Say what you will about Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of Broadway smashes involving hippie recreations of Jesus and half-masked pervs who lurk underneath stages, but the man can really name a cat. He gave his felines quirky names like “McCavity” and “Griddlebone,” which blow old favorites such as “Muffy”…
Taking off in a hot-air balloon’s straw basket is a breathtaking sensation, akin to flying in a dream or pissing yourself. Find out on your own at Hollywood’s Balloon Festival. The beach broadwalk will teem with dozens of DJs and bands playing everything from blues to techno. The Balloon Festival…
Dude, why weren’t you at the recent AC/DC show at the BankAtlantic Center? Did you think they’d forget the classics? Sure, the band’s touring to promote a new album (Black Ice), and yeah, they played some of the new songs. But dude, when they played “Back in Black” – well,…
You’ve really not lived until you’ve tried the heavenly combination that is Southern-fried chicken and waffles. The dish, if it’s accurate to call it that, is probably best known because of the chain of Los Angeles eateries, Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles. In practice, it’s a mingling of flavors…
In 2005 Virginia Tech left the Big East, vacating a seat at the top of that conference. It took with it a legacy of feared defense and scary-good special teams, and has since become the only team to win the ACC championship game twice. During that stretch, the Cincinnati Bearcats…
Our mama always hoped we were the child prodigy in the family. She pushed us from dance classes to piano lessons to soccer practice, hoping one activity would help us escape a lifetime of mediocrity and push us into the star-spangled heights of greatness. We proved to be simply average…
Like John Lee Hooker sang, they call it “Stormy Monday,” but Tuesday is just as bad. Your workweek started out with promise — Cuban coffee and pastelitos in the morning, but somewhere in the sludge and drudgery of the afternoon, the weight of the world came to rest squarely on…
When we say “hole-in-the-wall,” we mean it in a good way. This little bar has an upper and lower level, with different bands and DJs playing music until the sun comes up. It feels like a rehearsal studio for up-and-coming rock stars. But there are dance floors and fully stocked…
Of all the shameful, wrong, and all-around unwise decisions that soon-to-be-former POTUS George “Dubya” Bush made in his too-long tenure (and there are so, so many), the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp has gotta rank among the worst of them. Ever since the center was opened in 2002 to house “enemy…
Any ballet performance that includes dancers frantically flinging themselves about the stage while wearing candy-pink costumes deserves a spot at the top of post-holiday to-do lists. Forget about taking the tree to the dump; instead join ballet fans/curious gawkers for Miami City Ballet’s amazing three-part show Program II. To avoid…
This year’s expo is going to be off the chain. Live tattooing and piercing by world renowned artists, custom and vintage cars on display, various contests, etc. But tonight is going to be special: Brisco is performing live. The Opa-Locka Goon is the shit right now. Go ahead and turn…
God bless the Gray Lady. In a time of dire news for print media, the New York Times is somehow still going strong, arriving on our doorstep every Sunday morning with a satisfying thwack that promises in-depth political analysis, breaking news, and the good stuff — more arts and culture…
We and millions of other Americans vowed to slim down once the clock struck 2009, but this year, laziness and procrastination have a strange new bedfellow, and it kinda almost rhymes with robbery. You got it, the economy. And since we have millions of Americans to commiserate with, we’re forced…
Sechew Powell is what they call in the boxing world a “beautiful puncher”. He can defeat his opponents with technique and skill, picking apart the defenses of less experienced, over-eager boxers who, when the time is right, will discover the meaning of his right hook. He can also just beat…
If you need a release from all the sexuality, you may want to check out the all-new Beefcakes Bar and Grill inside Boardwalk. Taking over the old Birdcage spot, the joint will serve as a more casual compliment to the raucous bar, offering burgers, salads, and wraps at reasonable prices…
The Boardwalk Bar is not just a “night out,” in the pure sense of the term. It is, in fact, the kind of place that you go to in order to get thoroughly debauched. It’s a male strip club, and it is famous among New Times staffers as “the place…
Stop us if we’re off here, but if you’re anything like us your holidays probably went something like this: stressful dash to finish work before days off, open presents, drink to excess, stuff belly, sleep it off, drink to excess, remember about work you forgot while recovering from drinking, make…
Boy, 2008 was a doozy: economic catastrophe, the fading auto industry, foreclosures, job losses, melting ice caps…sounds like an R.E.M. song. So when it came time for New Year’s Eve 2008, bringing with it the opportunity to get mind-numbingly drunk in the middle of the week, it looked like escape…
Ten days into those New Year’s resolutions, and it’s a pretty safe bet that a large percentage of us roundish Americans have vowed to lose weight. Rather than face this task with grim asceticism, take inspiration from John Pinette. The big man of comedy is smaller these days, having lost…
The festival-going community in South Florida had some mixed reactions to the moving of Langerado from the swampy stretches west of Broward to the fairer shores of Biscayne Bay. Lots of die-hard hippy types are pissed that their homegrown fest is going all MIA on them (and maybe they have…
It’s about time we give it up for Peter DeBoer. The rookie head coach of the Florida Panthers wasn’t exactly a hot name around the NHL when he was hired, and not many people expected him to be able to do much with a team that lost its offensive leader…
Yes, it’s only Friday, but it’s never too early to get a start on your Sunday sauce. At least, you can learn how to make that sauce (er, isn’t that gravy?) like an Italian grandmother during tonight’s Publix Apron’s Cooking School class with the DelGrosso Family. You may know DelGrosso…
