We’ve got the biggest one in Florida. Seriously. The Miami-Dade County Fair & Expo is unrivaled in the Sunshine State for sheer size. It runs through April 11. Last year, we got thrown off the cable cars for spitting on people’s heads, smoked on the Ferris wheel, got too drunk…
Comedian and political provocateur Lewis Black, formerly of The Daily Show, says the kinds of things we all want to say — from comments on the devolution of our political prospects (“I believe in 12 years we’ll be voting for plants.”) to comments on home and holidays (“Americans are fat…
On a typical Thursday night, your average electronica artist isn’t sitting down to a fancy dinner. He’s just waking up from the 45-minute power nap that precedes his 96-hour working weekend, popping some pick-me-up MDMA, and uhntz-uhntz-ing through his personal hygiene routine. This Thursday, though, it’s the 25th Annual International…
A trip to the tip of America’s big toe, otherwise knows as South Florida, can be a difficult thing to plan. For months, San Francisco psych rockers the Fresh & Onlys have been trying to shuffle the many moving parts of their touring schedule so they could spend some time…
An attractive blonde with cojones, comedian Chelsea Handler can be an acquired taste. As the host of Chelsea Lately for the past three years, she often comes off as insufferably annoying. But her undeniable wit, as she consistently embarrasses top rappers and shames touted actors into giving up interview gold,…
Got a screwed-up back? The two-step solution is simple. Step 1: Call 1-800-411-PAIN, score a script, and wash down a double dose with a nice pull from your 40-ouncer. Step 2: Crip-walk to the American Airlines Arena this Thursday for some low-frequency bass therapy at the White Lion Records 15th…
In the pantheon of R&B divadom, there’s a definite history. So let’s speak to the chronological record, which goes Aretha, Whitney, Mariah… Uh, who’s next? Well, over the course of the past decade, Alicia Keys has proven herself fit to don the mantel. Like Carey, Keys debuted with a massively…
The odds of you going to Princeton to learn creative writing are pretty slim. So when the former director of Princeton’s creative writing department comes to your local bookstore to talk about literary craft, consider it your 15-minute brush with an Ivy League education. And you won’t have to flash…
Puerto Rican-American salsa singer Victor Manuelle has long been called “El Sonero de la Juventud,” or “the Sonero of the Youth.” There isn’t a clear translation for the word sonero, but it suffices to say it is salsa’s version of a freestyler. Manuelle has earned the title for his abilities…
The email arrived at the Miami Herald yesterday with some choice words about the paper’s Oscar coverage. It came from Bob Ingram, a folk singer who has lived in Coconut Grove since the ’60s. Here’s an excerpt from the letter, which was never published: “When the Miami Herald reported on…
The Rizzos are an average family — two parents, two kids — who make their home on City Island, an old fishing town in the Bronx. The patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia), is a New York State corrections officer with dreams of being an actor. His wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), is…
We like to think of Here & Now as a blind date with select Miami artists and their latest work. Sure, we agreed to go, but we were a little anxious about what we’d find at Arsht’s Carnival Theater. But matchmaker Miami Light Project hooked us up with interesting company…
Perhaps the real breakout film of this year’s Oscars was The Cove, the documentary that stars Coconut Grove resident and former Miami Seaquarium trainer Ric O’Barry’s quest to shut down dolphin killing in Japan.Now the film is being turned into an Animal Planet TV series set to air this fall.The…
Something very strange happened at this year’s Oscars: People actually paid attention to the award for Best Documentary Short. That’s thanks to “Lady Kanye” Elinor Burkett, who bizarrely interrupted the speech of director Roger Ross Williams, who was accepting an award for their film Music by Prudence.The two had a…
A waiter and student in his native France, Jeremy Marie decided there was only one way he would ever tour the world: by hitchhiking.Two and a half years and 39 countries later, the 25-year-old has blazed a trail through Africa and all of North America. He’s now in Miami, puzzling…
On a recent Friday night, Living Room, the cavernous Fort Lauderdale gay club, was bathed in black lights. There were the usual go-go dancers and drag queens. Men, and the occasional guidette, danced to stock tribal house in varying degrees of undress. The place was a jungle. Literally. This wasn’t…
On Saturday night, we saw the American debut of Swedish film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo at the Miami International Film Festival. Gusman was packed. Not only was the 1,600-seat house sold out, a hundred or so people waiting outside for tickets had to be turned away. (Psst, we…
Well, our hopes for a sequel to The Birdcage just got dampened. That’s because a new bill that increases tax incentives to lure television and movie production to Florida would deny those tax breaks to films that feature gay characters. And unlike the ultraconservative Republican politician in The Birdcage, it…
On the surface, this debut feature by writer-director Florence Jaugey is about a girl boxer, Yuma (Alma Blanco), struggling to escape the barrios of Managua. She lives in a concrete-floor shack with her often-absent mother, unemployed pedophilic stepdad, teen junkie brother, and two younger siblings. She loves and protects the…
Anyone in Miami who managed to sweat it out through four hours of insipid red carpet interviews, Joan Rivers’ scary talking plastic face, and what felt like fourteen different sound editing categories at the Oscars last night was rewarded toward the end with a big-time local win.Activist Ric O’Barry, a…
Last night, the closing night film of the Miami International Film Festival The Secret in Their Eyes won the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the Academy Awards. According to the festival’s artistic director Tiziana Finzi, director Juan José Campanella will not only attend this year’s closing night, he’s bringing that…
Michel Gondry must have been on to us. He knew we’d expect something as imaginative as his last film, The Science of Sleep, or his popular Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. So in The Thorn in the Heart (L’Épine Dans le Coeur), he presents an evenhanded documentary about his…
