In Miami the color green has traditionally referred to the cheese, the chedda, and the Benjamins, you know? And organic was a word used only by drug dealers. But things are changing. Bike paths are being built, and today from 9 to 3, in the newly christened MiMo Historic District,…
What Miami really needs is a museum that speaks to our interests. Where, for instance, is the I-95 Roadside Collision Drivetarium? Or the William Brickell Institute for the $18 Gin and Tonic? Couldn’t you spend an entire Sunday at the Julia Tuttle Lost Airline Baggage Museum? Alas, until some savvy…
Hispanic boxers have made an unmistakable mark on the sport of kings. They constitute a large portion of the competitors, and many matches create a battle of culture and country as well as strength and agility. Tonight it’s Colombia — famous for cocaine, delectable pan de bono, and the most…
Forget Art Basel, Winter Music Conference, and the South Beach Comedy Festival. The 15th annual Miami International Map Fair, known as the “number one map fair in the world,” runs today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Why would you even bother hitchhiking…
After the massive success of Paul Chan’s November staging of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, one hopes theater companies across the nation will begin to see the potential for outdoor performances. Just imagine Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in the lobby of an aborted condominium project,…
Like the Muppet movies, Jewish films depend largely on their locations to sell themselves. Instead of Manhattan, the Jews in Harley, Son of David take Washington, D.C., on the backs of motorcycles. In Cheese Head — My First Ghetto, it’s Kingston, Jamaica; in Cabul in Kabul, it’s Afghanistan; and in…
A nine-hole minigolf course whose every obstacle was designed by a different local artist, plus a complimentary drink with each round — we’re in San Francisco’s Mission District, right? Wrong. As construction finishes up along downtown’s busiest stretch, Miamians are discovering all sorts of gems that lurked behind the orange…
French film charms because it’s filmed in France, specifically Paris, whose cobblestone streets, café chairs, and sweeping arches seem more suited to black-and-white than color. Since Lumière planted his tripod beside a train depot, the best French films — which is very near to saying the best films, period –…
Irish films are not that dissimilar from Irish pubs. When you walk into one, you pretty much know what you’re going to get: car bombs, sexy accents, fiddle-and-pipe music, rampant nationalism, pints of Guinness, and likeable underdogs. The difference is that within the first hour at the pub, you’ll find…
It’s strange for us Miamians to openly welcome people into our homes. We’re used to barricading, blocking, barring, and walling. But perhaps that era is ending. Witness the first annual Buena Vista East Historical Home Tour and Pineapple Festival. Situated between 42nd and 48th streets between North Miami Avenue and…
At this very moment, in a dorm room far, far away, the MGM lion is roaring for the third time just as some guy named Alec presses play on his Panasonic CD boom box, ushering in the confusing opening silence of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon over the…
Most people are afraid of film festivals, and with good reason. The prospect of sitting through a two-hour experimental feature, shot with a cell phone, wherein a group of Swedish-speaking professors debates the existence of God, is all too likely. And that’s what’s great about the MSFF, also known as…
Cash your welfare check. Fix your car in the yard. Make fun of the one Arab family in town. Then sneak off to a cow pasture with your girlfriend. Life in West Virginia? Non. Actually that’s the depiction of life in northern France, specifically the Flanders region, where director Bruno…
One thing you can’t argue about with regard to Jesus: He set the bar pretty high, especially athletically speaking. Michael Jordan may have dunked from the free-throw line, but Jesus? He walked on water, and ever since, people have been hatin’ but not replicatin’. A bunch of architecture students will…
Michael Yawney assumed “bugchasing” was just a gay myth, like a Village People reunion tour or bathroom sex at “Homo” Depot. A 2003 Rolling Stone article about the phenomenon was marred by faulty reporting, and besides, people would not actually seek to contract HIV, would they? “Gift” parties, where HIV-negative…
The funny thing about anti-communist propaganda films from the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties is how much they resemble pro-communist propaganda films from the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties, according to Kevin Wynn of Cinema Vortex, which is showing a montage of the former called Public Domain Playhouse: Propaganda American Style tonight…
It’s New Year’s Eve 1972, and 15-year-old Janice Billie has decided to kill herself. She lives in a trailer on the Seminole reservation in Broward County with her brother, his wife, and their baby, and she’s waiting for the ball to drop. She has already stolen a gun, and after…
The point of film festivals is that people get to wear badges, duck lines, and go to afterparties. It’s like Italian slalom skier Alberto Tomba said on the eve of the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, when asked if he would change his lifestyle during the competition: “I used…
The way newspapers and magazines typically try to sell you on classical music is by convincing you there’s something edgy and dangerous about it: Wagner was a Nazi; Beethoven was a philanderer; Mozart had a derriere fetish. But New Times is gonna keep it real with you. Despite the bad…
Live from the Edge: Presented by the Miami Light Project is fusion theater from the New York-based Universes ensemble. The show is the culmination of the fifth annual Miami/Project Hip Hop, in which artists, activists, and educators from all over the United States convene for a weekend of dialogue and…
Despite their existentialist philosophy — free individuals are handcuffed by society’s contractarianism — bikers sure do get together often. And when they do, they inevitably drink a lot of society’s beer and ogle a fair number of society’s bikini-clad women. The cognitive dissonance continues this weekend in Key West, as…
What product better illustrates the importance of presentation than wine? Set a bottle of Château Margaux next to some fine china and it’s the pinnacle of taste and civility, but wrap up a jug of Carlo Rossi in a paper bag and it’s the liquid scepter of your local Dumpster…
