As children, we had story hour, 60 minutes of sitting cross-legged while the adventures of the Berenstain Bears and the Cat in the Hat were read aloud. We seemingly listened intently but really just daydreamed about the milk and cookies that would soon be sliding down our greedy little throats…
It’s hard not to notice longtime Miami resident Claudia La Bianca www.claudialabianca.com with her whacky, colorful outfits, bleach-blonde waist-length dreadlocks, fishbowl-shape hazel eyes, and lilting Italian accent. Add to the mix a flair for film making and even veteran Hollywood producers Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett couldn’t refuse the charms…
The rumors started Friday in cyberspace, swirled throughout the weekend and by Monday morning, had reached a crescendo: what’s happened to DJ Laz and his morning Pimp Show on Power 96? The show wasn’t on the air Monday morning. And listeners heard other Power 96 jocks issue vague apologies that…
“The Sun” It was as if some advanced civilization sought to mock our ideas about natural beauty, heightening them and exaggerating them, fashioning vibrant, otherworldly creations that resemble plants and flowers boosted by alien DNA. Or, as my two-year-old son put it: “Look at the monsters!” Monstrous or beautiful, Dale…
And so Disney’s immense, booty-busting, pro-piracy epic has come to an End. I doubt very much that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is, in fact, the last we’ll be seeing of Capt. Jack Sparrow and, you know, all of those other people. How could it be? Treasure remains…
Dating games have come a long way since the days when Chuck Woolery invited mullet-sporting contestants to bump uglies on Love Connection. In Japan, the “dating simulator” video game craze has raged stronger than a schoolboy’s hormones since the early ’90s. But here in America — where our gaming interests…
Hannibal Rising (Weinstein) Pointless beyond belief, Hannibal Rising serves more as a cautionary tale than horror story. Made for $50 mil, the movie pocketed half that during its U.S. run and likely wound up in the red — an appropriate adios for a franchise starring a peripheral character better served…
Above the Law (Genius) The Andy Griffith Show: Complete Series Collection (Paramount) Big Train: Seasons One and Two (BBC Warner) Biography: Legends of the Silver Screen (A&E) Circle of Iron: 2-Disc Special Edition (Blue Underground) The Closer: The Complete Second Season (Warner Bros.) Drive Thru (Lionsgate) The Foursome (Universal) Free…
The Boy from Russia: What begins as an icky feelings-fest ends as a smart meditation on suburban values, parental instinct, and the way privilege or deprivation can twist a person’s sensibilities. The new, semiautobiographical play by South Floridian Susan J. Westfall follows yuppies Beth Marshall and Jack Goldman (Sandy Ives…
Sol LeWitt x 2: Sol LeWitt earned himself a place in history books as one of the Johnny Appleseeds of the minimal and conceptual art movements during the Sixties. He’s also among the most prolific artists of the mid-Twentieth Century. “Sol LeWitt x 2,” a two-part exhibition at Miami Art…
Once upon a time, there was a little gay bar called Rocks on the Mile in a little city called Coral Gables. Not many people knew this little gay bar was there, for everyone thought all the gay bars were on South Beach. But this little gay bar had a…
Fans of the HBO series Entourage can re-enact the antics of Vincent Chase and his goofy gang at Broadway Billiards every week at a hot new party called Entourage Thursdays. Well, at least the ladies can. Women in groups of six or more will feel like A-list celebs when they…
She comes onstage with the flowing brown hair and piercing green eyes of a modern-day screen siren, but once she grabs the mike, you know Tammy Pescatelli is there to do more than play the girlfriend to some corny, tight-shirt-wearing hero. Then she says, “Hi, my name’s Tammy Pescatelli. Yeah,…
What is it with the lack of mini golf parks in Miami? You’d think in a flat, bustling town like ours, there’d be lots more places to putt a ball past the slowly turning blades of a windmill. But unless you count the trek up to Boomers in Davie, there…
The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We do not like them in a box. We do not like them with a fox. We do not like them in a house. We do not like them with a mouse. But we do…
As most Miamians know, vodou isn’t a religion exactly. It’s more like a code used by slaves and ex-slaves in Haiti to Africanize the Anglo crap that has been shoved down their throats. With trance-inducing, resonant, traditional drums leading the call, Erol Josué sings in tongues – lyrics are a…
This weekend Coconut Grove will awaken with the sights, smells, and sounds of the Bahamas for the annual Goombay Festival. For your eyes and ears, there’ll be writhing Junkanoos and musicians adorned in kaleidoscopic costumes. For your belly, hundreds of vendors will be lining the streets, selling Bahamian and spicy…
Over the years, your relationship with nature’s candy, also known as fruit, has been one of trickery and fraud. You’ve discovered that beans are not the only musical fruit, and after sinking your teeth into that wax apple last year, you just don’t know what to believe anymore. Lucky for…
In a bit of top-shelf irony, the Diabetes Research Institute invites you to booze it up, but heck, it’s for a great cause. The sixteenth annual Feast Among the Grapes, held in cooperation with Wine Spectator magazine, claims to be the “hippest happy hour in town,” and there’s no doubt…
Remember the scene in Top Gun when Maverick and Iceman finally give in to their carnal desire for each other? How about Rocky’s dramatic heavyweight title match against Chewbacca? Or the one in which Marty McFly travels into the future to fight Bill and Ted in the Thunderdome? Of course…
As spontaneous as you like to tell people you are, some things in your life are predictable and damn near dull. Like your morning coffee, for example: one sugar, no cream, and all types of boring. And your Saturday-afternoon ritual at the mall, bouncing from store to unimpressive store. But…
All things considered, Paul McCartney should be thoroughly enjoying his 2007 birthday celebration. The year started out rough for the preternaturally baby-faced songwriting legend, with a messy divorce from uni-legged model-turned-Dancing with the Stars loser Heather Mills. But Macca is out of the tabloids for now, having recently come to…
