We commonly cut Miami FC slack because the team is new. That’s probably misguided, considering the club is owned by Traffic Sports. You know the Copa America and Copa Sudamericana? That Traffic Sports. The South American power broker owns more, including our fledgling heroes, whose fearless leader is Romário, star…
Dr. James Johnson’s roots in Miami run as deep as those of the City Cemetery’s trees. His mother was born here in 1897, the year after Miami became an incorporated city. His parents lived in what was then Old South Miami, an area that has seen a tremendous cultural shift…
Even if your sister still teases you about the time you ran around the yard screaming because a butterfly landed on your head (Hey, you were three, okay?), you have since worked past your fear and can appreciate the delicate beauty of the pollen-loving nectar-suckers. Now, if you’ve forgiven your…
Lobster lovers and foodies alike will able to expand their knowledge of this clawed crustacean as part of a Macy’s Star Chefs event at Dadeland Mall. Located in the Macy’s Home Store at its topnotch Cellar Kitchen, the event will feature chef Mary Rohan-Dominguez, a new addition to The Palm…
Can you feel the heat? It is not just the summer weather. Give in to the scorching passion of Flamenco in the Sun 2006, which will burn your loins with each pounding step of its forbidden dance today through August 6. Actually the “forbidden dance” is the lambada, not flamenco…
Which of the following does not belong: digital video, Final Cut Pro, solitaire, or DVD? How about Minesweeper, journal, communication, or blog? If you missed the boat on both of these, do not panic — help is here. (By the way, the answers are solitaire and Minesweeper for those of…
The sun hangs lower in the sky and the nights are warm and still, which makes this the ideal time of year for staging Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But the FIU Theater group’s version is being produced for reasons beyond seasonal coincidence. “Philip Church, our director, looked at the…
In the Twenties, more than half the cars on the road were electric. Then came the flashy, gas-powered Ford Model T and the first death of the electric car. In the controversial new documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, filmmaker Chris Paine traces the rebirth and untimely second death of…
To historians, the Florida Moving Image Archive provides a vital, herky-jerky window to the past. To artists, it offers vibrant images that enhance bigger pictures. Barron Sherer, the archive’s curator, has combined the efforts of those who have made use of this invaluable resource in the Rewind/Fast Forward Film Festival,…
Oh sure, we may say that material things such as cars don’t mean much, but we know we would rather pull up to the valet in an Aston Martin than a ten-year-old Pontiac Grand Am that keeps breaking down on I-395. No, the car does not make the man, but…
You can call him Ray, or you can call him Ray Ray, or you can call him Raymond Ray, but the one thing you don’t have to do is pay to hear Ray. The Ray Ray Jazz Mix will perform tonight as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Jazz…
Of all the Wayans siblings (and there are many), Damon Wayans has become the most popular. He began creating iconic In Living Color characters alongside Keenan, Marlon, Shawn, and sister Kim. Damon found catchphrase fame as the ever-indignant Homey the Clown, a skit that will make its long-overdue transition to…
The mall is as silent as the deserted one in Dawn of the Dead, and the boutique strip in South Beach resembles a Wild West ghost town. Where are all the shoppers? Poised devilishly over their piggy banks with hammer in hand, because tonight Gen Art and Perrier present Shop…
Oh. My. God. Like, just when you totally thought you had, like, totally gotten rid of any evidence of your big, Aqua Net-teased hair (gag me!); acid-wash peg-leg jeans (barf!); and oversize Wham! concert T-shirt (um, we still get misty-eyed when we hear “Careless Whisper,” but don’t tell anyone), you…
We know you have watched it with the volume down while blasting “Dark Side of the Moon,” but have you seen The Wizard of Oz on the big screen? The Miami International Film Festival and Miami Dade College are offering up the winged monkeys, munchkins, and psychedelic dreamscapes to kick…
Woody Allen might have done well to end his expatriate adventure in London with last year’s intriguing morality tale Match Point. This alleged return to comedy — starring Point’s nubile Scarlett Johansson as a naive American journalism student, Allen himself as the phobia-rattled magician who poses as her father, and…
In the latest extravaganza from executive producers Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, millions of dollars and long hours in the digital animation studios have produced … a photorealistic, computer-animated, generic American suburb! Location costs must be getting pretty damn expensive nowadays. As Monster House begins, we follow a leaf slowly…
It would be a mighty sweet thing to see M. Night Shyamalan as the great redemptive storyteller he clearly thinks he is — or as he portrays himself in those American Express commercials. Genuine yarn-spinning, even as a doomed ambition, is virtually extinct in American movies; what had been the…
This is a note-for-note cover of its predecessor, 1994’s Clerks, the charmingly crude black-and-white heap upon which writer-director Kevin Smith built his frustratingly uneven career as a maker of cult favorites about average people leading below-average lives. If the footage weren’t in color and if the actors reprising their roles…
Ella: It’s ten years this month since songstress Ella Fitzgerald died. Fitzgerald, whose romantically distinctive voice has gently passed from generation to generation since her first recordings in 1936, didn’t so much have her own songs but rather made anything she sang an Ella experience. In the past year, Florida…
In his catalogue essay for “Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography,” on view at Miami Art Central, curator and art historian Okwui Enwezor refers to Kevin Carter’s appalling photograph of a naked and emaciated Sudanese child as emblematic of the West’s myopic view of Africa. The image was…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): On view through the summer, “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since…
