Long before Pam Anderson bounced down the beach in Baywatch, the original purveyors of jiggle TV were filming beautiful women running in Charlie’s Angels. And as bouncing bossoms never really go out of style, the lady crime fighter series is currently being remade by ABC. This time, however, the drama’s…
According to the Bruce Weber-penned obit in this morning’s New York Times, the “Trash Film King,” producer David F. Friedman, died yesterday on Valentine’s Day. Horror fans are wringing their ketchup-soaked hands as Friedman and director Herschell Gordon Lewis created the first ever splatter film, Blood Feast, filmed and set…
Congrats to the MasterMind 2011 winners! At last night’s Artopia, we recognized local artists in three categories: visual, narrative, and sound. Each of the nine finalists greatly enriched the Miami art scene in the past year. But in the end, the $1,500 genius grants went to artist Christy Gast, filmmaker…
Acclaimed performance artist Xavier Cha, currently enjoying a residency at de la Cruz, will be holding auditions during this Saturday’s Art Walk. For those courageous enough to try out, we hope you emailed in your headshot – the deadline was February 4. But even if you don’t have a time…
We really had hoped to dislike America’s Next Top Model. Pretty girls with waifish proportions prancing down runways and being scored on their looks? In theory, we’re offended. In practice, we can’t look away. Here’s the thing: Top Model showed us that awkward girls with angular, almost grotesque features often…
Knoxville, Tennessee, band Royal Bangs will inspire any budding musical outfit to spend more time tweaking its MySpace profile. Patrick Carney, drummer for The Black Keys, discovered the group via the clunky social networking site and released its debut LP We Breed Champions on his Audio Eagle Records label. Akin…
Tibetan Buddhist Master Ngagpa Choekyi Wangpo (AKA Yogi Lama Rinpoche) will perform various healing rituals to clear obstacles and purify karma. Coming from a long line of yogis, Wangpo continues the family tradition, living a meditative life and practicing Mo Divination. Buddhists believe his cleansing rituals cut through disturbances to…
Jennifer Rubell — occasional Miami resident, member of the famed, art-loving Rubell family, and artist — is again indulging her inner girl child. This time, she’s after the idea of snagging Prince Charming with her exhibit “Engagement,” opening at London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery this week. In it, she’s created a…
If there’s one constant to the responses in our ongoing list of Miami 100 Creatives, it’s that the urge to create is a compulsion and not a choice. Video artist Cristina Molina referred to her motivation as a dark undercurrent, a tugging. Artist Jim Drain mentioned that without his artistic…
While working as an editor for Sleaze Nation magazine, Steve Lazarides discovered street artist Banksy on a photo shoot in Bristol in 2001. In the years that followed, he brought Banksy’s iconic images (and others from the urban art scene) off the sides of buildings and into galleries and private…
Elvis Presley and Priscilla’s marriage fell apart after blatant infidelity on both sides. Upon news of her affair, the hound dog forced Priscilla into bed yelling “This is how a real man makes love to his woman” -– at least according to Peter Guralnick’s book Careless Love: The Unmaking of…
“I was driving my car/ I crashed and broke my spine/ So yes, there are things worse in life than/ never being someone’s sweetie,” sings Morrissey in his 2008 single “That’s How People Grow Up.” The British singer continues to deliver the same indulgent, lovelorn lyrics from his days with…
What exactly is the Smiths’ Steven Patrick Morrissey’s into? Is he gay, straight, or just celibate? Regardless, his fluid sexuality appeals to hoards of lusty and forlorn lovers, who find syrupy solace in his melodic Brit voice. On Tuesday, the day at the dreaded Valentine’s Day, Dangerfun is hosting Hated…
Not that New Times needs an excuse to throw a party, but this Thursday marks our third annual Artopia shindig, a celebration of the creative talent fostered in Miami’s humid air. This year, see live art by Lebo and eco-art fashion (e.g., gowns made from trash bags and discarded footballs)…
In 1983, French artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude wrapped 11 Biscayne Bay islands in Pepto-pink, polypropylene fabric. Resembling a creepy, futuristic HAZMAT quarantine, the installation, Surrounded Islands, required ten permits and seven public hearings. Wildlife rescue teams remained in constant vigil in order to keep nesting ospreys and grazing…
Art, when successful, should open up our senses, show us things that are lost if not looked for, give us sounds we never really listen to, or help us forge connections between ideas we never pair. Art gives us a new way of experiencing our world. On February 10, Miami…
Mark your calendars. The Borscht Film Festival announced the date and location for their next cinema fest: April 23rd at the Arsht Center. At last year’s, we saw working cuts of a flaneur’s stroll through Liberty City in “Day N Night Out,” which later screened at Cannes, and “Xemoland,” an…
There’s more than the one way to tell a story. The finalists in our next category of MasterMind awards spin yarns through dance, happenings, performance, theater, and cinema. And next week, on February 10, we’ll choose one the following three artists for a $1,500 genius grant during our annual Artopia…
It’s tough to be a celebrity. Sometimes magazine editors tell you your nipples will be covered with artwork and then when the issue comes out, it’s a big areola party. If you watch Kourtney and Kim Take New York, then you got to watch this kind of drama unfold as…
It appears filmmaker Billy Yeager’s outlandish claims inspired the actual piano man to step forward. The Miami Herald reported last night that Nicholas Harrington, a 16-year-old from MAST Academy, placed the grand piano on the sandbar as a project to build up his art portfolio. He provided video of the…
Ask children where coffee comes from and they’ll likely point to the ubiquitous green umbrellas of a nearby Starbucks. And now that the company has introduced its trenta cup (coffee’s version of a 7-Eleven big gulp), the involved journey of beans to cup has become that much more obscured. Photographer…
Now that politicians are getting shot in the head, and Palin is belly crawling closer and closer to the White House podium, the only way we can stomach the news is with a spoonful of funny. So instead of staring teary-eyed at CNN, we catch the week’s biggest headlines via…
