By Hilary Saunders Miamians can be a bit possessive. We like to claim things, and sometimes people, as our own when they give our city a better reputation, even if we’ve only adopted them. Pastelitos and cafecitos? Ours now. Lebron James and Dwayne Wade brought home trophies, so they are obviously ours. By this logic, then, Iron & Wine is a little bit ours, too. Frontman … [Read more...]
‘Brothers’ a shattering story of the cost of war
The release date couldn’t be more fortuitous. Hitting theaters nationwide the week Barack Obama announced his plans to send an additional 34,000 troops to secure Afghanistan, Jim Sheridan’s family drama Brothers is at once timely and transcendent. An explosive and sobering reminder of the emotional and mental cost of war at home and abroad – and particularly this war, in its … [Read more...]