Questions: (1) Why does it make sense that so many Cubans have found a home in South Florida and that Spanish is commonly spoken throughout Greater Miami? (2) Miami isn’t even the largest city in Florida (Jacksonville is), but the metropolitan area has a population of more than five million…
Miami is a staple party city for the gay community. Men who love men and women who love women flock to famously alternative-lifestyle-friendly South Beach. But just like the venues popping up in downtown and Wynwood, an unassuming contender is luring gay patrons to the mainland with promises of an…
Teeth-chattering Northerners might be shopping in a 30-degree chill, but ArtCenter/South Florida is decked out for a summer bazaar. Today from 2:00 to 9:00 outside ArtCenter’s 800 Lincoln Rd. gallery, “ArtShop: Pop In, Pop Up, Pop Buy!” offers art lovers and fashionistas an alfresco shopping experience celebrating the seventeenth-annual Art…
Do you remember that squirrelly kid in your third-grade class who would always do backflips and crazy tricks on the monkey bars? Well, he grew up and joined a circus, of sorts. The flipping fantastic performers of Wise Fool New Mexico are in town for three nights to entertain you…
Those bemoaning Art Miami’s relevance in the long shadow of Basel, take heed. The Swiss might have recently jerked the city upside down, but Art Miami’s organizers promise to turn heads with the seventeenth edition of the South Florida cultural staple, which has stormed back with pizzazz. “Many discoveries will…
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to become more artistically sound, then Asser Saint-Val is a name you should learn and learn well. A Miami resident and Haiti native, Saint-Val has adopted an abstract figurative style to approach a topic that even in the 21st century is still…
“Art in Bloom,” now in its fifth incarnation, offers the concrete-weary a return to Eden by transforming Miami Beach Botanical Garden into a sculptural paradise. “This time we wanted to focus on sculpture displayed outdoors, to encourage visitors to enjoy the beauty of the grounds,” explains curator Carol Jazzar. Presented…
Imagine for a minute you were a fan of, say, the Milwaukee Bucks or, God forbid, the Knicks. No superstars and no championship rings there. You probably wouldn’t go to many games. Now imagine a visiting team that somehow featured Lebron James and Dwyane Wade: two young, once-in-a-generation talents who…
Ten years ago I attended one of Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band gigs — the stuff of legend, held every Monday night at Michael’s Pub on East 55th Street in Manhattan. These shows were supposedly so sacred to Woody that he never missed one; back when the Academy Awards…
History repeats itself: Eleven Decembers ago, Universal had the season’s strongest movie — a downbeat sci-fi flick freely adapted from a well-known source by a name director. With a bare minimum of advance screenings and a shocking absence of hype, the studio dumped it. This year they’ve done it again…
Bankrupt and brain-damaged in Rocky V, a bout fought so long ago that the other Bush was still sucker-punching Saddam, Sylvester Stallone’s titular pugilist returns to issue another beating in Rocky Balboa. How much punishment can an audience take? Even 007 gets his license renewed by younger models every decade,…
Ben Stiller — as usual, frazzled with a touch of hipster frump — is a divorced dad in need of a gig, lest his cutie-pie kid (Jake Cherry) wind up spending all of his time with uptight bond-trading New Dad (Paul Rudd, wasted in a straight-laced cameo). So Stiller’s Larry…
Dear New Times Reader: You are hip and young, or so we tell the advertisers. In 2006 you turned the entertainment culture on its ear with your bloggings and YouTubings. You whipped Congress like it was an obstinate mule and burned America in effigy at the altar of Sacha Baron…
Unlike the swarm of carpetbaggers that swooped into town for the Basel piñata and fled after clogging local gutters with tawdry flyers, crumpled wine cups, and broken beer bottles, Pan American Art Projects is here to stay. The Dallas-based venture recently opened its fresh-hatched Wynwood digs with the muscular work…
Jackass Number Two: Unrated (Paramount) The sequel to the dumb-ass jamboree makes its predecessor look plain and inoffensive. In short: more puke, more blood, more semen (from a horse, consumed nonetheless), more shit, more piss, more everything till you’d think the Jackasses (Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, etc.) would be…
Imagine two game producers rushing down the hall. One wants to pitch a WW2 game, the other a sci-fi shooter. They round a corner, crash into each other, and their papers go flying everywhere — and in one of those great “You got chocolate in my peanut butter!” moments, Resistance:…
Airwolf: Season Two (Universal) Be With Me (Film Movement) Dane Cook’s Tourgasm (HBO) Danica (First Look) Factotum (IFC) The Family Values Tour 2006 (Firm Music) Girls Behaving Badly, Volume One (Starlight) Haven (Fox) Mars Invades the Earth! (Alpha) Mi Amigo (Velocity) Mr. Fix It (First Look) The New Adventures of…
The socks suck, the new pants are too short, and you really didn’t need another copy of Seven Habits for Highly Boring People. But Santa came through with the right present from his giant sack: another sack — a smaller, greener, stickier sack of goodness that will be the perfect…
Are you ready for another typical Miami New Year’s bash? First you need at least a grand to pay for inflated cover charges and overpriced drinks. Then you need a fabulous outfit and a practiced air of approachable indifference for all the imported celebs who will be hosting parties at…
Before stereos could go to eleven and the Dundies were awarded, Woody Allen answered one of the most puzzling questions of all: “What does abt mean?” It was posed by a teller to the bank robbery-obsessed loser played by Allen, Virgil Starkwell, in the mockumentary Take the Money and Run,…
Craving hot wax at a tender age, Lisa M. cut her first album, Trampa, at fourteen. The record went gold, making the fiery Puerto Rican performer the highest-paid female Latin rapper at the time. Since her sophomore followup No Lo Derrumbes in 1990 went platinum, the self-described barrio homegirl went…
When you are what people euphemistically refer to as “a big girl,” you get treated differently. Everyone assumes you’re a jolly, maternal figure who would make an excellent comedic sidekick but could never be the star of the show. Miami native Jennylin Duany is out to shatter that stereotype with…
