When you hear the phrase Oh, Miami, it’s usually accompanied by an exasperated sigh over local frustrations such as road rage, dumb criminals, or cannibalistic reptiles. But a few literate souls have reclaimed the term for Miami’s first poetry festival. O, Miami is a monthlong county-wide literary event with the…
As the grunge lore goes, Kurt Cobain actually smelled like Teen Spirit. We can only surmise it was due to cuddling in the crook of the arm of then-girlfriend Tobi Vail, wearer of said deodorant. Legend has it that his girlfriend’s bandmate noticed Cobain’s adolescent girl odor and spray-painted “Kurt…
With their seventh film festival a month away, Borscht just released a video tease showcasing their collaborators for this year’s fest. Sure, we posted the line-up of filmmakers and musicians last month. But perhaps you work too hard at your day job and don’t get out much and those names…
A few months ago, we told you about the NDS Market – a little pop-up shop filled with wearables and books by Miami artists, curated by designer Nektar de Stagni. It was an amazing one-stop shop and a rare opportunity to take a little piece Miami’s rich culture home with…
Miami’s Overtown is getting its first beauty pageant in what should be considered one step forward and a few stiletto-stumbling steps backward. It’s a move forward because Miss Overtown USA and Teen Miss Overtown USA are part of the Overtown Rhythm & Arts Festival. And we all know that the…
“I feel like this outfit screams ‘I’ve been living in Ohio for the past three years. Take me to your gross apartment and have sex with me,” Aura complains in recent indie hit Tiny Furniture. Comedies of humiliation are usually bred in the minds of those much older and male…
While overseas promoting his film Limelight, Charlie Chaplin was banned from re-entering the United States by that persnickety cross-dresser, J. Edgar Hoover. Chaplin’s offense had nothing to do with the 1952 film, however, which follows a washed-up stage clown who saves another performer from suicide. No, it was Monsieur Verdoux,…
Diehipster.com described a recent Tweed Ride in Brooklyn as a bunch of attention-starved nasaltards, dressed like Sherlock Holmes, biking ten blocks. But what’s so horrible about tobacco pipes and houndstooth? We say send all of those bearded urban gents and bespectacled ladies south. Our streets could use a little handlebar-mustache…
Stop being such a girl. Author and playwright Eve Ensler wants to disarm that phrase as she did with the word cunt in The Vagina Monologues. After all, it’s almost as taboo to flash our feelings as it is to flash our lady parts. We’re conditioned to suppress vulnerability, compassion,…
We’re hearing a lot of film news coming out of South by Southwest and it’s not all about Jake Gyllenhaal peeing. And out of all the dispatches, the project we’re most excited about is the new live action Super Mario Bros. movie. It’s got everything: heart, grit, Luigi, the Princess,…
On Saturday night, the Miami International Film Festival closed their 10-day flick fest with a screening of Oscar-nominated Incendies and by honoring the winners in their cinema competitions. Among the international films, The Piano in a Factory, in which a laid-off steel worker does whatever he can to get his…
The Miami Herald reports that Andy Cohen is this year’s grand marshal for the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade and Festival, which starts April 12. We ran into Cohen, Bravo’s Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development, at the Eden Roc last week, where he told us he loved…
Remember when you read On the Road and you thought “I’m going to be a writer”? So you wrote in your moleskin daily. You poured yourself out over pints and espressos. Sunlight would shift overhead and you’d go lurching for your pen and moleskin as inspiration flooded in.That was then…
This weekend, you’ll have the chance to shoot everyone on South Beach. Slow down, NRA members — we’re not talking to you, but to all the shutterbugs out there. This Sunday marks the seventh annual South Beach Photomarathon, where folks are invited to scour the streets for compelling visuals and…
Comparisons between Gabrielle Hamilton’s acclaimed food memoir Blood, Bones, & Butter and Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential are easy to make. Both contain the seedy underbelly of a gourmand’s life, from maggots in the kitchen to the chef’s predication for a white powder that is not flour or sugar. Like Bourdain,…
A little birdie known as The Heat Lightning let it slip that O, Miami, the inaugural poetry festival, is bringing James Franco to the 305 to read some verse. O co-founder Scott Cunningham told us, “He’s pretty serious about poetry. He’s made a few short films based on poems -…
It’s been a week since Charlie Sheen gave his infamous interview on ABC. That’s about enough time for crafters to whip up a few Adonis DNA beer cozies, right? Sure is – there are exactly four pages of Sheen-themed wares on Etsy. Surprisingly, no one picked up on our favorite…
To paraphrase that ray of sunshine Ayn Rand, art is too serious to be taken so seriously. Which is why Devon Lee, who holds the number one spot in our 100 Creatives, is a complete fabrication. We feel the need to confess this in case you were fooled by her…
As your New Times calendar editor, it is my duty to implore you to get out this weekend and enjoy your city. There are so many festivals and special events going on, this weekend makes Art Basel look like a wimpy warm-up. Why event organizers couldn’t spread all this goodness…
At perhaps the classiest Irish pub in town, John Martin’s Pub, hear from UV, a U2 tribute band. Hear hits like “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” so melodic it can withstand the vocal chord distortion of a tribute band, never mind that the lyrics are about the massacre of Irish protesters by…
Perhaps you don’t drink – ever since “the Incident”—and you actually believe the Irish should be celebrated for more than inventing gin blossom noses (we kid!). You’re in luck because this Thursday, Lord of the Dance opens in 3D at Regal Cinemas South Beach. Did you hear that stomping and…
In the little wee corner, Were a tiny wee man, Wid a little wee smoke, Past the camera he ran. Has it been awhile since you’re spied your last Leprechaun? Better get thee to Ireland fast or else drink more beer. As this Thursday is St. Patrick’s Day, you’ll have…
