You might think that bottle of bubbly is champagne, but unless it was actually produced in the French province for which the elixir is named, it’s just sparkling wine. High-quality products are often given geographical misnomers to jack up the suggested retail price. One such example is Italian olive oil…
Joke all you want about holiday shoppers going cyber merely to avoid another round of carols blasting from the store PA systems, but you really can’t get into the holiday spirit unless you keep yourself on a proper dosage of traditional tunes. Although klezmer is a secular form of music…
Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire is one of those films you have to see. Seriously. Ask anyone who has seen it, and they will tell you it is brilliant, beautiful, and life-changing. The 1987 film is set in the war-damaged city of Berlin, where trench-coat-wearing angels try to comfort mortals…
You will not be punished eternally if you decline donating to every fundraiser, walkathon, and charity event in the world. But one organization has pledged to raise $50,000 for a cause that hits close to home. The JunTos Foundation was created in honor of two local baseball players, Juanchi de…
They sound like something out of a snow-covered, quaint New England Christmas: horse-drawn carriage rides. Except this holiday season, carriages will roll past palm trees, swank stores, and Mediterranean architecture in downtown Coral Gables. As part of the Holidays in Downtown promotion, free fifteen-minute carriage rides will be offered to…
Get into the spirit of the season – the winter solstice, Earth-loving season – at this weekend’s Moonfaire. Hosted by the Witch’s Garden, this spiritual gathering will surely shake you from your December depression and inspire you to revel in your natural surroundings. You won’t find Santa or the Hanukkah…
It is never too early to get your wee ones interested in football. Go ahead, strap little Sawyer or Maddox into a helmet and some pads, and send him on his way to gridiron glory. (How else is he going to afford to be able to support your retirement dreams?)…
What if you took all of your delinquent teenage nephew’s favorite pastimes – playing Gran Turismo on his Xbox, reading Maxim, ogling pictures of hot models, watching World Poker Tour, and downloading hip-hop – and blended them together, miraculously brought them to life, and sent them on tour across America?…
When Chicago industrialist James Deering had his palatial retreat built on Biscayne Bay, the Magic City was still a sleepy hamlet with less than 10,000 residents. The cosmopolitan bachelor, who crashed at his swank tropical crib only during the winter months between 1916 and 1925, had traveled to Italy with…
What are the holidays without a little singing? In this day and age, we can’t go a-caroling door-to-door (imagine that in Miami), but we can go to the beach and belt out a tried-and-true holiday tune. At least today we can – when the Lincoln Road Concert Series begins with…
Despite the undeniable presence of Haitian immigrants, the community tends to celebrate its rich culture at disparate locations scattered throughout the city. Unity is the goal behind the first annual Haitian Art and Films festival. Today through December 29, island-culture lovers are invited to the Tower Theater for music, art,…
Eberjey underwear doesn’t come cheap. Lace thongs range from $18 to $25, and its famous French briefs — seen in movies like American Pie — cost $28 to $38. But that’s a small price to pay to support a Miami-born success story. A decade ago, founders Ali Mejia and Mariela…
Just as the tie-dyed hippie-magic-man Doug Henning eschewed the stereotypical top hat, tuxedo, and porn-star mustache for his stage productions, Miami’s own elfin magician Dylan Ace prefers to keep it casual for his performances. You won’t find smoke machines or mirrors on his stage, nor will you find sequins or…
MoCA Cano with his princess Far from the hustle of Art Basel’s sundry fairs, Pablo Cano’s City Beneath the Sea, the artist’s ninth annual marionette show, played this weekend to a less-than-rapt audience of children — and their dazzled parents — at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami…
Hey there, tourists! Help yourself to one of several guides, booklets, pamphlets and maps being provided at the Miami Beach Convention Center in conjunction with Art Basel this year. Should you be interested in this one, the latest issue of The Adventures of Bi Bi & Friends (right), have at…
Sweet stuff Before a crowd of hundreds packed onto the sand at Collins Park’s Art Positions late Wednesday night, digital dominatrix Peaches took off her undies. No doubt the gathered Art Baselites were not the sort of audience for whom the bikini clad rocker was used to performing, but this…
Brancolini Grimaldi Arte contemporanea Roma/Firenze Strolling into the Wynwood district’s Soho building on Tuesday night for the inaugural Photo Miami fair opening, I breathed a sigh of relief. See, I love art. Never really sure what I’m supposed to seeing though. Sure, I’ll coo and gasp in Art Basel-style awe,…
Nobody said Art Basel was a bastion of high-mindedness. As the hordes of well-washed, champagne-sipping masses poured in to the opening night vernissage yesterday, the first thing many saw at the door was a copy of The Art Newspaper, its front page blaring a report on Miami Beach hotel price…
“T.I.A.,” mutters Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), slouched across a bar in Sierra Leone. It is 1999. As the West obsesses over Clinton’s blowjob, the West African nation is mired in a savage civil war. Our hero, a world-weary soldier of fortune, has struck up a conversation with Maddy Bowen (Jennifer…
From its wink-wink, nudge-nudge movie-within-a-movie opening to its bold-faced quoting of classic Hollywood farces such as The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday, Nancy Meyers’s The Holiday wants us to know it’s different from the kind of rom-com pablum that fills the multiplexes these days. And it is different; it’s…
One doesn’t feel too optimistic about a film that titteringly names its protagonist Lyshitski, especially when all the trailers would have you believe the story’s a one-joke riff on the fear of a black penis. So perhaps it’s just a case of low expectations at work here, but Let’s Go…
Thursday, December 7 Abba Fine Art. ¬Sicilian Set¬ and ¬911 Revisited¬: Lower gallery features Sicilian Set, showcasing the paintings of Emanuele Cacciatore and photography by Tony Caltabiano. The upper gallery presents 911 Revisited, a mixed-media installation by Debra Holt. Mondays-Sundays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Jan. 10. 305-576-4278. 233 NW…
