If you’e 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…
Named for a lyrical snippet from the coked-up disco track “Candy Shop” off Madonna’s 2008 album, Hard Candy, the new group show “Sticky & Sweet” at Calix Gustav Gallery toys with sex, taboo, and kink. Local artist Eurydice tacks embroidered porn and foreign film collage to the walls. Diane Arrieta…
Harland Williams is a Canadian comic who looks like a skinny-fat giraffe with rockabilly hair and sounds like a drunk Jimmy Stewart. He’s also a professional weirdo. You’d probably recognize Williams for his movie stuff: He sipped piss in Dumb & Dumber, he was a serial killer selling a six-minute…
The cartoonishly grotesque star of Tawnie Silva’s new art show, “You Like Everything About Me, Except Me,” is a four-eyed, thick-lipped, gap-toothed fat lady. (And when we say she has four eyes, we mean she literally has an extra set of holes in her head.) Basically a BBW blow-up doll…
Last week, a swampy garage rock band from Toronto called Teenanger crossed the Canada-U.S. border in a 2000 Dodge Caravan packed with exotic animals, weird meats, and musical instruments. It was the dubious beginning of the foursome’s very first American tour, a crazy two-week blitz cutting through the center of…
From the moment Cinema Sounds No. 6 was announced, there’s been a serious swirl of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. And no matter how hard we batter him with questions, Roofless Rex exec Matt Preira refuses to reveal anything but the most basic details. He just smirks and says: “It’s…
Newspapers suck. They get printed and that’s it. Meanwhile, the world keeps spinning, the internets keep churning, and party plans get revised a dozen times. In this week’s Night + Day calendar section, the New Times got all hyped up about “Interstellar, a one-night art and music party at Adjust…
After she and Reggie Bush called it quits last week, Kim Kardashian needed a little post-breakup “me” time, so she spent the weekend relaxing at the Cinco Lunas hotel and resort in Miami Beach. As it turns out, the reality-TV starlet and Quick Trim pill pusher got a little too…
Apparently, there’s a good reason the sands of South Beach are white. According to a recent report by the National Environmental Study of Recreational Shorelines (NESRS), the section of beach located between South Pointe Drive and Fourth Street is laced with faint traces of cocaine. “It wasn’t something we expected…
With an acting résumé that stretches from GableStage and New Theatre to a featured role alongside Paris Hilton in the 2006 straight-to-video sorority romp National Lampoon’s Pledge This!, Miriam Kulick has proven her propensity to mix it up. She does stage and screen, drama and comedy, serious theater and unabashed…
When we first heard about the Sicilian Film Festival, our minds were flooded with blood-red visions of the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan and oversized servings of pasta alla Norma. Wrong, says festival director Emanuele Viscuso: “The focus of the SFF is to underline the quality of Sicilian cinema and culture, and…
Straight out of Springboro, Ohio, via the virtual reality of the Internet, Mitchell Davis is a 20-something kid who has cornered a certain kind of pseudo-celeb status with the Gen Z set. That’s a convoluted way to say: He’s a YouTube star with nearly 72 million video views to his…
For 56 years, James “Jimbo” Luznar has operated a bocce ball, beer, and smoked-fish shack on the northeast edge of Virginia Key. Named basically by default, it’s known to ex-shrimpers, hippies, and frat boys as Jimbo’s Place, a lawless yet low-key hideaway from the urban shitstorm of mainland Miami. A…
A man in a suit sits tied to a chair, his face hidden under a hood. Out of the shadows, a woman with knotted blond hair and dirty street clothes emerges. She silently circles the man, moving in slow, tight loops like a Predator drone fixing on its target. She…
A couple of months ago, British electro-indie-art-rock-retro-pop guy Dan Black made his first trip to Miami to play Dirty Hairy at LIV. (Check out a video here.) That night, he sat down with the New Times to talk about emerging music genres, ex-bandmates, copyright squabbles with the bride of B.I.G.,…
This odd little doohickey is something called the pear. Sounds innocuous enough, right? But, wait. It also looks like Satan’s penis. And that’s pretty much how sadistic 17th-century torturers used the device. To start, they’d insert the pear into their victim’s mouth, rectum, or vagina. (The victim was usually someone…
When Ice Cream and crew invaded El Warehouse (a live-work rental in Little Haiti) last Friday, there was supposed to be a keg. Five bucks for unlimited beer. Well … No go. Instead, kids packed the trunks of their clunkers with Bud tallboys, High Life, and other cheap alcohol options…
A totally naked, nearly hairless 50-something male basks in the early-evening light of Miami Beach, his penis just as tan as his nose. The South Florida sun blazes orange and apocalyptic in a half-black sky. A speedboat lies stranded at the side of the road. Leaping fires rage on the…
Not too long ago, indie dance party Nightdrive relocated to O.H.W.O.W.’s new cool-kid spot Bar. Prior to that move, Moshe Franco, Patrick Walsh, and crew called the American Legion home. Before that, Nightdrive hung around the News Lounge. In short, it seems like these dudes have been wandering forever. This…
A gift of extravagant jewels has always been the best way for one man to tell another how he feels. So when Florida Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria presented Hanley Ramirez with a commemorative “.342” (the All Star shortstop’s 2009 league-leading batting average) pendant encrusted with nearly 400 diamonds, the boss…
Paper tigers, kids with guns, and pro footballers playing in a flurry of color-chart chunks. That’s just a quick glimpse of the visual trip that awaits at the 2010 New World School of the Arts “Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition.” Running through May 7 at the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation,…
What do you need to know that you don’t already know? Over the last few years, Switch (real name Dave Tayor) has become one of the most massive masterminds of mash-up music in this new-ish millennium. He and Diplo (real name Wesley Pentz) were the guys behind M.I.A.’s Pineapple Express-powered…
