A daughter does some household chores and prepares to give her mother a manicure when she suddenly and indifferently notifies Mom that she’s going to kill herself in a few hours. It might sound like an obscure B-side ’90s Springsteen song, but it’s actually the plot to ‘Night Mother. Alliance…
Jai Rodriguez, formerly of the Emmy Award-winning Bravo reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, has been working at breakneck speed, perfecting his lines, sharpening his choreography, and hitting the right notes, all for the sake of putting on what promises to be the summer’s show of shows when…
In 1772, we find the young German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe flunking out of law school and getting drunk with his friends. He’s a free spirit trapped in a stringent world where class is everything. All Goethe wants to do is write poems and get them published. But his stern…
Mikey, Manny, and Angel Jr. are three private-school buddies. Three months before graduation, they are living the fast life of sex, drugs, and hip-hop in Miami. The story is narrated by Mikey, who is a top baseball prospect torn between living clean and joining his friends in the fast lane…
The Miami International Film Festival’s second week features a bevy of fantastic films to soothe the indie-film-loving beast inside us all. Thursday’s films include Germany’s Young Goethe in Love, a Shakespeare in Love-style historical romp about Germany’s great poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe and his perilous and tragic tale of love…
This year’s Miami International Film Festival is replete with 100 films from 40 countries, red carpet galas, world premieres, competitions, awards, REEL Education Seminars, and other stuff to blow your independent-film-loving mind. The 2011 MIFF also features a seminar with documentarian Morgan Spurlock (the McDonald’s guy!) and will be screening…
The Heat haters have had their Christmas come early this year with all the drama and turmoil slamming the Miami Heat the past few weeks. They’ve stumbled out of the gate; lost their heart-and-soul player, Udonis Haslem, for most of the year; and are losing games to the lowly Grizzlies…
Former WBC heavyweight champion Oliver McCall is 45 years old. But you wouldn’t know it to look at the man and his rock-hard physique. He can kill most men with his mustache. McCall is 54-10 with 37 knockouts in his career, and now he’s looking to become the oldest heavyweight…
The Miami Heat-hating media (as well as some incurably irrational Heat fans) love to accuse the Heat of being a “soft” team since their not-so-stellar debut to the season. And while the media fail to tell us exactly what it means to be a “soft” team (Are they Charmin soft?…
A Bill Parcells-led team has not won a playoff game since the Clinton administration. He’s notorious for moving from one organization to the next on a whim, left the Cowboys a mess, and is routinely given way too much credit for the Giants teams he coached (but was built by…
Stuffed with turkey and tired of chasing sales on Black Friday? If so, why not spend the evening reveling in a good, old-fashioned reckoning, Miami Heat-style at Whiskey Tango, where you get 25 bucks off your tab if the Heat loses. Perhaps this venue will be full of everyone in…
The adage that it’s hard for a team to win if it can’t score has become something the Florida Panthers have taken seriously against their opponents this season. Lead by Marty Reasoner, Mike Weaver, and Dennis Widemen, the Panthers’ stifling defense has allowed only four goals on power plays this…
When your kicker is the team’s MVP, you know something’s wrong. Yet it’s been that kind of season for the Miami Dolphins. It’s been that kind of decade, actually. The Fins are ranked 28th in the league in scoring this season. They have no problem moving the ball into the…
The Miami Heat opened the 2010 NBA season against the Eastern Conference Champion Boston Celtics two weeks ago. It did not go well. The Heat were hit by a lack of cohesion and a rabid playoff-like Boston crowd. It was like a storm of deficiency and doucheyness. Dwyane Wade was…
The Miami Dolphins have been road warriors this season, going into places like Green Bay, Minnesota, Buffalo, and Cincinnati and emerging victorious. Their home games, however, are quite a different story. In the three games the Fins have played at the supposedly friendly confines of Sun Life Stadium (2269 Dan…
Dwyane Wade has long been known ’round these parts as “Flash.” It was a moniker bestowed upon him by Shaquille O’Neal when “The Big Diesel” signed with the Miami Heat in 2004. At the time, it seemed an appropriate nickname for D-Wade. He was a young, up-and-coming, star with lightning…
The biggest story heading into the Miami Heat preseason was the realization of finally seeing the Three Kings on the court, in action, in Heat uniforms, obliterating the competition. Then, three minutes into the trio’s debut as a team, Dwyane Wade strained his hamstring, and he was forced to sit…
The NBA has always been about marketing itself to the world, particularly in European and Asian markets. So what better way to showcase the NBA than by having the Miami Heat — led by Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh — play one of their teams and beating the…
Two words come to mind whenever the Miami Hurricanes and the Florida State Seminoles face each other: “wide right.” Another two words that come to mind could also be,“Dad Gummit.” But mostly, it’s “wide right.” Still, the two phrases have been married to each other since November of 1991, when…
It was a wild summer for Miami Heat fans — one filled with irrational fear (Oh no! Dwyane Wade is going to Chicago and we’ll be left with Carlos Arroyo as our best player!), tempered enthusiasm (No way LeBron decides to come here! That’s a laughable pipe dream!), joy (D-Wade…
A couple of seasons ago, Chad Pennington led the Miami Dolphins to an AFC East-winning victory over his former team, the New York Jets. Last season, after getting into a war of words with Fins linebacker Channing Crowder, Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan and his team were served up a…
How craptastic of a season has it been for your Florida Marlins? For starters, there was Roy Halladay’s perfect game against the Fish back in May. But apparently having the 20th perfect game in major-league history thrown against them wasn’t disconcerting enough, so the organization decided to sell all unused…
