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…
Unlike the rest of the country, summer in Miami doesn’t mean outdoor music concerts or weekends in our beach house. This is the season when most of us enter a sweat-induced hibernation and catch up on our TV watching. So excuse us if we’re more than a little pissed off…
Think the world’s politicians are behaving badly now? Just wait for a few more natural disasters to hit, add rapidly diminishing resources and steadily increasing population numbers to the mix, and you have yourself a recipe for all-out global conflict. “Climate change will drive people and countries into conflict,” journalist…
Two years before Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were born, the city of Madrid spawned Lope de Vega, one of the most prolific dramatists in theater history. Vega penned 1,800 plays and 3,000 sonnets, and sure, they weren’t all gems. (It’s hard to imagine anyone writing so many plays without…
Melding the skronk of the Cramps with the grim stylings of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Denmark’s Nekromantix have been swaying suggestible American kids into the dark and decadent waters of psychobilly since 2002 debut Night of the Loving Dead on Hellcat Records. Prior to that, the band had…
Recently, the White House took historic first steps to end travel restrictions to Cuba. But until an epic Capitol Hill battle, which will likely end in blood, tears, and airline tickets, lifts the travel ban entirely, you’ll have to settle for swaying your hips to the conga drumbeat at the…
Don’t be ashamed. Most of us growing up in the ’90s loved and wanted to live on the mean streets of 90210. Ms Donna Martin, I mean Tori Spelling, got to live our dream and to be honest, we’re still a little jealous.Everyone’s favorite fame whore will be whoring herself…
Miami Beach has always been a scene. In the ’40s, it was centered around families like the Whitmans who was later built Bal Harbour Shops. In the ’70s, it was the cocaine cowboy-types, and in the ’90s, it was a group of crazy surfing party-goers. Wait, there was a surf…
In 2010, video game developers are making the controversial decision to try and take gamers where they seldom go: off the couch. Generally, people play video games because they prefer to live in a virtual world where there aren’t pesky things like weight, heat, or sweat. For some reason, though,…
An artist’s workspace is typically a tranquil sanctuary rarely available to the public–unless you’re Miami artist David Le Batard. In his case, painting live in front of a crowd of 40,000 people alongside DJ phenoms Thievery Corporation and country icon Willie Nelson is just another day at the office. Le…
Last night, Miami’s Cremata Gallery hosted a lecture by local poet and art critic, Ricardo Pau-Llosa. He’s published six collections of poetry, has been featured in The Writer’s Chronicle and Saw Palm, and has been included in the Poetry Series on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS). Pau-Llosa will also…
OK. Who do we blame for turbans — those funny-looking scarf hat thingies? Was it Kate Moss? Those damn Olsen twins? Or was it the unwatchable, desert-themed Sex and the City 2? The headwear trendsetter may still be up for debate, but a Miami designer has combined headbands and turbans,…
Ramón del Valle-Inclán was a scraggly-bearded, one-armed, bohemian playwright from Spain, who penned sordid tales that were a slap in the face to bourgeois sentimentality. This weekend, Miami’s International Hispanic Theatre Festival presents his play, Divinas Palabras. It’s about a preyed-upon midget whose mother forces him to travel from carnival…
Regular Crossfade contributor, Christopher Lopez, has never made any bones about his inherent distrust of bachata boy band Aventura. But now that the group’s playing a two-night stand at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood next Tuesday and Wednesday, he felt it was time to explain himself.That’s why, this week,…
MTV Tr3s, the network juggernaut’s bilingual English-Spanish channel, is relaunching on July 12. It’s dropping the “MTV” from its name, instead going with the moniker “Tr3s: MTV, Musica y Mas.” It may not have the same punchy ring as before, but Tr3s is definitely making a new entrance in style.Continuing…
You’d be hard-pressed to name an uptempo, superstar DJ who has won a major DMC (Disco Mix Club) battle championship–or even entered one. The super-club circuit is filled with producers, storytellers and understated mixers, but razzle-dazzle, scratch-and-juggle spinners they’re not. While a few DMC winners (A-Trak, Craze) have made their…
The New PornographersTogether (Matador)It is with a grin and a nodding of heads that the New Pornographers introduce their new album, Together. Unlike their previous effort, Challengers, this album comes in like a lion, eschewing precious and academic pop tunes in favor of a more strident, yet no less intricate…
Wailers fans face a similar dilemma that devotees of Asia, L.A. Guns, the Platters and other groups touring (and squabbling) under the same name face. There are currently two bands touring as the Wailers. The first is the Wailers Band, which was formed by Bob Marley as his backing band…
Poplife just closed out its last Saturday at Electric Pickle (and its last official weekly for the foreseeable future). Still, someone’s taking over the party’s old venue. Get Some is the new Saturday shindig there, and it’s sponsored by Shake Inc., Culture Parties, and BassHead Music.”Get Some is a branch…
Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small-d democratic strategist with no party affiliation. Each week, we surrender our space for his thoughts on the music industry and how they relate to our…
Country fans can barely drink a glass of water these days without some image of Brad Paisley coming to mind. Last month he dove into a swimming pool while singing his hit single “Water” during the Academy of Country Music Awards, and more recently, he became a poster boy for…
Coming hot on the heels of Fort Lauderdale’s last successful battle, Grind Time’s Broward Beatdown, is Street Wars 5, a Miami-based competition sponsored by the good folks at Vice City Cypher and hosted by longtime MC and battle vet H2O. It takes place Saturday, May 22 at the Jamyard, Fort…
