FRI 5/21 Grandpa might be pushing 80 but he can still kick butt on the tennis court. He is also quite the dancer, speed walker, and golf player. The feisty old codger hasn’t lost his competitive spirit. Problem is that you have. Maybe he can find some able-bodied opponents who…

SAT 5/22 Home to a vast collection of post-Art Deco buildings (yes, they’re important too), North Beach recently celebrated the City of Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board’s designation of the North Beach Resort District, which recognizes the sleek and fun Miami Modern (or MiMo) apartments, hotels, shops, and more between…

Thursday 5/13 Fabulous people, fabulous furniture, fabulous art, and fabulous cocktails. You too can be fabulous at Art and Design Night, a monthly series of faboo block parties in fabulousness central, Miami’s Design District. Best of all, the district’s fabulous restaurants, cafés, showrooms, and galleries provide multo-fabulous settings for you…

SAT 5/15 It just may be that artist Robert Wyndam Bucknell is conceited. It could be he is a narcissistic charlatan capitalizing on his heroin-chic Jesus aura to draw attention to himself. But then again, he may be doing more. According to the London-born artist, his show “Why I Think…

TUE 5/18 Your friends snicker at your vast and valuable collection of Precious Moments figurines. But now you have the last laugh. The teardrop-eyed porcelain statues bearing inspirational messages have learned to rock. That’s right. PM Rocks! is a cute little girl band, a quintet in fact, bearing guitars, playing…

FRI 5/14 Curse the dry air that shriveled your phalaenopsis plants’ leaves into raisins! Now 5 are on sphag-and-bag life support and 3 are compost. How to get through this mourning period? Buy more orchids, obviously. How convenient, then, that it’s time for the 8th annual Redland International Orchid Festival?…

NOW 24/7 In the underbelly of the Dadeland South Metrorail Station the late-night bus riders gather. Dressed in sweaty uniforms from shifts at Publix, or drained from monitoring a lackluster parking lot during security detail, they begin their journey home at the sign that says DROP OFF: 500 Midnight Owl…

Tap dancing is all in the feet, whether large or small, or so many people think. Not true, says 26-year-old hoofer Marshall Davis, Jr., a generous size eleven-and-a-half, double E. “It’s more your approach, your technique, and how you want to be heard dealing with tonality — just being precise…

Thursday 5/6 Before there was Madonna, there was David Bowie, the true template for pop stars if there ever was one. Sure, Mick Jagger was the bad-boy-pouty-lipped-pretty-boy-devil, but Bowie was the mercurial space freak who morphed identities and crossed synth pop with disco and punk to create a netherworld of…

FRI 5/7 The last time Fernanda Porto (right) performed in Miami, she wowed the crowd at the awards ceremony of the Brazilian Film Festival with an eclectic mix of bossa nova, samba, drum and bass, and for that extra-special something, Japanese taiko drummers. The crowd was dazzled and the raspberry-haired…

SAT 5/8 Boasting the title An American Salute, this concert would surely gain the approval of George Bush. But Democrats shouldn’t fear. The hat will not be passed for the Republicans amid the strains of a John Philip Sousa march. The Americans being saluted at this show are composers, creators…

SAT 5/8 Finally an event that gives new meaning to the phrase “go with the flow.” The WaterFest pays tribute to all the refreshing liquid that surrounds us, besieges us in the summer, and makes up most of what we are. Created 2 years ago by some of the folks…

THU 5/6 Here’s a dilemma. As you were giving birth to your first child, your doctors frantically informed you that they needed to perform an emergency hysterectomy. They took your uterus, but nice guys that they were, they left your ovaries intact. No more bearing children but you could still…

TUE 5/4 Only one man can spoof Prince as a basketball-playing, pancake-making fop; make milquetoast talk show host Wayne Brady seem insanely edgy (“White people love Wayne Brady because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X”); and single-handedly revive superfreak Rick James’s career with a plethora of punches and…

Wine and food. Food and wine. Whether you prefer eating or drinking, there will be a whole lot of it going on this weekend when the Ninth Annual Miami Wine & Food Festival and the Biltmore International Food & Wine Weekend compete for lovers of the good life. The Miami…

Thursday 4/22 Whenever your child asks for yet another advance on his allowance, you always throw out the same responses: “What am I, the Bank of America? Maybe if you had to work for a living, you wouldn’t be so quick to blow all your money!” Well, today the little…

SAT 4/24 Alejandro Sanz was selling out stadiums in Mexico when 10 terrorist bombs exploded this past March in Madrid. While watching the terrible images on television of hundreds killed and wounded, he recognized the backdrop: the houses of old friends, the station where he used to catch the fast…

SAT 4/24 Fifteen of Miami’s most dynamic street poets face off today, battling in a word-slinging competition for the title of Urban Poet Laureate for South Florida and a $500 prize. Each of the poets competing today is a winner of Lip Tongue Ear Productions’ monthly poetry slam contests, which…

NOW 24/7 How do you own the moon? Many have tried; few have succeeded. Lunar expeditions have gotten rockets to land there and astronauts to bounce around in the gravity-less atmosphere. Painters such as Van Gogh, Rousseau, and O’Keeffe, and photographers such as Ansel Adams have rendered the planet in…

Thursday 4/15 Anatole Litvak’s 1939 film Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a thriller starring Edward G. Robinson as a G-man investigating Nazi cells in the homeland, got so many people nervous that Warner Bros. execs had to testify before a U.S. Senate hearing investigating “warmongering.” Regarded as the first anti-Nazi…

Retired lawyer Mervyn Aronoff (above) has painted Asian-inspired canvases for more than 20 years and has rented a studio at the Bakehouse for the last 5, citing the availability of “nice, reasonable space.” Admittedly surprised at the neighborhood’s resurgence, Aronoff is especially glad he joined the community now. “I feel…

SUN 4/18 Wings might be rather useless appendages for chickens, but some humans find the paltry poultry parts especially important. This afternoon those people might be seen red-faced, not embarrassed by their love for the blue-collar delicacy but proudly wearing wing sauce as a badge of honor for participating in…