Jack Daniel is the Colonel Sanders of whiskey. His company likes to pretend he has some sort of legacy to pass down besides a rather harsh-tasting product that, despite claims to the contrary, demonstrates no scientific correlation with toughness. The Jack Daniel’s Studio No. 7 Latino Concert Series, however, we…
In another case of NYC following Miami’s lead on all things cultural, Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester (Blair Waldorf to the regulars) has recorded a cover of local band Awesome New Republic’s hit “Birthday.” And although it’s not as good as the original, it is good, and its very existence confirms…
Thanks to Shank, premiering in North America this Saturday at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the days of the coming-of-age gay-boy film might be over. That’s because 21-year-old British director Simon Pearce (not to be confused with the glass blowers) has taken the bildungs-ho-man, held it up against…
Oh, Foxhall! Yes, Adolfo. Could you cinch up my jodhpurs for me? Certainly, friend. I would hate to get any sand in them. Quite dreadful that would be. Worse than that mallet to the face Gabriel took at last year’s Miami Beach Polo World Cup? Well, I rather thought the…
South of downtown has the Calle Ocho Festival. North of downtown has Cinco de MiMo. Beginning his Saturday morning at 10, the stretch of Biscayne Boulevard between 67th and 77th streets will transform into a fiesta featuring live music, gourmet food, street performers, antique cars, face-painting for kids, and vintage…
Christmas Eve 1874. The young composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky rushes over to the Moscow Conservatory to play his first masterpiece in front of his mentor, Nikolai Rubinstein. Tchaikovsky plays the Piano Concerto No. 1 all the way through, and Rubinstein, after a long, agonizing silence, responds that the piece is…
We could quite easily plug Unwigged and Unplugged, featuring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, but perhaps it’s better to turn it over to Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel: “Yes, hello? Is this microphone turned up to 11? I rather like Miami. I remember when we played the Marine Stadium…
It’s tough to be under 21 in Miami and have fun if you’re not a fake ID-slinging club rat. What are your options? Go to the movies? Drive around the Grove? Sit in a park? Luckily, the hip hop community in Miami is starting to do something about that by…
John Waters Brings His Filthy World to MGLFF
No matter how humid the weather, summer has not arrived until Michael Bay says so. Wear all the sunscreen you want, but until that V8 engine of a brain (disguised by sweet-smelling angel’s hair) unleashes its latest hailstorm of sweat and bullets, it is still the post-Oscar spring doldrums.Put away…
And that is how (perhaps) our county came to create a water conservation site called “http://weuseless.miamidade.gov”
If you haven’t read it yet, take a break from the expert prose styling of Miami New Times and go slumming through our archrival the Gray Lady for A.O. Scott’s Sunday magazine piece about the Neo-Neo Realism movement in contemporary American film. Or Google Wendy and Lucy and read through…
Started in 1999 as a record label specializing in house music, Hed Kandi has grown into a worldwide brand incorporating parties, fashion, radio, web TV, and even a partnership with Monarch airlines to do special flights from London to Ibiza. Now, Hed Kandi’s lounge in Miami Beach has launched a…
Lascivious cousin of Italian bocce, petanque prefers to stand in the shadows, twirling its mustache, sipping absinthe, and plotting the demise of its crass American archrival, horseshoes. “Horse-shu,” it says, “your date wiz total obscurity eez coming. I have waited in zee shadows long enough. Now I will strike every…
Venezuelans have an expression for things that don’t go well together — “arroz con mango” — while Americans have several quaint ones for things that do, like “peas in a pod,” but where is the expression for things that shouldn’t work together but do anyway? Tuesday’s double feature at the…
Ignore the political reading of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly when you see the famous opera. Even though the male lead, Pinkerton, is an American soldier, is named after a notoriously violent detective agency for corporate hire, and takes advantage of a young, innocent Asian woman while he’s stationed in her…
We’ve come to count on The Standard for a lot of different essential items for South Beach survival: mini-cheeseburgers, spa treatments, poolside cocktails, etc., but who knew they were also projecting free kick-ass films on the last Monday of every month? Well, no one did because this is the first…
Has the Marlins stadium fiasco made you feel powerless? Looking for a way to positively affect the city of Miami? This Thursday the Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) will unveil a brand-new community service networking group called the Wolf Pack Gives Back. Former FIU professor and self-proclaimed rabble-rouser Ted…
Until the 2001 release of Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump, a compilation of West African funk, most of us in the States had no idea the art form we’d invented had been perfected overseas. In short, there’s a reason why more than 27 women signed up to marry Afrobeat founder Fela…
If the Dunkin Donuts folks tried to charge you $100 for a Boston cream, you’d laugh in their faces, but if your mortgage company offered to reduce your monthly payment to the same amount, you’d jump for joy. Point being: There are some things that make a Benjamin seem insignificant,…
Why try and make up something funny to convince you to go to the Raging Jews of Comedy show, when all we have to do is quote some of the comedians who will be appearing? Jodie Wasserman: Woman comes over to me, says, “Oh, are you pregnant?” I was like,…
Sure the NBA and NHL playoffs are in full swing and baseball season has just begun, but for those of us who are true football fans, Saturday eclipses everything else. So why sit at home by yourself to watch all 32 teams decide their futures, when you could be at…
