Either Florida International University’s Ronald Berkman is a dedicated New Times reader or he just screwed up the most significant moment in FIU’s history. Last Wednesday, after mentioning nearly every politician in Miami-Dade County by name, from Sweetwater Mayor Manual Morono to Hialeah Gardens Mayor Yioset de la Cruz to…
For those of you with mid-century coffee tables and no money to put fancy design books on top of them, here’s some welcome news. Books & Books in Coral Gables is having an absolutely huge sale on all Taschen titles.If you’ve never bought or oggled one of the publisher’s products in…
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Filmmaker John Waters hasn’t made a public appearance in Miami since 2002, when he screened the film Boom! at Art Basel, but the “Pope of Trash” is back, thanks to the organizers at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.Waters will be performing his ongoing monologue “An Evening with John…
Even though the audience for classical music is about 70 behind the times, at least the good folks over at SoBe Arts aren’t. Proof is in the program for tonight’s “Starving Angels”, when their String Quartert will be featuring some of the most daring and underappreciated composers of the 20th…
Born in Cuba, trained in Russia, chops earned in New York City, violinist Alfredo Triff now calls Miami home, though his trio has such a melange of styles, they could probably call anywhere home. Made up of Daniel Ponce on congas, Alex Berti on bass, and Triff on violin, the…
Sometimes the back-and-forth debate about evolution glosses over the most important aspect of Charles Darwin’s theory, namely, all the amazing scientific research he did in the process of formulating it. To celebrate some of those achievements, the University of Miami’s Department of Biology is marking the occasion of the 200th…
One of the forgotten stories of the Nazi regime is their oppression of their own tennis hero, Gottfried von Cramm. Born into an aristocratic family and possessing stereotypical Aryan good looks, von Cramm had the unfortunate luck of winning the French Open the year Hitler rose to power. Furious that…
“In this day and age of cell phones and video cameras, you get some unique submissions,” says Miami Latin Gay Film Festival director Ellen Wedner, “but we’re looking for quality.” The inaugural run of the fest — which seeks to show gay and lesbian films from all romance-language-speaking countries —…
Power. Grease. Hot engines. Long, phallic vessels throttling through liquid off Miami Beach. Some people might mistake the Miami Super Boat Grand Prix as just another Gay Pride event, until of course they notice the thousands of hot girls in bikinis lined up onshore. What is it about powerboats that…
The fulcrum is once again leaning south. Studio A sunk into the downtown pavement last fall, serenaded by the tears and acoustic strummings of Miami’s burgeoning hipster crowd, but on top of the pool of spilled Pabst Blue Ribbon and unrequited love poems for Cat Marshall was built a place…
Many have predicted the death of the record store, a prediction also lain upon the head of Miami’s own Sweat Records, and yet, after two Winter Olympics, the rough beast keeps on slouching toward Bethlehem. One of the reasons the place has survived is the rebirth of the vinyl record,…
Instead of your usual nice little Sunday of Home Depot and Bed, Bath & Beyond, why not bike over to Earth Fest 2009? Miami’s greenest hoedown begins at 10 a.m., goes until sundown, and features workshops on recession-relevant topics such as reducing your electrical bill, growing an organic garden, and…
If you can’t get invited to watch the filming of a Top Chef episode live and in person, the next best thing is probably the Heart of a Chef Festival. Organized and run by the Florida Heart Research Institute, the fest features some great opportunities for up-close-and-personal demonstrations from culinary…
Miami is far enough from the godforsaken parts of the Western United States that most people down here haven’t heard of Burning Man, the weeklong music/art/camping/rampant-drug-use festival that Californians circle on their calendar the day after the last edition has ended. For the uninitiated, Burning Man began in San Francisco…
Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons were obviously a huge act back in the day, and the 2006 musical based on their music and biography, “Jersey Boys,” has taken home its share of hardware at the Tony’s. For those of you out there trying to break into the Broadway musical…
Berkman ushered in the new era with the words, “I’d like to personally welcome Isiah Thompson.”
Here we go, Miami, another historic moment. The first live team handball match on Dade County soil: the Coupe de la Ligue Finals. Today, semifinal #1 between #3 seed Chambery and #2 seed Montpellier.Updates after the jump…
Pop quiz, hot shot. Two independent film events, one night (Thursday, April 9). What do you do?Choices after the jump…
Does the artist influence the world or the world influence the artist? Maybe a better question is whether the painter has control over the canvas or whether the canvas has control over the painter? In the case of Marcos Raúl Valella, it’s definitely the latter. “The way I handle the…
Woody Allen would probably have a ball writing this event up, but as the New Times is a secular institution, we’ll keep it straight-laced and just dish the facts. Billed as “The only kosher-for-Passover nightclub”, the Matzo Ball Party keeps Miami Beach relevant for observant Jews during the holidays by…
You are in your apartment. It’s Friday. You’re alone. The Chinese take-out you ordered and devoured has given you a brief injection of energy, tinged with a mild stomachache and the melancholic feeling this isn’t the first Friday you’ve sat at home wishing someone would read to you from a…
