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What do you do in real life? For better or worse, MPower Project is my reallife. When you own a mom and pop business, especially in the current economicenvironment, you don’t have the luxury of a lot of free time. But in real life I havealways been in to ways of staying healthy and feeling good about myself.

What is your personal fitness philosophy? Of course, the proverbial dietand exercise. Lately I have learned more and more to appreciate strength train-ing as I have sustained an injury that has kept me out of action for three monthsand promises to keep me out of action, except for cardio, for months to come.Guess I need a Personal Trainer!

What sets MPower Fitness apart from other gyms? We have always pridedourselves in creating a friendly environment that makes clients feel at ease andthey are part of a family. MPower is not your typical “meat market” or cold cor-porate paradigm that does not value client loyalty. In return we are loyal to ourclients. MPower Project is your Neighborhood Gym!

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What a year – I mean, half year. Can you believe it?2010 is already half gone: Earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.Health care reform becomes law. Tiger Woods goes fromhero to heel. The Saints win their first Super Bowl. Cristbecomes an independent. Massive oil spill in the Gulf.An unpronounceable volcano in Iceland shuts down airtraffic.

Shall we spit-shine my crystal ball and have a go at alittle prognosticating what the rest of 2010 may look like?

JULY:• The July 22 issue of the Miami New Times fea-

tures (once AGAIN, for you can NEVER tire of his face, orfind another that will SO boost distribution) El Com-mandante in the Green Fatigues. This time, Fidel’s ingreen fatigue-colored Speedos, lounging on an inflatabletire, in a pool, and sipping lemonade from a sippy cup.

• Teaming up with local parking departments, be-leaguered Jackson Memorial Hospital announces newausterity measures designed to stanch the red-ink bleed-ing which the public health system suffers. From now on,all JMH patients will have to feed coins, round-the-clock,into deposit meters hooked up to their IV drips. For thosewho run out of quarters – hey, that’s life. Or – grimly –death.

AUGUST:• A Palm Beach Post article reveals that half of Alex

Sink’s time on the campaign trail is spent just trying to getpeople who have no clue who she is to recognize her(“I’m Alex Sink....you’ve heard of me, right? ALEXSINK?”), or to recognize what office she currently holds,or to recognize that she’s even running for governor, or

to recognize what party she’s running for governor for,or to recognize that there’s even a state Democratic Partyanymore.

• BP’s CEO Tony Hayward is FINALLY fired after de-claring in an interview: “The way we’d like to make itup to the residents of the Gulf Coast is if you’ve got thebuckets and pails to haul it out with you, you can haveall the free petrol you want.”

Provided, of course, you’ve got your own backyardrefinery to process it.

SEPTEMBER:Saturday Night Live‘s season premiere features

Mickey Rooney as the guest host. The show’s producershave pretty much decided to let the viewers pick the guesthosts, so in the spirit of the Facebook campaign thatlaunched Betty White’s turn, campaigns have sprouted allover the net, pushing, among others, oldies Cloris Leach-man, Abe Vigoda, Ernest Borgnine, and Don Rickles. Abid to promote one comedian draws 20,000 fans – untilsomeone has the temerity to pipe up and remind folksthat Rodney Dangerfield isn’t up to hosting SNL.

On account he died in 2004.

• Larry King’s 25th anniversary season on CNN threat-

ens to come to an abrupt end when hot studio lights tem-porarily K-O the King and he keels over on-set. Hissuspenders, however, remain in their upright position.

Larry later blames noxious fumes from that Icelandicvolcano, Eyja-whatchamacallit.

• The White House has announced that the Pres-ident and Mrs. Obama will split up

Hearts skip a beat in the nation’s capital and beyond,Wall Street stocks plummet, and TV networks prepare tointerrupt regular programming when the above wire serv-ice report goes out, initially minus its entire text. Reutersquickly realizes its mistake, then re-sends the story:

The White House has announced that the Presi-dent and Mrs. Obama will split up during their up-coming visit to New Zealand, and while he holdsmeetings with leaders, she will visit a school.

Amid a nation still reeling from the Al and TipperGore shocker, White House correspondents suddenlylearn the need to be more careful when submitting storieswith the term split up in them.

Reuters blames their faulty transmission on electro-magnetic interference from that Icelandic volcano, Eyja-yackity-schmackity.

OCTOBER:• Laura Bush (whose memoirs are already finished

and published) gets called into her husband’s study forthe umpteenth time in as many weeks to admonish Dubya(who’s still working on the manuscript of his) not to usewhite-out on the computer screen whenever he makes amistake.

• Bill McCollum, who still hasn’t retreated one inchon his adamant opposition to permitting Florida gay cou-ples to adopt, does concede during a gubernatorial de-bate that he would gladly reconsider the matter if “theclouds were to open up and some heavenly apparition,symbol, or sign were to issue forth and pronounce thisin no uncertain terms to be the will of the Lord.”

Two days later, during a campaign stop in Palatka,the clouds open up and a lightning bolt strikes Bill Mc-Collum on his noggin. Thus, Alex Sink becomes Florida’snext guv by default. (It’s both funny and sad, but – aspolitical pundits later point out – a lightning strike wasabout the only way she had any chance of winning.)

• The incredibly, ever-shrinking Miami Herald optsto save money by closing its Tallahassee bureau and syn-dicating the reports of a ten-year-old writer for the WeeklyReader.

But he’s no average ten-year-old, the Herald offersup. He’s a savant!

NOVEMBER:• Charlie Crist is elected to the Senate. Lots of

grumpy, angry, discombobulated Tea Party wingnuts optto stay home by the droves and not turn out to vote fortheir favorite son, Marco “Why, isn’t he cute?” Rubio –after Rubio commits the tactical faux pas of refusing to

pledge to kick the Haitians out, confiscate the Miccosu-kee tribal lands, tear down all abortion clinics, re-segre-gate the public schools, reinstate child labor and the14-hour workday, banish labor unions, impose manda-tory school prayer; drop out of the U.N., the World Bank,the World Cup, and every other international organiza-tion with a global-sounding name; make everyone sweara loyalty oath, oh, and fly the flag from their front porchand wear a flag lapel pin.

Rubio pisses the Partiers off when he suggests theflag idea is going a wee bit too far.

• Reality show star-sisters Kourtney and Khloé Kar-dashian unveil a less-glamorous, less-social-butterfly sib-ling that no one even knew they had: Konnie. On herdebut episode, Konnie makes the cardinal sin of suggest-ing the trio head to the Miami International Book Fairone night for a lecture and book-signing by guest authorEdna Buchanan.

Konnie never appears on the show again.

• O. J. Simpson, rotting away in a Nevada prison cell,decides to hawk a new book idea: If I Broke Out ofPrison (Not That I Would, But Here’s How I Would DoIt).

• Sarah Ferguson, in yet another half-cockedscheme to make cold, quick cash, is caught (again) onvideotape trying to drum up interest from a tabloid re-porter in the royals. This time it’s a “Royals Gone Wild”series of videos. One of the highlights Fergie promises:The queen in her skivvies.

