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Antony and Cleopatra Is McCraney’s Masterpiece

Of all the historic masterworks in the Shakespeare canon, Antony and Cleopatra might be the least likely play to appear in a given company's season, for a simple reason: It's really hard to do. The play, written in 1606, dramatizes nothing less than the collapse of Rome's triumvirate and the...
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Warhol versus Wookies

Andy Warhol isn’t that different from Yoda from Star Wars. Think about it: Like Yoda, the white-wigged Warhol was inscrutable, his force was far-reaching, and he was the lord of his universe. For London-based artist RYCA, who pays tribute to his Pop Jedi master through a filter of Star Wars...
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Jeff Ireland Should Get Fired After Dolphins Collapse Against the Jets

Welp. That about wraps 'er up. On Sunday, the Dolphins completed one of the most disappointing, weirdest, deflating and confounding seasons in Dolphins history (no small achievement, all things considered) by once again coming out largely flat and lifeless against a division rival. The Dolphins fell to the Jets 20-6...
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Why Miami Christmas Is the Best Christmas

It's Christmastime again! It's that time of the year when the weather gets colder and the people get warmer (generally), and when red and green become the most popular colors around town (and on ladies' fingernails). The radio stations start playing that jolly Christmas music, and the cheesy - yet...
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Pepe Billete’s Open Letter to Elian Gonzalez

Dear Elian, I'm writing to offer you a bit of the wisdom that was passed down to me by my Cuban abuelos, because after reading your comments in the interview you recently gave on the heels of your trip to Ecuador, I think it's the least I can do for...
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Poker Player Traveling With $100,000 Cash Foiled Two Robberies in One Day

The poker player's white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York's John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years...
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Toxic Ash Closes Douglas Park

Miami-Dade's newest toxic playground is the City of Miami's Douglas Park. City officials say arsenic, lead, barium, and other hazardous substances have been found at levels far above the threshold considered safe for human exposure. The park will be fenced off and closed to all visitors, says assistant city manager...
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Du Pont Estate: Coconut Grove’s Buried Poison

At the end of a leafy, dead-end street in Coconut Grove, past actor Christian Slater's new digs and the sprawling grounds of Hollywood director David Frankel's home, sit mounds of rubble. Just a few days ago, this was one of Miami's grandest, most envied private homes: the five-acre, 26,000-square-foot du...
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University of Miami Library Evacuated After Bomb Threat UPDATED

The University of Miami's main library is currently being evacuated after a bomb threat. Campus security issued an emergency alert at 10:28 a.m. this morning. A university spokesman confirmed the evacuation but did not provide further details on the threat. UPDATE: Cops have finished sweeping the library and given the...
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Dolphins-Panthers: Miami Crumbles at the Last Second

Last week, the Dolphins saved their season and maybe a lot of jobs; this week, the Dolphins went back to their Dolphins ways. Today, the team is what the record says -- a below-average group that lacks the proper coaching, players, and toughness to pull off wins once it has...
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The Dreary 47 Ronin Falls on Its Sword

Solemn as a funeral march, humorless as your junior high principal, as Japanese as a grocery-store California roll, Keanu Reeves's let's-mope-about-and-kill-ourselves samurai drama has exactly three things going for it. First, the cockeyed sensuality of Rinko Kikuchi as a spider-puking evil witch who can transform herself into a fox, a...
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Keon Hardemon Makes Miami History

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Today, Luke basks in his candidate's victory. Miami's African American community did something historic last night, electing the youngest city commissioner...
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The Federal’s New Menu: Scallops, Conch Salad, and Flaming Foie

The Federal Food Drink & Provisions has revamped its menu, leaving only three classic dishes behind. Don't worry. Their "biskits" -- recently named best in America by Food & Wine -- are still available. In his new take, chef Cesar Zapata combines Houston, Texas, with a 1930s steak-house motif. The...
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Du Pont Mansion in Coconut Grove Is Buried in Poison

At the end of a leafy, dead-end street in Coconut Grove, past actor Christian Slater's new digs and the sprawling grounds of Hollywood director David Frankel's home, sit mounds of rubble. Just a few days ago, this was one of Miami's grandest, most envied private homes: the five-acre, 26,000-square-foot du...
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Key West Rejects Cruise Industry Push for Deeper Port and Bigger Ships

On one side, there's the billion-dollar cruise industry and Key West's powerful chamber of commerce sinking thousands of dollars into a campaign to convince islanders to dredge 17 acres of sea floor to allow larger ships and thousands more tourists to visit. On the other, environmentalists, preservationists, and their leader...
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Dolphins Suspend Richie Incognito After Bullying Allegations

For years we have thought the Miami Hurricanes were South Florida's bad boys. Turns out we were wrong. Those seemingly straight-arrow Dolphins are really a big-money fraternity gone wrong. The team suspended guard Richie Incognito Sunday for detrimental behavior. He is part of the Dolphins' six-player "leadership council" and was...