Famous centenarian George Burns once said: “You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.” But dwelling on the limitations of getting old just won’t do anymore. A new era has dawned, dubbed the new old…
Update: The real piano man came forward. Read about it here.Indie filmmakers, Billy and Anais Yeager, claim they are the ones who left the grand piano in the middle of Biscayne Bay. They said they have pianos in Malibu, Death Valley, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and now Miami. When we spoke…
Earlier today, Michael Miller posted his thoughts on the new Frank Gehry campus of the New World Center. And we agree, those damn blue and white speckled seats are ugly and look more appropriate for an airport gate seating area than a performance hall. Thing is, though, during a performance…
As reported late last night in the Miami Herald, a grand piano was found on a sandbar in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It sits about 200 yards offshore from North Miami and is visible by binoculars from the Quayside towers. Florida Wildlife officials say they have no plans to…
Miami’s reputation continues to be smeared. We were recently voted fourth rudest city in America and third stupidest. (There’s more, but we refuse to list them all — too depressing). So be grateful for the PR boost by a couple of teenagers from Miami Beach Senior High. They won first…
This one on 23rd Street and NW 6th Avenue is a classic, right? The b-boy aesthetic, the colorful letters. But look closely and you’ll see a portal to another world. Follow a straight line from his right thumb to find a punched-out glory hole of sorts. What lies behind? You’re…
Last August, we were interviewing one of our 100 Creatives, Spencer Morin, on the phone as he was working as a production assistant on a super secret show out in the Everglades. He wouldn’t tell us what is was, but we could have sworn we heard someone yell tripod or…
We Miamians are a little sensitive about our IQs, so forgive us if we feel compelled to wear our literacy on our sleeves — in shoulder to elbow ink. But it’s not just us — literary tattoos have been riding a wave of popularity. Two Miami-born authors, Justin Taylor and…
When Wavy Gravy took the mike in 1969 and told Woodstockers to “beware of the brown stuff,” he was talking about a particularly intense strain of acid. But this Thursday, when folks tell you not to trip on the brown stuff, they’ll be referring to doggie droppings. Newport Beachside Hotel…
With the New World Symphony’s inaugural season at its new Frank Gehry building underway, other orchestras may have trouble grabbing Miami’s attention. But when a member of the Big Five — the Cleveland Orchestra — performs, even celebrity architecture can’t compete. This weekend, Franz Welser-Möst will conduct the acclaimed orchestra,…
We’d like to tell you about a band formed in New York’s East Village in the mid-’80s. Nope, it’s not the Tom Tom Club. Try The Klezmetics, a clarinet-rich, accordion-heavy, Grammy-winning klezmer band. In the past, the band has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman and Ben Folds Five. Their recent album…
At the 1936 Summer Olympics, Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann was replaced by the Nazi regime with an athlete later discovered to be a man. Based on a true story, the film holds that Gretel and her replacement developed a strong friendship and do their best to thwart the Nazi’s scheme…
The most critically acclaimed of the festival, Protektor is Israel’s submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the Academy Awards and the winner of the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award at the Denver International Film Festival. Described as visually stunning, the noir tale follows a husband and wife in Prague…
We scored a sneak peek of All Good Things, which opens at Coral Gables Art Cinema this weekend. And we haven’t seen something this uplifting since Capturing the Friedmans, the 2003 documentary about child molestation. Andrew Jarecki directed both, but Good Things is his first foray into fiction. Well, not…
Sixty Jews recently meet at a Utah resort to discuss what it means to be Jewish in 2011. The identity summit, Reboot, included some notable pop culture makers (Jenji Kohan, creator of “Weeds,” and Ben Greenman, an editor at The New Yorker). One its founders Rachel Levin told the New…
Although only a third of the galleries showing at last night’s Miami International Art Fair were local, the hometown work clearly stood out amongst the rows of booths. As fair director Aldo Castillo told our art critic: “I think it’s important to support the galleries developing in your different art…
In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.36. Jillian MayerPerformance and multidisciplinary artist Jillian Mayer had a pretty awesome 12 months. It started with her…
Can we talk about boomboxes for a minute? We miss them. We miss the dent they left on our shoulders. We miss how mobile they were while also making a statement. When we walk into a room with our iPod, no one seems to realize that we’ve come to party…
Director of the International Chinese Fine Arts Council, Inez Suen, has curated a group exhibition of work on paper from four emerging artists from Hangzhou, China. This will be the artists’ (Guo Tiantian, Qi Yuan, Su Xianpan and Zheng Tianming) first U.S. exhibit. Is this a sea change for the…
In “Domus: Home,” artist Carol Prusa deals in ideas of origin, mysticism, and sacredness. She attempts to make these heady ideas more conceivable via intricate domes that range from a few inches to five feet in diameter. Using silverpoint drawing and graphite, each dome is intricately adorned. In some, video…
Miami artist Cristina Molina, now a MFA student at the University of Florida’s Art + Technology program, has her video exhibition, “Helium Hum,” up at Nina Torres Fine Art. Her videos were voted Audience Favorite at MOCA’s Optic Nerve XI and Best in Show at the Frost Art Museum. Plus,…
We’d like to tell you about a band formed in New York’s East Village in the mid-’80s. Nope, it’s not the Tom Tom Club. Try The Klezmetics, a clarinet-rich, accordion-heavy, Grammy-winning klezmer band. It’s collaborated with Itzhak Perlman and Ben Folds Five, and a recent album fuses Yiddish tunes with…