• Retired White House reporter Helen Thomas, in ateary-eyed TV confessional to fellow octogenarian jour-nalist Barbara Walters, blames her “the Jews should all gohome” comment on breathing in too much dust from thatIcelandic volcano, Eyja-yickity-yak-don’t-talk-back.

• President Obama sends two aides scurrying to thefloor – and scares another one enough to cause him towet his pants – when, in a rare burst of emotion, his calm,cool, and collected demeanor cracks and he FINALLY dis-plays some temper: “I wanna know who neglected toinform me that Paula Abdul left American Idol?”

DECEMBER:• The Nobel Peace Prize, on Dec. 10, is awarded to

Heidi Montag.Nah. I just felt like throwing that one in there. Bet

it’s the only time you’ll ever see Nobel and Heidi Montagmentioned in the same sentence.

• Dec. 16’s issue of the Miami New Times sports ElTirano Cubano in a Santa Claus suit.

• Lady Gaga announces that she’s dropping the Ladyand will now be known as simply Gaga.

• In a bit of one upsmanship, the Icelandic volcanoannounces that instead of Eyjafjallajökull, it now prefersto be called ‘Kull.

• The year-end issue of the Miami New Times boaststheir perennial favorite cover model blowing a New Year’sparty favor horn under the banner, WILL THIS BE THEYEAR I FINALLY CROAK?

Of course, privately, the editors hope not – they fig-ure they can squeeze more covers out of him in 2011 withthe ones they’ve got on the drawing board.

COLUMN

Unhappy with 2010?Blame the Damn Volcano!By Charles Branham-Bailey

Can He Say That?


“We believe that the public space needs to ad-equately accommodate pedestrians, bicyclists andautos — in that order of priority!”

—Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association

Back in the day when we lived there, we wagedwar in concert with these FPNA “Fighting Flamingos”to move causes like the 63rd Street Flyover andBaylink forward. And all of it done in bringing forththe New Urbanism of preservation, streetscaping andstreetcars to enhance the pedestrian paradigm.

So imagine our surprise when we found themclosing ranks over putting down bicycle lanes onEuclid Avenue!

Apparently afraid that adding a 5ft bicycle lanewill create a streetscape that more closely resembles16th Street than models Meridian, FPNA “favor[s] abicycle route with bikes and autos sharing the road-way.” So, if we’re all agreed on a plan that “createsa better, cleaner, greener, safer, more pedestrian-ori-ented Euclid Avenue”, then where’s the beef? In thefine print, Gertrude: bikes and autos sharing theroadway. That means if you’re a Rring-rring, I amthe Merry Mailman-type bicycle rider who doesn’tmind occasionally using the sidewalk then every-thing’s better than houses, but if you’re actually get-ting around on one—call it alternativetransportation—than it’s bicycle lanes you want,because calling a street a “Bike Route” means noth-ing. Instead, it’s lanes, visible lanes that proclaim,‘This is where I ride.’

And any flapdoodle about bikes “sharing” the

sidewalk is simply the biggest imposture sinceGenghis Khan. They should be sharing it about asmuch as a shark should be sharing your pool.

Euclid is an unsafe, ugly avenue. Those double-

wide travel lanes—17fteach—absent the bike lanesmake it a speedway rivalingAlton. From 5th Street to Lin-coln Road it’s a straight shotthat you can launch a cardown like a JDAM missile.Residential, with few signalsor trees, it’s the ultimate au-tocentric wet dream, shim-mering like Alabamablacktop, beckoning speed.

Actually, Euclid is par excellence for traffic-calming in the form of a bike lane, and so designatedby the publicly-vetted Master Plan approved by theCity Commission a lustrum ago (hardly some “last-minute” deal). With stimulus funding, improvementsare suddenly available for the stormwater systemunder the street—and everything above it, too. Un-fortunately, neighbors not wanting to reconstruct a70ft roadway with dedicated bicycle lanes (as calledfor in that Master Plan) display terminal NIMBYismby making the bike lane the enemy.

How is it that advocates who fought tooth andnail to better their lot through historic preservationand consider themselves, rightly, as urban apostlessuddenly balk at bicycle lanes?

Here’s how: parking. That’s the real enemy, andEuclid has 18 feet of it, almost half the roadway. Bikelanes would account for less than a quarter of theroad, with parking. Here’s the crux—wider side-walks and more green space are surely desirable…but add that from the parking, not take it awayfrom a bike lane. Strange that a neighborhood thattakes so much pride in its commitment to walkingand bicycling should create this kind of stir over soeasy a call. Misplaced effort like this can lead to proj-ect delay, or even derailment. And the undergroundwork must be completed by end of year to claim thefederal reimbursement.

BTW, do you know who “wins” the most with bi-cycle lanes in the roadway? Motorists! That’s becausethe more people riding bicycles means the less peo-ple driving cars. So for those who keep driving, traf-

fic flows better. Oddlyenough!

“We believe that thepublic space needs toadequately accommo-date pedestrians, bicy-clists and autos — inthat order of priority!”

The best way to “ac-commodate” them is byhelping to put bicyclelanes down all over theCity that don’t suddenly

end in traffic or worse. It assuredly is not by puttingup Bike Route signs, then wishing them Good Luck!while they’re out there “sharing the road”.

Snafus like these could be kept to a minimum ifthe administration would restore the Bicycle Coor-dinator position to the upcoming year’s budget. Cutseveral years ago, the position needs to be expandedto include pedestrian concerns and public transit—three mobility areas of particular need, especially asmillions of dollars of unspent grant money are at riskbecause no one person is coordinating the City’s ef-forts to promote active and public transportation.

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SHMEARCAMPAIGNS1.25 Million Emergency Marketing BudgetApproved to Proclaim Miami Oil Free andTourist FriendlyWritten by John Hood Photograph by Alissa Christine

Thank the Franklin Eddy. In 10, 20, even 100 years there a goodchance that folks in South Florida will look back on the devastatingtragedy that was the BP Oil Spill and find that the Franklin Eddy was theone thing that kept hope alive. See it is the Franklin Eddy that has thusfar prevented the millions upon millions of gallons of crude that’s beenbubbling up outta Deepwater Canyon from making its way downthrough the Keys and around to the Atlantic. In other words, it’s theonly thing between us and a tar-ball beach.

Let me explain: According to the experts, there’s a massive loopcurrent in the Gulf that travels through the Florida Straits south of theDry Tortugas, below the rest of the Florida Keys and then snakes northup the Atlantic Coast and becomes the Gulf Stream. A couple weeksago the loop grew so large that a bend broke off and formed theFranklin Eddy. Named after Benjamin Franklin himself, this atypicalevent has cut off the flow of crude and is in effect acting as a sort of nat-ural barrier. It’s almost as if the earth has responded to the carnageand is doing everything in its power to contain the destruction.

A North Carolina expert named Rick Luettich, who is director ofUNC’s Institute for Marine Sciences in Morehead City and UNC’s Centerfor the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Chapel Hill, was almostgiddy with glee when he was questioned by Drew C. Wilson of the Jack-sonville (NC) Daily News.

“You couldn’t ask for a better situation from the perspective of theEast Coast,” he said, “because were the eddy not sitting there, therewould be oil coming around Florida by now.”

