Every decadent, cultured city needs a Taschen store. Otherwise, where’s a connoisseur of highbrow pornography to go when he needs a $1500 signed copy of Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior? They just don’t sell that shit at the Pleasure Emporium.Anyway, Miami’s finally got one of these…
Skinnydipping after dark with a few longhair BFFs is one of the best ways to spend a springtime Friday night. The water’s green, the sky’s green, and there’s no discernible horizon. It’s cold, but not that cold. And the wind whistles like music while puffy, cartoon-ish letters float through the…
If you thought your family was messed up, just wait till you meet the Rizzos, the big brawling clan at the chaotic center of writer-director Raymond De Felitta’s new comedy City Island. One moment, they seem normal, then they don’t, and then they do, and then they don’t. They lie…
You’re a popular dominatrix with ten years’ experience in torture play. You have an extensive collection of rubber cudgels and leather whips. You’re a very, very naughty girl. Well, not really. Compared to European freaks of the 16th and 17th centuries, you are a total amateur. Back then, a torturer’s…
MOVED TO SWEAT RECORDS. Click here for details. When Miami-bred indie band Glocca Morra decamped to Philly last summer, everyone was bummed. Bookers shook their heads in disbelief and fans cried on street corners. But no one was bummed quite like the band’s high school buds. It was, as local…
After producing several documentary films (and a few shorts) over the last six years, Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer has finally made the leap to feature-length fiction work with Children of God. And he has no intention of looking back. “Documentaries were really, really important to me. I will probably return…
In the pantheon of R&B divadom, there’s a definite history. So let’s speak to the chronological record, which goes Aretha, Whitney, Mariah… Uh, who’s next? Well, over the course of the past decade, Alicia Keys has proven herself fit to don the mantel. Like Carey, Keys debuted with a massively…
Got a screwed-up back? The two-step solution is simple. Step 1: Call 1-800-411-PAIN, score a script, and wash down a double dose with a nice pull from your 40-ouncer. Step 2: Crip-walk to the American Airlines Arena this Thursday for some low-frequency bass therapy at the White Lion Records 15th…
A trip to the tip of America’s big toe, otherwise knows as South Florida, can be a difficult thing to plan. For months, San Francisco psych rockers the Fresh & Onlys have been trying to shuffle the many moving parts of their touring schedule so they could spend some time…
On a typical Thursday night, your average electronica artist isn’t sitting down to a fancy dinner. He’s just waking up from the 45-minute power nap that precedes his 96-hour working weekend, popping some pick-me-up MDMA, and uhntz-uhntz-ing through his personal hygiene routine. This Thursday, though, it’s the 25th Annual International…
For his swan dive into Jungian archetypes, local performance artist David Rohn is channeling more personalities than Sybil. During his solo show “In Characters” at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art this Saturday at 7 p.m., the quick chameleon will unveil a suite of photographs and a series of performances exploring the…
It’s been more than 20 years since the Alliance Theatre Lab’s artistic director, Adalberto Acevedo, first read Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans. But all along, he has been plotting his own version. “I had always planned to have my own company,” Acevedo says. “And this was on the list of plays…
Even today, there’s debate among scholars and conspiracy theorists whether William Shakespeare was his real name. Yet despite the dearth of definite biographical data, there’s one thing we can say for sure about the Bard of Avon: Like most classy famous dudes of the 16th Century, he had a beautifully…
He’s a graff guy, so he spends most of his time in the streets, stickering, tagging, and spraying. But now and again, Aholsniffsglue steps off the corner and into the gallery for the purposes of peddling his work. In the past, Ahol’s art-world activity has been limited to group shows…
Ever since that pest hipsteratis mobilis (colloquially called the hipster) began invading Williamsburg circa 1999, Brooklyn’s resident species have been in steady decline. And there’s none more threatened than the Wild Yaks. A naturally musical beast, the Yak just wants to hang with his bandmates, sip something cold, and holler…
The Rizzos are an average family — two parents, two kids — who make their home on City Island, an old fishing town in the Bronx. The patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia), is a New York State corrections officer with dreams of being an actor. His wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), is…
On the surface, this debut feature by writer-director Florence Jaugey is about a girl boxer, Yuma (Alma Blanco), struggling to escape the barrios of Managua. She lives in a concrete-floor shack with her often-absent mother, unemployed pedophilic stepdad, teen junkie brother, and two younger siblings. She loves and protects the…
The streets, squats, garages, and clubs of unincorporated Miami-Dade are flooded with unsigned indie bands, punk crews, rap collectives, and solo singer-songwriter types. And they’re all calculating their imminent signing bonus. Even you, dear New Times reader, must fantasize from time to time about becoming famous for your skills on…
In 1994, Juan Angel Ruiz was involved in a devastating car wreck. In the first terrifying moments after regaining consciousness in his hospital bed, Juan Angel tried to look around the room. “I opened my eyes. The light over my bed blinded me. It was too bright,” he says in…
Back in January when the New Times named Lil Daggers’ limited-edition Stragglers Tour EP to our “Best Local Albums of 2009” list, we said: “If you were either lucky or obsessed enough to score one of these exceedingly rare 10-inch discs at the outset, you’ll already agree Yuri, Ruben, Gabe,…
Last Thursday, Destroyio Records invaded Churchill’s again. And every species of Miami punk was there: Hialeah soccer hooligans, dreaded lezzies, Calle Ocho crusties, Subhumans squat rats, weekend anarchists, Misfits aerobics instructors, hardcore dudes with neck tattoos, etc. It was a mixed pit. Everyone sipped some kind of clear alcohol from…
Born into the itinerant life of a con artist, Kay (Aida Folch) is a sexy but street-tough young woman who has helped her father, Sebas (Manuel Morón), run scams since she learned to walk. For years, they’ve lived off small scores, skipping from one city to the next across Spain…
