My quest for accessible and affordable yoga led me to the Saturday community class at Miami Life Center, 736 Sixth Street, in South Beach. The one-hour class at 12:30 p.m. is $5 and billed as an intro to yoga class. Yoga-curious friends have told me they’d like to find a…
Talk about the summer slow down. The muggy heat seems to have everyone running for the safety of their air-conditioned homes. However, there seems to be still plenty of activity sprouting up all over the city, which is surprising since we are already a few weeks into the rainy season…
Good news: the Marlins now have 103 homeruns on the season – the most in the majors. Bad news: the pitching has been a bouillabaisse of pure unadulterated mediocrity. That was pretty much the case this past weekend when the Fish visited the Strip Club Capital of the World and…
If you’ve ever failed miserably at explaining a funny movie scene to someone who hasn’t seen it, you know how tough it is to recreate humor. Maybe your friends gave you a mercy laugh when you tried to recount a Saturday Night Live skit (back when it was actually funny)…
Few probably know that Studio A, Miami’s only mid-size venue, will be closing for good at the end of the month. The blogger over at the (covert) overt reminisces about how much the venue actually meant to the city: one day when i’m older and telling my kids (if i…
ESPN NBA draft analyst Chad Ford reports that the Miami Heat had a workout with former USC guard O.J. Mayo and that Mayo could very well be the Heat’s first pick in this month’s NBA draft. And to that we give our own NBA draft analysis rebuttal by saying, “Whaaa?!”…
Manny (The Mayor) Diaz was at the grand opening of Manny’s (The Steakhouse) Steakhouse this week in the Met One Tower downtown. Manny’s comes from Minneapolis, and specifically from Phil Roberts, a Minneapolis/Miami resident. It is an extremely well-regarded emporium of beef that serves only USDA-certified dry aged, center-cut beef…
Japan Outlaws Obesity – The Japanese government passed a law that states that people from the ages of 40 to 74 shall have their waistline measured during their regular checkups. If the person’s waist exceeds 33.5 inches (35.4 if they’re a woman) then they will be subject to three months…
Witness Georges Pierre has been charged with committing various crime 29 times. Want to guess how much prison time he has served? If you guess anything higher than hours you’re wrong. The Fort Lauderdale man has been in the judicial system since he was 14 but has yet to…
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Hello, Kitty My parents are getting their house fumigated this weekend, and instead of getting a hotel they’re staying in my apartment with me. I’m a single dude and there are various cum stains on my carpet, bed frame, blankets, and couch that I need removed before my mom and…
Our sister paper in Minnesota, City Pages, is reporting that state’s governor, Tim Pawlenty has flip-flopped on the trade embargo with Cuba. The reason: ambition. Pawlenty would like to become John McCain’s VP. The Repubnant Arizonan wants Miami Cubans’ support. So Pawlenty contradicted his own agriculture secretary, who recently and…
If you listen long enough, you can still hear it. The sound of thunder reverberating throughout the sky from last night’s Marlins walk-off grand slam against the Phillies. The Gods on Olympus forged his arms out of molten lava and rawhide; his balls were cast from pure steel. His name…
Markus Groh felt uneasy aboard the M/V Shear Water. A buddy had talked him into booking a six-night trip on the charter boat with nine other Austrians to scuba-dive with sharks in the Bahamas. There would be dead fish in the water to attract the big boys — tiger sharks,…
Theresa Gerstner can recall how suspicion crept slowly into her mind. It was peculiar to see boys climbing into Rev. Neil Doherty’s car for a trip to the movies. Then she learned the St. Vincent Catholic Church pastor took boys to his mother’s house in West Palm Beach, and even…
It’s raining inside Apartment 9. Celeste Brown grabs a newspaper from a stack in her tiny one-bedroom place. She clutches it over the shamrock-green bandanna that covers her hair. It’s the pluvial uniform of the rail-thin 49-year-old widow. She gingerly steps around mounds of plastic bags that shelter her belongings…
News Yellow Alert The cost of a cab might go up with the gas. By Alexander Zaitchik If you think rising gas prices have hit you hard in the wallet, imagine if your job was to drive around in circles all day. Miami’s cabbies make their living sitting in traffic,…
So by now PS3 owners are rejoicing as they crack open their Metal Gear Solid 4 cases (Smells good, doesn’t it). The PS3 exclusive has been eagerly awaited by fans for more than a year, and at 12:01 am today Gamestops and Best Buys all over Miami (and the rest…
Ideally, leadoff men are supposed to set the tone every night with their first at bat of the game. Last night, Hanley Ramirez set the tone on fire, kicked it in the onions and ran away with its hot girlfriend. The first place Phillies strolled into Dolphin Stadium for what…
Every year there is some food out there that can kill you (we all remember the spinach scare in 2006). This year’s deadly foodstuff is tomatoes. Tomatoes form the base of many dishes, unlike spinach which can easily be avoided (unless you have an addiction to the stuff that can…
Last year, Miami Beach artist Steven Gagnon, created a rolling video installation on the plight of illegal aliens that patrolled local streets during Art Basel and earned a trip to Houston’s ArtCar Museum this spring. Gagnon’s “Border Cruiser” featured video projections on the rear windows in which a Brazilian man…
The historical origin of the blow job is unknown (to me), but it’s probably safe to say that knob slobbery has been occurring since the beginning of time. Some receivers will argue that a proper b.j. can be the difference between a good day and bad, while givers say that…
