Miami audiences saw Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke at the Borscht Film Festival in 2011. Sundance Film Festival viewers checked it out in 2012. And now, Lucas Leyva and Jillian Mayer have unleashed it on the rest of the world, as part of a series of online film…
Imagine you’re a lonely, dorky high school senior in L.A. You’re Jewish, 5’9″ on a good day, and you can’t dance. All you have are your skills with a digital camera and your Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, the one with Kate Upton on the cover. You sure as hell don’t…
Just when you finally taught all your friends to pronounce the word Basel correctly, the ginormous art fair has news for you: It’s rebranding. Art Basel, which stages high-profile art fairs in Basel, Switzerland, and Hong Kong in addition to the long weekend of culture and shmoozy, boozy parties that…
Christian Slater hasn’t given up on you, Miami-Dade County. Sure, you screwed him out of participating in the electoral process last November, when he waited in line on Election Day only to discover the vote he eventually cast wasn’t counted. You even misidentified him as “Christina Slater.” What, haven’t you…
Remember the 2000s, when crafty hipsters expressed themselves by “yarnbombing” trees, signposts, and other public objects? Artists like Olek have elevated the practice of covering strange things in knitted or crocheted yarn to gallery-acceptable heights, sure. But in general? Yarnbombing is, like, sooo ten years ago. Tapebombing, on the other…
South Florida’s about to get a little freakier. Mindfreakier, that is. Criss Angel — magician, illusionist, guyliner aficionado, and doppelganger of Mystery from VH1’s The Pick-Up Artist — is headed to the Everglades for yet another dramatic stunt. It’ll probably be like his other tricks, in that you won’t know…
A new Miami Heat playoff series starts tonight, this time against the Indiana Pacers — and dammit, you simply have nothing to wear. Sure, there’s your Miami Heat baseball cap and your D-Wade jersey, both of which pair nicely with your Heat logo tattoo. But everyone in town has that…
Did you miss out on all the free Cock last week? Don’t fret — the South Florida Theater League is doing its best to pack theaters full for all the region’s summertime performances. And if that means giving tickets away for free, so be it. The league’s Free Night of…
Maybe you love George Takei because he was the original Mr. Sulu on the original Star Trek series back in the ’60s. Maybe you love George Takei for his unlikely alliance with Howard Stern. Maybe you love George Takei for his firm, friendly, and flamboyant support of marriage equality, or…
Summer is in the air. You’ve already noticed the signs: heightened humidity in the air, regularly scheduled afternoon downpours, an influx of roaches and other creepy crawlies trying to move into your apartment. But don’t add “nothing to do in Miami” to that list, because it’s just not true. Yes,…
Tan Mom has a music video. It features lyrics like “I’m hotter than Octomom” and “It’s Tan Mom, bitch.” There are tacky green screen effects, and two unfortunate male background dancers, and a cringeworthy section featuring some bukkake-style sunscreen application. Don’t watch it. Seriously, I’m just putting this out there…
Earlier this year, New Times columnist Uncle Luke complained that The First 48, A&E’s reality series that follows Miami police as they attempt to solve homicides, was unfairly depicting the city’s black neighborhoods as “war zones.” Maybe the Miami cops agreed. The department has asked The First 48’s producers to…
Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilery details about last night’s episode of The Office. Last night’s series finale of The Office was full of moments designed to make the show’s fans choke up — flashbacks, resurrected recurring jokes from earlier seasons, touching documentary-style interviews. But for South Florida viewers, one…
“Thank you for being a friend”? No, Bea Arthur — thank you. From All In the Family to Maude to the Golden Girls, the quintessential Miami sitcom, Bea Arthur’s 60-year career showed off her many sides. But you probably haven’t seen her as Brooklyn artist John Currin pictures her in…
You think you know Wynwood: the graffiti murals, the galleries, food truck village every second Saturday. But have you met the high-end side of Wynwood? Lincoln Motor Company has set out to introduce select Miamians to Wynwood’s luxury side, shuttling participants from Panther Coffee to art installations to the Wynwood…
If you didn’t see Life of Pi while it was in theaters last year, you missed out. The epic story of a young man who survives a disaster at sea only to find himself inside a small boat with a Bengal tiger may have been bested in the acting and…
In 1993, when I was 11 years old, my family went to Disney World. We piled into our station wagon — my mother and father in front, my little sister and I in the back — and set out from our home in rural Pennsylvania, driving two full days until…
LeBron James is deep. LeBron James is wise. LeBron James is the multifaceted, ever diversifying, way sexier Buddha of professional basketball. LeBron is not just an athlete. LeBron is not merely a man. He is many men in one body: a god-like sports star, yes, but also a child, an…
Bang With Friends, an app that lets you know when one of your Facebook connections is interested in doing some real-life poking, made headlines when it launched in January. Today, the site boasts hundreds of thousands of users. And a huge chunk of them reside right here in Hialeah. According…
You can call it the Sofia Vergara effect. You can call it racist fetishism. Or you can just call it the hot, wet truth. Either way, Colombian women are now considered to be the sexiest lady specimens the world over. That’s according to a poll conducted by MissTravel.com, which asked…
The Knight Arts Challenge, which offers matching grant money to South Floridaarts organizations, announced this year’s 66 finalists this afternoon. In the mix: ideas to bring local visual art, music, film, theater, and literature to a broader audience, presented by organizations both well-known and newly formed. Some finalists, like Art…
Hey ladies: Are you feeling unappreciated? Have you ever wished that strange men would oogle your cleavage more than they already do? Are you tired of reminding potential sexual partners that, even though your eyes are “up here,” what you’d really like them to notice are your assets “down there”?…
