Even the most rabid fans of the Back to the Future franchise are unaware that a planned fourth film was junked because it was deemed “too gritty.” The plot: It’s 2010, and our hero, Marty McFly, is now a broke 42-year-old used-car salesman. One day while browsing Craigslist for clunkers,…
As a general rule, it’s a really bad idea to get drunk at the zoo. Consuming massive amounts of alcohol while surrounded by wild, vicious beasts could very easily lead to any number of embarrassing and/or deadly mishaps. You might mistake a gorilla for your girlfriend. You might fall into…
In 1983, South Carolina lesbian writer Dorothy Allison made her literary debut with The Women Who Hate Me. Full of free-verse poetic benders, the chapbook set the thematic territory — rural white poverty, sexual violence, gender politics, etc. — that Allison would return to again and again in later work,…
A few years ago, Miami-bred, L.A.-based indie guy Vic Kingsley sat down for a midafternoon meal with Neil Young. It wasn’t a power lunch. It was pure coincidence. “We didn’t talk about music,” Kingsley laughs. “I didn’t wanna seem like a fan so much as someone interested in good conversation.”…
While tirelessly promoting the fantabulous sport of women’s jai alai with its varsity Lady Pythons, the University of Wynwood also serves as Miami’s gracious ambassador to the whole wide world of words. Founded in 2008 by P. Scott Cunningham and recently flooded with cash from the John S. and James…
Whether you own a $135,000 Maserati GranTurismo S or a ’96 Ford Taurus that can be driven only downhill, your ride probably qualifies for this Friday’s Speedway T-n-T at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The only requirements are “street-legal cars and trucks with valid vehicle registration and driver’s license.” So, basically, if it…
If only we’d been told as teenagers that drinking cough syrup, playing videogames, and listening to Appetite for Destruction on repeat could turn us into art stars, we might have ended up like Cory Arcangel. (OK, so maybe we are leaving out certain mitigating factors, such as talent, imagination, and…
Don’t have the cash for a midweek trip to Rio? Well, no worries. Tonight Champion Sound and two big-time beat junkies are bringing a taste of Brazil’s funk and fat asses to these subtropical shores. Jumping off at 10 p.m., the weekly hip-hop humpfest will host Marcelinho Da Lua and…
Sweatstock’s sweatiest moment came at the end. By the time noise-punk duo No Age finally stumbled onstage around 9 p.m., the crowd was bigger, drunker, and more chaotic than it had been all day. Fans of every kind packed a pit bounded by NE 2nd Ave., Sweat Records’ north-facing façade,…
After another shitty day at a shitty job in a shitty city, I decided to relax by listening to an old LP of sci-fi movie sound effects and watching shadows on my bedroom walls while blitzed on acid. At the time, this seemed like the best way to spend the…
It’s not exactly comforting, but the bond between all humans is death. And just like the rest of us, Jim Morrison ended up a fat, flatulent corpse in a Paris bathtub. Unlike most people, however, the Lizard King was a rock star, so he was only 27 when it came…
Listen, if you’ve been stashing singles every day since the beginning of the regular season for some big playoff bet, it wouldn’t be entirely ill advised to go against your hometeam Miami Heat instincts and take the Boston Celtics to win in the first round of the 2010 NBA Playoffs…
There’s a cliché that all boxers die tragic, penniless deaths. And for too long, the examples have been numerous enough to make it unsettlingly true: The IRS hounded Joe Louis into the grave, Sonny Liston OD’ed in a Vegas hotel room, and bankrupt ex-champs such as Leon Spinks, Mike Tyson,…
If you happen to be a 20-something punk whose experience of ’80s hardcore is wholly derived from digitized back issues of Slash and a bootleg DVD of Penelope Spheeris’s seminal doc The Decline of Western Civilization, this Friday’s Pogo! party at Churchill’s Pub is probably the closest you’ll ever come…
Sure, Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat closed out the last month and a half of the regular season by posting 18 wins and only four losses. But here’s the thing: Miami spent the final seven days of the playoff race eking out meager wins against some of the Eastern…
It was an insanely heavy way to start a nice night of music and movies: Bodies tossed across train tracks, horsemen of the apocalypse streaking through snowy nowheres, and local metalheads Slashpine shredding slow and deep into doom-y sonic territory. A couple days before the show, I asked Roofless Rex…
All you hardcore weekend warriors can just keep on keeping on, living “in the moment,” and partying so unendingly hard that your eyes, teeth, and toenails hurt till Wednesday. Personally, I’m taking a fucking break.Why? ‘Cause I don’t really give a shit about today, tomorrow, or the next day. Every…
Like Coral Castle and Tobacco Road, the ex-shrimper hideaway known as Jimbo’s Place (Duck Lake Rd., Virginia Key) is one of those odd outcroppings of the subtropical landscape that provides an increasingly necessary contrast to Miami’s million condos and strip malls. For more than a half-century, James “Jimbo” Luznar has…
Even if you don’t know his name or you keep mixing him up with that lame glam-goth TV magician (uh, Criss Angel) or you don’t know a hacked PlayStation from a hacksaw, believe us when we say: Cory Arcangel is an artist from the future. Working out of Brooklyn, Arcangel…
As if trapped in a relentlessly recurring nightmare, Orson Welles spent his entire 50-year film career warring with the studio system. His battles began with 1941’s Citizen Kane and continued as corporate hacks nixed, abandoned, or butchered one project after another. By 1958, Welles was a fat 40-year-old with no…
If you’re only semiserious about making a difference in honor of this Thursday’s 40th annual Earth Day, don’t let your eco-friends bully you into petitioning for stricter federal regulations on toxic coal ash. Just join this weekend’s Party for the Planet at Miami Metrozoo and watch captive animals play with…
If you’re only semiserious about making a difference in honor of this Thursday’s 40th annual Earth Day, don’t let your eco-friends bully you into petitioning for stricter federal regulations on toxic coal ash. Just join this weekend’s Party for the Planet at Miami Metrozoo and watch captive animals play with…
