For a first class luxury hotel, Magic City’s Miramar certainly does have a ton of death and injuries revolving around it. Granted, 1959 was far before the invention of Yelp, so you couldn’t just dash off a three star review because the blonde prostitute in the parking lot got killed…
Anailin de la Rua de la Torre and Javier Nuñez Florian, the actors who disappeared at the Miami airport during a layover between their home in Cuba and New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival, appeared on Spanish-language station America TeVe last weekend.The pair said they are safe and healthy, and…
Ah, the lazy days of summer. So close, yet so far away. This coming month sees Mother’s Day, the end of school for many younglings, and the eternal temptation of the beach. To be stuck inside on days like these is agony; to be stuck inside working is even worse.No…
Locust Projects held its season gala at the 1111 Lincoln Road building Saturday night. There were dancers, art for sale in a silent auction, and thousands raised for the arts group…
On Tuesday, Riptide reported that North Miami Beach strip club Swinging Richards is under attack. Despite years of female strip clubs sneaking past the town’s law against serving alcohol in fully nude establishments, the NMB notified the male dancers at Swinging Richards that they’d begin cracking down on them May…
Forget the over-the-top spectacles of David Blaine and Criss Angel. The most effective illusions are the simplest: an ordinary subject, a distraction or two, and an incredibly skilled performer.That also happens to be Death and Harry Houdini’s recipe for its performance at the Arsht last night. The ordinary subject: Death…
I was sitting at the bar of the Yarrow Hotel at Sundance, escaping, like many do, the inside of theaters and warming up with some sustenance of the alcoholic variety. The most low-key and unassuming spots always turn out to be where you meet the film industry power players, and…
Let’s go back a few years, to that classic Sex and the City episode, “Anchors Away.” What drama did Carrie and company have to deal with that week? Who cared? All anyone could look at were the hot sailors, hot sailors, and more sailors taking over the Big Apple. Immediately,…
Miami can be so annoying, bro. Irregardless of our broken English, poor syntax, and tik-tiki music, the Big Mango can be tremenda mierda sometimes. From shitty drivers to Pitbull’s overuse of the word “dale,” there’s so much shit to be embarrassed about.Pero at the end of the day, Miami’s better…
Having trouble getting off the couch? Have your limbs become so large that you are now deeply ensconced into your furniture and cannot move unless it is to switch the TV on to another fast food commercial? Are you poor, or overworked, or lazy, or some combination thereof? Are you…..
Every city in the world has things that piss its residents off. New York has its impossible real estate market. Los Angeles has the smog. Paris has all those damn French people. Miami is no different. Hell, we’re the most dominant city in a state constantly making headlines for stupid…
In the Dominican Republic, married women aren’t beautiful.That’s the message we’re taking away from today’s news that Carlina Duran, who won the 2012 Miss Dominican Republic beauty pageant a little over a week ago, has been dethroned after the pageant discovered she’s been married since 2009.Duran, age 25, appears qualified…
Billy Gardell is a funny fat guy from Pittsburgh, and the star of Mike and Molly, one of TV’s most popular shows in which he plays a cop who meets his future wife at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.You might also know him from bit roles on King of Queens, Judging…
If you’re not familiar with polo, “the sport of kings,” picture this: a manicured lawn, an Armani-clad crowd, a hoard of minions waiting on them hand and foot. And the main event: well-coiffed players straddling hulking, sweaty animals, all while wielding long sticks and whacking heavy balls.Some might say it’s…
Are you pretty? Are you broke? Do you desperately want to see the world?There’s hope. No, we’re not talking about the Peace Corps. We’re talking about Miss Travel, dating site entrepreneur Brandon Wade’s newest venture that pairs rich people with travel companions — as long as they’re good-looking.The site predictably…
Dennis Watkins Defies Death as Harry Houdini at the Arsht
Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Sculptures at the Frost Art Museum Through August 5
Let’s face it. Magic hasn’t been the same since Harry Houdini shuffled off this mortal coil. Before Criss Angel was mind-freaking and David Blaine was locking himself in boxes in Central Park, Houdini was flirting with death while chained underwater in his classic Chinese water torture trick, escaping straitjackets with…
Carmen Sandiego taught us that being Dutch was all about wooden clogs and boatloads of tulips. And because she was such a stunner in that red trench coat and fedora, we bought it. Little did we know that the Dutch are quite possibly the most bad-ass people on the planet…
Coming out as gay is rarely an easy process. When you’re a high-powered businessman married to a woman with whom you have kids, it’s pretty damn hard. And when, in addition, you’re a Maori descendent in New Zealand bucking tradition and unquestioned gender norms, it can seem near impossible. But…
From his humble beginnings making casual commentary on the likes of Rick Ross and Live a little less than a year ago, to storming the airwaves and Twitter culture, Pepe Billete has almost become a household name among the bilingual cognoscenti who like their TMZ with abuela’s congri and your…
John Belushi is probably one of the most famous American comedians of all time — thanks, in large part, to his role in Animal House, the classic raunchy comedy that makes more modern movies such as American Pie look Disney-esque by comparison. Even though the film is almost 35 years…
