If Shakespeare got it right and brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then Assholeparade’s Student Ghetto Violence is some Poor Richard’s Almanack-level shit. Issued back in 2000, Student is the closest thing the Gainesville five-piece has to a definitive release, cobbling together pieces from singles, tapes, and other ephemera…
Bomba Estereo With Spam Allstars, Los Rumberos de la 8, and Mr. Pauer Presented by Rhythm Foundation Grand Central Miami Thursday, April 14, 2011 Better Than: Letting Los Perros or any other late-night South Beach hot dog joint be your only taste of Colombia. At Grand Central, a pretty varied…
Ominé’s debut album, Whiskey & Chocolate, lives up to the long wait. For over 18 years, Ominé Eager has been writing and performing heartfelt, original songs. Each one is a true story told eloquently and honestly. She has been an enigma and a mainstay on the Miami music scene, fighting…
The pan-genre über-hack of the new Korean zeitgeist, Kim Jee-woon has been deft in some arenas: 2003’s A Tale of Two Sisters suggests a nightmare endured inside a suffocating velvet pillowcase, while 2008’s breathless The Good, the Bad, the Weird pioneered the fourth-gear lo-mein Western with such brio, you could…
With Scream 4 slicing its way into theaters this Friday, any red blooded horror fan will tell you this film has been a long time coming. From the first film’s impact on 1990s horror, to the third movie breaking all the rules, we can’t help but wonder: What else does…
There are certain things that are quintessentially Miami, like cafecitos at a board meeting and a doctor sporting a guayabera. Now add Rakontur Media Studio’s rapidly expanding library of South Florida-focused documentaries to that running list. For over a decade, director Billy Corben and producer Alfred Spellman have built their…
Heartbeats, the second feature from 21-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan, is an Instagram of the Way We Fuck Now–or, more precisely, the way gorgeously costumed and coiffed French-Canadian early twentysomethings fuck and/or fail to fuck, while tripping over their own misguided attempts to land in love. The film, which opens at…
On March 29, Arcade Fire lit up the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince with covers from Cyndi Lauper (“Girls Just Want to Have Fun”), the Rolling Stones (“The Last Time”) and Creedence Clearwater Revival (“Who’ll Stop the Rain”), plus songs off each of their own albums, including last year’s Grammy-winning The…
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly contemporary-sounding blue humor, blunt profanity replacing the naughty-naughty, tankard-sloshing, heaving-bosom ribaldry that goes with the period setting. The scene: a generic medieval realm from an EverQuest or Forgotten Realms module. In…
The University of Wynwood has an epic plan: everyone in Miami is to encounter a poem at least once during the month of April. Their O, Miami poetry festival, devoted to this cause, has a lot to cover. But they believe they are up to the challenge with an extensive…
The opening title card of François Ozon’s 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that period–a sneaky-smart way of nodding to one of this pastel-colored political farce’s key topics, if not its stylistic mode. As Suzanne, Catherine Deneuve plays the title role, which translates as…
Ex Norwegian really had its shit together. Two critically acclaimed albums, viral videos, national tours, corporate sponsors, and an innovative sound … But this past weekend the local indie-pop quintet decided to call it quits for good, playing a farewell show called The Last Tango at the Stage on March…
In Insidious, which opens this weekend, there is a great deal of prowling motion: a recurring sideways dolly outside an ominous house, a trench-coat-clad cacodemon pacing outside a second-story window. It’s the restless motion of a movie stalking its prey–you, dear viewer. A married couple, Josh and Renai (Patrick Wilson…
Emerging from New York City’s early-’90s acid house rave scene, Moby debuted with a deep, aqueous, tribal sound that would veer from ecstasy-rich techno to aggro industrial before crystalizing into the crossover poptronica of 1999’s multi-platinum Play. Along the way, this socio-politically outspoken musician became an unlikely figurehead as his…
The Arsht Center was sold out for the Miami City Ballet premiere of Romeo and Juliet. Yet the dancers who play the star-crossed lovers — and who happen to be married in real life — shared a private moment. In the closing scene, Juliet (Jennifer Kronenberg) plunged an imaginary dagger…
William Shakespeare’s historic love story Romeo and Juliet makes its Miami City Ballet debut this weekend as the MCB’s 25th anniversary season comes to a close. Artistic Director Edward Villella wanted to finish with a major work and John Cranko’s 1962 ballet version of the classic surely fits the bill…
Ultra Music Festival! It’s the final countdown. Listen .. Can you hear it? Uhhntz, uhhntz, uhhntz . . . It’s almost showtime. Yet many people don’t have tickets. What do you do? Should you hit up Stubhub or Craigslist and pay over four hundred dollars? Is it time to sell…
Paul is not the third installment in the so-called Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, though there are indeed servings of both. Note the one key missing element: Edgar Wright, who directed and co-wrote with Pegg both the 2004 zom-com Shaun of the Dead and…
As spacey as its title suggests, Gregg Araki’s latest youth film is an occult mystery set in the ultimate SoCal college playpen. Kaboom is Scooby-Doo with sex, drugs, and tattooed hotties; following on the heels of Araki’s relatively commercial stoner farce Smiley Face (2007), the movie makes you wonder whether…
Hey, Miami! Let me report that SoFla was well represented at SXSW 2011 with a large variety of acts playing around Austin: ANR, Dreaming in Stereo, Locos Por Juana, Panic Bomber, and Surfer Blood all played official showcases that made major press. In fact, Austin360.com picked Dreaming in Stereo’s showcases…
During the course of his career, choreographer Miguel Gutierrez has been celebrated as both a performer and a choreographer. His recent work The Last Meadow has traveled around the country and the world, and this weekend Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People’s The Last Meadow will be landing at the…
In a wintry woodland in an unspecified time long, long ago, teen beauty Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is arranged to marry brooding, hunky, rich dude Henry (Max Irons), but is plotting to run away with brooding, hunky peasant Peter (Shiloh Fernandez). Then–bummer!–Valerie’s sister is eaten by the werewolf that besieges their…
