Around the age of 8, a boy we'll call Sam made a new friend. He was a man in his early 50s, the Rev. Neil Doherty, pastor at St. Vincent Catholic parish across the street from...
Fat people are nothing new. When Dr. Sanford Siegal began practicing medicine in 1957, he had so many overweight patients that he started treating for obesity exclusively....
Calling All Cars I would like to say thank you for the article about Julie Perry and Suki Finnerty's accident ("Next Stop, Hong Kong," Tailpipe, April 10). You left out the...
Tailpipe has seen enough sappy B movies to believe that the world's knottiest problems just might be solved by amateurs tinkering in their garages. Face it, between the Apple...
Beach Food Market clerk Pratap Chowdhury spends a lot of time focusing on South Beach diplomacy efforts. He practices basic Spanish, learns customers' names, and reaches out...
The biggest knock on the Keys' 2006 major-label debut, Magic Potion, was its failure to innovate. That can't be said about Attack & Release, which remains steadfast in its...
Miami's Junc Ops combines some of the better elements of South Florida music into a savvy and futuristic amalgamation that whets the appetite and satisfies the hunger. It's...
Yes, his last name is Allman and his band, Honeytribe, plays blues-inflected rock — but as far as Devon Allman is concerned, the comparisons to his dad stop there. The...
Yeah, it's got a silly name. And the concept makes you think of Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan head bobbing at the end of A Night at the Roxbury. But as the weather gets warmer...
It's a great time for music in South Florida just now, with more events than most audiophiles can absorb. Following close on the heels of the Winter Music Conference two weeks...
There are plenty of good reasons for women to be bitchy: the glass ceiling, social oppression, pantyhose, bad pick-up lines, double standards, uncomfortable shoes, and, of...
We've evolved to protect ourselves from dangerous food. We have a genetic predisposition to find spoiled vittles repellent, and we must "acquire a taste" for bitter or stinky...
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the sole...
For some, today is the greatest holiday of the year. Im not talking about insane neo-Nazis celebrating the birth of the most wretched and despised man in history....
These days everybodys going green. Last year, NBC devoted an entire weeks worth of programming to green initiatives, which is why we ended up with a horrible...
Heres why April rules: Because the Marlins can sit in first place for a few moments, even as they surrender 50 percent more runs than they score. (Thats what some...
What if you showed up at work one day and found out your boss wasnt a tool? What if he was Bruce Springsteen, the unofficial poet laureate of New Jersey? It would be...
To some, student artwork means painting fraternity letters on a beer bong and naming it Sir Chugs-A-Lot. To others, like the 2008 graduating class of FAUs Department of...
French chicks are cute. Maybe its the accent. Maybe its a certain je ne sais quoi, an intermingling of charming worldliness, quirky joie de vivre, and a seemingly...
Before you go rushing out to see In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, please be aware that, no,...