Email Author Amanda McCorquodale

2011 Stories by Amanda McCorquodale

• Art Lurking

  published December 1, 2011

  Although some are trying to refer to the next five days as Miami Art Week, most refer to it as Basel in homage to the Swiss art fair that opened... More >>

• Get a Head Start

  published November 24, 2011

  Five days to see 15-plus art fairs? Face it, you will not get to see everything during Art Basel week. But many don’t realize that a few of... More >>

• Ms. Swamp Thing

  published November 3, 2011

  A woman exits the dense, sweaty mangroves and finds the limestone splendor of Vizcaya. She attempts to make sense of the Mediterranean-revival... More >>

• Fashion Night Out

  published September 8, 2011

  Fashion Night Out officially kicks off New York’s “Fashion Week.” But in actuality, it was created to revive consumer habits in a... More >>

• Reflect Loss

  published September 8, 2011

  Ten years ago this Sunday, Americans woke up to the terror of a World Trade Center in flames and a smoking Pentagon. A decade later, the... More >>

• Wet Couture

  published July 7, 2011

  Thongs are boring. What really gets us excited are burqinis — that is, burqua-style bikinis. We don’t know if it’s that their... More >>

• Shot a Man in Reno

  published June 30, 2011

  A year after winning a Grammy for “Jackson,” his duet with June Carter, Johnny Cash nearly died in an underground cave. He had crawled... More >>

• Whip It, Derby Style

  published June 23, 2011

  When you see the roster for the Broward-based Gold Coast Derby Grrls, know that Zombitch, Shreddie Mercury, Sookie Skankhouse, and... More >>

• Still Moving

  published June 16, 2011

  After suffering concussions and bloody heads on the world’s skate ramps for most of the ’90s, former pro skate boarder and current ANP... More >>

• Soldier On

  published May 19, 2011

  We’ve been at war in Afghanistan for ten years. Yet with no draft, rations, or war bond drives, the battlefield might as well as be happening... More >>

• Spinal Tap

  published May 12, 2011

  Thanks to your sedentary lifestyle, you likely only engage three or four of the 33 vertebra in your spine. But what all you aging, office... More >>

• Keeping Score

  published April 21, 2011

  As Jim Morrison noted, “Film spectators are quiet vampires.” But Thursday at O Cinema (90 NW 29th St., Miami), expect more than just... More >>

• Earthly Girls Are Easy

  published April 14, 2011

  Our best guess as to why we have a giant chip on our shoulder is that we were a virgin thrown into a volcano in a past life. We must still hold a... More >>

• Little Men, Big Beers

  published March 10, 2011

  In the little wee corner, Were a tiny wee man, Wid a little wee smoke, Past the camera he ran. Has it been awhile since you’re spied your... More >>

• Dance, Billy!

  published March 10, 2011

  Perhaps you don’t drink – ever since “the Incident”—and you actually believe the Irish should be celebrated for more than... More >>

• Knight Shift

  published February 10, 2011

  The best aspect of a Renaissance festival is the wonderful absence of jerks thumbing through their BlackBerrys. It’s a celebration of life... More >>

• Euro Bash

  published January 20, 2011

  Things have gotten so bad in Eastern Europe that countries such as Moldavia and Albania don’t even have feature-length films anymore. ... More >>