The evolution of dubstep as a musical genre reads like some kind of “origins story” for a character in a graphic novel. Formed from dissonant and minor key bits and pieces from UK garage and two-step tracks, dubstep, or “grime” as it’s sometimes known, was the experimental afterbirth of DJs…

Here in Miami, we can’t resist a good cocaine story. Give us a rich kid who starts dealing just because it’s easy and slowly gets pulled further and further into the grim realities of the drug trade, all the while making ridiculous cash — cash we can see with our…

All right, all ye boaters. It’s time to stop flogging your boatswains and crawl out of your tropical depressions. The economic waters have stopped receding; high tide is coming back in, and not a moment too soon either, with this Friday being the first day of the 16th annual South…

You’ve heard it a thousand times: Going to the theatre (notice the spelling) is good for you. A cultural experience, expand your horizons, blah, blah, blah. Well, we can say without reservation that going to see Undershorts at the Arsht Center is not good for you. It will not expand…

Willie Chirino was born in 1947 in Consolación del Sur, Cuba, as a handsome, musically talented 30-year-old who hasn’t aged a day since. Think we’re lying? Look at his album covers. One Man Alone, from 1974, shows him in profile, with the setting sun breaking across a thick, Chevron-style mustache…

If Lewis and Clark had assembled a yearbook at the end of their three-year expedition, George Shannon would have been voted Most Likely to Get Lost. Eighteen years old when he joined the party at Camp Dubois in 1804, Shannon was the expedition’s youngest member and gains mention several times…

In 1993, De La Guarda took New York City by storm, breaking the traditional fourth wall by literally suspending the theatrical performance above the heads of the audience. The popular show ran for 13 years, and now the Argentine-born creative geniuses are back with something new. Called Fuerza Bruta, the…

One thing Wynwood is short on is trees, which somewhat spoils the prospect of strolling around and peeking your head into art galleries this summer, at least while the sun’s out. The folks at artformz alternative are running with the theme of humidity for their summer-long exhibition “Hotter than a…

Time to strap on the feedbag, Coral Gables. Not the industrial-size one you bring to Uncle Tom’s Barbeque, but the smaller, leather one embossed with the Louis Vuitton logo — the one specifically designed to catch tuna tartare, bacon-wrapped figs, and drops of Chianti. That’s right, Taste of the Gables…

If you’re not excited about this Saturday’s Andre Berto vs. Juan Urango fight at Hard Rock Live, you’re (A) not into sports and (B) not proud of the 305. Winter Haven-born, Miami-raised Andre Berto is not only the undefeated WBC welterweight champion but also incredibly personable and down-to-earth. In short,…

Donning costumes designed by the ghost of Freddie Mercury, the L.A.-based artist collective My Barbarian seems about as far from a group of art school hipsters as one can get. How many tortured MFA grads do you know who have the gall to get onstage wearing a rhinoceros horn dance…

Since Lincoln Center already laid claim to the more assonantal title “Mostly Mozart” for its annual festival celebrating the music of the Salzburgian wunderkind, the Coral Gables Cultural Affairs Council went with the almost-as-good Mainly Mozart. But it’s more or less the same bag of wigs: multiple Mozart concerts over…

Many of you have seen the Jack Black and Mike White film of the same name, but who knew there was actually a pre-existing School of Rock? Founded in 1998 by Paul Green, a Philadelphia guitar teacher who ended up spending his Saturdays jamming with his students, School of Rock…

New York has West Side Story. L.A. has Grease. Miami has Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz. Point: Miami. No disrespect to Leonard Bernstein — an American legend — but 200,000 people didn’t attend his funeral. Celia wasn’t just the “Queen of Salsa”; she represented an entire idea…

Nestled atop the Viceroy’s 50th floor, Club 50 arguably offers the most dizzying views of the Big Orange stretching from Biscayne Bay to the Everglades. The snazzy joint also boasts the highest outdoor pool in the city and a lounge tricked out in marble floors and sumptuous turquoise leather sofas…

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Sroke, Batten disease is a fatal, inherited disorder of the nervous system that begins in childhood. Early symptoms of this disorder usually appear between the ages of 5 and 10, when parents or physicians may notice a previously normal child has…

Way back in 1994, the New York Times shed light on a revolution going on in the University of Miami Architecture School, where a couple of brothers, Jorge and Luis Trelles, had started a six-week program of study in Central and South America. Students traveled to Guatemala, Mexico, and Colombia…

The Bass Museum’s newest exhibition, “The Endless Renaissance,” is dedicated to poking holes in the idea that art history falls neatly into periods of accelerated growth and relative mediocrity. Guest curator Steven Holmes, a veteran of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Kunste-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in…

All you hard-drinking, never-novel-finishing people out there, listen up. Sometimes we all need a jump start. Ours over here at the Miami New Times is that cruel Muse we call “Deadline”, whose red tail is forever smacking us in the back of the head just when we’re getting into a…

The New World School of the Arts has already proven that it can produce world-class writing for the stage. 20-something graduate Tarell Alvin McCraney is one of the hottest commodities in the theater industry, having already won a National Endowment for the Art’s Outstanding New American Play award, the 2007…