It’s easy to hate Valentine’s Day. The weight of expectation hangs in the air every February, and the pressure on your wallet mounts as the day draws near. Store shelves creak under the weight of prepackaged floral arrangements and heart-shape boxes. But what if your lovah is one of those…
The competition is always fierce for Gen Art’s Fresh Faces in Fashion show, but this year designers will have their eyes on the catwalk prize for a different reason. Say it with us — one name, two syllables, made for cooing into the ocean breeze: “Uli.” Just last year the…
There is something about storytelling that is soothing to the soul. The oral tradition can take us back to childhood or subconsciously even further, to the ancient times before television and written words, when epic poems and age-old tales drew restless villagers around the campfire. The concept of coming closer…
Lord knows there are enough Super Bowl parties taking place about town this weekend, and a legion of athletes and celebrities will be throwing cash around like it’s confetti. But many of these ballers didn’t make their fortunes by sheer talent alone. Take Earvin “Magic” Johnson, for instance. Skill and…
Even though her most famous portraits feature her nude, save for a spangly headdress and a skirt of bananas, Josephine Baker is remembered as some kind of saintly figure. To hear her adopted son Jean-Claude Baker tell it, she would have loathed any such pretensions: “Josephine was a naughty girl!…
It’s Super Bowl weekend, and South Florida is in a frenzy. Every little neighborhood bar is putting together some kind of shindig, but how does a discriminating reveler know where to go? It all depends on the size of your money clip. There are happenings for the high-end, the low-end,…
The PlayGround Theatre has earned a reputation for producing extraordinarily well-crafted productions for children. Its past performances have enthralled young audiences via vibrant costumes and out-of-this-world sets, while bringing to life vintage fairy tales and European fables. Now the theater group is giving youngsters recess and producing a play for…
Taylor Steele is like the Quentin Tarantino of surf movies. In 1989 his first film, Seaside and Beyond, captured the California scene through a newbie’s lens, but since that initial foray, Steele’s cameras have traveled far beyond sleepy Seaside Reef. The Hawaiian pipeline scenes he captured in 1992’s Momentum changed…
A mere weekend stroll down Lincoln Road offers a smorgasbord of delicious foodstuffs. From ginormous slabs of pizza to epicurean fusion sushi, there is something to please every palate along South Beach’s most family-friendly strip. Today gourmands and gluttons should break out the comfy-chic stretch pants and get ready for…
In 1969 — the dog days of the preternaturally long summer of love — Dr. David Reuben released a slim volume titled Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). The book became a must-have manual and is widely deemed responsible for altering attitudes and…
If 2006 was your year of the slob, spent in a chocoholic, sedentary haze, blithely letting the phone ring as your creditors kept calling, it’s time to snap out of it and get off of your lazy butt. Two thousand seven is your year to change for the better, and…
The event organizers of the highly anticipated South Beach Comedy Festival spent this past week at the Miami Improv, hosting a talent search for a local act to host a performance and possibly grace the stage at the Lincoln Theatre or Colony Theater. Talk about stage fright: The prospect of…
When the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra takes up its two-week residency in Miami and spreads a legion of instrument-wielding members across the stage of the Knight Concert Hall at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, keep your eyes peeled for a striking soprano soloist. Measha Brueggergosman, a beautiful woman with…
There are certain novels that creep into the current political discourse, stories that – decades after their original publication – can be interpreted as being eerily prescient. One such book is Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate. The stellar performances by Frank Sinatra and the chilling Angela Lansbury (ages before Murder…
When one sits at a bar and requests a martini, certain elements are expected. Gin or vodka, vermouth, and certainly an olive or two should come into play. You can find precisely one such drink on the menu at the ironically titled Martini Bar – the Dirty Executive martini provides…
Remember when Al Franken was just the goofy guy on Saturday Night Live who did feel-good skits in a powder blue cardigan? As Stewart Smalley, he took the piss out of the self-help movement by bringing athletes and celebrities to glycerin tears and misguided self-realization. Most folks expected Franken to…
Before the invention of aspirin, marijuana was among the world’s most prescribed medications. The very plant that for centuries offered relief in Eastern cultures was listed in the United States Pharmacopeia from 1850 to 1942. Then dark propaganda tainted the good herb’s image. Despite years of evidence and scientific research…
It’s the beginning of festival season, and the weather is bright and pleasantly breezy. The temperature will find its way back to scorching before you know it. Now is the time to enjoy the great outdoorsy events that will be taking place throughout the city. Start today at the seventeenth…
March, April, and May are beautiful but scorching. Hurricane season stretches from June to November, threatening devastation to delicate tropical life. Really the ideal time to visit the Florida Keys is in January, when deliciously cool weather makes for perfect camping and kayaking conditions. Besides the outdoorsy fun to be…
Here in Miami, where pastel-color buildings are our birthright, we tend to think of Art Deco architecture as an inimitably local thing. At the 30th annual Art Deco Weekend, event organizers will be celebrating distinctive art and architecture in an opposite corner of the world. This year’s theme is East…
It’s the beginning of festival season, and the weather is bright and pleasantly breezy. The temperature will find its way back to scorching before you know it. Now is the time to enjoy the great outdoorsy events that will be taking place throughout the city. Start today at the seventeenth…
Sitting cross-legged in the beautiful outdoor courtyard at the Standard Hotel, twirling an ancient Tibetan prayer wheel, Nada yoga master Bhagavan Das looks the part of a wizened mystic. His graying beard is so dense that a nest of hummingbirds could make a comfortable home in it; rivulets of thick…
