SAT 10/11 The always-edgy minds at GableStage may have outdone themselves this time. Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? is the shockingly amusing tale of an architect named Martin (Bob Rogerson) whose happy life, complete with loving wife and gay teenage son, is changed by the admission that…
SUN 10/5 Oye, it’s time for the second annual Urban Latin Music Festival and you know what that means. Lots of rump-shakin’, bass-thumpin’ Latin and hip-hop music. All the musical bases are covered with the bachata band Aventura, Huey Dunbar doing tropical and salsa, the Spanish hip-hop of Majic Juan,…
SUN 10/5 According to Celtic legend, Stingy Jack was a thieving reprobate, a chap so nasty he tricked the Devil himself on several occasions. Banned from both Heaven and Hell, Jack had nowhere to go when he died and began roaming the night looking for mischief to perform. Because he…
SAT 9/20 Go, go, speed racer. Go before the checkered flags fall on the winners in what is fast becoming an annual episode of race fever in the Magic City. Billed as Race Week Miami, an array of activities has been scheduled around the upcoming full-throttled Super Boat International National…
What does it take to turn heads in downtown Miami and South Beach? Beautiful people, wayward celebrities, and crazy politics are all part of the fabric of local civilization that compete for attention. It would have to be something unusual. Something big. Something amphibious? That might not sound impressive, but…
A new Internet fad has arrived and the admission ticket is likely sitting in your deleted e-mail. Remember a spammish-looking “Invitation to join Friendster” that you were above opening? While you were busy spending Friday night alone again, the already popular matchmaking site was exploding with artists, miscreants, and all…
Saturday August 23 With 51 of the most beautiful black women coming to town to compete in the Miss Black USA Pageant, we thought we would ask a typical black man for some thoughts about the competition. New Times caught Liberty City’s own Comedian Slo-Motion on his dinner break during…
More than a hundred years ago, Percival Lowell tipped his telescope toward Mars, imagined a Venetian-style civilization, and initiated the public’s love affair with the Red Planet. Since then countless science fiction writers have painted a Mars awash with canal-loving beings intent on colonizing our watery globe. Were Lowell alive…
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone arranged a celebration marking the fifth anniversary of the discovery of the Miami Circle? A day of speeches, music, and perhaps a glimpse of Miami’s “Stonehenge” to sweeten the pot. Well, such an event is planned but you’re not invited. Almost five years ago…