Luettich also said “this current situation couldlast for a few months or perhaps a few years.”

“To some extent our fate is tied up with the fateof this eddy,” he added. “The longer it sits there inplace and blocks the oil, the better off we are.”

Seconding Luettich’s glee is the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),who, due to the decreased threat to the FloridaKeys, have just suspended production of theTransocean/BP offshore oil spill trajectory maps.

Furthermore, says a report posted on TheMonroe County Tourist Development Council’sFloridakeys.com website, “there are no advisoriesrecommending against travel to the Florida Keys orany other precautions advising visitors and resi-dents not to engage in fishing, diving, swimming orother water sports, according to the MonroeCounty Health Department. Seafood from immedi-ate Florida Keys waters is safe to eat, officials said.”

“NOAA has closed a significant portion of the Gulf of Mexico torecreational and commercial fishing. [But] the closest point of the clo-sure to the Keys remains about 200 miles to the west of Key West.”

Unfortunately not everyone is the world is getting that messageabout the Keys, and there’s been a significant drop in tourism since theApril 20th blowout. And while the losses are nowhere near as cata-strophic as those suffered in the Panhandle, they’re enough to have of-ficials in Miami worried about the world’s perception of our sacredstretch of sand as well.

To that end the Greater Miami Convention and Visitor’s Bureau hasjust been awarded $1.25 million in emergency marketing funds fromGovernor Charlie Crist and the State Division of Emergency Manage-ment “to assist the destination in correcting misperceptions among po-

tential visitors about the effects of the Gulf oil spill.”“Dispelling these perceptions is critical,” reads the announcement,

released earlier this week, “since tourism is Miami-Dade’s number oneindustry.”

Perhaps the GMCVB is taking a page from New Orleans, who has

launched its own $5 million campaign to dispel any rumors thatcrude is making its way to the Big Easy. Unlike Miami however, NewOrleans is using BP money. And if the additional $75 million ourCrescent City friends are seeking from the company is any indica-tion, they’ve just gotten started making BP pay.

And rightfully so. Texas Congressman Joe Barton’s commentsto the contrary, the $20 billion Obama made BP put in escrow is notsome kinda “Chicago shakedown;” it’s just good common sense.And with any luck it’ll be but a down payment on recompense tocome. As everyone knows, Louisiana – and New Orleans in partic-ular – has had it tough since Katrina. And the Deepwater Horizoncatastrophe is a terrible blow to region just when it’s getting backon its feet. Louisianans are understandably up in arms, as are folksfrom Texas, Mississippi and the Panhandle.But Gulf States residents aren’t the only ones fed-up with America’s

continuing reliance on fossil fuels, and last Saturday there was a mas-sive show of solidarity that reached right around the country and indi-cated that maybe, just maybe, there’s something other than Deepwater

on our horizon.Yes, we mean, Hands Across the Sand,

the nationwide call to action spearheadedby the Surfrider Foundaton.

The idea came from Dave Rauschkolb,a Northwest Florida Surfrider member whowas miffed by “efforts by the Florida Legis-lature and the US Congress to lift the ban onoil drilling in the near and off shores ofFlorida.”

In response Rauschkolb founded

“I literally screamed when I firstsaw all those people down there

joining hands,” said Christine, “It was one of the most touching

moments I’ve ever experienced.”

ABOVE: NOAA RESEARCH SHIP LEAVES MIAMI BEACH TOSTUDY THE LOOP CURRENT AND HOW IT AND THE SPILL WILLEFFECT OUR MIAMI SHORES.


Atlanta-based artist Greg Mike, whose “Pop-stars and Cokeheads” is currently showing atWynwood’s Butter Gallery, was in the studio a cou-ple weeks back talking about boycotting BP. “Afriend of mine said a boycott wouldn’t do anythingto affect the company,” said Mike, “so I decidedto speak out in the best way I knew how – withmy art.” The result: “Thanks BP!” An oil-slickedversion of his trademark Loud Mouth image givingthe finger to bad guys. After plastering the poster(above) all over the ATL, Mike posted it on his sitefor all to freely download and plaster all over theirtown as well. For your copy go to gregmike.com

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Hands Across the Sand, and back on Saturday, February 13, his planwent into action.

“Thousands of Floridians representing 60 towns and cities andover 90 beaches joined hands to protest the efforts” ran the on-sitestatement. “[And] Florida’s Hands Across The Sand event was thelargest gathering in the history of Florida united against oil drilling.Thousands joined hands from Jacksonville to Miami Beach and KeyWest to Pensacola Beach, each against oil drilling in Florida’s waters.”

This of course was months before BP blew its Deepwater top. Butonce they had, Rauschkolb and his fellow Surfriders, in conjunctionwith the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, ECOMB, 1Sky, the Urban ParadiseGuild and Environment Florida, decided to go national. The results sur-passed even that.

According to reports “events took place in all 50 states, Washing-ton, D.C., Puerto Rico and 30 other countries.” And Mike Gibaldi, chair-man of the Surfrider Foundation’s Miami chapter, says he’s knowspersonally that Americans weren’t the only ones showing solidarity lastSaturday.

“I received clips from people everywhere from India to NewZealand before I even started getting things in gear on Miami Beach,”Gibaldi told SunPost Weekly, “So there was a definite internationalcomponent to this.”

Miami lensgirl Alissa Christine was in the air over the Hands andshe was ecstatic over what she witnessed.

“I literally screamed when I first saw all those people down therejoining hands,” she told us, a trace of awe still in her voice four daysafter the fact. “It was one of the most touching moments I’ve ever ex-perienced.”

Even a cursory visit to the Hands Across the Sand site will show aunanimous concurrence from everyone in attendance, no matter wherethey drew their line in the sand. What’s less clear is if anyone from BPwas anywhere near any one of the thousands upon thousands of folkswho turned out to protest the behemoth’s bad actions. And if they didshow up, whether or not they got the message as intended:

BP, clean up your mess and go home.


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July 1ARTIt’s not a Doll, It’s an Action Figure

It’s Not a Doll, It’s an Action Figure features artwork and photography inspired by,or using, action figures. Not to be confused with dolls, the subjects of Bear and BirdGallery’s latest exhibit are on display doing what they do best: saving, destroying andliving lives of high adventure. Guest curator Anna Pants assembled a diverse groupof 14 international artists to participate in the show. Featuring the artwork of: AllanInnman; A.Pants; Charles Howell; Dave MacDowell; JJ Harrison; LoraZombie; Mike Stimpson; N! Satterfield; Nate Wragg; Oscar E. Alonso; RuelBrown; Timmy K. Kramp; Vesa Lehtimäki; Vince Dudzinski and more. Bearand Bird Gallery, 4566 N University Dr; Fort Lauderdale. For info: bearandbird.com

July 2FILMYno’ NiteConsistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton’s TheGeneral is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with everyviewing. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee,young Johnnie Gray sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherishedlocomotive. What follows is, without exaggeration, probably the most cleverly chore-ographed comedy ever recorded on celluloid. 7pm. Free. Wolfsonian Museum,1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. For Info: wolfsonian.com or 305.535.2680.

