When we interviewed the dreamy Daniel Craig for last week’s New Times, he left us not only with a feeling of hope for a better tomorrow but also with a doodle. Rather than turning his pen into a jet ski to escape our attempt to bisect him with eyes like…
It’s been half a century since Ian Fleming introduced the world to James Bond, his evil nemeses, and of course, those sexy Bond girls. But after 50 years, the time has finally come to stop calling them “Bond girls” and start referring to them as “Bond Women.” These are adult…
Imagine this: Javier Bardem stops by your place unexpectedly, and he just won’t leave. You have a pleasant enough chat about his role as the villain in the new James Bond film, Skyfall, opening today. “Everything has to make sense with the story you’re telling,” he says. “Otherwise it is…
Skyfall‘s Daniel Craig Will Kill You With Kindness
If you love movies that end with some mustachioed sheriff pulling a dead child out of a swimming pool, then you’re out of luck when it comes to Nobody Walks. If, however, you go for films of a rare, fragile emotional beauty, then you should not miss writer-director Ry Russo-Young’s…
When Daniel Craig confidently strides into the hotel room at the Mandarin Oriental Miami to meet with us, he is wearing a perfectly tailored suit with a pocket square, not unlike how James Bond dresses in Skyfall, the latest installment opening Friday. He adjusts his watchband in a way that…
Black Moth Super Rainbow With Casket Girls, Ark IX, and Mr. Feathers The Stage, Miami Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Better Than: Having frotteurs dressed as unicorns, human fruits, and Batman characters rub against you in eerie silence. Last night, Sweat Records brought Black Moth Super Rainbow to The Stage shortly…
Sexy kittens and Mad Men characters, you had your fun this weekend at the family-friendly Halloween parties. But when Sweat Records brings Black Moth Super Rainbow to The Stage in Miami tonight, there won’t be any peeled grapes or cold spaghetti. This time, it will be real-deal eyeballs and guts…
Halloween is when babies in reflector vests go, “Twick or tweat,” and smiling neighbors ask, “And what are you supposed to be, little girl?” The night before Halloween, however, is when the freaks come out. It’s when the paint-huffers with missing fingers limp down the street in search of discarded…
Have you ever woken up in a sweat and wondered if you were secretly German? If you have, and you’ve also been anticipating the new Kevin James comedy, Here Comes the Boom, you might actually be German. His 2011 film, Zookeeper made nearly $17.5 million in Germany alone, compared to…
Salma Hayek’s new film, the Kevin James comedy Here Comes the Boom, is about mixed martial arts, something she told reporters she only “vaguely knew it sort of existed,” before shooting the film.See also:- Here Comes the Boom Foreshadows a Dark Republican Future As one of the world’s great beauties,…
Whence comes the boom? Here, here comes the boom. This and other great existential questions of our time are at last answered in Kevin James’s new mixed martial arts comedy, the appropriately titled Here Comes the Boom. Other questions may vault from the mind like so many lumps on a…
Metric With Half Moon Run Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, September 28, 2012 Better Than: Ugly people playing boring music badly. The last time Metric played in Miami, it was at an outdoor show on the beach during Art Basel. Paired with the band’s outsized sound were exceptionally large easy chairs…
Cody Chesnutt Ricochet Bar & Lounge, Miami Thursday, September 28, 2012 Better Than: The ten-year wait to hear these new songs. Last night, Crossfade’s favorite bearded soul crooner/advocate for cranial safety, Cody Chesnutt played an intimate solo show at Ricochet. He previewed stripped-down, delicate versions of songs from his upcoming…
Cody Chesnutt’s fans are used to an explosive and eccentric live show during which the bearded soul crooner dons a matador’s cape and dances his sexy dances with audience members. And that army helmet he wears? There’s more revolutionary power under there than under all the helmets at a Critical…
Unless Genghis Khan comes back to life in the next 48 hours and decides that humidity, not pillaging, is his first priority, the most badass dude in Miami on Thursday night is going to be Cody Chesnutt. No bones about it. That’s Mr. Chesnutt in the picture to the right…
Tampa rapper Money-Clipz has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for possession of over 28 grams of crack cocaine with an intent to distribute. Jeez Louise! First, they tell you that sharing is caring and then they throw you in jail for caring too much. Mixed messages, you…
See also “Sisqo and Dru Hill Joining Kelly Price for Forever R&B Concert in Miami” When Sisqo plays the BankUnited Center on September 22, he’s likely to draw a crowd larger than the fewer-than-400 who showed up to see his show in Uganda last month. By bringing Dru Hill along…
See also “Avril Lavigne & Nickelback, Diarrhea-Flavored Mouthwash, Four Other Gross Marriages.” OK, this Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger engagement thing has gone too far. At first, it seemed fun. Or at least, an efficient way for a vengeful Old Testament god to smite them both with a single bolt…
See also “Cognac Heir Cyril Camus on Hunting Wild Boar with Only a Knife, Calls Incredible Hulk ‘A Bit Redundant'” If you’re the dashing heir to a cognac empire like Cyril Camus, you’ve been drinking the stuff since your parents put it on your gums as a baby. But for…
If Cyril Camus had not been the heir to the fifth-largest cognac house in the world — and the largest to be family-owned and -operated — Camus Cognac would have had to pull him from soot-faced Dickensian obscurity and put him in charge anyway.He has the longish hair and perma-stubble…
“Honey, I’m just going to pop out to catch some stand-up comedy, live funk music, and spoken-word poetry.” “Are you sure you’re not going to the strip club again?” “Does that sound like the sort of thing that would happen in a strip club?” “So you’re not going to be…
