Shad Gregory Moss, the artist formerly known as Lil’ Bow Wow, is a man-child of many talents. He raps, he acts, he tweets while driving drunk through the streets of Miami Beach. And this Sunday, Bow Wow will show off his on-court skills (see 2002’s orphan-becomes-NBA-superstar flick Like Mike) in…
Miami International Film Festival 2010 goes for the little guy
You know what would go great above the sofa? A piece of art. But you can’t just grab any old artwork and pop it into a frame. This thing’s gotta be special. So we’re thinking a 79-by-64-inch crayon drawing of a young male snuff victim. Imagine it: a giant Crayola-on-cotton-paper…
As you wander the streets, soccer fields, and empty lots of Little Haiti this Friday, keep your ear to the ground for the pounding sound of Ice Cream. It’s one part bad trip sing-along and one part hippie freak-out. Imagine a slow, giddy dive into Satan’s black guts. Trippy. Now,…
A few hours after midnight, a man and a woman meet randomly on the cold, wet streets of Bogotá. He’s Jorge (Quique Mendoza), a taxi driver whose brother was mysteriously murdered. She’s Angela (Gloria Montoya), a sexy but emotionally damaged party girl with out-of-control coke and liquor habits. Gradually, as…
A last-minute addition to the Miami International Film Festival screening schedule, Bruce Weber’s short documentary Liberty City Is Like Paris to Me is among the most locally focused films in this year’s fest. And, for that reason, it could also end up being a lightning rod for debate. Already, we’ve…
Everyone’s dreamt about discovering a drippingly delicious pizza planet. But only Orlando’s Yip Yip had the courage to cross the cosmos in pursuit of pepperoni.Before becoming interstellar explorers, though, Jason Temple (Yip 1) and Brian Esser (Yip 2) were just like the rest of us. They watched the stars, dreaming…
Despite the fact they’ve been a committed couple for three and a half years, Sonia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Daniel (Romain Duris) don’t even live together. She sleeps alone in a big, polished Paris apartment while Daniel crashes across town in a perpetually in-progress renovation project that she’s nicknamed his “secret…
So, a few weeks ago, I was arguing with this 35-year-old elementary school teacher who likes to wear kitty cat sweatshirts. She kept insisting the 2007 movie musical Hairspray, starring Nikki Blonsky, Troy Bolton, and Tranny Travolta, had been directed by John Waters.I tried to explain that the movie in…
If only we’d been told as teenagers that drinking cough syrup, playing videogames, and listening to Appetite for Destruction 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 an Oberlin…
Maybe it’s a whole tongue-in-cheek trip, but a guy with a name such as James Husband sounds like he should be playing Captain & Tennille covers at the local retiree lounge on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sunday mornings. Instead, he’s headlining this Saturday’s edition of Poplife at the Electric Pickle. Born…
Even if you’ve never met the man who built Churchill’s Pub, he’s pretty easy to spot. His name is Dave Daniels, and he’s that dapper 68-year-old gentleman with the great white grandfatherly beard. On a typical night, Mr. Daniels can be found sitting at the far end of the bar,…
Thanks to Tiger’s inability to control his wood, the wonderful world of golf has devolved into a celebrity soap opera. Prior to the events of the past few months, though, no one would have ever predicted it, because golfers are typically goofy guys who dress in nerdy clothing and chase…
If you’ve ever tried to stuff a slice of key lime pie into your martini, then you know it’s a bad idea. Inevitably, there’s a mess. Your dessert turns to mush. Your drink becomes undrinkable. And everyone goes home unhappy.Thankfully, the 72nd Bar & Grill (5861 Sunset Dr., Miami) opened…
Today, when you pick up a fresh copy of this week’s New Times, take note: There’s a little gift nestled inside. It’s the official program for the 2010 Miami International Film Festival. (General admission tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. this morning.) But before you rip it out, run…
As bored young professionals with a median age of 28, we here at Crossfade spend our days online and our nights in the club. While it’s light outside, we Twitter, blog, and stalk former sex partners on Facebook. Then, as soon as the sun goes down, we drink too much,…
First off, Terri and Donna aren’t real people. Like a lot of the stuff that comes spiraling out of the small gallery space at NW 36th Street and NW 2nd Avenue, T & D are fiction. Or a joke. Or both. To really know, you’d have to ask Diego Caro de…
If you were alive in February 2007, you’ll remember the brouhaha that broke out when Harry Potter got naked to have sex with a horse onstage at the Gielgud Theatre. Sure, it was all make-believe, something people in the biz call playacting. But if a bit of wizardry and simulated…
Even if you’re a Prius-owning teetotaler afflicted with solar urticaria, there’s something awesome about watching a bunch of gas-guzzling Fords, BMWs, and Chevys zip around the 2.3-mile road course at Homestead-Miami Speedway while you slug back a couple of brews in the subtropical sun. So, c’mon, leave your ecological concerns,…
Who’s Jeff Garlin? Maybe you recognize him as Gut Gut the cannonball specialist from 1983’s hilariously underappreciated Spring Break, a movie about nerds and studs coming together in Fort Lauderdale to organize wet T-shirt contests. What? Doesn’t ring a bell? Perhaps you know him better as Larry David’s chubby buddy…
When you hear the words animal tropical, the creatures that come to mind are probably marmosets, macaws, and tree frogs — not a bunch of smartly coiffed indie dudes who smell like pipe smoke. Nevertheless, Animal Tropical is a Miami-based quartet (singer Jose Castello, bassist Jarrett Hann, guitarist Kristopher Pabon,…
From the remote locale of Denver, Colorado, that electronic music hotbed beyond the Rocky Mountain range, one-man gothic/house/dub act Pictureplane is taking off. And by “taking off,” we mean he’s going to the airport, buying a ticket, boarding a commercial aircraft, and flying approximately four hours to Miami. Why? Because…