July 2MUSICNobody’s DaughterWhen Courtney Love took the newest configuration of her band Hole to SXSW,she received pretty mixed reviews. But now, the group has been getting a chanceto win over skeptics by playing a series of dates behind its latest album, Nobody’sDaughter. (That might just be possible, given how the album is actually… notbad.) Hole will playing on South Beach for a one- night-only live show. 9pm. Fill-more Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave Miami Beach. For info: livena-tion.com

July 2MUSICKonrad BlackGet set for an evening of crazy dancing to some electro-techno-hip-housewhen Dj’s Konrad Black and Rich Medina take over the Electric Pickle.Sounds fun! House DJ Tomas starts the fun. 10pm. 2826 N Miami Avenue,Wynwood Arts District, Miami. For info: 305-456-561 or electricpick-lemiami.com

July 2MUSICTangoman

Jorge Heilpern, Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and gui-tarist and violinist Allison Irvine will play a crossover of tango, jazz,milonga, rumba, bolero, reggae an world beat at Moonchine AsianBistro. 9pm. No cover. Moonchine Asian Bistro, 7100 Biscayne Blvd.,miami. For info: 305-759-3999.

July 3THEATRELucie Arnaz

A walk down memory lane with Lucie Arnaz as she celebrates her father’sextraordinary musical legacy and the major role he played in planting the

first seeds of the Latin music explosion in this country. She is the creator,producer and director of Babalu, a new musical tribute to Desi Arnaz.

She will tell us how she came to create Babalu and share stories of her ex-traordinary family and their impact on popular American culture. Books &

Books Coral Gables, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables. For info: booksand-books.com

July 3ARTPopstars and Cokeheads

This is a must see! The fabulously graphic artwork of Atlanta artist Greg Mike isfeatured in a one-man show at Butter gallery. Mike uses soda cans to graphically

paint everything from pop cultural icons to freaks and drug addicts. His work is vi-brant, funky and very, very cool. Through July 31. Butter Gallery, 2303 NW 2nd Ave;

Miami. For info: gregmike.com

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July 3FESTIVALMiccosukee Freedom FestivalCelebrate the rich cultural heritage of Florida and it’s first in-habitants, the Miccosukee Indians. This festival is packed withfun like gator wrestling, airboat rides, a fashion show, amazingcrafts and jewelry as well as music and dancing. Just to shakethings up a bit, KC and the Sunshine Band and El GranCombo will perform. Heat dancers, Dolphin Cheerleaders,Dolphin players, Lousaka Polite and Vontae Davis will makeappearances. Or, you could just gamble. Miccosukee Resort,500 SW 177th Ave; West Dade. For info: miccosukee.com

July 6MUSICAventuraCatch a concert or two with Dominican Kings of Bachata,Aventura when they croon their way through a medley of songsfrom their latest album, The Last. $75-$150. 8pm. Hard RockLive, 1 Seminole Way; Hollywood. For info: hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com

July 7BOOKSWithout a PaddleAs far as Warren Richey knew, his life was on course. A reporter witha wife and son. Then his marriage falls apart and the divorce leavesRichey questioning everything, while struggling to find a way forward. Toget his bearings, he enters the first Ultimate Florida Challenge, anall-out twelve-hundred-mile kayak race around Florida. That sets a gru-eling, twenty-four-hour-a-day pace through shark-, alligator-, and evenpython-infested waters. Meet the author. 8pm. Free. Books & Books, 265Aragon Ave., Coral Gables. For info: booksandbooks.com

July 7FILMReassemblagePresented in conjunction with the exhibition Claire Fontaine: Economies is a screening of thefilm, Reassemblage. Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha, the film focuses on rural Senegalesewomen and their everyday life. This is the second film in a series of three films from Fontaine’smoving-image toolbox. 7pm. Free wth museum admission of $10. Museum of Contemporary Art,770 NE 125th St; North Miami. For info: mocanomi.org

July 7MUSICSarazinoCatch a little world music when Sarazino comes to Bardot for a wild sound fest that onlyLamine Fellah and his band mates can produce. 11pm. Free. Bardot, 3456 N Miami Ave; Miami.For info: bardotmiami.com

July 7LECTUREQueer Culture, Global CultureKicking off Out of the Tropics performing arts festival is a lecture or better yet a panel discus-sion focusing on stepping beyond stereotypes. Performance artist Taylor Mac, Teatro El Públicofounder Carlos Diaz, festival director Robert Rosenberg and writer Sara Felder will all beheard. This should be lively and fun! 7pm. Free. Shore Club, 1901 Collins Ave; Miami Beach.For info: fundarte.us

July 8FILMFlickin’ SummerThe Flickin’ Summer movie series featuresfour classic dance movies followed byan onstage dance party with DJPauer spinning retro classics.This year’s Flickin’ Summer

lineup openswith DirtyD a n c i n gs t a r r i n gP a t r i c kSwayze andJ e n n i f e rGray. 7pm.Happy hour startsat 6pm. features re-duced drink prices.Dance party follows im-mediately following eachflick. $10. For info 305-372-0925 or Gusman-Center.org

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Like minded people seek each other out.Whether we’re talking about political leanings ora common hobby, the way a shared worldviewbrings people together creates an irresistiblehook for two of this week’s new releases.

Take the junkyard dealers in Micmacs, thelatest from Amélie auteur Jean Pierre Jeunet. Ledby the big-hearted Mama Chow (played with in-candescent glee by Yolande Moreau, who, inSéraphine, gave the best performance I saw in2009), these high-spirited scavengers have cre-ated a living environment in which they flaunt thetalents that have marginalized them from societyat large. There’s a lot of comedic potential in thehijinks of characters like Buster (Jeunet regularDominique Pinon), a human cannonball; ElasticGirl (Julie Ferrier), whose ability to twist her bodylike a pretzel comes in handy; and Tiny Pete(Michel Crémadès), an artist who gives anthro-pomorphic life to pieces of scrap metal.

Sadly, under Jeunet’s airless, headache-in-ducing direction, this motley crew remains an as-sortment of types. They’re bit players in the storyof Bazil (Joyeux Noël’s Dany Boon), a haplessman-child who lost his father to a land mine inthe Moroccan desert and who, in a freak accident,was shot in the head outside the video store wherehe worked. Trying to make ends meet as a streetmime, he meets Placard (Jean-Pierre Marielle),an ex-con guillotine survivor (!) who takes himin and makes him part of the gang. Oliver Twistthis ain’t.

Rather than focus on the interaction betweenthese characters, Jeunet limits his focus to Bazil’squest to get back at the two weapons manufac-turers behind his misfortunes. (As contrived twistsof fate would have it, their heavily guarded head-quarters face each other.) What fol-lows is a series of elaborate setpieces, as Bazil enlists his offbeatcronies to turn the arms dealersagainst each other. Some of thesesequences are well crafted, but un-like Jeunet’s previous films, I got thefeeling there’s not much at stakehere. There’s little of AméliePoulain’s wide-eyed attempts tobring happiness to others, or ofMathilde’s obsessive search for hermissing boyfriend during World WarI in A Very Long Engagement. Try-

ing to give merchants of death a taste of their ownmedicine just doesn’t have the same urgency.

