Attention all culture snobs: Miami New Times is looking for a new assistant calendar editor. Here’s the official posting, but basically, you have to be able to write smartly about culture from Snooki to Sartre.Miami New Times needs a creative, detail-oriented person to write and edit our Night & Day…
When it comes to having a crunk-ass time, there are only a few people who really kill it. Maybe Jack Daniels? Perhaps David Hasselhoff? Another dude on that list is your boy Lil Jon (real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith — who knew, right?). He’s man who’s never seen without his…
Because Art Basel Miami Beach is only a few months away, we jumped at the chance to speak with the new director of Design Miami/, Wava Carpenter. The Design Miami team, who, interestingly, are mostly women, seek out the best in contemporary and historically influential design and house it under…
A traditional animator is someone who spends hours meticulously moving objects frame by frame. Meanwhile, computer animation makes poor souls hunch over their screens for hours at a time, staring at a graphic. Last night, Spencer Morin and his crew used both methods at the second Animiami Kick-Off Party. Over…
In the ’80s, Miguel Paredes came of age as a New York City tagger, and he has used his graffiti background as the launching pad for a successful career in the world of high art. Though clearly grounded in the concepts of street art, Paredes is a versatile stylist with…
Whether you’ve seen her on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Chelsea Lately, or VH1’s oddly addictive I Love the ’70s/’80s/’90s series, comedian Loni Love has been part of your pop culture channel surfing. And Love’s signature, smart-ass stand-up recently landed her a one-hour Comedy Central special called America’s Sister,…
The optic nerve dispatches information from your retina to your brain, a function that is entirely physiological and unless you suffer from psychosis, not open to interpretation. However, the films at Friday night’s Optic Nerve Film Festival touched upon both our intellects and emotions. And one film in particular –…
It was the full-bodied movements of those bare-breasted women that first lit Njeri Plato-Dioubate’s long-term love affair with West African dance. And it was enough to convince the Trinidad-born performer, who had previously focused on Caribbean folklore dancing, to permanently change course. “It just captured me,” says Plato-Dioubate. She remembers…
Remember in Que Pasa, U.S.A? when Abuela hears the nursery rhyme “Jack and Jill went up the hill” and screams, “Solos?!” Well, maybe Abuela didn’t understand that fine piece of poetry, but she definitely would have gotten into Hialeah Haikus. Last night, at Books & Books in Coral Gables, members…
There was always something about the A.V. kids in high school. Maybe it was their dark glasses or the way they parted their hair. They intrigued us then and they intrigue us now with this weekend’s 48 Hour Film Project, an entire weekend of film geeks huffing and puffing to…
At some point along the way, I know I’ve expressed that female fronted bands hold a special place in my heart, contrary to what my wife may believe (just because I refuse to listen to her Sarah McLachlan albums!).Let’s face it, chicks who can kick ass onstage just straight up…
Tomorrow night head to Transit Lounge for a night that’s a bit difficult to envision, and perhaps even harder to describe. But what the hell, here goes. Playing live will be The Dropa Stone (this part’s straight-forward enough). Made up of Jon Meyers on vocal/guitar, Will Richey on bass, Joe…
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: Alejandro Sanz is the man. Know how Juanes holds that records for most Latin Grammys? Guess who held that title just before him.They didn’t just hand those to over to him be because they dug his distinguished salt-and-pepper looks. The Spanish singer also happens…
Hello, web denizens! So I’m a stand-up comedian, I will be commenting on internet videos, and my name is Daniel. But that’s where the Tosh.0 comparisons end. For one, I have a full head of hair. Now, I hope you enjoy this mild web rompus. And if you don’t, I…
Every family has its version of the outcast: the crazy aunt, the crazy half-brother’s ex-wife’s cousin. But would it change things if you learned that your deranged family member also happened to be crazy-rich? Would you seek them out for a donation to your backpacking-Europe-for-personal-enlightenment fund?Before you drive down that…
The Pillowman is hard to watch. But it’s not the result of the acting, which is spot-on and emotionally charged. And it’s not because of the Little Stage Theater, whose squeaky seats stacked on plywood risers don’t make for the most comfortable theater experience. Rather, it’s the content of the…
Click here to view photos from Sarruga’s performance this past weekend.Imagine you spent your Saturday afternoon in a large, smoky, dark room that pulsed with trance music, dancing spotlights, and giant, mechanical bugs. No, it wasn’t a Rabbit in the Moon show. It was the coolest place to bring a…
There’s a very different type of big top in town at La Fee Verte, and we aren’t talking about the tent variety. (Although there’ll probably be enough wood in there to pitch one, har har.). Tonight, Thursday, Rainbow Circus is bringing its Sexy Circus Sideshow to the burlesque club. And…
The hardest part was making the 7 a.m. call time. Since I’d been working from home, my out-of-sync circadian rhythm had me going to bed at 6 a.m. and waking up at 2 p.m. or later. I’d signed up to be an extra on Burn Notice. And I understood I…
You know those post-apocalyptic RPGs where some kind of catastrophic event transforms the world into a toxic cesspool where the air is poison and the panicked masses are forced to build underground compounds just to survive? That pretty much describes summertime Miami. The insufferable July fire that reigns down upon…
For those of us needing a glamorous dose of drag while Rupaul’s Drag Race is on hiatus, or for those of us who are still recovering from the shock of Tyra being crowned last season’s winner (everyone knows that Raven should have won), there’s a fierce and fabulous drag competition…
You’d expect a play titled The Pillowman to involve a terrifying character who inflicts nightmares upon a poor victim’s sleeping mind. On the contrary, the eponymous entity’s purpose is to save children from the nightmares of their real lives. Is this an act of self-righteousness or the work of a…
