October isn’t finished with you yet, Miamians. All Hallows Eve is right around the corner, so rise up from those cocktail-soaked coffins you call beds, spray some Febreeze on that costume, and finish out the month like a champ. Here’s a very special Halloween guide to what’s happening around town…
The Wynwood Business Improvement District is now $43,500 closer to cleaning up — and possibly pissing off — the trendy art community, thanks to a donation from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Issued late this month, the funds allow the Wynwood BID to launch immediately, instead of…
The 2013 Knight Arts Challenge Miami People’s Choice Award puts the power in the people’s hands. The foundation gives five non-profit arts-based organizations the chance to not only be recognized on a large platform, but to win a grand prize of $20,000. Dennis Scholl, vice president of arts of the…
It’s been touted as the Coachella of comedy. LOLapalooza. WitStock. But this wasn’t just any music and comedy festival. This was Festival Supreme. The title of the Santa Monica, California, comedy and music festival was befitting of the event’s hosts, the once self-proclaimed but now widely accepted greatest band in…
Photo by Jaap BuitendijkChiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave.On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson disagree on Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave — a beautifully shot film, contrasting the all-too-visible evil of mankind…
October is a special time of year. There’s always pumpkins and cider and candy exploding from Publix. You hear Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” about five times a week. But the best part of the lovely fall season is Halloween – that glorious holiday where creeps and cowards unite in fear and…
Tatiana CraineLove is in the air at New York Comic-ConWhile New Times has been focused on Miami’s art and culture, our sister papers in New York have been busy covering the giant pop culture mecca that is New York Comic-Con. Geek culture doesn’t stop at the city limits, so we’re…
Wynwood, the former warehouse district known as much for its burgeoning development as its graffiti art, has recently welcomed an increasing number of retail stores. But the freshly opened flower shop Sprout has a more organic approach to sales in the gritty arts district. The shop specializes in exotic orchids,…
© 2013 – Troublemaker StudiosTrejo in Machete Kills.In this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss Captain Phillips and Machete Kills, both out on Friday, October 11…
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Grand Central Miami Tuesday, October 8, 2013 Better Than: That old Marlon Brando biker movie, The Wild One, from which Black Rebel Motorcycle Club took its name. Interestingly the rival biker gang in that 1953 black and white flick were called The Beetles. This makes a…
Online project funding site Kickstarter is full of first novels and comics and bands trying to tour. But what about the starry-eyed hippies out there looking to donate some of that Whole Foods salary to a good cause? If you’re one with the earth, the ocean, or even just love…
Does your wardrobe consist of parachute pants, shoulder pads, fingerless gloves, and huge earrings? Is your record collection dominated by bands like Flock of Seagulls, the Smiths, the Cure, Pet Shop Boys, the Psychedelic Furs, New Order, Run-D.M.C., Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, and Boogie Down Productions, just to…
GravityOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek both praise Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock), saying the director exhibits a “lovely human touch” with the film, which is set in space, and that it’s “so different than anything else…
You think making it in the music business is hard? Tell that to Charles Bradley. But you might want to watch a documentary on his rise to the top first. The film Charles Bradley: Soul of America:, directed by Poull Brien and produced by Alexander Brough, follows Bradley through the…
At 9 o’clock sharp in downtown Miami, the Weeknd — also known as Abel Tesfaye — took to the microphone behind a translucent curtain hanging from the rafters above a nearly pitch-black stage. His repentant yowls chilled the packed James L. Knight Center as he opened with “Adaptation” from the…
Michael Ealy as an android copWhat will the Los Angeles Police Department look like in 35 years? According to Fox’s Almost Human, yet another hourlong sci-fi drama overseen by J.J. Abrams (Alias, Fringe), crime will increase 400 percent and police officers will partner with humanoid robots to defend the city…
Can you conquer the G-String Crawl? Dare you enter the Dominatrix Dungeon? Will you slide into the Honey Tunnel or tackle the Blue Balls Dash? Don’t worry — you didn’t fall asleep in front of the phone sex infomercials again. These are just a few of the sex-themed obstacles for…
California-born, Tijuana-raised Julieta Venegas is a multifaceted singer-songwriter whose sound has clearly matured over the years. And that is especially noticeable on her 2012 release Los Momentos, which she is currently promoting with an extended U.S. tour that makes a Miami stop this week. We here at Crossfade recently caught…
Ilan Hall, chef-owner of the Gorbals restaurant in downtown L.A.It began as a simple duel: two line cooks pitted against each other for culinary bragging rights in the kitchen of downtown L.A.’s the Gorbals. It was after-hours, ringmastered by chef and owner Ilan Hall. Sometimes Hall would compete for old…
As a form of entertainment, karaoke has a lot of baggage. Remember when that old man warbled “Fools Rush In” every Monday at your favorite nearby dive bar? Or when your buddy Chad insists on performing “Summer Nights” from Grease because he can “nail that John Travolta wail”? And it…
Born in the wake of a Toots and the Maytals performance that didn’t happen, the Miami Reggae Festival will celebrate its fourth edition on Saturday, November 23, at Coconut Grove’s Peacock Park. The daylong event, as reggae fest founder Alfonso D’Niscio Brooks tells it, was launched after the police shut…
When listening to Julieta Venegas’ 2013 disc Los Momentos, longtime fans might have noticed a clear shift in her style — something that might have been informed by recently becoming a mother. “Time-wise, my days have changed,” Venegas says. “I have to accommodate my time differently, and also, I think…
