Your eyes bleed terror; your heart pumps fear. Your dead grandma laughs from the corner of the room as a hunchbacked madman hacks into a screaming victim on an operating table. You wake up scared and sweating. What a nightmare! And there’s more to come as we get deeper into…
The Miami Workers Center, whose mission is to “build the collective strength of working-class and poor black and Latino communities in Miami,” is throwing a party. The Pure Funk DJs from Hot 97.1 FM will rock their trademark wall of sound for Saturday’s second annual Pride and Unity Festival. As…
For years, avaricious carnivores have mocked vegetarians and animal lovers as a bunch of know-it-all pansies. Well, wouldn’t you know it — those pansies were right. Now even the United Nations is recommending one meat-free day a week to combat greenhouse gases and stave off climate change. Kind of makes…
Jacob Katel Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny painted on a wall in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. Jack Nicholson, aka Jack Torrance, in The Shining appears with an assortment of other killers, psychos and sociopaths from recent film history…
It’s the final game of the season for the Miami FC Blues and they’re in last place. But don’t let that stop you from heading out to the game Sunday night; it’s gonna be a feast and a slaughter. Official hooligan sect the Miami Ultras (ultra in Latin meaning “beyond,”…
American biker lore speaks of the four-corners run, a rumbling pilgrimage to the farthest corners of the United States. One of the must-ride destinations — Monroe County — is at the bottom of the map. For 36 years, Phil Peterson’s Key West Poker Run has given riders a reason to…
Jacob Katel The I.D. Art Gallery building on the west edge of Wynwood is canvassed all across its exterior. The east facing wall of the building forms an alley with the building next door and is bombed with an MSG (Miami Style Graffiti) Day of the Dead production. The 10…
Jacob Katel Donna Sdraiata, Fernando Botero StreetWorks is usually a graffiti blog. Starting today, as long as I’m shooting, it’ll document all forms of publicly displayed art, from the gutter to the gallery. With that in mind, this week’s feature is the Gary Nader Sculpture Park featuring bronze work by…
According to Christopher Witecki, Soulgarden.tv’s daily astrological weatherman, “Things don’t have to change; they have to completely change.” He’s talking about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and how it relates to EarthDance 2008, the world’s largest simultaneous music and dance event. “This is not your cheesy, bullshit, granola…
Take a step back to the Nineties, when Miami’s streets were flooded with cheap psychedelics. Acid was as much a part of many people’s social stimuli as cigarettes and alcohol. Tri-county high schools, warehouse raves, and bedrooms across the land brimmed with powerful pharmacological agents. Mind-expanding/imploding trips were delivered via…
Across the Rickenbacker Causeway from our gutter metropolis, between the City of Miami and the Village of Key Biscayne, lies Virginia Key. It’s home to the legendary Jimbo’s, a one of a kind smoked fish and beer shack replete with bocce ball, feral cocks and spray can art…
“Minnesota sucks.” Go ahead and Google that phrase, and you’ll get about 4,900 hits in less than a second. So you know it must be true. They have snow; we’ve got heat. They’re up north; we’re down south. They have the Minnesota Thunder; we’ve got the Miami FC Blues. Those…
Guinness World Records recognizes her as the top art teacher in the world. With more than 17 million students ranging from Johnny Carson and Dave Letterman to “drug addicts in Hong Kong and amputees in India,” Conni Gordon has been teaching folks to paint using her patented four-step method “since…
Michael Madd loves “the haters.” The more they hate, the harder he works. He says they’re jealous, that it’s in their nature to envy, that every successful person experiences a backlash from his or her community in response to how well the individual is doing. As a promoter of Miami…
The fluorescent lights buzz ceaselessly above you, their hypnotic drone pushing you into a zombielike state. Gossip and shit-talk, squabbles and hearsay, idle hands, idle minds, and fake smiles dominate your life 40 hours a week. Working in an office sucks. But fear not, workaday business clones — Poplife got…
Emily Eisenhauer taught English to college students in rural China. Patty Phares was a junior high math instructor in the Samoan countryside. Both are members of the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of South Florida, but you’ll catch only one of them drinking Friday night at Shuckers. Eisenhauer says, “I think…
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (MyFWC.com), our pine rockland habitat is in poor condition. The rocklands, exclusive to South Florida, are specially adapted to seasonal wildfires and “the lack of soil on the exposed limerock.” Furthermore, these unique and globally imperiled surroundings are associated with the…
“Let me do the talking, angel. I don’t know yet what I’m going to tell them. It’ll be pretty close to the truth.” Humphrey Bogart immortalized these words as a hard-drinking film-noir detective in the 1946 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep. This month’s installment of the…
You’re naked in your living room, each foot in a bucket of ice water, head wrapped in a wet towel, sitting in front of your air conditioner and watching television reruns while eating a bag of stale chips. Don’t be such a wuss — it’s not even that hot outside!…
Ever seen somebody push a 1098cc Ducati to the 190-mph mark? Barrett Long can do it. The Miami motorcycle racer, competing in the unlimited division of the Championship Cup Series, is in position to win it all. He’s ranked 11th and was favored to win his last contest, but he…
In the mid-Nineties, DJ Derek Plaslaiko made a name for himself on the Detroit rave scene with what promoters describe as “clinical … sophisticated sets.” A residency at legendary club Motor soon followed, as did high demand on the Midwestern party circuit. Plaslaiko toured, sharing the stage with Acquaviva and…
Some people think music, art, and fashion are all that matters. You can see them leaving the club as you’re driving to work. Don’t hate; participate. Forget about gas prices, the mortgage, alimony, court costs, your man, your lady, the election, the war — they’ll still be there when you…
