At 71, Twenty Feet From Stardom‘s Darlene Love Is Ready for the Big Time
At 71, Twenty Feet From Stardom‘s Darlene Love Is Ready for the Big Time
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Twenty Feet from Stardom‘s Darlene Love on Phil Spector, Singing Like a Soldier, and Starting Over at 71
Twice, Darlene Love had to stop midverse, dropping the microphone to her side in frustration. She was coming through the speakers scratchy and thin, this only hours before she was to sing at the premiere of a documentary about her voice. “We could do five sessions in a day, and…
How to Make Money Selling Drugs in Miami: Seven Lessons for Your Lemonade Stand
So you lost your summer internship with the yakuza after they saw that your back was covered with temporary Spongebob tattoos. Not to worry! There’s still a chance to score big during the summer hustle, as long as you don’t run your lemonade stand like some piss-stained wuss. Run it…
You (featuring Awesomeness)
For all the time you spend watching movies, they owe you a lot more than just making you feel stupid emotions. When is the last time Patch Adams got you a million-dollar deal with Def Jam? How to Train Your Dragon? How about someone trains a Bugatti to show up…
American Black Film Fest: Murder, Tiny Comedians, and Basketball Smooches
The American Black Film Festival Returns With Murder, Tiny Comedians, and Basketball Smooches
Cherub at Bardot Miami June 22
“Read more books” and “fall in love.” We can’t help you tick these things off your summer checklist. But if “get freaky” or “get really freaky” is on there, good news: Cherub is on the way. Nashville’s reigning electro-pop party freaks will head to Miami this week, in part because…
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Miami Family Breaks Out with Breakup at a Wedding
When Breakup at a Wedding has its Miami premiere at O Cinema tomorrow night, there may be almost as many Miami natives on screen as in the theater. That’s because the director and the star of the comedy are brothers Victor and Philip Quinaz, who are returning home with their…
American Black Film Festival Returns with Murder, Tiny Comedians, and Basketball Smooches
When the 17th annual American Black Film Festival kicks off in Miami Beach this weekend, one of the highlights is sure to be Fruitvale Station, based on a true story of a young man killed by a cop in an Oakland train station. The film won top prizes at Sundance…
Cherub’s Perfect Party: A Guide
Summer officially begins this week, which means it’s time to take a vacation from partying only pretty hard. So load up the station wagon with ice, naked people, and flavored sonogram gel because Miami’s not stopping until September. And to kick off your road trip to oblivion, Nashville electro-pop duo…
A Beast of a Film Fest
You like your film festivals the way you like your coffee: energizing, full of nuance, and without one of those prissy hearts drawn in milk on top. So get excited, because Film Life is delivering the 17th annual American Black Film Festival to venues around Miami Beach this Wednesday through…
Welcome to the Doghouse
Hey, Fido! What’s that, boy? Timmy fell into the well? No? Grandma got her head stuck in the panini press again? No? Pa’s gonna rob a bank to support his addiction to those cherry Luden’s throat lozenges? No? Dammit — somewhere something terrible is happening, and you can’t delight in…
Cherub Will Slap You in the Face and/or Smack Your Butt Cheeks and Call You “Daddy”
“Read more books” or “Fall in love.” We can’t help you tick these things off your summer checklist. But if “Get freaky” or “Get really freaky” are on there, good news: Cherub’s on the way. Nashville’s reigning electro-pop party freaks, will be coming to Miami, in part because they are…
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Reggie Watts in Miami: Damn Funny, Made No Sense, Threw Invisible Cats at People
There’s something dream-like about seeing Reggie Watts perform, both in the surreal way the comedian puts together his show and how when you tell someone about it the next day, its awesomeness is just not going to translate. Last night, Watts began his three-night stand at Miami Light Project’s theater…
Spyderwoman: A Modern, Totally Crazy, Miami-Made B-Movie
Dating in Miami is hard enough, even if you aren’t a venomous mythical jungle monster who has escaped from a laboratory. But in Spyderwoman, a new movie shot and set in Miami, this is exactly the raw deal faced by Taharai, a half-woman, half-spider (err…spyder?) hybrid from the Amazon. So…
More Like Colum the Mann
Summer is here, which means it’s time to fall asleep in the sun and get a book-shaped tan line in the center of your chest. But how do you know which book to choose when so many of them are the same shape? Well, you could always dust off Choose…
Independent Thinkers
Unless you take your own hammer to Pollo Tropical this Friday night, the only way you’ll hear that satisfying bang after a purchase is if you get yourself to an art auction. So it’s good for you, you hammer-crazy loon, that there’s a pretty solid art auction going on this…
Reggie Watts’ Uncomfortable, Damn Funny Humor
You could try to break more bones than Evel Knievel, but chances are you’d just look clumsy, no matter how awesome your motorcycle. And if you were to get shot while wearing a top hat in Ford’s Theatre, what would be the point? Abraham Lincoln already owns that. Same thing…
Reggie Watts Comes to Town: “It’s Not Going To Be Miami. It’s Going To Be Our-ami“
You could try to break more bones than Evel Knievel, but chances are you’d just look clumsy, no matter how awesome your motorcycle. And if you were to get shot while wearing a top hat in Ford’s Theatre, what would be the point? Abraham Lincoln already owns that. Same thing…
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“Savage”, An Exhibit of Art Made by Animals at Bakehouse
Strolling through Victorian picture galleries, doyennes shook their neck waddles with disgust when presented with the first works by the Impressionists. “Why, my golden marmoset could paint a better portrait than that,” they hissed. History has recorded such exclamations as dismissals of the Impressionists, rather than understanding them in the…
Prancercise Creator Joanna Rohrback: “I’m Against Riding a Horse … Let the Horse Enjoy Its Free Will”
Like wild mustangs galloping over the dusty Nevada horizon, it came our way without warning: a thing of raw, natural beauty. PRANCERCISE! As reported yesterday by New Times’ equine dance-fitness bureau chief, Prancercise is a global multimedia phenomenon started by Coral Springs resident Joanna Rohrback. In her book (Prancercise) and…
Rock the Boat
Maybe you’re reading this while desperately treading water in the middle of the Atlantic, your arms and legs are about to give out, and all that will be left for anyone to remember you by will be an unnecessarily candid diary that your father will burn before your mother has…
Art By Beasts
Strolling through Victorian picture galleries, doyennes shook their neck waddles with disgust when presented with the first works by the impressionists. “Why, my golden marmoset could paint a better portrait than that,” they hissed. History has recorded such exclamations as dismissals of the impressionists, rather than understanding them in the…