When ABC aired Pan Am, its now-defunct series about the glory days of air travel in the ’60s, we wondered if it would include Miami. After all, the airline began and ended in our city despite living out its heyday at its NYC headquarters. It was established on Miami’s Dinner…
In the early ’80s, both U2 and the Psychedelic Furs played the German TV show Rockpalast. Thirty years later, Bono’s filling Sun Life Stadium while the Furs play Culture Room. What happened? Both were influenced by the Jam, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, and the Sex Pistols. But as Bono’s hairline…
Well, the TV gods must have their dials turned to “Miami.” After Adult Swim featured a video from Coral Morphologic, we flipped by Web Soup a few days ago and saw Miami’s very own Jillian Mayer. The G4 show played her I Am Your Grandma video and followed it with…
Alfred Hitchcock populated his films with blonde women, believing that film audiences would be more suspicious of brunettes. But when you see two platinum manes bouncing up and down behind Arkadia’s decks this Friday, you should suspect that this fair-headed DJ duo is conspiring to do evil things with their…
The rumors are definitely circulating, but as we have no official release in our clammy little hands, we’ll just say Evelyn Lozada might be writing a novel. (And by writing, we assume that means dictating tales to a bored ghostwriter.) According to the Bleacher Report and Black Sports Online, her…
Oh, Miami in mid June! We raise our fists against you! Why does the air feel like a moist armpit? And where have all the weekend events gone? We squeezed and squeezed the calendar this week, and the following eight events dripped out. Our top pick is the Art and…
Pretty in Pink, John Hughes’s 1986 class-consciousness teenage melodrama, is best told through its soundtrack. To the Psychedelic Furs’ “Pretty in Pink,” we meet Andie (Molly Ringwald), who works in a New Wave record store, has a crush on a rich preppy named Blaine (Andrew McCarthy), and is lusted after…
In Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain writes, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn… life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.” Though we can definitely imagine a…
Why does it feel so weird and hazy outside today? Because the moon just turned the color of blood (we actually have no idea if these two events are related). And you can stop squinting, the only bastards lucky enough to see this 100-minute long lunar eclipse are the many…
Warning: There are zombies approaching almost every street corner of Miami. No, the Zombie Walk hasn’t come early. It’s The Rising, our Best of Miami 2011 issue, and it’s on newsstands tomorrow and interwebs right now. Check out the winners in the 345 categories, including Best Local Artist, Best Art…
Let the Internet memes of Miami Heat hate commence. Stephen Colbert already started in on our team’s sad end and as expected, here’s the Downfall parody clip. But ack, we didn’t expect this one to be so damn effective. Watch above and you tell us if you don’t get a…
Here we are, mere hours and days away from the Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands and interwebs, but we can’t help stoking the fires of anticipation even more. Last week, we ventured some guesses about Miami’s best art gallery for 2011. The other hotly contested category is best local…
…not so fast, amigos. We actually announce all our Best of Miami winners next week. And even though the reader’s poll is long closed, we couldn’t help get in on the speculation game. Which white cube will reign as Miami’s best art gallery for 2011? Certainly the hundreds of you…
When we say that we know the eight best things to do this weekend, do you put down your Jamba Juice and speed over to the Vagabond, Hard Rock, or wherever else we tell you to go? You should. You see, just as some of you get paid to sell…
If you like to exercise vicariously, get ready for Universe Weekend, taking over the Hyatt Regency this Thursday through Sunday. The hotel will be filled with pumped-up men and women who have devoted their lives to downing creatine shakes and picking up heavy stuff. The most pumped will compete in…
Ed Templeton spent a large portion of the ’90s suffering concussions and bloody body parts on the world’s skate ramps. The former pro skateboarder, and current artist and ANP Quarterly editor, might be off his wheels competitively, but he’s still on the road. He has exhibited extensively abroad, and as…
Cephus Miles’s story is not a happy one. First he has the misfortune of being born black into the Jim Crow-era South. Then his childhood sweetheart marries a career man while away at college. Next he gets drafted into the Vietnam War. He resists and is imprisoned for five years…
If you were disappointed by the lack of James Franco at the James Franco event during O Miami, you may finally get to hear the mega star read prose aloud. And you can even do it in the privacy of your own bedroom — right there next to your Freaks…
Next time you’re passing through Wynwood, make sure to check out this neon-tastic mural by Francesco Lo Castro and Rocky Grimes on the exterior of the Workshop (171 NW 23rd. St., Miami). (Workshop is a “creative collective” with locations in NYC, L.A., and now Miami. Check their Facebook page for…
Ever since 1997, when Florida stopped requiring riders over 16 to wear helmets, we cringe every time we see someone on two wheels without a cranium cap. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not necessarily worried about the safety of the rider. We just have an understandable aversion to vomiting in…
Because he hasn’t yet had an icky cameo on Glee, you might not realize that actor and comedian Joel McHale’s star is cresting. He plays heartthrob Jeff Winger, a lawyer forced to go back to junior college, on NBC’s Community. And he hosts E!’s The Soup, a clip show that…
Tomorrow’s your chance to score some duds that will make you look like the Barbie of Hip-Hop. Yes, Nicki Minaj is just one of Miami designer Karelle Levy’s Krelwear line celebrity fans. The designer describes her tubular knits (often in day-glo colors) as “newer, more avant garde Missioni.” Levy, who…
