When Miami’s Metrorail finally reached the city’s airport last week via a half-billion dollar expansion, our town’s leaders weren’t exactly humble. The 2.4 miles of track now make Miami “one of the great cities,” County Mayor Carlos Gimenez crowed. But the long-overdue expansion can’t cloud a bigger problem: The train…
You already know Rick Ross is having his official album release party for God Forgives, I Don’t at King Of Diamonds tomorrow night. But you probably don’t know that two formerly felonious armed-robbing cocaine jackboys from North Miami are the promoters. Tru Story Ent’s Dave and LT took the time…
Earlier: Aholsniffsglue was run down by a hit and run driver on Biscayne Boulevard and left for dead. With his leg muscle shredded, his scooter crushed, and medical bills mounting, Gregg Shienbaum stepped up and offered Miami artist Aholsniffsglue a solo show, with all proceeds benefiting the thousands of dollars…
At its best, ceviche is just fresh-raw-fish, citric juice, and vegetables, herbs, and spices mixed together and topped with something crunchy.It’s served throughout Latin America and right here in Miami too.But this city is just as likely to serve you frozen Vietnamese swai fish in your ceviche as a snapper,…
Heartbeat got no rhythm? Drop dead when you don’t dance? Need a musical defibrillator? The Revivalists can bring you back to life with radio-friendly rock. These six New Orleans dudes are fresh from playing at the Green Parrot in Key West, and they’re catching some rays on South Beach before…
Tonight We Unite Tour With the Casualties at Grand Central July 27
Once a fish is skinned off and filleted it’s difficult for even an expert fisherman to know what species they’re looking at.That’s why it’s so easy to fleece the average consumer with a mislabeled fish.The ol’ fish switcheroo is nothing new, and the profits it generates keep the cycle going.We…
See also “The Casualties Talk Cops: ‘Dude, Have a F#$%in’ Beer, Relax, Stop Abusing Your Power.'” Punks don’t dance. They mosh, pogo, slam, skank, stage-dive, crowd-surf, and circle jerk. So expect a raging riot when the Tonight We Unite tour and 1000 nasty maniacs rage into Downtown Miami’s Grand Central,…
Fish mislabeling is rampant in the United States. Even in our own coastal paradise, sushi vendors, restaurants, and supermarkets hustle white fleshed fish as interchangeably as the dollars that they bank.But Miguel “Mojarra” Guinovart, commercial spearfisher, longtime U.S. National Freedive team member, and local maritime expert is a straight shooter.He…
ShipRocked 2012, the world’s heaviest heavy music cruise, just got even heavier. ‘Cause Korn and six other brutally rocking bands have been added to the already massive lineup. “I did a cruise last year DJing as J Devil,” Korn’s Jonathan Davis says, “and it was a fucking blast — such…
No one ever thought Jorge Herrera, a skinny Ecuadorian kid from New York City, would amount to much. But for two decades, the founder and lead singer of The Casualties has led his rowdy band of hooligans around the world, inspiring kids to stand up and fight the system. One…
Purvis Young — the late Liberty City native; painter of tens of thousands of urban expressionist works; whose paintings are collected by the Smithsonian Museum, Rubell Collection, Damon Wayans, and Jim Belushi; creator of his own complex language of icons and symbols; prolific recycler of found materials; and maybe the…
See also “Gilby Clarke, Ex-Guns N’ Roses Axe Man, Talks ShipRocked Cruise, Booze, and Getting Laid.” Godsmack is so heavy metal that only a bodybuilder can pick up a copy of The Oracle. They’ve put out more hits than Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, and Chuck Liddell combined. They make music…
Miami’s Extreme Body Modifiers Brave Social Stigma and Legal Action to Pursue Their PassionPhotos: Miami’s Extreme Body ModifiersRiptide: Coco Stabs Talks His First Piercing, Clitoral Hood (Video)Mike Alberta has a portrait of Albert Einstein on the left side of his head, and one of Stephen Hawking on the back of…
Read also “Miami’s Extreme Body Modifiers Brave Social Stigma and Legal Action to Pursue Their Passion.”Picture 350 pounds of bearded, pierced, and tattooed flesh swinging from meat hooks shanked through back fat.That’s a rough idea of what Coco Stabs does for fun.Coco is one subject of this week’s feature, about…
TenDJiz is a Russian-born producer and engineer in Miami on an Extraordinary Ability in the Arts visa. He owns a studio on Miami Beach, and he’s the mastermind behind an awesome mixtape series that mashes Soviet jazz instrumentals with American hip-hop. The first two releases were De La Soulviet, and…
According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, last year in Miami-Dade there were 15,229 hit and runs.The latest victim, local artist Aholsniffsglue, was run down and left for dead by a “pale faced, orange-haired old lady in a gold ’90s car” near Dogma at 71st and…
Mr. Feathers Releases New Album Knife Cream Sundae on Triangle Earth Records
Tech N9ne, Mayday, and Strange Music’s Hostile Takeover Tour at Club Cinema June 26
Every day, ¡Mayday! and the Juggalo nation hack into the dark heart of America with axe blades made of music. They chop into the rotten core of society, exposing the system as a lying, superficial, violent beast. Then they sever all connection to it, let the blood run through the…
Glassblowing is the only traditional art where the artist can never touch his media, unless he likes the smell of burning flesh. The “glory hole,” or oven where the glass is heated, operates at about 2700 degrees Fahrenheit. Glass is an “amorphous solid,” because its crystalline structure is never fully…
The South Beach Music Exchange won Miami New Times’ award for Best Musical Instrument Store in 2010. And if you’re drunk and wanna buy a guitar at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, it’s still the city’s top all-hours music store. Marty, who runs the place, is a night owl. And…