Micmacs features a few inspired sight gagsand a clever sound mix, but in emphasizing tech-nique over substance, the film recalls the Coenbrothers at their most artificial. File this mildlydiverting war-game silliness under StoryboardOverkill.

Greg Letiecq is not an arms dealer, but hisrhetoric sure acts like a weapon. The presidentof the Virginia-based advocacy group Help SaveManassas is the most fascinating figure in AnnabelPark and Eric Byler’s absorbing documentary9500 Liberty, which chronicles the 2007 resolu-tion passed by Prince Williams County’s Board ofSupervisors that predated Arizona’s “show meyour papers” law in requiring police officers tostop anyone they suspect of being an undocu-mented immigrant. “We own this county. We’regoing to take it back,” Letiecq asserts. The right-wing blogger fuels the residents’ fear with falseclaims, like, for instance, when he says the townis being invaded by Zapatistas. Must be all thoseChe Guevara posters hanging from the windows.

The film’s title refers to the address of Ri-cardo Juarez, a Mexican American constructionworker who put up lengthy messages on a bill-board outside his home, at one time even quotingMartin Luther King, to counter the hostility to-wards the county’s Latino population. Park, a Ko-rean-born immigrant, and Byler, a ChineseAmerican filmmaker (as well as Park’sboyfriend), began this project by uploading clipsof events they filmed on You Tube as they werehappening, and part of the finished product ex-plores the role they played in raising awarenessabout this myopic piece of legislation. The film-

makers are also effective at showing how the bl-ogosphere helped turn the cities of Manassas andManassas Park into ground zero for the debateon immigration reform.

9500 Liberty is at its strongest when it showsthe residents’ affecting town hall testimony fromboth sides of the issue. (One of the bill’s support-ers has the temerity to blame illegal aliens for9/11; one of the opponents alleges her husbandwas pulled over by police twice in less than threemonths.) Park and Byler’s reliance on look-at-our-children imagery takes the movie into agit-prop territory at certain moments, but, eventhough we know where they stand, a compellingportrait of a community divided ultimatelyemerges. The economic downturn the county ex-perienced after the bill passed (it had the highestmortgage foreclosure rate in the region) waspartly due, the movie suggests, to the implemen-tation of the resolution, which went into effect inMarch 2008 but was later repealed. 9500 Libertyflows like a tightly structured news exposé. In de-picting the emotional wreckage caused by this“immigration resolution,” it captures the moodof a nation, one whose identity is in a constantstate of flux.

Micmacs is now playing at the Regal SouthBeach Cinemas; for showtimes go to fan-dango.com. 9500 Liberty screens this weekendat the Bill Cosford Cinema; for showtimes go tomiami.edu/cosford. It’s a documentary weekendat the Bill Cosford Cinema: Joan Rivers – A Pieceof Work, the fabulous documentary I reviewed inlast week’s column, will also screen.

REVIEW

Community BuildingBy Ruben Rosario([email protected])

Cinema

MICMACS

You’re a budding artist. You want to record the thingsaround you but it’s only about 650 AD (give or take 1000 years)and art supplies are limited. So being resourceful, you usewhatever you can find in your neighborhood, which in thiscase happens to be the mountains and the rainforest. No prob-lem, there’s plenty of clay under your feet and oxides are read-ily available if you like to grind minerals up.

Mesoamerica clearly demonstrated their presence in thepre-Columbian world, with their extensive ceramic wares, sa-cred glyphs, art and architectural styles throughout ancientcities. Pyramids from the regions of central and southernMexico to Guatemala, Honduras and even further south, ex-hibit characteristic elements that can be seen in the presentexhibition at the Lowe Art Museum entitled: Jaguar’s Spots:Ancient Mesoamerican Art.

The Lowe’s summer show is any archeologist’s, (as wellas most of the rest of us), dream vacation place. This com-prehensive exhibition includes a selection of 175 objects fromthe permanent collection, many of which have never been dis-played before. The show covers ancient cultures with piecesfrom the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec areas spanning a period ofover 2000 years.

The jaguar is a powerful solitary feline predator found inthe New World tropics. Theyare nocturnal, and were oftenused as muses for many civ-ilizations through CentralAmerica and South America.Today they are consideredthe large-spotted, elusivecats that are endangered,poorly understood and un-derstudied, but for ancientcultures of the area theywere an important part of thefolklore. Jaguars were ven-erated and depicted in manyof their artistic creations.The Olmec and Maya peopleproduced striking images ofthis fierce and beautiful creature on their clay works as wellas on their stone pyramids. The admiration for Jaguars wasmost likely not inspired by fear based on actual attacks, butrather on a mutual respect that scientists think characterizesthe interactions of humans and jaguars throughout the region.

Artists have long been inspired by these amazing animals,which are apparent on many of the finely decorated potterypieces that are on display at the museum until October 31,2010.

Lowe Art Museum, 1301 Stanford Drive, CG. For info:lowemuseum.org.

And the Jaguar Rocks OnBy Marguerite Gil

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Art

9500 LIBERTY

Blame Michael Connelly.For it is certainly he who firstmade a modern day cottageindustry out of the phenome-non of the walk alone. No, hedidn’t do it first (that’s a whole‘nother essay). But he did do itbigger and badder and stronger.In fact, since 1992’s The BlackEcho Connelly’s Harry Bosch hascome to epitomize the type – somuch so that it can now be con-sidered an archetype. And hisstrong, stoic and, for all intentsand purposes, solitary man haspaved the way for a new cast ofhero, one who need rely on no onebut himself.

Two of the most vivid in this un-breakable mold are Lee Child’s Jack Reacher and David Levien’sFrank Behr. It’s not that either are Bosch-like replicas, mindyou – far from it. But each consists of many of the same char-acteristics that make Connelly’s creation so deliciously indeli-ble. Both have physical strength approaching the superhuman,especially when riled. Both are fluent if somewhat reluctantfighters. Both have the innate instincts of the hunter. And bothare decidedly men apart from their chosen professions –Reacher from an elite branch of the military, and Behr fromthe Indianapolis PD.

Most importantly both go it alone, come what may; and it isthere where they become the singular men that they are – un-compromising and uncompromised.

Of the two, Lee Child’s Jack Reacher has been around thelongest. Reacher made his debut in Child’s first book, KillingFloor (1997). And over the past 13 years he’s led the way in atotal of 14 different novels, each of which has pushed him beyondmere mortal limits and taken him all over this crime-riddencountry of ours.

Reacher’s latest drive-by is called 61 Hours (Delacorte$28), and it finds our solitary man stranded in by far the bleak-est landscape yet; namely Bolton, South Dakota, a speck on themap where the temperature averages in the mid-double-digitsbelow zero all winter long and fun involves avoiding the 100+member biker clan that lives on a retired air force base just out-side of town.

Like many 21st century American backwaters that have fallenon hard times, Bolton’s sold its soul to the criminal-industrialcomplex, and now counts not one but three prisons in its grip.As many meager metropolises have come to learn however, in-stitutions aren’t quite the gift horses they first appear to be, andthe Bolton PD has had to make some very ugly compromises inorder to secure a questionable largesse.

