Groucho Marx once remarked he’d never want to belong to a club that would accept him as a member. Detroit-based brittle-beat artists Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus — a duo married not just in the creative sense — have adopted a similar dictum while recording under the name Adult…
The Miami Beach Cinematheque is no stranger to all things weird and wonderful, but this time its coordinators have devised something completely different to coincide with the Art Basel festivities in South Beach. Guy Maddin’s “Cowards Bend the Knee Peepshow Installation” is a movie within a movie, featuring live performance…
Not many events at Art Basel Miami Beach — and possibly just as few exhibitions shown over the course of Art Basel Switzerland’s 36-year history — are as rambunctious as “Cars & Fish” promises to be. The Miami Performing Arts Center’s (MPAC) official opening is still more than a year…
While figurative ka-chings are the aural hallmark of Art Basel days, the clinking of champagne glasses dominates the evening-to-dawn hours of the art festival. The shark fins moving through the social waters are silent, but rivalries between artists, dealers, collectors, and entourages — this year’s must-have accessory — add a…
A muse can take many forms. Miami-based Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston found inspiration passed out under a tree in Little Haiti. “I spotted this homeless guy who had taken two shopping carts and made a double-decker loft, complete with storage space,” Johnston recalls. “This guy had nothing and managed to be…
It’s that white-patent-leather-loafer-wearing Casanova’s night out in South Beach after a day of flipping flapjacks at Denny’s, and he’s wondering, Who are all of those gaudy socialites near the convention center? Rein in the horses, you hip-swiveling caballero. These blue bloods are in town gushing over contemporary art, amigo, and…
Miami is home to glitzy multimillion-dollar restaurants, a sea of sensational sushi spots, and more than its fair share of satisfying bistros, trattorias, and steak houses. Central and South American immigrants, as well as those from the neighboring islands, have blessed our area with a plethora of exemplary and inexpensive…
THU 24 Before schlepping to your parents’ house for turkey, talking, and the Detroit Lions/Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys/Denver Broncos games, you should roll a fatty to adjust your attitude and head to the 31st annual WinterNational Thanksgiving Day Parade. Strutting to the theme “Celebrate Music — The Universal Language,”…
SAT 11/26 Once upon a time, there was a sweet young thing known as house music. House music was simple folk, riding boxcars, carrying only a small bundle wrapped in a kerchief tied to the end of a stick. People said this beat would never amount to anything. But house…
WED 11/30 Most artists will spend Art Basel ensconced in the safety of a swanky gallery. Not the artists who will display their creative work at the Faktura Gallery (7128 NW Second Ave., Miami). You’ll find them pushing shopping carts around Miami Beach, as part of a refreshing exhibit titled…
FRI 11/25 He once was the well-paid superstar, the big man upon whom the Miami Heat placed its championship weight. Then came kidney disease, and Alonzo Mourning was gone, only to return last season as a backup to the new big man upon whom…. Thank goodness. With Shaq falling out…
FRI 11/25 Ahoy, ye mateys! Proudly don yer puffy shirts and eye patches, set yer squawkin’ Polly upon yer shoulder, and take pause from pillaging and plundering for the Pirates in Paradise Festival in Key West. Kicking off ten days of buccaneers, battles, and booty is the first of several…
Thanksgiving is upon us, and many Miamians are wondering the same thing: What exactly should we be thankful for this past year? The Magic City was battered by three damaging hurricanes. Katrina ripped down trees, Rita littered our streets with debris, and Wilma’s winds sliced through electricity poles like a…
All Barbara Ehrenreich wanted was a white-collar job at 50K a year plus bennies. (Don’t we all?) In Bait and Switch this veteran social critic uses the same undercover tactics as in her best-selling Nickel and Dimed to explore life in Dilbert Country. Her goal is simple: Land a cubicle…
Writer and director Noah Baumbach has made three light films — one so slight (1997’s party-hopping Highball) it didn’t see release until five years after its completion, and even then it snuck onto video-store shelves credited to a pseudonymous writer and director. There was nothing on his filmography — not…
Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) is a big-time attorney in a small-time town looking to make a break for it on Christmas Eve, so he and porn-makin’ partner Vic (Billy Bob Thornton) steal two million dollars from a mob boss. Charlie looks like he’s got his shit together, but he’s merely…
Ever since its Broadway debut in 1996, Rent has generated a loyal, almost cultlike following. Showered with praise, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical touched a nerve among the young, artistic, gay, urban, and alternatively dressed people who identified as outsiders and wondered how they would make their way in the world…
It’s bling love for Gwen Stefani on “Luxurious,” the fifth and second-best single from Love.Angel.Music.Baby. Gwen draws parallels between decadent love and material possessions, and so does the music — the Egyptian cotton reference weaves right into the sample of the Isley Brothers’ “Between the Sheets.” Yeah, it’s that tune…
Make Believe might be too unashamedly mawkish for many old-school fans (A power ballad named “Hold Me”? Yeesh.), but the chorus for “Perfect Situation” shows that Rivers Cuomo can still knock out an ingratiating hook — as long as he doesn’t attach any words to it…
Follow your dreams and one day you’ll be rich like Twista and Pharrell, according to the pair on “Lavish,” a Neptunes production that’s as lovely as it is unoriginal (Bobby Valentino and his damn bongos have a lot to answer for). Twista and Pharrell whiz through status symbols and brand…
Kelly Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne, Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Groban, Elton John, Katie Melua, Pink, Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Rod Stewart, Steven Tyler, and Velvet Revolver cover Eric Clapton’s mid-Nineties classic “Tears in Heaven” for Hurricane Katrina relief. And it’s even worse…
Born on hip-hop and driven delirious by dancehall’s sub-bass and garage’s A.D.D. beats, the UK genre grime is new enough to have more energy than it does discipline — which makes it both exhilarating and barely listenable. Vertically Challenged, the first stateside offering from eighteen-year-old London MC Lady Sovereign, suffers…
