Nickelodeon is bringing back the ’90s. TeenNick’s new “The 90s Are All That” series begins this Monday at midnight and will run until 4 a.m. We haven’t been this excited over TV news in years. The channel is resurrecting shows like All That, Kenan and Kel, Double Dare, Rocko’s Modern…
Stories of escaping Cuba are a dime una dozena in the Magic City. But it isn’t every day that you hear about the struggles of a Jamaican immigrant. Jamaica Farewell is a real-life account of leaving for America in a time of political unrest in ’70s Jamaica, written and performed…
Suenalo at Transit Lounge July 15
After awhile, reggaeton groups can start to seem the like the same old thang. But whether it’s because they’re clever or just lucky, Jowell y Randy have got some weird shit going on that grabs our attention. Here are three things about J&R that really make us cock our heads…
We admit it. We’re nerds. We camped out for the New York premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last night. It was hot. We were cranky. But it was awesome. There were a good 200 people, sleeping in shifts to watch everyone’s things. We met fans…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is being released this Friday. The franchise is coming to an end, but it’s going out with a bang. People camped out in London last week and at Lincoln Center in New York for today’s premiere. Now that the series is finishing,…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 premieres tonight in New York and opens around the country Friday. The end of an era is here. We’ve spent the last ten years prowling Hogwarts after hours and meeting freaky people. In the last decade, we have discovered chocolate frogs, sugar…
Stories of escaping Cuba by boat are a dime a dozen in the Magic City. But it isn’t every day you hear about the struggles of a Jamaican immigrant. The play Jamaica Farewell, written and performed by Debra Ehrhardt, is a real-life account of leaving the island during a particularly…
Xperimento at Jazid July 9
The immigrant experience is one that is both universal and intensely personal. In her exhibit “Made in Colombia,” artist Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi explores the immigrant experience and the self-discovery that succeeds displacement. Using found objects, such as dolls, shoes, and clothing, the Colombian native creates her installations. Morena-Yaghoubi felt pressure to…
Our lives are boring. There’s a reason we hit snooze five times every morning. We get up, go to work, do laundry, go to bed, and wake up to do it all over again the next day. By the time Friday rolls around, hard liquor can’t even correct our rut…
Xperimento, named New Times’ Best Fusion Band this year, blends the band members’ Latin roots with the American culture that they all grew up with into a style they’ve dubbed, “Latin reggae urban soul.”Crossfade recently got a chance to talk to the band, who will be playing at Jazid on…
Florida Supercon took place this weekend, and we got to go [cue fan girl squeal]. But seriously, we’ve always wanted to go to a comic convention, because deep down we’re total nerds. What we didn’t realize was just how overwhelming Supercon could be. Everywhere you turn you’re bombarded with colors,…
Florida Supercon’s Geek Film Festival starts today. Buried among the documentaries and low-budget horror films is Radio Free Albemuth. The indie film is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same title. Set in an alternate-reality 1985, protagonist Nick Brady begins to have visions from the VALIS…
The Bolt Who Screwed Christmas is, obviously, a parody of the beloved How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Narrated by the late Jonathan Harris [Lost in Space, A Bugs Life], the animated film follows The Bolt as he tries to ruin Christmas, and his subsequent change of heart thanks to Cindy…
The immigrant experience is both universal and intensely personal. In her exhibit “Made in Colombia,” artist Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi explores the perils of being uprooted and the self-discovery that succeeds displacement. Using found objects such as dolls, shoes, and clothing, Yaghoubi creates 3-D displays. A native of what some others call…
If there’s one thing Miamians really love, it’s a good show. So even if you’re not crazy about Steve Aoki’s mixes, at least you can expect a night of instantly recognizable party tracks, crowd-surfing, stage-diving, The Lion King theme music, and free vodka shots poured straight into your mouth by…
Florida Supercon is this weekend, and this year, there’s a new addition: the Geek Film Festival. It’s off to a big start with over 50 movies screening. There are documentaries, sci-fi, and horror flicks as well as parodies and shorts. There are profiles of cartoonists and even a few cartoons…
Supercon. The word immediately elicits a disturbing picture in the mind: a crowd of middle-aged men with sweaty palms and dressed up in Spiderman costumes and prosthetic Spock ears. They’re lined up waiting for autographs. For decades, that was an accurate depiction of what went down at comic book conferences…
Fourth of July is all fireworks and hot dogs. We were cringing at the prospect of the same, boring foods this year. We wanted foods with some pop…and then it hit us — Pop Rocks. It turns out you can do quite a lot with this popping candy, including making…
If ever you’ve wanted a sketch of yourself that wasn’t an outrageous caricature, or even wanted to try your hand at sketching, now is your chance. Sketchy Miami is having a launch party at Lester’s this Thursday.Sketchy Miami features portraits, or sketchys as they call them, of people from all…
Harry Potter is everywhere this summer. An announcement came from J.K. Rowling yesterday about Pottermore, an interactive site, and the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, is just three weeks away. With the end of the Potter-era fast approaching, we decided to cave into the nostalgia…