Compromises, of course, are meant to be exploited. Andwhen one of the head bikers gets pinched for the meth everyoneknows the gang is peddling but has thus far been unable to prove,the diminutive head of the entire enterprise – a Mexican maniacnamed Plato – institutes a series of ass-covering moves that fullyexploits everything and everyone in sight.

As always I won’t spoil the story, but I will say that the face-

off between the pint-sized sociopath Plato and the 6’5” 220+lbs Reacher is one of pulp fiction’s finer moments, and amost entertainingly lethal tete-a-tete . That Child – like Con-nelly – has managed to keep his honor-bound characterso compelling after all of these tall tales only makes theaccomplishment that much more distinct. One need notbegin at the beginning to get Reacher. But since it’s there:why not go in for the whole she-bang?

Ditto with David Levien’s Frank Behr, who in only hissecond appearance has already proven

himself to be somethingof a contender to the walkalone throne. This take istitled Where the Dead Lay(Anchor $7.99), and likeits predecessor, City of theSun, it finds our noblehero dredging the depths ofan Indianapolis no touristbureau would ever wantmentioned, let alone ex-plored in such gruesome de-tail.

Not that Indianapolisever really had much to worryabout, tourist-wise. And ifeven a fraction of the bad guysin this book are runningaround in this town, they may

as well kiss goodbye the whole idea. But for the crime-mindedreader, Levien is just the kinda ticket you want in hand; if, that is,you’re idea of a city visit revolves around bloody back alleys andbody-filled marshes.

Levien, who’s written the scripts for everything fromRounders and Knockaround Guys to Oceans 13, has most re-cently co-directed (with Brian Koppelman) Solitary Man, so itseems he’s ditching the ensemble piece and is now dead set onputting his mind and his talent to the phenomenon of the walkalone. Like Bosch, and Reacher, Behr is a big, bruising andbrooding soul, who possesses an unwavering sense of right andwrong, and is unafraid to do whatever it takes to realize his ob-jective. And like both of the aforementioned, Behr carries theburden of the story onhis broad shouldersalone.

Is it a heavy burden?You betcha. It’s alsobloody and unbowed. Andnone of these solitary menwould want it any otherway.

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The “conventional wisdom” dealing with Miami Beach’s history has, for almostthe entire history of the city, held that the first hotel on Miami Beach was Brown’s, onsouth Ocean Drive. The only problem with that “c w” may be that the U. S. LifesavingService’s Biscayne House of Refuge, located at approximately today’s 72nd Street andCollins Avenue, and which first opened in 1876 as one of several entities placed ap-proximately 20 to 25 miles apart along the lower Florida east coast for the purpose orrescuing shipwrecked sailors, may have been, beginning with the arrival of CaptainWilliam Fulford as its keeper in 1890, the first building to serve as an inn or hospitalityvenue on Miami Beach.

Fulford, who had captained vessels operating along Florida’s coast beginning in thelate 1880s, was intrigued with the area that would someday become Miami and as hetraveled the sea lanes he eventually picked a site where he would establish his home-stead, a place that would be known first as Fulford and, later, as North Miami Beach,but that part of the story will be saved for another telling.

The captain, with his wife, took over a ramshackle, run down building in 1890 andlittle by little began rehabbing it, buying new furniture, replacing rotting wood, repair-ing stairs and fixtures and generally making it a comfortable spot for visitors, the storybeing told in its entirety in From Farms and Fields to the Future: The Incredible Historyof North Miami Beach.

While the Biscayne House of Refuge was first established, as noted above, in 1876to help shipwrecked sailors and castaways, it became progressively less important infulfilling that function as ships and navigational devices improved. According to oneaccount, the Fulfords, gracious and genial as they were, and always warmly welcom-ing visitors eventually had so many patrons at the House that it must be concludedthat at least some of them paid for the privilege of being the Fulford’s guests.

That same account goes on to state that, with three rooms and a kitchen on the mainfloor and a huge dormitory-type room under the upstairs sloping ceiling, there were asurprisingly large number of applications for room and board for short-term visitors,some of whom were turned away due to lack of space.

Utilizing fresh fruits and vegetables on their dining table (which were gathered fromtheir farm, which was located on the mainland side and was part of the requisite for

property improvement necessary to prove the homestead claim that the captain hadmade on the tract which he planned to purchase from the government in what istoday’s North Miami Beach) the House of Refuge developed a reputation for fine andhigh quality board to go with its sometimes-available rooms.

With the revelation of these facts, it might be reasonable and justifiably arguedthat, in addition to being the Lifesaving Service’s outpost on the lower east coast ofFlorida, the Biscayne House of Refuge was, even before the now-famous-in-MiamiBeach-history Brown’s Hotel was built, that hotel’s predecessor as the first hostelryon what would eventually become one of the world’s most renowned winter re-sorts.

Today, the site of the House of Refuge is memorialized by and with a large bronzemarker which is between 72nd and 73rd Streets on the east side of Collins Avenue.The Lifesaving Service became part of the Coast Guard while the property, nowknown as North Shore Park, extending from the ocean to the canal just west ofDickens Avenue between 72nd and 73rd Streets was traded by the Coast Guard tothe City of Miami Beach, the city giving the Guard the then-underwater propertywhich was developed by that branch of the service to become today’s MiamiBeach Coast Guard station, located on the south side of the east end of theMacArthur Causeway.

Brown’s May Not Be the First Inn By Seth H. Bramson([email protected])


A Special Moment in Time

THE ORIGINAL BROWN'S HOTEL, SHORTLY AFTER OPENING.

THIS AERIAL VIEW LOOKSNORTH FROM JUSTSOUTH OF THE LIFE

GUARD STATION ANDREST ROOM FACILITIES

BETWEEN 72ND AND 73RDSTREETS ON THE OCEAN.THE PHOTOS WAS TAKEN

FEBRUARY 19, 1969.

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Solitary MenLee Child, David Levien and the Phenomenon of the Walk AloneBy John Hood

Summer’s been anything but slow this year, thanks to bashessuch as the ING Amigos For Kids Celebrity Domino tournament, theW Fort Lauderdale one year anniversary party and DJ Irie’s star-studded weekend to benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters, which hadlocal and national VIPs and celebs enduring the sweltering weatherand schlepping all over town and across county lines. More hotfun in the summertime is coming our way courtesy of AlonzoMourning and Dwyane Wade, who are hosting their annual SummerGroove in the coming weeks and Mercedes-Benz Fashion WeekSwim, in mid July, which gets bigger every year. Giving folks anadded reason to wake up early, skip the gym and stay indoors is theFIFA World Cup, providing much needed business to local restau-rants and bars. For a whole line-up of FIFA party places, check outthis month’s Go! columns at sunpostweekly.com.

