MiamiHerald.com: Lunch With Lydia | Lydia Martin http://www.miamiherald.com/288/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Lunch With Lydia | Lydia Martin http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/288/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Lunch With Lydia | Lydia Martin 60 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:03:48 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com With help of a little magic, former understudy morphs into Celia on the stage http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/585704.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/585704.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT Anyone lucky enough to have watched Celia Cruz perform live can attest to her magical, infectious force. There was no way to take your eyes off a woman with an energy that was almost supernatural and a voice that thundered with Afro-Cuban soul. Cooking up a neighborhood: Can three food guys who helped ignite South Beach work the same magic in the Design District? http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/560926.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/560926.html Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT front A little more than a year ago, chef Michael Schwartz, smarting from some of the lows inherent in the roller-coaster restaurant business, took an all-or-nothing gamble on a sparsely populated Miami neighborhood where other restaurateurs had flopped, sparking a bigger fire than even he intended when he opened Michael's Genuine Food & Drink on Northeast 40th Street. Who knew this homeboy was such a homebody? http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/552541.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/552541.html Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT Cuban-American rapper Pitbull, who moved around Miami so much when he was a kid that he can rattle off stories about stuff that went down on street corners from Culter Ridge to South Miami, Westchester, West Miami, Little Havana, Wynwood, Carol City and Opa-locka, likes to keep things real. Hot and bothered: Hey, Garcia girls! ¿Que pasa? http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/536215.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/536215.html Sun, 18 May 2008 03:01 EDT Steven Bauer, the strapping and goofy Joe from that other 1970s show, ¿Qué Pasa, USA?, has just returned with a second plate of food -- pasta and roast beef -- from the buffet at the Doral Golf Resort, and Elizabeth Peña, his co-star in How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, is rolling her eyes. She's taking cut and paste to new levels http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/509827.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/509827.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT In her junior year at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Miami artist Jen Stark set out for a semester abroad in Aix-en-Provence with two suitcases full of clothes and no art supplies. Bad-boy chef sure can dish it out http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/492113.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/492113.html Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT It's probably a good thing that bad-boy food star Anthony Bourdain isn't hungry. You'd be hard-pressed to find him any gross-out stunt meals at South Beach's Raleigh Hotel. For director, war in Iraq got personal http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/474334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/474334.html Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT In the opening scenes of Stop-Loss, the much-awaited second film by Kimberly Peirce, director of 1999's acclaimed Boys Don't Cry, a crew of young U.S. soldiers on the verge of wrapping up their tour of duty in Iraq gets caught in one more bloody shootout. True grits: Paula Deen conquered troubles to become a cooking superstar http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/420711.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/420711.html Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:01 EST Southern cooking diva Paula Deen, alone and unplugged in her big country house on Turner Creek, is looking for something to feed you. Famed sculptor, designer still cherishes her Eden http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/411925.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/411925.html Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:01 EST Sitting here in the courtyard at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in the Design District, the place she calls ''Miami's salon,'' artist Michele Oka Doner is giving high priestess. On the tapas trail with a superstar chef of Spain http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/319001.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/319001.html Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:01 EST Elena Arzak has been called the most important female chef in the world. The Madonna of chefs, even. But she seems oblivious to all of her press as she leads you through the elegant streets of this seaside resort on your way to one of her favorite little pintxos, or tapas, bars. A decade after 'Seinfeld,' the comedian's still creating buzz http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/285914.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/285914.html Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:01 EDT You can't say Jerry Seinfeld isn't a sport. After all, in May, he donned a fuzzy bee suit and rode a cable off the roof of a hotel in Cannes for the sake of promoting Bee Movie, his first major project beyond stand-up comedy since his legendary sitcom signed off in 1998. Chrissie Hynde's got a beef with meat eaters http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/221918.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/221918.html Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:01 EDT You've just admitted to rocker Chrissie Hynde that you're a meat eater. Turns out she's not one of the easy-going PETA people who will cut you some slack. 'Rush Hour 3' director Brett Ratner doesn't care what critics think http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/200733.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/200733.html Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:01 EDT Brett Ratner, the Miami Beach Cubanito who directs huge box-office hits and hosts such notoriously star-studded parties at his Beverly Hills mansion that he played himself at one of these high-powered schmooze fests in an episode of HBO's Entourage, is pretty confident his new film, Rush Hour 3, will get trashed by the critics. When salsa got its pulse http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/199428.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/199428.html Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:01 EDT Jennifer Lopez wasn't always convinced she wanted to make a movie about Puerto Rican salsa great Héctor Lavoe, says Leon Ichaso, director of El Cantante, the biopic that features Lopez and real-life hubby Marc Anthony tearing up a funky New York in slick disco duds. Still smokin' -- and not just the cigarette http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/199515.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/199515.html Sun, 20 May 2007 03:01 EDT Antonio Banderas, casual in a long-sleeve T and olive cargo pants, is being bad. He is in the middle of a long press day, talking to one reporter after another about his role as the suave (if hairball-hacking) Puss In Boots in Shrek the Third, which opened Friday. Halle Berry: Fab, 40 -- and fidgety http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/199522.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/199522.html Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:01 EDT Halle Berry looks flawless even with the harsh noon sun invading her hotel suite. At 40, she can play characters much younger. But genetic blessings and an Oscar in 2002 for Monster's Ball are not enough to help her feel secure in Hollywood. Lunch With Lydia | She's, like, so not like that http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/128118.html http://www.miamiherald.com/288/story/128118.html Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:06 EDT Paris Hilton, willowy in a floor-length dress, speaks in a certain sing-song that comes and goes as she munches on fruit at the Shore Club's Ago. She can so speak in that little girl high-pitched thing where everything ends, like, in a question mark? And she can speak straight, punctuating thoughts with periods, her voice a normal grown-up pitch.