In these very serious and not at all snarky Oscar nominations predictions, I wanted to begin by criticizing AMPAS for being conservative, self-serving and too politically correct, singling out members that double as nominees. I also wanted to discuss how demanding it is to watch an absurdly long and lackluster…
Deadmau5’s Unhoooked Mansion Reopening Party Friday, January 20, 2012 Better Than: A late-night with Tiësticle. After ten days of all work and no play, Mansion swung out its doors to the public, kicking off a two-night reopening event to flaunt the new, sexy Mansion 360 setup with Deadmau5, one of…
The term “coffee table book” typically conjures images that delve into either insufferably dull or insufferably cute territory — things like the evolution of American coinage, or little puppies dressed up in Halloween costumes.However, with TASCHEN books proliferating tabletops nowadays, you’re more likely to set your cup of tea on…
Read ex-Crossfade contributor and new music editor Liz Tracy’s love letter to New Times Broward-Palm Beach readers on countygrind.com. I love Miami. I’ve been writing about it and living it for years. But last Friday, I told Miami New Times music editor S. Pajot that I would soon be leaving…
When most people hear the term “Tour de France,” they think of the 2000-mile long international bicycle race. But after witnessing Tour de France/Florida: Contemporary Artists from France in Florida’s Private Collections at Florida International University’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum on Saturday January 21, images of sweaty, possibly…
Working separately, from New York and Paris, Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey are trying to undo themselves. For Tool Is Loot, their upcoming performance presented by Tigertail Productions at the Colony Theatre, they subjected their aesthetic assumptions to the opinions and desires of total strangers. Starting with separate “empty solos”…
Originally born in Zimbabwe, New York-based choreographer Nora Chipaumire is unafraid to confront the foundations of her own identity. Her upcoming performance, presented by Miami Light Project and Miami-Dade College’s MDC Live! performing arts series, promises three bold perspectives on the inward and outward landscapes she has traveled. She will…
Like a lot of kids, I nursed a healthy addiction to video games in prep school, trafficking kilos of cocaine across state lines on a graphing calculator from a desk in advanced Algebra. And according to gamer evangelists like James Paul Gee, this actually made me smarter — it helped…
Leandra Medine of The Man Repeller made The Webster her home for a weekend where she met her fans and held one-on-one styling sessions.Arm party and all, Leandra is exactly what you would expect in person — lanky, goofy, and with a killer sense of style. The blogueuse helped me…
”Drunk and a movie” is the new “dinner and a movie,” says Rony M., an Elite Yelper as indicated by his “Elite 12′ ” status to the right of his mini profile pic. Starting Wednesday, the new Yelp Beret Cinema Club will host its first ever filmophile event at O…
Oh, to lead the life of Tamalyn Dallal. In 1990, she founded Mid-Eastern Dance Exchange, the first belly dance studio in Miami Beach. Over the next 15 years, she trained many of the most successful dancers on the global belly dance scene (yes, there is one), including Amar Gamal, Bozenka,…
I’m usually the quiet guy at the computer frying his retinas when coworkers discuss the previous night’s SportsCenter reruns. But I’m a news junkie, so I knew a bunch of Gen Xers kneeling at their cubicles last week didn’t mean they were starting a prayer meetup.They were instead mimicking God-fearing…
Blue Ivy Carter is a pop culture phenom without ever having made a public appearance. Since moving into (and out of) Beyonce’s gold -lated placenta, baby Blue has met the world at the VMAs, inspired a social media downpour, and was already featured wailing on a song with Hov’ himself…
Andy Warhol once claimed, in the then-future, everyone would have 15 minutes of fame. Fast-forward to the post-internet, reality TV-fueled Twitterverse of the modern era and you’ll find he was basically right. Thanks to Facebook news feeds and shows like America’s Got Talent, everyone thinks they’ve got what it takes,…
I’m not sure when I first started dressing for myself, but I do remember instances that, like puzzle pieces, all seem to make sense when you put them together. Here’s one: I was in 7th grade. The seventies were spontaneously (albeit briefly) brought back to 1997. Those white, chunky Flower…
Who says flamenco needs to be stuck in its 18th-century Andalusian roots?
Attention, Human Beings! We have some news that is cool, cool, cool. We’ve been worried that the critically adored, genre-defying, pop-culture-skewering show Community would never return from the purgatory of “indefinite hiatus” imposed by NBC last year. But on Friday, the network’s entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt told reporters that Community…
There’s no doubt that Miami City Ballet is graceful. The debut this weekend of “Viscera,” a new work by choreographer Liam Scarlett, proves the company has guts. The 25-year-old choreographer with Britain’s Royal Ballet created the piece specifically for MCB dancers by channeling the power of the principal women. On…
Miami’s hotties have long been overlooked by the rest of the nation. (We think they’re just jealous.) So it’s refreshing to see one of our own get the recognition she deserves — especially when she’s this fun to look at.Livin La Vida host Stella Vidal was ranked #52 on mostbeautifullist.com’s…
If you’ve never heard of it, then you better recognize: It was here long before Art Basel and Art Miami started to draw in huge crowds at the end of each new year. Kicking off the beginning of the new year for Miami’s art circuit is the 61st Annual Beaux…
Ted Rall says the end of world as we know it is near. According to his vision, the economy will continue to deteriorate, the government will disintegrate, and the United States will either break apart into mini-fiefdoms or be ruled by a neo-fascist junta. Rall is not a fortune teller…
John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel generally regarded as the writer’s finest, is predicated on a pair of enigmatic personalities: the colorless bureaucratic master-spook George Smiley and the double agent the Soviets have planted near the top of British intelligence whom Smiley must unmask.Although not…