ESTELLE HEADLINES W HOTEL’S ANNIVERSARY BASH

W Fort Lauderdale celebrated its one year anniversary onWednesday with a private bash hosted by W Fort Lauderdale devel-oper and CEO of DYL Group John Yanopoulos, super modelCindy Crawford and her dashing husband, nightlife impresarioRande Gerber. The party was sponsored by Grey Goose vodka.Lucky guests were treated to a musical performance by GrammyAward-winning recording artist Estelle, made famous by her chart-topping collaboration with rapper Kanye West, titled American Boy.Estelle showed off her charismatic personality, inviting the audi-

ence to sing along for most of the performance of the all-too-

familiar song in the hotel’s swank Living Room. She also sang OneLove, which worked everyone into a frenzy. Before Estelle took thestage, Yonopoulos welcomed guests and gave a champagne toastalongside model, Cindy Taylor. Up-and-coming R&B/Hip-Hopartist Casely got the crowd dancing by singing several songs, be-fore Estelle took over. After the concerts, Dennis Rodman, seem-ingly inspired by the musical acts (or tequila) took to the stage tosing along to the music being played by the DJ. He was particularlyeffusive during the dance mix of Be Somebody by Kings of Leon.To view Estelle’s concert in its entirety, visit: miamisocialholic.com.

DJ IRIE!Miami’s own DJ Irie hosted an action- packed weekend, start-

ing Friday with an exclusive cocktail reception in The Crown RoyalBlack Lounge at Plunge at the Gansevoort South, hosted by Victoria’sSecret model, Selita Ebanks, and kick-off event at LIV nightclubfollowed by a celebrity golf tournament that took place on Saturdayafternoon at the Miami Beach Golf Course. Proceeds raisedthroughout the weekend benefited Big Brothers & Big Sisters ofGreater Miami. Famous attendees over the weekend included:Luke Wilson, Joey Fatone, Wesley Jonathan, Luther Camp-bell, Jason Taylor, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem, Mike Sims-Walker, James Posey, Jonathan Vilma, Sam Madison, JohnDenney, Lawrence Timmons, Steven Tulloch, Keith Askins,Bill Lindsay, Mike James, Akin Ayodele, and Larry English.

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Cindy Taylor and John Yanopoulos at W Ft. Lauderdale anniversary party

Mary Jo Shore and Jackie Nespral at W Ft. Lauderdale


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Stars Shine Bright This SummerBy Mary Jo [email protected]

Photos by Mary Jo Almeida-Shore

Michael Shore and Estelle

Rande Gerber & Cindy Crawford at W Ft. Lauderdale anniversary party

Casely

DOMINOS, CELEBS, DANCINGNearly 2, 000 guests stormed Jungle Island last Saturday for the

ING Miami Celebrity Domino Night- the only domino tournament weknow of where dancing takes precedence over the actual dominos,with attendees taking breaks from the tourney to dance to favoritesongs performed by Miami’s most popular high-energy Latin fusionband, Kukaramakara. The evening featured celebrity domino play-ers, local flavors and dinner-by-the-bite provided by a slew of promi-nent restaurants- giving guests all the more reason to hit the dancefloor to work off the billion extra calories.

This year’s fundraiser was another astounding success for Ami-gos For Kids, marking ING’s sixth year as the event’s title sponsor,and featuring Barcadi USA as a first-time presenting sponsor. Per-formances by R&B funk group, The Valerie Tyson Band, added tothe musical stylings of the event’s headliner, Kukaramakara, makingthis party the most Latin fun this side of the Ricky Ricardo’s Tropi-cana.

CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS:Last Thursday, Marysol Patton from Bravo’s yet-to-be-named,

Miami-based reality show and Real Housewife of OC star, GretchenRossi with boyfriend serial housewife dater, Slade Smiley, wereseen having dinner at Zuma. On Saturday, Grammy award winningProducer Emilio Estefan, Grammy award winner NataliaJimenez from the group La Quinta Estacion and Lili Estefanalso dined at Zuma. Also at the restaurant that night: Dancing WithThe Stars winner Helio Castroneves and artist Romero Britto.

Argentinean model and Telemundo and E! Latinoamérica starCandela Ferro and longtime beau Mexican actor Khotan Fer-nández were spotted at newly opened La Fee Verte, a tease, bur-lesque and absinthe club in North Beach. The couple and friendswere seen enjoying the club’s burlesque shows while sipping oncocktails. Ferro and Khotan remained mostly below the radarthroughout the entire evening and did not leave the VIP area. Celebri-ties in attendance included: Barbara Bermudo, Ana Maria Canseco,Candela Ferro, Julian Gil, Pamela Silva-Conde, Marisa Del Portilloand many others.

DJ Irie Udonis Haslem with Max and Rocco Shore

DJ Irie with Stephen GamsonDJ Irie with Big Brothers and Big Sisters kids


Marysol Patton, Slade Smiley, Gretchen Rossi

Luke Wilson at Irie Weekend Joey Fatone and Jeremy Spund golfing at Irie Weekend

Carlucho and Enrique Santos at Amigos For Kids Domino Night

Pamela Silva-Conde, Jorge Plasencia and Luly Valls

Amigos for Kids Board at their Domino event at Jungle Island


Jorge Plasencia, Luis Abarca, Rosa Maria Plasencia

Dancers at Jungle Island

Michael Calabrese and Carlos Navarro

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VINYL & KAI IS “FENOM-ENAL”To continue the World Cup frenzy well into mid July, Fenom Modern Absinthe has teamed up with

Miami local hotspot Vinyl & Kai for awesome drink specials during every game and complimentary sam-plings during select games. Fenom Modern Absinthe shots cost $5 and specialty cocktails cost $8. They willbe serving the Fenom Fizz, which is a mix of Fenom Modern Absinthe, lemon juice, simple syrup andPerrier.

On Friday, July 2, Vinyl and Kai , along with the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, will be host-ing Coffee with the President. Coffee talk is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. so make sure to arriveearly. For all you Facebookies, Vinyl and Kai is also offering 50% off their entire menu all day for fanswho RSVP on their Facebook “First Fridays” event page. For more information go to www.vinylkai.com

CHILLING AND GRILLING ON THE ALLEYThe Grill on the Alley has revamped its already spectacular happy hour just in time for the summer

season with new menu items and cocktails. Happy Hour at The Grill is available Monday – Friday from

4 to 8 pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 am to 6 pm. The new “Chef Bites” section of the happyhour menu includes mini versions of a number of the restaurant’s signature dinner items including the Col-orado Lamb Chop, Braised Short Rib and the Peppered Filet Medallion. The Grill on the Alley has alsointroduced several new handcrafted cocktails to its happy hour menu for only $9. Highlights include theRaspberri Tart, Frozen Summer Peach and The Grill 75. The Grill is located at 19501 Biscayne Boulevard,with an entrance on the south side of Aventura Mall. For more information, call 305.466.7195 or visit the-grill.com

A SWANK FOURTHInterContinental Miami hosts an Independence Day to remember! Gather the family and celebrate

the 4th of July with an All-American BBQ equipped with all of the delicious holiday classics: hamburgers,hotdogs, corn on the cob, barbeque chicken and even warm apple pie. Guests will also enjoy refreshinghand-crafted cocktails while watching fireworks amid the panoramic views of Biscayne Bay. The 4th of Julyfestivities will begin at 6 pm and continue into the evening’s fireworks display. InterContinental Miamiis located at 100 Chopin Plaza. The fun costs $28 for adults, $14 for kids (12 and under). Call to reserveyour space: 305.372.4431.

