Sanalejo, a seven-piece band from Colombia, is topping charts, winning awards, and breaking hearts. Even if you don’t speak Spanish, the group’s infectious pop sensibility and energetic horns transcend all language barriers to win fans on an international level. After gaining recognition in their homeland, the Sanalejo bandmates are crossing…
Go ahead and admit it. The last time you were comfortably numb at the Planetarium’s Pink Floyd laser light show, you thought it would be sooo cooool if a live band were playing in that reverb-heavy dome where the stars twinkle in the daytime and weird images dance among them…
There are many fantastic elements to Miami Carnival. The best food vendors offer a mouthwatering smorgasbord of spicy cuisine along Biscayne Boulevard. Some of the region’s most limber women parade the street in barely-there costumes. And the brightest stars from the islands make their way to our shores for a…
We are still sweating it out in the heat of the seemingly never-ending South Florida summer, but Panthers fans are breaking out the sweaters for tonight’s opening game of the 2006-2007 National Hockey League season. If you have forgotten, the Cats had a strong finish last season and were this…
Unlike other bigwig collectors in town who smack you with a cover charge to get a gander at their goods, Marty Margulies is making nice with the public and seems to be a fellow after our hearts. The art mogul has switched out the exhibit at his sprawling 45,000-square-foot warehouse…
There’s something about a family meal that makes the food even more delicious. Perhaps it’s the love that’s stirred into the simmering pot. You can taste it in the Peruvian cuisine served up at Mama Lila’s Bistro . The Valderrama sisters opened the charming eatery to celebrate their large and…
So are you going to spend October just shoveling candy corn down your attractive … long … exposed … neck, or would you prefer to let out some bloodcurdling screams at the month-long Gialli and Beyond: Italian Horror Masters festival instead? Gialli is a genre of both literature and film…
Way before reality shows blighted the airwaves, Sophie Calle made a name for herself following strangers and documenting their private lives. The French artist once invited dozens of people to occupy her bed for several days, and then photographed them while they slept. In 2003 she spent a night in…
When a region gains a certain creative cachet, the work produced there tends to get categorized. A perfect example is “Latin American art,” a term that generalizes work from a vast and vital part of the world. Laymen who are expecting to encounter walls covered with bright paintings will be…
Yes, we know there seems to be a film festival for every ethnicity and culture. We wouldn’t be surprised to receive news of a Swedish Pirates with an Eye Patch Film Fest. But, hey, you feel special knowing you have a chance to see movies that average Joes can’t. One…
Dexter Reads “The Star” Serial killers aren’t so bad. Meet Dexter Morgan, a forensics expert for the Miami-Dade Police who spends his evenings trolling Miami, killing off Magic City slime one by one. He’s the creation of Jeff Lindsay, a Miami-born writer whose novels Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted…
Watching The Guardian, you will learn that the U.S. Coast Guard’s rescue swimmers rank among the bravest and least heralded of military personnel, selflessly hurling themselves into raging currents or hurricane swells to save a single human life. But I doubt that even these knights in neoprene armor could rescue…
Feast isn’t the least bit artful, but it is gleefully gruesome, which might be all one can ask of a no-budget monster movie. As the film opens, a freaked-out stranger bursts into an isolated desert tavern to warn the dozen or so people inside that man-eating creatures, possibly from another…
When local homicide cops find themselves stymied by a case and wishing the dead could tell tales, they seek Samantha Steinberg or Jorge Molina to communicate the secrets concealed in the victims’ bones. The talented pair composes the Forensic Art Unit of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Crime Scene Investigations Bureau,…
I’m So Much Better than You: Magnus Sigurdarson’s installation features four tons of Miami New Times papers interlocked like bricks to form a curving hip-high wall. It houses a DVD player and monitor where the artist is seen performing a puppet show in Xiamen, China. Sigurdarson, who was born in…
The Big Animal (Milestone) It’s a simple yet lesser known law of comedy: Camels are always funny. There are the jaws that drool and chew side to side, the front legs that move like a human’s, the humps — but mostly it’s the eyes: There’s something of Buddha in a…
Football is a game of inches. The same goes for the Madden series. Each fall, a new Madden game arrives, with a roster update and an incremental change in the game-play formula. Last year brought a “cone of vision” for the quarterback, which mostly just annoyed the fans. Madden NFL…
Beowulf & Grendel (Anchor Bay) The Book of Daniel: The Complete Series (Universal) Bratz: Passion Fashion Diamondz (Fox) Con Man (Docurama) Curious George (Universal) Danger Mouse: The Final Seasons (A&E) Daniel Boone: Season 1 and Season 2 (Goldhil) Dark Shadows: DVD Collection 26 (MPI) Dracula: 75th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Drop…
One would never confuse the work of writer-director Todd Phillips with that of the late Robert Hamer, whose filmography includes the essential Kind Hearts and Coronets. Hamer’s movies had a gentlemanly quality, no matter the cruelty that skulked beneath their prim exteriors; one always believed that the characters in his…
Your eyes are drop-dead gorgeous, your figure is enviably svelte, and you’ve got full, kissable Angelina Jolie lips. That won’t mean a thing if your face is as pock-marked and lumpy as the moon’s surface. No matter the season, good skin is always in. Take care of yours with a…
A shiny new gem is about to be unveiled on Biscayne Boulevard. The highly anticipated Carnival Center for the Performing Arts is on the cusp of opening day, and downtown Miami’s hopes are pinned on the pricey venue. Locals with long memories have faith the main thoroughfare can return to…
In our schlubby American jeans-and-T-shirt society, ornately dressed and made-up Japanese Harajuku girls look like beautiful aliens. However, they (along with Gwen Stefani) know something we don’t: Dressing up is so much fun it shouldn’t be relegated to one night in October. Fashionistas can get their freak on every Tuesday…
