Vienna, 1762. A five-year-old lad from Salzburg wearing more lace than Grandma’s dining room table sits down at the clavier. After his father blindfolds him, he begins to play the musical equivalent of Michael Jordan switching hands mid-layup in Game 2 of the 1991 NBA Finals: the merging of technical…
Did you know San Francisco has the smallest population of African-Americans, percentage-wise, of any major U.S. city? (7 percent) How many films have you seen that feature black people choosing bicycles over cars as their primary form of transportation? These are just a couple of the questions that informed Medicine…
Hecker’s next project is reported to be a Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle about the guy who invented Atari, so this may be your last chance to hear him speak in a relaxed venue.
Larson died — where else? — in Florida, running from the SEC.
Now that Langerado has sunk back into the swamp from whence it came, Ultra Music Festival assumes a larger role of persuading rock bands to take a detour to Miami. Enter Bloc Party, the biggest English band since Oasis. Their new album, Intimacy, has them back on track after the…
If the iconic 1950s show Lassie were remade today, it would be Timmy who’d be running to tell Lassie that Aunt May fell into an irrigation ditch, but Lassie’s second personal assistant, Jeff, would stop him at the screen door. “I could maybe pencil you in for a week from…
University of Miami students who are trying to get to that next level with the girl from Comp 1102: the Miami New Times, in the infinite wisdom it has gained from hanging around lots of undergraduate co-eds, has a fail-safe plan for you. Buy her tickets to the Miami Civic…
If you’re not at Churchill’s this Friday night for the Black Lips show, we’ll know why. Because you drive a BMW. Because your soul has been crippled by the weight of your bourgeoisie possessions. Because you don’t feel like riding the steel-and-teak elevator 20 floors down when you have Sushi…
Just as Academy Awards pundits look to the Golden Globes to make predictions, horseracing odds-makers look to the Florida Derby to figure out how the spring’s biggest races will play out. Last year’s winner, Big Brown, went on to conquer both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, which begs the…
Whenever any small business survives its first two years in Miami, it’s cause for celebration. But when that business is also completely outdoors, has a minigolf course created by local artists, and screens rare foreign films, it’s cause for drunken revelry and respectful urination onto Biscayne Boulevard sidewalk trees. Yes,…
Oh, goodness, Jim! Look how the month has passed and I’ve nearly forgotten all about seeing the New Theatre’s performance of Tennessee Williams’s classic 1946 play The Glass Menagerie, and wouldn’t you know it — this is the last weekend! I’ve just been sitting here in my room, watching how…
Just how gangster was Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart? He composed his first piece of music at 4 years old. At 14, he stole a sacred piece of music from the Vatican by writing it down from memory after hearing it just once. He told off archbishops to their faces…
In classical mythology, the cornucopia was a horn broken off from Amalthaea, a goat who raised the god Zeus, and whoever possessed it had access to an endless supply of fruits, vegetables, and presumably micro-brews. You may not be able to get your hands on that horn, but you can…
The end of the video also includes part of one of the new songs
79% of male cheerleaders resemble cast members of “Saved by the Bell”
The first big upset of the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament, #13 Cleveland State defeating #4 Wake Forest, really demands an intelligent analysis, especially since I watched it live from three feet away. But hey, this is the alternative press, and I have a great sense of humor, so instead, I’m…
It wasn’t until Pearl was a second-year law student that he began to play around with the idea of turning his research into something fictional.
Somewhere in a factory in Candyland, there’s a giant grid of John McCain portraits, casting 44 slightly insane smiles into the pinkish darkness
If the new experimental wing of the Miami International Film Festival, Cutting the Edge, whetted your appetite for non-linear cinema, then the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami has a treat for you. Abstract Cinema and Technology, an exhibit that explores how technological innovations from 1920 on provided new…
Winter Music Conference veterans know it takes stamina to make it all the way through the week without breaking down into an uncongealed mess of fluids by Friday afternoon. Problem is, you get so amped the first night it’s hard not to blow your party wad all at once. Problem…
Tired of nuking the same Amy’s Veggie Burrito every night? It’s time to step thy game up and learn some healthy cooking skills. The Heart of a Chef Festival is hosting a Live Cooking Demonstration today at the Aventura Whole Foods. Chef Kurtis Jantz of Neomi’s Grill at the Trump…
Have your weeknights gotten a little stale? Hungry for something different? When was the last time an event with some real flavor fired up your Thursday? Well then, how’d you like to swallow a nice, meaty chunk of Top Chef Tom Colicchio and his extensive culinary knowledge? Consider yourself served,…
