Check it out, kids. What if you didn’t even have to wait for your podcasts to download? What if you could hear them in real time, from the people themselves? The far-flung future you say? Nay, it’s called “Live Radio” and it was invented back when the only way to…

If a weekly party in Miami gets titled Good Clean Fun, you can bet the adjectives are dipped in a vat of irony, especially if that party takes place at Rokbar, where no one need ask the walls to talk — simply show up and don’t close your eyes. But…

It’s difficult to imagine a child who has grown up with Guitar Hero, YouTube, and iTunes wanting to be a rock star. “One day, I want to be drawn on by Perez Hilton” seems like a much more contemporary desire, which makes this Friday night’s opening film at the Romance…

It’s difficult to imagine a child who has grown up with Guitar Hero, YouTube, and iTunes wanting to be a rock star. “One day, I want to be drawn on by Perez Hilton” seems like a much more contemporary desire, which makes this Friday night’s opening film at the Romance…

On his way to D.C. to lobby for Obama’s recovery bill, Mayor Manny Diaz stopped by the Freedom Tower to give his blessing to the 26th edition of the Miami International Film Festival. One hundred or so journalists and cultural emissaries were there to suck down free Bustelo cortaditos and…

For 99 percent of the folks reading this calendar, you’ve already decided whether you’re going to attend the Miami Jewish Film Festival based on the words Miami Jewish Film Festival. Either you went the past 11 years, you’ll go this year, and you’ll go for the next 111, or Jewish…

Getting time alone is easy. Simply say, “I’m going to go see an experimental film,” and watch your friends run from you like fire ants from water. But say, “I’m going to go see a feature-length experimental film,” and they will, if they are truly your friends, throw you face…

A defining feature of the French New Wave is that it declared all other French film (except for Renoir and Franju) one long reel of shit, the kind of boast that has tragically disappeared from our otherwise hyperopinionated cinematic world. The guys at CCCV haven’t called anyone out yet, but…

“Every organ is different,” says Luis Cuza, and he should know. The FIU student is getting his bachelor’s degree in music with a concentration in the organ, a passion he has translated into this Saturday night’s choral concert of Christmas favorites — A Holiday Dream — at St. Stephen’s Episcopal…

Chefs are the new film directors, who are themselves the new rock stars, who are themselves the new actors, who are themselves the new novelists, who are themselves the new painters, who are themselves the new composers, who are themselves the new poets, who are themselves the new cave painters…

Does a crowd gather when you pose for a passport photo? Do bank tellers lick the dollar bills you deposit? Do you sometimes catch your hairstylist leaning in to clandestinely smell your neck? If so, then you just might have what it takes to win Do I Make You Horny?…

To-night and to-night and to-night only — Thirty-seven plays by one Bill Shakespeare Abridged into ninety-seven minutes Of pure sound and fury, signifying Nothing except one hilarious evening For you and your mistress who doth protest Too much: “You never take me out, Player.” So out, out to the great…

The key to rescuing the world from this recession lies in placing unemployed workers in high-paying jobs that require no particular skill set or intelligence. For instance, sports columnists, the governors of certain outlying states, and whoever is responsible for translating titles of American movies into French. Home Alone became…

Spanish films often include plots involving young, struggling artists sleeping with older women; funerals that turn into occasions for lovemaking; and scenes in kitchens where people are cooking naked. In fact, according to the Spanish National Institute of Film, unless a flick includes both food and sex (and preferably in…

Although the United States has fallen behind other developed nations in education (ninth, according to the OECD), healthcare (37th, says WHO), and environmentalism (39th, per WEF), we can still out-booze our foreign enemies. According to the Beverage Information Group, the United States is expected to pass those cheese-smelling surrenderers, the…

For comedians, an election year — and the fertile plain of material that springs from heavily made-up people trying to act as serious as possible — never comes too soon, but it has been awhile since Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet satirized politics. Wag the Dog (1997), which summed up…

Italians make everything better. In their hands, scooters become Vespas, coffee becomes espresso, and murder becomes “a favor.” A film such as Voyage to Italy (1953) — in which a bored English couple takes long, conversation-less walks — becomes, in Italy, an orgy of lyrical romanticism. The Godfather II surpasses…

The point of this calendar section is to promote and sell local cultural events, with the underlying idea that if it weren’t for New Times, no one in Miami would know what to do with themselves. When the event is a lecture in south Kendall about Sri Lankan pottery, this…

Only in Miami — probably a worse theater town than Wasilla, Alaska — could a dramatic institution such as the Coconut Grove Playhouse find a way to amass millions in debt and close itself down. To put on a successful play in the Magic City, you need Lindsay Lohan to…