The stateside arrival of global icon David Beckham has put soccer on the collective radar of the American populace for the first time since Pelé and his New York Cosmos teammates rubbed elbows with Mick Jagger at Studio 54 in the Seventies. There is good reason to hope this time…
Ladies know some days are just girlier than others. On Monday you might crave a beer and a hamburger. By Friday maybe you feel like nibbling on Dibs and watching Sixteen Candles for the 65th time. Today is the perfect day to indulge your ultragirly side with beauty treatments, fashion,…
Because popular local DJ Lance-O looks so cool — abundant graying facial hair, superlong dreadlocks and all — it’s easy to assume he leads a life of leisure. But this month the dude is mad busy. Not only is he about to kick off his record label’s Kulcha Shok Muzik…
Ahhh, South Beach: the land of milk and honey, pure cocaine and fake gold dookie chains. From Alton Road to Ocean Drive — depending on what streets you decide to travel — the air smells like either dog piss and cigarettes or Chanel No. 5 and money. SoBe is unique,…
We hate to break it to you, but there will never be another decade like the Nineties. There will never be another TV show like Friends, a president like Bill Clinton, or a rap legend like Tupac. But the decade you long for is also responsible for a lot of…
Mondays are hard days to get through, what with the return to indentured servitude; the sweltering, swampy weather; and the insane traffic that has turned us into the nation’s worst drivers. Why not end your day on a high (and healthy) note and take an invigorating class at True Balance?…
The Arizona Diamondbacks specialize in winning close games and losing blowouts. Near the bottom of the National League in most batting categories and among the best in pitching, they give up many more runs than they score, an oddity for a team contending in baseball’s strongest division. What’s more, their…
You’d love to go to the Comedy Festival, one of the nation’s premier stand-up events, this November at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Unfortunately that involves booking a flight and a hotel, losing your kid’s college savings at the blackjack table, and possibly being buried up to your neck in…
Ever since Parrot Jungle Island evolved into Jungle Island, we’ve begun to think less of Toucan Sam and more of the lush tropics and exotic animals when we trek across the MacArthur Causeway. Yes, the attraction is still located at 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail, but only when “Parrot” was dropped…
Bacardi and Captain Morgan are fine when you’re yelling across a crowded bar for a rum and coke, but there is much more to taste and enjoy in the wonderful world of rum. Being among so many Hispanic and Caribbean migrants, Miamians have been fortunate in the rum department. Most…
Darder gets down The sound of Brazilian drumming heralded our arrival at Uva 69 Sunday night. A live drummer, laying down a funky backbeat as Djinji Brown manned the ones and twos. “I’ll House You” by the Jungle Brothers, Celia Cruz’s “Quimbara,” and Rick James’s “Mary Jane.” He kept the…
In the face of countywide budget cuts, county commissioners will convene early next month to discuss slashing the county film office’s operating budget by 40 percent, its marketing budget by 60 percent, and its staff by 50 percent, to three employees. Another idea: implementing fees for entrainment industry types seeking…
It’s difficult to imagine Hialeah families piling onto Miami Beach-bound buses to catch their first ever museum show. But when the call comes from the revered queen of salsa, they heed. “¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz,” at the Bass Museum of Art, explores the iconic Cuban singer’s…
2007 Cintas Fellowship Finalists: The show features the work of Alexandre Arrechea, María Martínez-Cañas, Gean Moreno, Wilfredo Prieto, and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, the five finalists for the $15,000 Cintas visual arts fellowship for 2007. Martínez-Cañas is the standout amid a lot of inconsistent work and shoddy presentation. The artist, who snagged…
Hot Fuzz (Universal) The second feature from writer-director Edgar Wright and writer-star Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) has been available on home video for decades: Hot Fuzz is, after all, a witty and wisecracking montage of clips from some hundred-plus A-list and bargain-bin action films, chief among them Lethal…
The Bourne Ultimatum opens in Russia as the amnesiac superspy Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) does what he does best: elude capture, crack skulls, brood. Lickety-split he’s en route to Paris, nursing his wounds and breaking out with a bad case of those itchy-scratchy hallucinations known as Hollywood Flashback Syndrome. Choice…
In the observation room of the spacecraft Icarus II, passengers sit on a bench in front of a large rectangular screen displaying a view of what lies ahead. They gaze at the spectacle as you might marvel at special effects on some ostentatious plasma monitor. A seething orb of gas…
Director Leon Ichaso, already responsible for mucking up a made-for-TV Jimi Hendrix biopic, is back at it with this turgid film about salsa star Hector Lavoe (Marc Anthony), which doesn’t so much go behind the music as beneath it. Focusing almost solely on Lavoe’s addictions (drugs and women, ho and…
The concept behind All-Pro Football 2K8 is simply wonderful: Imagine a fantasy football league where you draft from a pool not of this season’s top players, but of the greatest NFL players of all time: Joe Montana, John Elway, Dick Butkus, Jerry Rice, Marcus Allen, Mike Ditka, and more than…
The Archie Show: The Complete Series (Genius) Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (Warner Bros.) The Best of the Kids in the Hall: Volume 2 (A&E) Bloodlines (THINKfilm) Creature (MGM) A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (Docurama) Dallas: The Complete Seventh Season (Warner Bros.) Film Noir Classic Collection: Vol. 4 (Warner…
If you’re sick of the usual Thursday happy-hour hoopla (that is, bad service at a bar packed with belligerent jocks and inebriated suburban princesses who wouldn’t know a Klimt from a Kandinsky), opt for a little culture with your cocktail at the monthly LoweDown Happy Hour at UM’s Lowe Art…
In the promotional video for the Miami Salsa Congress, a man dips a woman and spins her around while trumpets call out to the dancers. The woman hooks onto her partner and shakes her body ferociously to the salsa rhythms. The congress is a five-day weekend event that celebrates salsa…
