Besides presiding “over the boards,” as they say, what music producers like to do best is throw wicked birthday parties sponsored by energy drink companies like Red Bull (Motto: It gives you wings, plus an intensely overinflated sense of self that you can use to hit on any creature–animal, vegetable…

Just as electronic music flows through Miami’s veins, jazz is the lifeblood of New Orleans. Katrina may have battered the bayou beyond recognition, but as long as there’s a three-piece combo left between the Mississippi River and Rampart Street, the city’s soul will remain intact. One of the true deacons…

There are certainly worse karmic fates than coming back as DJ Irie. Let’s see, official DJ for Jamie Foxx and the 2006 World Champion Miami Heat, weekly gigs at Mansion and the Delano, drive-time selector on 99 Jamz, and friends with basically every single celebrity in town. It’s no wonder…

Going to Club 50 this Friday is not going to help disabuse you of the idea that Italy is filled with wealthy nobility and huge estates. That’s because the guest speaker at the Viceroy Wine Series is none other than Sandro Chia, renowned painter and owner of Castello Romitorio Winery…

Miami is a book town. Miami is a book town. Miami is a book town. Miami is a book town. Miami is a book town. Miami is a book town. Miami is a book town. Miami is a book town. Miami is a book town. All work and no play…

If you’re curious about education in America, go watch Year of the Bull at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. In 2003, filmmaker Todd Lubin followed defensive end Taurean Charles and the rest of the Miami Northwestern Senior High football team all the way to the 6A state championship game…

Once thought to be as incompatible as Archie and Reggie, analog and digital actually think the other is kind of cute. And hey, Reggie, there’s no one in the locker room but us… In celebration of the oh-so-holy union of switches and circuits, the Miami Beach Regional Public Library is…

When it comes to fruit, most shoppers stick to the lowest hanging branch: bananas, apples, oranges, etc. Snore. We can’t think of anything more boring than a banana flanked by a couple of grapes. It’s one thing if you live in Lapland and have to eat that Granny Smith to…

O 1997! Year of the Ox, the summer of fen-phen, McLibel, and a little techno-salsa ditty called “I Like It Like That.” The song was repeatedly blasted across the capacity crowds at what was then Pro Player Stadium as the teal-hatted Florida Marlins, led by a chunky rookie pitcher named…

He brought you into this world, and he can take you out. He’s the SOB who named you Sue, Millhouse, or Richard Width. (Seriously, we knew a guy with that name, and he went by “Dick.”) No dad is ever perfect, but for the ones who are close enough, it’s…

Riverdale, New York, present day. A Jewish-American father slowly isolates himself from his family. The culprit? Black-and-white television. What begins as a comic premise in the vein of Woody Allen soon turns into a tightly wound drama in the style of Tenessee Williams in local playwright Jim Tommaney’s The Tarnished…

Whoever came up with the old adage “Write what you know” must have forgotten about the historical novel. Yet there are also novels that, although they’re based in a time period outside the author’s lifetime, nevertheless benefit from his or her unique experience. One of these is Shanghai Girls by…

Dog-themed art has a message for you. It doesn’t appreciate being reduced to the series of 16 “dogs playing poker” paintings that Cassius Marcellus Coolidge made in 1903 for a cigar company’s ad campaign, and it’s going to prove it to you at the opening reception for “Dog Tales: Words…

Hey, lady friend, we’ve been going steady for five months now and Daddy thinks it’s about time we take that next step. It’s time to put on that red dress, those high heels, and that sweet perfume because you’re going to see Charlie Wilson and Johnny Gill at the James…

One of the benefits of having artists hanging around town is that while we’re working, they’re thinking. The bad ones are usually thinking about themselves, but the good ones patrol the city like Basho: considering structures and alterations, movements and stagnations — everything the rest of us take for granted…

Michael Genovese’s art career began with professional training in sign painting, a skill set that perhaps explains why his work is so technically precise. From his incredible etchings to his hyper-detailed site installations, Genovese’s work somehow combines the improvisational urban spirit of his native Chicago with a mood of thoughtful…

Summer — the triple plague of humidity, mosquitoes, and bored teenagers — is upon us. The folks at the SoBe Music Institute can’t solve the first two, but they’ve got a great solution for that boy or girl ages 13 to 17 lying on your couch all day, eating your…

After seeing almost a hundred years’ worth of gangster films, we’re all familiar with the tropes: greed, betrayal, restitution, etc., and of course the black-market trade of products such as guns and drugs. Logic suggests gangster films of the future will continue down a similar path, except the illicit smuggling…

One thing Wynwood is short on is trees, which somewhat spoils the prospect of strolling around and peeking your head into art galleries during the month of June. But the folks at Artformz Alternative have decided if you can’t beat the sun, you might as well join him, which is…

Kathleen Hudspeth was born in Miami and has been working her butt off in the art world for longer than 99% of the local galleries have existed. Whether exhibiting at Bass and Fred Snitzer, lecturing at MoCA, writing art criticism for the Sun Post, or serving as a volunteer docent…

In August 2007, former New Times staffer Joanne Green wrote a great piece about local filmmaker Lee Cipolla, a Michael M. Krop Senior High School grad, and his mission to finish his second feature film, Nemesis, on a shoe-string budget in 12 days in the middle of August.Well, he and creative…