Most will deny it, but inside every grown man lurks a hypersensitive adolescent girl. Allow me to tell you all about mine and to share some of my poetry … Whoa! Relax. Put away that gun. Just seeking to emphasize that in the case of director Catherine Hardwicke’s debut feature,…
Key Biscayne’s long-time diner the Donut Gallery might be a tiny, unassuming place, but it’s the kind of joint where you can meet lots of big-name people. Former Key Biscayne resident and President Nixon crony Bebe Rebozo was said to be a frequent patron. Federal prosecutor Dick Gregorie has been…
A new Internet fad has arrived and the admission ticket is likely sitting in your deleted e-mail. Remember a spammish-looking “Invitation to join Friendster” that you were above opening? While you were busy spending Friday night alone again, the already popular matchmaking site was exploding with artists, miscreants, and all…
THUR 9/4 It’s no secret — Miami’s nightlife depends on big, round, usually augmented, breasts. Boobs are huge here, literally. You don’t need a degree in microeconomics to recognize that the best clubs are busting at the seams with buxom bosoms. It makes sense; nice racks attract swarms of male,…
SAT 9/6 A summertime glance at the University of Miami football schedule is usually a letdown. Rarely do the Hurricanes play more than two significant home games a season. This year’s calendar features only one team ranked in a majority of preseason polls: Tennessee. This paucity of talented opponents is…
SUN 9/7 There’s more than just squawking parrots moving onto Watson Island. That white, slightly deconstructivist building sitting across the causeway from Parrot Jungle Island is home to the new Miami Children’s Museum. The vagabond institution, which started out in 1983 as the Miami Youth Museum, moved into the defunct…
THUR 9/4 Face it, Miami has become an awards show mecca. The Source Awards, the BMI Urban Awards, the MTV Latin Music Video Awards, and finally the Latin Grammys have all graced us with their presence. Last year lovely Little Haiti welcomed the supremely politically incorrect Crack Rock Fest. Well,…
FRI 9/5 Ludacris brings his iconoclastic braided ‘fro, mutton chops, and Mick Jagger-esque mouth (the one that asks, “What, what, what’s your fantasy?”) to the University of Miami’s Convocation Center (1245 Walsh Ave., Coral Gables) at 7:30 p.m. But the Atlanta native is no stranger to these parts. The fresh…
Modern-day Miami Beach, where condo canyons stretch skyward, slick shops expand along Lincoln Road Mall (emphasis on “mall”), and overstuffed SUVs jockey for position on overcrowded causeways. Not an ideal milieu for going small and artsy. But bucking the trend for the ever bigger and, uh, bigger, is the newly…
Thursday September 4 She’s a weird chick, that winsome and wispy Tori Amos. She’s a preacher’s daughter who sings about an unreliable god, self-crucifixion, and murder. In other words, we love her. Currently touring in support of her album Scarlet’s Walk, Amos promises to satisfy the droves of her fans…
Harvey Pekar, star of a long-running comic-book series he writes and others illustrate, is reminded early in American Splendor that he’s no superhero. It’s Halloween, and the eleven-year-old Harvey, played by a bent-over, sneering Daniel Tay, stands on a stoop seeking tricks and treats from a woman who recognizes the…
“A film starring Bob Dylan” — five more frightening words you’d be hard-pressed to put into the same sentence, even among those who forgave the man for his grotesquely indulgent 1970 album Self-Portrait or sat through his disjointed home movie Renaldo and Clara in 1978. The apologists, of course, will…
So you thought South Beach was just a hotbed of nightclubs, sidewalk cafés, and beautiful models strutting their stuff? Hard to believe, but it’s about much more. It’s about Art Deco, the streamlined style that proliferated in design from the 1920s through the 1940s and is exemplified in so many…
Unless you live under a rock, you no doubt have heard the name Dontrelle Willis by now. Even the non-sports fan has been introduced to the beaming smile, tilted cap, and high leg kick of the “D-Train.” The 21-year-old rookie phenom of the Florida Marlins has turned baseball on its…
Saturday August 30 The distance between Panama and Haiti just got smaller, since the City of Miami is helping to celebrate both countries’ respective independence days today. At José Martí Park (351 SW 4th St.) on the Miami River, Panamanians will be honoring their patria, while at the same time…
Saturday 8/30 A creature stalks the swamps of the Everglades’ Big Cypress National Preserve, nestled between Naples and Miami. He wears hip boots and a hat and carries a large-format camera. His name is Clyde Butcher. Eleven years ago the swamp was a place he and his wife Niki went…
If you’re going to a new school this year, like me, you want to make a good impression. Even if you’re not new, you still need to make a good impression after not seeing your friends all summer. You don’t want people to think that you don’t care about your…
Friday August 29 It may not be the newest country on the block, but at 56 years Pakistan is definitely not the oldest. The civilization, though, has been around since well before this Great guy named Alexander went tromping over the Hindu Kush back around 329 A.D. Celebrate the rich…
Thursday August 28 There are few finer female fiddlers than Regina Carter. Dubbed a jazz musician, she is amazingly much more. The Detroit native is able to leap stylistic bounds, nimbly switching from a mournful Brazilian melody to a jaunty jazz tune to a tangled tango. Her crisp, lyrical tone…
Thursday August 28 Shaaron! Shaaaron! Are you going to give your poor husband a break for a little while? We know you “work,” but most of your shopping sprees at Tiffany and Cartier are probably subsidized by the major moola he makes while on tour. Okay, so it was your…
The last thing the Roman Catholic Church needs at this point is another exposé of its misdeeds. The shock of the pedophilia scandals and of the official coverups isn’t going away anytime soon, and when last we looked the former bishop of the Phoenix Diocese was out on $45,000 bail…
Ah, Paris — City of Light, of Love, of Liver Damage and Lung Cancer. C’est formidable, non? Who in need of a posh vacation would turn down the opportunity to luxuriate in its finest hotels, to stuff oneself with sumptuous snails, and to work on a terribly flat romantic drama…