PUTTING THE RED, IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE...Join Red The Steakhouse for a lavish rooftop BBQ, celebrating the 4th in style. Make your reservations now for a prime spot on South Beach to indulge in the patriotic festivities.

Sample the menu of beef kabobs, baby back ribs, grilled skewers of citrus-chile marinated gulf shrimp andmore. Satiate your thirst with fresh sangria and specialty cocktails and feel All-American with classic sideslike grilled corn on the cob and Yukon gold potato salad. End the night with a bang with jaw dropping viewsof the firework displays all up and down Miami - a view you can’t get anywhere other than Red’s rooftop.For more information or reservations call 305.534.3688 or visit www.redthesteakhouse.com.

UPCOMING SOCIAL EVENTS

Fun on the FourthBy Mary Jo [email protected]

GO!

Watch the World Cup Game

from 7am onwards at these

well-known, popular spots

around Miami.

ARE YOU FREE TO LOVE ANYONE YOU WANT?

Our country celebrates 234 years of free-dom and independence this weekend, but areAmericans really free to love whomever theydesire, regardless of race, religion, culture,and gender? This wasn’t the case on the firstIndependence Day in 1776 when interracialmarriage was illegal and gay marriage was in-conceivable.

Back in the day, anti-miscegenation lawsbanned Whites from living with, marrying, orhaving sex with non-Whites, including Blacks,Native Americans, and Asians. To make surethe minorities didn’t mingle too much, Okla-homa, Kentucky, and Louisiana created extralaws to prohibit Blacks from hooking up withanyone unless they were directly from Africa.Quite an ironic, brainless concept consideringthat humans of all colors originated in Africa.(Yes, George Bush, it’s true.)

Not too long ago, it was still a felony toget caught with someone who wasn’t the samerace! In fact, I was born to my White motherand Black father just 6 years after interracialmarriage was legalized. As Mom recalls, myfather was detained by authorities when theywere returning to the U.S. from their honey-moon in Mexico. They were separated andquestioned while officers searched for unre-lated reasons to arrest my father. That wasover 30 years ago but not much has changedin some parts of the U.S.

In 2009, Keith Bardwell, a justice of thepeace in Louisiana refused to officiate a mar-riage between an interracial couple. And weall know about the struggle same-sex couplesare experiencing trying to gain the legal rightto marry. To determine whether Miamians willbe celebrating their freedom to love thisfourth of July, I queried locals with experiencein interracial relationships.

“I think you’re free to be with whoeveryou want,” said the 34 year old female half ofan interracial couple. She continued, “InMiami no one cares, and if they do, we don’tfeel it. If anything, it’s harder dealing withyour family, not society. I’m sure our familieswould’ve been happier if we would’ve brought

home someone of the same race. No one saidanything directly to us, but you get the feelingand you just know.”

“Well there’s different types of freedom –social and legal” professed a 61 year-oldmother of an interracial child. You can feelcomfortable being with whomever you wantin certain places. The social environment inSan Francisco accepts everyone and certainparts of Miami do as well. But when some-thing is not legally endorsed, it gives peoplethe opportunity to demonize it and those rad-ical conservatives try to distort the law to dojust that. They take one little shred of out-dated law and twist it to limit others’ freedom,forcing their critical, close-minded perspec-tive on society.” Tell us how you really feel.

At a backyard BBQ in the Shores, a 43year-old Black attorney formerly engaged to aGerman woman also discussed how the lawinfluences social freedom. “Unless the lawclearly states that something is legal, certainpeople in society will refuse to accept specificrelationships, such as same-sex marriage.Those against it will refer to the law, sayingsomething like, ‘The people have spoken andyou are less than us. Therefore you are not al-lowed to marry.’ Therefore the law must be inplace to ensure everyone has the freedom tolove whom they choose.”

In reality, interracial marriage was oc-curring in different States throughout thecountry years before federal law intervenedand the same trend is happening with same-sex marriage. While the Feds haven’t outrightaccepted Gay marriage yet, same-sex couplescan get legally hitched in five States across theU.S., including Iowa, Vermont, New Hamp-shire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Thelatter four states are part of the original 13colonies, birthplace of this great country andhome to our founding fathers who drafted theconstitution. If same-sex marriage is alreadylegal in these states, you only have to reflect onour recent history to understand that federallaw will follow suit within our lifetime to pro-tect the marital rights of gay couples.

The military, our largest federal organi-zation, is already en route to abolish the ‘don’t

ask-don’t tell’ policy. Before you know it,same-sex soldiers from Iraq will be featuredin the wedding section of the NY Times. We’realmost there, but not yet.

The Pew Research Center conducted astudy that found almost 15% of newlyweds in2008 married outside their race which ismore than double the rate since the 1980’s.About half of all Jewish people marry non-Jews. Gay marriage is no different and willcontinue to grow as more states recognize theunion.

Despite all the growth of interracial mar-riage, most Americans still choose to marry apartner of the same race. According to the2000 Census, more that 90% of Whites mar-ried Whites and more than 90% of Blacksmarried Blacks. Over 80% of Spanish marriedwith their own race and about 90% of Asianmen married Asian women. Interestingly, just78% of Asian women married Asian men andalmost 20% married White men. NativeAmericans are just as likely to marry a Whiteperson as they are another Native American.About one-quarter of Hawaiian and Pacific Is-landers marry Whites but more than half ofthe population still marries someone of thesame race. What does all this mean?

Love doesn’t understand laws. It’s like afirecracker and explodes sometimes, withoutregard to who’s watching or approving.Pheromones light up like fire from chemicalattraction, resembling fireworks on the Fourthof July. Love sparkles in every color, glitterslike gold, and dazzles your soul like stars lift-ing you to the sky. Laws are straight forwardrules intended to guide society’s normal be-havior but love is an exception to rationalerules. Love is emotion –bright and free. It isnot obedient to any law because when itcomes to love, nothing is black and white.

Sex


COLUMN

The Color of LoveBy Dr. Sonjia Kenya

HealthCOLUMN

Being Me Smoke-FreeBy Jennifer Fragoso([email protected])

Name: Jennifer FragosoAge: 38Years smoking: 23SMOKE FREE: 17 Weeks

WEEK 18: NOW IT IS ALL ABOUT RESOLVE

Re·solve v - 1. vti to come to or cause somebody tocome to a firm decision about something.

Over eighteen weeks ago I made a decision to quitsmoking. I knew it would be hard crossing thetreacherous terrain of addiction and yet here I standin the land of sobriety. Little old me and my friendresolve have come a long way together. From thedepths of despair to the comfort of our convictionswe stand together as one in defiance of our longtime foe. Wearing our badge of courage over ourbattle scarred body at parties, on the streets and atour favorite watering holes. Breathing in secondhand smoke in disgust and wishing others wouldhear the call to arms we once heard. They say ittakes a village to raise a child. If that is so then itwill take more effort on the part of state and localgovernment to bring Florida into the fold of the non-smoker. In the interim my resolve and I will standat the forefront of this battle in solidarity. Waveringto no one until we are truly heard.

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