A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn’s tiny hand helplessly clinging to a father’s finger, and ends with a different father watching his two sons sleep. In between is a story...
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There are many places in Miami that serve Chinese dim sum, but only one restaurant offers an American version. The Sarsaparilla Club at the Shelborne Wyndham Grand South Beach is named for a root that happens to be the main ingredient in root beer. During the appetizer portion of the...
A few weeks ago we were reminded of the fact that "scandals" that seem almost unnoteworthy here in Miami can appear absolutely shocking to the rest of the country. At the time, we were discussing Marco Rubio's many mini-scandals: his coincidental sort-of-connection to amateur gay porn, his spotty driving record,...
Another lawsuit alleging deceptive beer label practices was filed in Miami. On April 1, Dr. Henry Vazquez who says Anheuser-Busch InBev's (AB-Inbev) Leffe brand isn't made in a real monastery. It's the second such class action to be filed this year, the fourth since 2013, and the third filed...
Marlins Park has been open for four years now. The team continues to lack in both wins and attracting much attendance. The county Mayor who oversaw the deal was long ago recalled by voters, and other politicians who went along with the deal are also out of office. However, it appears...
With the Florida primary less than two weeks away, about 250,000 Republican voters have already cast their absentee ballots. That can't be a good sign for onetime Tea Party golden boy Marco Rubio and the other three remaining Republican presidential contenders dreaming about knocking off frontrunner Donald Trump. Last week,...
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Is surrealist comedy a genre? If it wasn't ten years ago, it is now that Eric Andre has hit the scene. The Florida native's strange brand of situational comedy plays on familiar ideas, constructs, and social tropes — and then turns them upside down and competes against a stegosaurus to...
You already know that Jeb Bush is struggling. He's scuffling so bad that his mom is pleading his case in campaign ads and DJ Khaled is jumping on late-night TV to try to light a spark under the former governor. But even the most cynical Jeb hater had to...
Wisps of Cuba hide in everything Michael Beltran cooks. You'll find them when you push aside the green spigarello leaves and shaved radish curls — a plantain sliver here, a dash of sour orange juice there. Such touches are natural for the stocky, goateed 30-year-old who was raised in Little...
Don Festge, a hospitality and tourism teacher at Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School in North Miami, had already been toying with the idea of running for office when he traveled to Tallahassee in January. It was Rep. Frank Artiles who pushed him into the fray. Unable to arrange a meeting...
In the days leading up to yesterday's vote on whether to build a massive new convention center and hotel in the middle of South Beach, skeptics voiced a number of concerns: The snarled traffic in the heart of SoBe, the outsized scale of the building, the environmental impact. But when...
You don’t have to be a special kind of science person to know that the sun and the desert are both hot and that reveling in the hot desert sun will do damage to your body. It’s barely even science at all. So, given that the sun in the desert...
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“Did I want to shoot comedies?” asks Brandon Trost, director of photography on two of this summer's funniest films, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. “It’s funny — not at all.” But then came MacGruber, Jorma Taccone's 2010 SNL film.“The director wanted me because I wasn’t...
Last night two children reported to security officers at the Flamingo condominium building in South Beach that their mother had been assaulted in her unit. When police showed up they found the 31-year-old woman dead. Police identified Samir Jemaaoui as the main suspect, and CBS Miami reports that the victim was his...
There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back to the first weekend in May. This year, the superhero flicks started arriving with Deadpool’s release on February 12. Only two...
You have to hand it to Duran Duran. Nearly 38 years since the group formed, it's still going strong, adapting to changing times and forging its own path forward. Once dismissed by critics as poseurs of Britain's so-called New Romantic movement — replete with those multitiered haircuts and garish fashions...
Thursday Wine is the elixir of creativity. It unlocks artistic whimsy and lowers inhibitions. Are you doing this right? Hell, there's no wrong way to paint a beach at sunset or a cabin in the mountains or a demure cocktail glass like the one in your hand. Painting-and-drinking classes are...
Marco Rubio had a no good, very bad weekend. He's now the de-facto establishment candidate, and in the four states voting on Saturday, he racked up tons of high-profile endorsements. He spent more per spent more per vote this weekend than any other candidate on either side of the aisle. It...
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Miamians tend to enjoy their lives. They feel that they have purpose, enjoy their close network of friends and family, and are in some of the best physical shape of anywhere in the country. Just don't bring up Money. Locals are also some of the most financially stressed in the...
Florida Republican lawmakers have been chipping away at abortion rights for years, but yesterday the Florida legislature passed its most sweeping anti-abortion law to date. The bill is now headed to Governor Rick Scott's desk, but significant parts of the law may be struck down by the Supreme Court by...
This weekend, protest organization Occupy Miami (a branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York) will host the inaugural Radical Film Festival. The two-day cinematic celebration of resistance aims to inform and inspire. Screening will be six topical films selected by local organizations, including Black Lives Matter Miami, Dream...
For Cuban musician and Fabrica del Arte Cubano (FAC) founder, X Alfonso, art exists in a multidisciplinary space. The Havana based business brings this sensory experience to Vedado's early 20th century government electricity building every week; screening films and hosting visual artists all in the same venue. It's a testament...