Today, South Florida has the opportunity to purchase tickets to a very special show. New Order are setting out on a short, six-date tour across the U.S. and Miami is one of the fortunate cities on the list. Tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. for New Order’s concert…
Video games are no longer the niche of a few geeks with no girlfriends. They are a billion-dollar industry with a wide-ranging influence over pop culture and emerging technology. One man even thinks video games are art. His name is Chris Melissinos. He is the chief gaming officer at Sun…
When is a “show” merely an appearance? For that matter, what constitutes a “concert?” Does there need to be a definite amount of time on stage or number of songs that a band must perform? Normally, we expect and receive at least a solid hour of music with an encore…
Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, and Zig Ziglar could have never foreseen that the most well known motivational speaker of the last fifty years hasn’t penned a single self-help book (although don’t rule out the possibility). In 2016, Snapchat brought to the forefront a man who’s become so popular for…
In 1991, a naughty little rap tune crept onto pop radio and into the national consciousness. It asked one very important question: You down with O.P.P.? In the ensuing 25 years, fans of Naughty by Nature have answered in a number of ways, the most common being to throw hands…
Some people really love raw vegetables — no salt, nothing added, brush off the dirt it was grown in and chomp away. Some people won’t touch a salad unless it’s drenched in cheese, dressing, and copious amounts of bacon. One of those meals is genuinely good for us and the…
Following one of the nerdiest holiday seasons thanks to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Magic City Comic Con acted as a nice bookend to winter geekiness and provided some relief from the oversaturation of Disney’s latest. Boasting perhaps one of their strongest guest lineups yet, the folks…
Acceptance, frugality, unabashed nostalgia, tolerance of others, fighting addiction and drug abuse, and eschewing crass commercialism: Those are not the typical tenets of a global rap superstar. Ben Haggerty, better known as the thrift-shop-loving Macklemore, has built his reputation and career on subject matter usually glossed over by hip-hop and…
The other night I was watching the sometimes painfully bad 1998 horror film, The Faculty. I remember really liking that movie in high school and I’m not sure why. It is basically a modern version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, both plot-wise and if a boring, poorly written alien…
Initially, the classical music concert held at New World Center on Thursday during YoungArts Week felt a little bit like the most elegant high school recital ever conceived. However, very quickly it became clear that this was no ordinary performance and these were, in fact, extraordinary teenagers. Every year, thousands…
During the very early portion of New Year’s Eve, the final 24 hours of 2015 were being celebrated in typical Miami party fashion: waiting in an anaconda of a line before entering a club and taking enough selfies to fill a high school yearbook. Perhaps the clamor at LIV was somewhat…
Last night, Jews and gentiles alike gathered at the modern musical cathedral that is the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for a special performance by Matisyahu. The reggae loving, Jewish beatboxer was back in South Florida celebrating the ten-year anniversary of his breakthrough album, Live at Stubb’s…
With the recent release of the phase one Ultra 2016 lineup, more than a few people in Miami, and indeed around the world, will be beset by visions of lollipops, body glitter, and more neon than downtown Tokyo and Times Square combined. One thing almost none of those potential ravers…
The last time Abel Tesfaye visited Florida, he was adjusting to stardom and attempting to establish his onstage identity. Touring for his second studio LP, Kiss Land, under his drugs and sex obsessed alter ego, The Weeknd, Tesfaye was, at that time, a little stiff. Most of the movement came…
There’s an old stereotype propagated by film and TV, that old white folks just don’t get young people’s music. Mostly it’s because they literally don’t understand the words, whether it’s Bob Dylan or Kurt Cobain or any number of screamers or mumblers. Of course, the one genre that typically receives…
With a 6:30 a.m. flight and a total of seven shows over the course of Art Basel week, Aidan Kennedy is going to be a busy man. Still, for his first trip to both Art Basel and Miami, he couldn’t be more pumped. “I’ve heard a lot about how amazing…
Eddie Izzard is a difficult man to keep up with. Both on and off stage, the 53-year-old British comedian has always seemed to be ahead of everyone else, roguishly and cleverly defying expectations and surprising the public on a regular basis. Izzard is regarded as one of the brightest minds…
Sometimes things are better in our heads, either the way we remember it or the fantasy we’ve created. The Legends of the Old School tour offered a buffet of beats at the BankUnited Center Friday night by reuniting several classic hip-hop and R&B acts from the ’80s and ’90s. Vanilla…
Spanish gypsies are well known nomads. Gitanos, as they’re called in their native language, have also made a long lasting impression on the world of music, specifically with flamenco, a fiery style of folk music, dancing, and guitar playing. Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Antonio Barullo, a gitano by birth, shoulders all…
The National YoungArts Foundation was founded in 1981 to identify emerging talent in artistic disciplines such as visual, literary, design, and performance. That same year, the herald of New Wave, Blondie, introduced the general public to a man who was working outside the commonly accepted boundaries of contemporary art: Fab…
This week, at the 2015 Miami International Auto Show, a slew of big car manufacturers will unveil their latest models with some novel features ranging from the fun to the gimmicky to the practical. One of those car makers, General Motors, hopes that their 2016 Chevy Malibu falls into the…
Sufjan Stevens loves themes. Over the years he’s made two albums about states (Michigan and Illinois), two box sets of Christmas music (Songs for Christmas, vol. 1-5 and Silver & Gold, vol. 6-10), an ode to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (The BQE), and two albums centered around the Chinese zodiac and the…
