The history of comic books is inseparable from the history of Jews. Most pioneers in the genre were Jewish — Will Eisner, Stan Lee, and Art Spiegelman, to name just a few — and the newest member of their ranks is J.T. Waldman, author and illustrator of Megillat Esther, the…
Pitch for a “Matthew Pearl-style” novel: After Danielle Steel’s death in 2015, her youngest son finds an unpublished manuscript among her effects. Rather than being one of her trademark romance novels, the book exhibits a complex and disjointed plot realized through the first-person accounts of several different Habsburgian villagers at…
I counted three Venezuelan girls in bikini’s that made me want to defect on the next plane to Caracas.
Or so went the chants in the first round of the World Baseball Classic, when Venezuela played in Toronto. With Dolphins Stadium’s proximity to Westin-zuela, the atmosphere at tonight’s Puerto Rico-Venezuela match-up should be even more rife with entertaining political sing-song. Game starts at 8pm, and the outfield seats are…
The only film that created “around the corner” lines was Jens Hoffmann’s 9 to 5: Days in Porn, which had the unfair of advantage of cum-swapping.
Festival Director Tiziana Finzi hands Ferrara his Lifetime Achievment Award–some kind of crystal statue–and he immediately asks how much it cost
A typical scene: D’Agata fucks his Japanese girlfriend doggy-style while the subtitle reads, “I feel lost at sea.”
The prize is $500 OR a free colonoscopy, “neither of which,” according to the instructions, “is tranferable to another person.”
Baltimore club music began in the early Pleistocene era, when males from the Homo habilis species found that tapping a stick on a rock in 8/4 time while repeating one unique grunting noise made them 64 percent more likely to get ass. Unfortunately, this highly effective mating technique was lost…
Things that most people no longer do. A: sheep shearing. B: log-splitting. C: cigar-rolling. If you had to go watch one in person this weekend, the choice seem pretty obvious, no? The great tradition of rolling your own is alive and well today at the La Gloria Cubana Super Roll…
If Ty Webb were still on the tour, this is where he’d be the evening after the cut at Doral: the 9-Hole PUMA Open Launch Party. The party is a competition, meaning that each “hole” is a golf-related challenge, involving such random objects as a deck of cards, a hand-held…
There are two ways to watch street-legal racing for free in Miami. One is to get an Interstate 95-facing room at the City Inn Hotel on 82nd Street, though the view is partially obscured by the giant Budweiser advertisement and every now and then three cops bust in looking for…
Until the City of Miami chooses to host an unannounced street festival on the Palmetto Expressway between 4 and 6 p.m. on a random Tuesday, the most exciting road closure of the year is still Carnaval Miami’s Calle Ocho party, self-erecting this Sunday between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. across…
Someone hasn’t gotten the word that truth was disproved by literary theorists almost 100 years ago, because the tautological yet somehow appropriately titled “spoken word” scene is still going strong. Few of its practitioners have garnered more attention than Georgia Me, AKA Tamika Harper. One of the original Def Poetry…
Aware of what, you ask? Music and art. The folks at Acustronic, an organization which asks to be called a “concept label,” are throwing open the doors to their brand-new 20,000 sq ft gallery slash performance space on NW 29th Street. Because it’s Miami, about a quarter of those square…
Little did the United States Baseball Team realize that when star Alex Rodriguez decided to play for the Dominican Republic at the 2009 World Baseball Classic, they were getting a blessing in disguise. With plenty of advance notice, U.S. officials were able to assemble a team that needn’t rely on…
This is it, white people, the one day of the year you can hearken back to your roots without a qualifying shame for your thousands of years of crimes against humanity. St. Patrick’s Day 2009. Yes, everyone loves to claim to be Irish, and why not? They smile in the…
When the unfinished version of “The Pale King,” David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel about a group of IRS agents, is published next year, boredom will have officially become the new aesthetic ecstasy. It may be already. One of the standout films of this year’s Miami International Film Festival, Enrique Rivero’s…
Last Saturday night the migratory patterns of the American art world were temporarily inverted
Two Sundays ago, Academy Awards host Hugh Jackman triumphantly declared, “I am Wolverine!” in a powerful, firework-aided falsetto that ended his introductory routine and simultaneously confirmed just how far Hollywood’s self-esteem has fallen. Ironically enough, Jackman’s jab at himself was the funniest moment of the night, but it begs the…
Wait. Do you want to know a secret? About what goes on? It won’t be long. Ask me why. I want to tell you: Beatlemania Now! A rock and roll musical. A magical mystery tour. Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Strawberry fields forever. Yellow submarine. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…
Remember that time Lawrence Olivier sharted in his tunic between Acts II and III of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1968 performance of “Julius Caesar”? Christopher Plummer does. He remembers all kinds of yarns, which he has collected in a jolly good heave-ho of sentences he has titled, In Spite of…
