Light the grill and lock away frightened pets – it’s the Fourth of July! If you’re like most Americans, chances are you’ll be celebrating with barbecue spreads and red, white, and blue decorations, and the evening is sure to bring some of the most spectacular fireworks you’ve ever seen. This…
The boy playfully dunks the girl’s head under the water, holding her there until she grabs his thigh in mock distress. With her mop of curly hair drenched straight, she emerges like a mermaid. The boy’s eyes follow her entire ascent. She spits crystal-clear water at him and pauses. His…
UPDATE: Santos informed New Times this morning that the show described below has been cancelled. The mariconsons won’t be coming home tonight. The mariconsons are coming home tonight when Spanish language radio personalities Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero hit the stage at Miami Improv in Coconut Grove. The last time…
David Lynch joined the Miami screening via webcast “We are like the spider; we weave our life and then move along in it. We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream,” said David Lynch during his live introduction via webcast at The Colony Theater (1040…
The seemingly ageless “Queen of Crime” Edna Buchanan was at Books & Books in Coral Gables Thursday night to read from her new novel, Love Kills. For the graying audience that packed the place, it wasn’t so much a reading as a chance to revel in Miami noir. They wanted…
Mimi Davila and Laura Di Lorenzo — aka the “Chongalicious” duo — recently appeared on Pitbull’s La Esquina on Mun 2. The girls have a funny cameo at the end of the clip. Check it out here: – Tamara Lush…
Evan Almighty, the followup to Bruce Almighty, is the work of an angry God. At 89 minutes that last a lifetime, it’s a sanctimonious sitcom dolled up as the most expensive comedy ever made — $175 mil, so they say, no doubt choking — and marks an unfortunate low point…
A skilled actor vanishes into a role; a movie star appropriates it. As presence trumps character, the star personifies Brecht’s alienation effect, and whatever its ostensible subject, the movie becomes a vehicle — the latest installment in an ongoing career or, in the case of a great star, a public…
Look up in the sky: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a giant silver eunuch on a radioactive surfboard! That’s more or less the gist of this mercifully brief sequel to 2005’s surprise hit about that other band of Marvel mutants, here joined by the eponymous big kahuna,…
There is a delicious scene in the Hispanic Theater Guild’s production of La Curva de la Felicidad (The Curve of Happiness), in which the hangdog protagonist, Quino, informs his ex’s mover that he’s a television writer who pens suicide notes. Quino, you see, has been dumped because he’s “too fat,…
You don’t need to watch the included preview of Live Free or Die Hard to know it’s going to blow; as this set proves, only odd-numbered Die Hards are any good. The first one, of course, is the perfect popcorn flick, and the bonus-disc extras here illustrate what can happen…
Once upon a time, the world breathed magic. Some believed this magic should belong only to the powerful, while others felt it was for everyone. So all the world’s beings went to war. The first battle took place in Brazil, where a lone elf with a sniper rifle notched an…
Animaniacs: Volume 3 (Warner Bros.) Bridge to Terabithia (Buena Vista) Gray Matters (Fox) Harrison’s Flowers (Lionsgate) If . . .: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico (THINKfilm) Lucille Ball Film Collection (Warner Bros.) The Manhattan Project: Special Edition (Lionsgate) The Many Adventures of Winnie…
“Prayers for Santos and Orishas,” a striking photography show at Centro Cultural Español, peels back the veil on contemporary religious life in Cuba by depicting in a rare light the devotional soul of the island. The three-part exhibit includes 40 black-and-white pictures by photographers Gonzalo González, Raúl Cañibano, and Humberto…
YTMNDGuy: Hey dude. What R U up 2 this weekend? Chewy_baka69: I dunno. I’ll prolly play some WoW – I want to get my blood elf paladin up to level 70. YTMNDGuy: LOL. No, we R going 2 the Florida SuperCon. Chewy_baka69: Why would I do that? I didn’t plan…
According to the lore behind Inland Empire, director David Lynch turned to his producer one morning during shooting and demanded a one-legged woman, a monkey, and a lumberjack by 3:15 p.m. All three made it into the film, but as to what else Inland Empire is about is anybody’s guess…
So far your adventures in cooking have been unpredictable at best. From the first batch of blackened sugar cookies when you were seven to that popsicle-like turkey you served last Thanksgiving, your kitchen has become a sort of Twilight Zone — you never know what’ll come out of it. For…
Never mind the retailing. For that, smaller malls — or, God bless ’em, stand-alone stores — will suffice. Dolphin Mall is more city that shoppery, complete with a covert subcity that houses the control system of its mighty ebb and flow, and a 24-hour crew of workers that keeps the…
As the summer sun sets over another humdrum afternoon of mojitos, mankinis, and a surgically enhanced shoreline, take a step outside Miami culture. Think fried, beefy, and exotic. No, we’re not talking about the cabana boy. Come revel in A Taste of España, a tantalizing flamenco-style celebration hosted by the…
Here’s a video art installation we wish existed: a time-lapse video of Miami’s coastline. From overgrown swamp to year-round playground to hyperdeveloped, overextended residential mecca; it seems there are new buildings sprouting up along our shores faster than zits on a thirteen-year-old’s forehead. No matter how far we move inland,…
Peeling your clothes off piece by piece should make you feel saucy and just a little cheeky (wink, wink), not all awkward, like the striptease you perform three times a week in the gym locker room. “It’s not about breast implants or doing your lips or getting this bigger and…
Beethoven’s music communicates a great deal of his brilliant yet troubled and lonely life. But his distinctive appearance left a little to be desired – unless you’ve got a thing for wild hair and beetle brows. If ever a group of soloists could bring out the sensual grace that the…
