It was once said that people dance the tango because they have secrets. It goes beyond technique: The tango is sensual, seductive, and passionate. Watching two people tango is so intimate at times that it can make the audience blush. No one knows this better than Maria Pradilla, a World…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 89.8 million unmarried and single residents in this country in 2005. That equals 41 percent of all Americans age eighteen and older. And 54 percent of those singles are women. So why in hell is it so difficult to get a date?…
The PLUG Independent Music Awards is a beloved celebration of independent musicians held annually in New York. Winners typically go on to become cool new bands. Former victors include Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dangerdoom, Mr. Lif, and Gnarls Barkley. “It’s like the opposite of the Grammys; PLUG actually gives…
Fill up the gas tank and pack all the, um, supplies you’ll need for a fun car ride down to the Keys. It’s that time of year again, when the southernmost point in the continental United States goes on a ten-day bender of costumes, culture, and debauchery. You won’t want…
For a city that is just about as far south as you can get in the U.S., Miami is curiously void of Southern drawls, Confederate flags, and square dancing. The only cowboy boots in these parts are diamond-encrusted designer brands. There are plenty of young bucks and pretty fillies ready…
In the Seventies and early Eighties there were Last Tango in Paris, Midnight Cowboy, and The Blue Lagoon — all unabashedly sexual films that found mainstream cinematic success. Nowadays violence is the new sex. Moviegoers are typically more comfortable watching some guy’s head being blown away than, well, you know…
While frat guys like the University of Florida’s troubled Pi Kappa Alphas fuel the stereotype of boys who like to paddle each other and ply unsuspecting girls with panty-dropping shooters, there are others who take their philanthropy seriously. Take Delta Lambda Phi, a national social fraternity founded in 1986, which…
Bravo TV You know what to do. October 18, not a particularly special day. Two hundred and thirty years ago some drunk guy saw a bird tail decorating the wall of a New York bar and decided to be funny and order a cock tail, thus spawning a cultural phenomenon…
Who you calling thin-voiced? Alex at Stuck on the Palmetto wants to “open a window into the culture and the society” of Cuba. In a post called Vamos a Cuba, he links to YouTube video of Silvio Rodriguez, “the most popular singer in Cuba.” Alex rhapsodizes: “His were the songs…
The Museum of Contemporary Art offered up a gift too good to be true this past Saturday evening in Wynwood: A free live performance by De La Soul to cap off Moca’s e-merce b-boy block party. Unfortunately, it was all just a dream, the kind of stuff you read about…
The first episode of Telemundo’s newest soap opera, Marina, is available for viewing online, if you simply can’t wait another eight hours for it to air on television (8:30p.m.). The plot revolves around Marina, a virtuous Mexican girl raised in the humble shacks of Acapulco who suddenly finds herself luxuriously…
Yes, violins. Yes, hip-hop. Kev Marcus and Wil-B, the hip-hop string-playing duo known as Black Violin, are tired of explaining what they do to the incredulous and sarcastic. It doesn’t look like the 24-year-olds — both former FIU students — will have to do much more explaining. The last few…
South Beach is still a mecca for the rich and infamous, but nowadays the stars tend to be more of the “who is that, again?” persuasion. In the 1990’s, our neon-illuminated stretch was the playground for A-listers who partied all night and stumbled home in broad daylight. Photographer Manny Hernandez…
Tateo Nakajima’s comments on this week’s Riptide item about sound quality disparities at the Carnival Center Oct. 5 opening came too late to be included in the paper: The hall has a wide range of uses, and finding a balance between those uses is an ongoing challenge. We still have…
Barry Levinson hasn’t made a movie of note in almost a decade — since 1997’s Wag the Dog, to be precise, and even that was less a work of substantial relevance than a bit of lucky timing based on someone else’s better novel. Granted, it had its moments — at…
God is in the details no matter what you believe, but Jesus Camp is content to introduce its appalled exposé of Christian youth indoctrination with shots of a fast-food- and flag-lined highway and the words Missouri, U.S.A. Welcome to Hell, kids. Missouri — yikes! — is among the holy lands…
If your face doesn’t immediately light up at the thought of Johnny Knoxville launching himself airborne on the back of a giant rocket, or Chris Pontius slipping a sock puppet of a mouse on his dick before inserting it into a hungry snake’s lair, or Steve-O jamming a fish hook…
Fahrenheit 451: Cast in the, er, glow of the recent public-school book-banning controversy (Vamos a Cuba) and fresh off its selection by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts as this year’s “Big Read,” Fahrenheit 451 lights up GableStage at the Biltmore in its Southeast premiere. Adapted for the stage…
In 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered a pair of public speeches at Cambridge University where she argued that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” The contents of her lectures were published in A Room of One’s Own, whose thesis states…
Asian Art from the Bass Museum Collection and Treasures from the Bass Museum of Art: With a bushel of blue-ribbon shows, the Bass has embarked on perhaps its busiest programming season. Deciding on which shows to see among the museum’s expansive menu might be as slippery as handling a hog…
A Prairie Home Companion (New Line) This all-star sing-along — with Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, Woody Harrelson, etc. — that wears its smile bright and wide looked for all the world like a summertime sleeper hit. Not so much, even though no movie this year…
You’ve seen Bob Ross — the late Afro-sporting TV artist who painted “happy trees”? Well, if he had redesigned Legend of Zelda, it would look a lot like Okami. That might sound like an unlikely premise, but this is no ordinary game. In Okami, to save the world from an…
