Did you know that Miami got a new professional soccer team just last year? They’re called Miami FC, and they play in the United Soccer Leagues. I see you are reacting with indifference. Well, we think we’ve figured out how to get you into soccer. It’s not David Beckham. It’s…
The idea of Tigertail releasing a fifth-anniversary “best of” volume of its annual poetry periodical was concieved early on in the publication’s life. “It was Mitchell Kaplan’s idea,” says Mary Luft, founder of the local cultural institution. It’s only fitting that tonight, Tigertail will celebrate the launch of its fifth…
Some ten years ago, Captured! By Robots lead singer and “puny human” JBOT made the unspeakably foolish decision to create two robots, DRMBOT0110 and GTRBOT666, to replace his former human bandmates. Inevitably they enslaved him. Now Captured! By Robots is on tour to celebrate (or in JBOT’s case, lament) ten…
Esteemed choreographer Ray Sullivan was a young ballet school student in New York City during the most fearful years of the AIDS epidemic. “If someone didn’t come to class, you were afraid to ask why. They might have been in the hospital,” he recalls in a voice still shaking with…
MCR lead singer Gerard Way Photo by Santiago Felipe So how does a vaguely punk-oriented band, bred in the usual circuit of grungy clubs, adapt to platinum-sales and an arena tour? On Sunday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, warning signs taped to the entrance doors offered a clue:…
Take a very young baseball team that has not yet matured into their prime, and a very old rock band that has ripened way past theirs. Put the two together, add fireworks, and you’ve got Super Saturdays, a promotional night meant to plump attendance at Florida Marlins games. It worked…
Loft. Ego Miami. These are just two of the ambitious titles that have folded in efforts to dethrone Ocean Drive as Miami’s quintessential city magazine. Now comes 944 Miami, a hipster magazine with editions in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County. Where others have crashed and…
This is my first lesson in Drag Queen Time. I’ve arrived at the Laundry Bar in South Beach for the Queen Cabaret troupe’s rendition of “Chicago” at 10 p.m. – right on time. None of the drag queens are here yet. The show was supposed to start by 11:30, but…
Finally, someone in Miami is building a solar-powered, thoroughly green house. Dubbed “future house,” the pre-fab building will have geothermal heating and cooling, energy efficient lighting and appliances and a recycled roof. Photovoltaic panels will supply the bulk of its electricity needs. So, what enlightened South Floridian had the foresight…
Figuring out what constitutes art can be a craptastic adventure. Or so Alvaro Oyarzun implies in The Painted Image or The Most Beautiful Memories of the Life of Captain Carrot currently on view at CIFO. Engulfing one entire wall and part of another, the Chilean’s sprawling project is part of…
Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show (Sony) The greatest boxed set ever — not so much for the made-up irritainment as for the real thing, which this collection serves up by the ton. There are 23 brilliant episodes of the HBO show here, but they pale in…
We’ve all seen Super Mario eat copious amounts of mushrooms, but have you ever considered the care that goes into preparing such delicacies? In Cooking Mama: Cook Off for the Wii, Wolfgang Puck wannabes are thrust into the kitchen — alongside “Mama,” the game’s titular chef — where they’ll chop,…
Brute Force: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Cutie Honey: The Movie (Bandai) Double Happiness (Image) Forgiving Dr. Mengele (First Run) Freedom Writers (Paramount) George Lopez: The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons (Warner Bros.) Happy Days: The Second Season (Paramount) The History Boys (Fox) The Image (Warner Bros.) La Haine: The Criterion…
For all the huzzahs deservedly heaped upon the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead, in which it took a good long while to discern the living from the walking deceased, the zombie-flick spoof was little more than an extended sketch taken, oh, nineteen minutes beyond its breaking point. But the…
This week’s generically titled studio suspense thriller, Fracture, has the good sense to begin where last week’s generically titled studio suspense thriller, Perfect Stranger, ended — with the solution to that tedious riddle: Whodunit? The answer this time is Anthony Hopkins as Ted Crawford, an aeronautical engineer whose pockets of…
Perfectly suited to the shabby delights of the hometown drive-in theaters of yesteryear, director Nimród Antal’s creepy cockroach of a thriller feels less horrifying than it does curiously nostalgic. David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale) are a miserable, bickering couple driving back to L.A. when David’s wrong turns…
Listen: You really, really need to go see Animals & Plants at Mad Cat Theatre. I’m not kidding. Go. When you do, here’s what will happen: You will enter the theater by walking across the stage itself, and you will be struck by the dirty aesthetic purity of the thing…
“Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I”: MoCA’s institutional toast to the legendary choreographer’s career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists, and features costumes and decor actually used in his company’s productions. The exhibit includes works by Sandra…
For your average stoner, 420 is all about fun. But for activists on the front line of the fight to legalize medicinal marijuana, the herb that gets you high is not to be consumed frivolously. Although several states have recognized studies that prove that weed ain’t that bad for you…
Gwen Cooper’s reading from her controversial Diary Two years before the book even hit store shelves, Gwen Cooper’s Diary of a South Beach Party Girl was already getting press in local media. Thanks to a steamy galley seen by the cognoscenti, Cooper quickly earned her own little category on the…
As said in the white-hot movie Backdraft, “The funny thing about firemen is, night and day they are always firemen.” But this afternoon, ladies, a select group of South Florida firemen will be both firemen and luscious man-meat. They’ll be peeling off the layers of that heavy uniform, shaking their…
Some people approach cooking with as much passion as their first love. Then there are the rest of us, who use smoke detectors to signal when dinner is ready. No matter what category you fall into, there’s a Latin-flavored cooking class for you today. Sip margaritas over grilled carne asada…
