According to neuroscientist David Eagleman, our consciousness is on a time delay. The millisecond lag is when the brain processes all sensory input and offers the best story of what exactly is going down (AKA reality). So imagine being on a flight when the cabin’s roof rips off, exposing the…
NBC may have passed on the Wonder Woman pilot, but ABC is moving forward with their own nostalgic version of crime-fighting, jiggle TV — Charlie’s Angels. The new series began filming in Miami back in January (perhaps some of you showed up for the casting call?) and will air Thursdays…
Comic Lewis Black is so outraged, we bet the spittle from the corners of his mouth could make an entire city hate each other like that pink goo in Ghostbusters II. And us worker bees can barely muster the rage to lie on the couch and watch one of his…
Last fall, over 1,300 artists and arts organizations applied for $150,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. (Check our Q&A with Miami Program Director Dennis Scholl.) Today the 56 finalists were announced, and by November, the Knight Foundation Trustees will select the winners. As far as we…
Miami is getting another chance to move beyond the onscreen branding of Miami Vice and Scarface. The Paperboy, a new film by Precious director Lee Daniels, follow a Miami Times (no, not Miami New Times, but close) reporter who gets wrapped up in a homicide case. Adapted from a Peter…
Huzzah! The weekend’s here. But roh-roh, tonight’s also Friday the 13th — the only one in all of 2011. We’re like Michael Scott, the former boss on The Office, who said “I’m not superstitious. I’m just a little stitious.” No matter where you fall on the stitious spectrum, make the…
Dexter, the Showtime series that glorifies brutal murder in Miami, just may peak in its sixth season. Rumor has it that Mos Def just signed on a deal to play a reoccurring character. He’s cast as a tough ex-con who’s found religion but can’t seem to extricate himself from a…
We’ve been at war in Afghanistan for ten years. Yet with no draft, rations, or war bond drives, the battlefield might as well be on Mars. Sebastian Junger brings the fight back into our consciousness with War, his visceral account of the soldiers’ life in battle. On assignment from Vanity…
Nightingales in large cities have learned to belt out 95-decibel songs (i.e., as loud as a chain saw) in order to make themselves heard over the everyday clamor. And it’ll take a similar effort for the Brickell Bazaar to get noticed in flashy, reggaeton-thumping Miami. Presented by DJ Oski, Queen…
Brain guy Oliver Sacks discovered that the right music can “unlock” people frozen by Parkinson’s disease, allowing them to sing or dance. The Miami Light Project is likely hoping for a similar mobilization with its Dance Your A$$ Off fundraiser. Saturday a heady local soundtrack by Brimstone127, Papa Keith, Barrie…
Think you’re a social outcast? Consider the vegetarian piranha who dines sheepishly on kelp while his cohorts feverishly tear into an unsuspecting swimmer. And while you’re no nature anomaly, you’ve likely found yourself pining for inclusion — even if it means a bloody feast of human flesh. Such separation anxiety…
It’s awards season around the New Times offices. We’re burning neurons on the Best of Miami issue, on newsstands this June. And as we can already hear your bitchin’ that our winners are random/esoteric/dumb, we’d like to remind everyone that there are dozens and dozens of Best of awards that…
Forget Starbucks sales. One economic indicator that the economy is actually recovering is the number of ambitious, unreasonable, and expensive design projects popping up. Miami has a history of such lofty projects from tropical ski slops and spinning skyscrapers to the recent sovereign floating island. The ocean must be the…
In a city where revelers regularly debauch until 5 a.m, Sleepless Night is more than just an excuse to stay up all night. No, in this town, where folks often greet sunrise with another vodka red bull, the event stands out because it transforms Miami Beach into one giant 13-hour…
Comedian Reggie Watts’s real name is Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts, but there are hundreds more characters living inside him. Launched from Brooklyn’s alt-comedy scene, Watts’s routines are a fluid mix of accents, personae, and musical interludes. They are as disorientating as they are genius. That’s why Conan O’Brien handpicked…
Thanks to your sedentary lifestyle, you likely engage only three or four of the 33 vertebrae in your spine. But what all of you aging office hunchbacks probably don’t realize is that your longevity, and not just your posture, is linked to the health of your backbone. Circus freaks such…
Miles below France’s soil are dark grottoes and jagged columns covered in prehistoric scrawlings. They offer Shamanistic visions of the underworld — grinning half-man, half-bird beasts — and catalog nature’s power struggles — a pride of lions forcing a herd of bison off a cliff. The scenes wax and wane…
Comedian Reggie Watts’s real name is Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts, but there are hundreds more characters living inside him. And each of his personalities comes with its own instrument. Launched from Brooklyn’s alt-comedy scene, Watts’s routines are a fluid mix of accents, personas, and musical interludes. They are as…
An important lesson for anyone wanting to remove the beautiful art murals sprinkled throughout Wynwood. The above occurred in Australia after a real estate developer “cleaned up” a building’s wall before leasing the property. Good thing our city doesn’t have any misguided real estate developers. [via Laughing Squid]…
Joshua Henry, who graduated from University of Miami’s Frost School of Music in 2006, is nominated for a Tony Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical.” Last Fall, the actor played Haywood Patterson in The Scottsboro Boys at New York’s Lyceum Theatre.The musical,…
Sloane Crosley wrote the cover story for the worst-selling issue of Maxim in its history. And anyone who fails at that lad rag scores with us. A former book publicist, the essayist and humorist has been called a modern-day Dorothy Parker by writer Jonathan Ames for quips such as “Life…
Two Royal Wedding posts in row? Didn’t we just call it sickening and suggest vomit bags? Well, dear readers, it seems as though a lot of you care a whole lot about these nuptials. (Here at New Times HQ, we have a robot that roams the halls shouting the most…
