t act wild if they’re sleeping away their days in a small enclave of a zoo,…
In the past he has invited you to “Pop That Coochie” and told you exactly in which positions to place your face and ass. (The first goes down, the other goes up, in case you were wondering). But now, on the first Friday of each month, Luther Campbell is inviting…
Last Friday night, Danny DeVito returned to Miami to unveil his new line of Limoncello. The drink was inspired by his funny arrival on The View , several months back, after spending a night on the town with George Clooney. DeVito was all over the place, ribbing the president, recounting…
Despite the glint of a diamond stud in his ear, Steve Meeks emits a whiff of Sergeant Rock as he pulls on a fat cheroot outside his Borders mega-framing shop in Little Havana. The Kentucky native moved his family-run operation, which caters largely to the artist, collector, and museum trade,…
Clay and Brush: The Ceramic Art of China: The Lowe’s new exhibit is a penetrating historical survey of the development of Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period to the 21st Century. The sweeping exhibition, which unfolds chronologically, includes more than 190 objects and is divided into three sections: pottery, stoneware,…
Year of the Dog (Paramount Vantage) It’s just about the First Commandment of Hollywood: Don’t kill the dog. So it’s a testament to the clout of writer-director Mike White (School of Rock) that killing off the dog is the first of many rules broken in this weird-ass movie. Folks fooled…
It is as you’ve always suspected: Rob Zombie’s house is way cooler than yours. For one thing, the punk/metal god turned filmmaker has a 12-foot stuffed polar bear in his living room. (Zombie to dumbstruck interviewer: “I know, right? How fuckin’ big is that bear?”) The bear presides over dozens…
Leonardo DiCaprio wants you to know we are in serious trouble. No amount of artful chin stubble, it seems, will reverse the depletion of fossil fuels or help to slow population growth. Not even three Oscar nominations will save you — without an actual statuette, there’s nothing to wedge under…
Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, reserve it early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney’s 1954 novella The Body Snatchers, which some bright light envisioned as the ideal starring vehicle for the Cold Mountain herself, Nicole Kidman, and for Daniel Craig, last…
The next-gen consoles are sexy as hell, but it’s not all bad being the reigning “last-gen” champ either. With more than 100 million PlayStation 2 consoles sold, software companies can afford to be a little adventuresome — after all, even if their game appeals to only one percent of that…
Act One: AmericanAirlines Arena, Wednesday, August 22. Big steps covered with darting humanity. Camera crews, journos, fast-moving people wearing color-coded shirts and performing mysterious functions. And kids — thousands of them, some heading into the arena and some heading out, some scared or grim and others bursting out of their…
Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right (HBO) The Boris Karloff Collection (St. Clair) Broken English (Magnolia) Carlito’s Way: Crime Saga Collection (Universal) Dark Shadows: The Beginning (MPI) The Essential Ozzie & Harriet Collection (Mill Creek) Friday Night Lights: The First Season (Universal) Gideon’s Trumpet (Acorn) Heaven & Hell: Live From Radio…
Art’s healing power is the subject of a contest conducted by Gilda’s Club Worldwide to help colorectal cancer survivors find courage in their creativity. “Snapshot of Survival,” an exhibit traveling from Miami to Seattle to Buffalo, is highlighted by the first-place work of North Miami Beach resident Susan Lazarus, whose…
