A waft of stale Coors Banquet and Camel cigarette smoke smacks you like a schoolyard sucker punch, temporarily clouding your vision and watering your eyes. A generic blend of 1970s Americana shuffles through the jukebox as 40-something-year-old divorcee waitresses deliver greasy baskets of cheese burgers and french fries to high-top…
Miami Beach is home to plenty of A-listers: Lil Wayne, Missy Elliot, Lenny Kravitz, Kelly Rowland and oh, so many more. But unluckily — at least for residents of the 33139 area code — the beach just got another celebrity neighbor. Ready the South Beach welcome wagon. It’s time to…
Best films of 2011
2012 film preview
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie since the days of the Gish sisters. It might also be the first silent film many of its viewers have ever seen. French writer-director Michel Hazanavicius, who has previously struck…
Friends, family members, and fellow lovers of quality boob tube-age: We are gathered here today to mourn the fallen. In this so-called golden age of television, some of our best-loved programming has been taken from us too soon. They’re high-quality TV shows, well-written and exquisitely acted. And now they’re gone,…
What’s stopping you from getting your flick fix these days? An over-exaggerated fear of the bed bug infestation? Cell phone distraction and interactive audiences? These disturbances go from minor to major when you factor in the ridiculously inflated price of movie tickets. So, what are your real options? How do…
At times, it seems the outside world is totally fascinated with Miami. And why not? It’s a city known for fun, sun, skin, great parties, and great drugs. And it all looks even more sexy and dangerous when projected onto the silver screen.From the black-and-white era to modern-day computerized car…
During the final moments of Lifetime’s Project Accessory, Miami’s fashionistas and design junkies held their breath as judges Kenneth Cole, Molly Sims, and Ariel Foxman decided the fate of two of our own.South Florida was represented by both Nina Cortes and Brian Burkhardt, there to prove their obvious and immense…
We Bought a Zoo: Matt Damon needs your love
While we were busy watching the Miami Dolphins finally win a goddamn game on Sunday — in the snow, no less — the Carolina Panthers were showing off their sports film knowledge. The team ran the Fumblerooski, a trick play that’s seldom used but widely famous thanks to the movie…
Glenn Terry is the creator of the King Mango Strut parade, an eccentric, satirical, and politically relevant parade initiated in 1982 and indigenous to Coconut Grove (although Terry also helped launch Wynwood’s version just a few weeks ago).Terry’s efforts to bring cohesion to the eccentric South Florida community don’t end…
If we can take one thing away from the London riots of this past year, it might be that young people in England are proper wankers. Now imagine the damage those little twats could have caused if they all had superpowers. It might look a bit like Misfits.The hit British…
Well, that’s all, kids. We have officially survived 11 weeks of Tough Love Miami. Quite the feat, if you ask us. But just when you thought it was over, Steve Ward let us know last week that for the first time, all the ladies were coming back for a reunion…
It was a big year for television, so when facing the daunting task of compiling the best and worst, we went back into our archives. There were so many options to include. What about those Teen Moms? They were at their dramatic best, and we hate to admit how much…
Look, we’ve loved Dexter from the very first episode. We love feeling justified in rooting for a serial killer. We love its quirky supporting characters, especially that horndog Masuka. We even love laughing at its sad attempts to recreate the Miami experience. (Remember the time Dexter visited the sex offender…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
Howard Stern is the new judge at America’s Got Talent. The self-proclaimed “King of All Media” made the announcement this morning on his Sirius XM radio program and quickly became one of Twitter’s trending topics. While the reaction’s has been generally positive around the web, one conservative buzz killer’s not…
It’s shaping up to be a great year for women actors. Bridesmaids, with its Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice and Screen Actors’ Guild award nominations, managed to end the annoying debate over whether women can be funny. (They can, duh.) Lead actor nominations for the ladies have gone to Glenn Close,…
As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…
Christmas in South Florida doesn’t quite have the same pizazz as other places in the country. Endless sunshine almost always beats the overcast gloom that our northern neighbors suffer through every holiday season, but still, a snowy Christmas must be nice.Since the weather wasn’t enough to satiate our wintertime needs,…
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Robert Downey Jr. gets a Bond makeover as everyone’s favorite Victorian detective
