For a while there the fourth day of the week sucked. Everyone was almost forced to watch TV. Lately, though, things are looking pretty good again. Sweat is back up and charging hard with arty/punky/noisy in-stores and weirdo movie screenings while, next door, old reliable Churchill’s has kept shit on lock…
Hidden down a narrow, semi-secluded Design District street that’s not much more than a backalley, Swampspace Gallery (3821 NE 1st Ct., Miami) is the appropriately tiny exhibition and gathering place that fronts artist Oliver Sanchez’ studio. Unlike most Miami art spaces, this one is the size of your living room…
With Super Bowl XLIV drifting into history and the Miami Heat in the midst of a weeklong NBA All-Star break, South Florida sports fanatics are starved for any kind of live action. Still, it remains to be seen whether they’ll actually pay to watch a hockey game. Of course, people…
Almost 38 years ago, playwright and Miami native Sandra Riley took a job teaching and directing drama at a U.S. Army base in Japan. Immersed in the history and culture of a strange new land, she became fascinated by the emperors, samurais, and geishas of this East Asian island. Later,…
In 1976, Raymond Pettibon went from being the bassist in his brother Greg Ginn’s band — then called Panic — to being its official iconographer. He gave the band a new name, Black Flag. He created the four-bar logo that a million infatuated punks would permanently etch into the skin…
This weekend’s International Noise Conference at Churchill’s Pub is one of the very few places that a 21-year-old lover of weird and experimental music can take both his 38-year-old trip-hopper dad and 55-year-old ex-punk grandmother for fun, drinks, and 100 live bands. Honestly, potential INC attendees don’t have to be…
This weekend’s International Noise Conference at Churchill’s Pub is one of the very few places that a 21-year-old lover of weird and experimental music can take both his 38-year-old trip-hopper dad and 55-year-old ex-punk grandmother for fun, drinks, and 100 live bands. Honestly, potential INC attendees don’t have to be…
This weekend’s International Noise Conference at Churchill’s Pub is one of the very few places that a 21-year-old lover of weird and experimental music can take both his 38-year-old trip-hopper dad and 55-year-old ex-punk grandmother for fun, drinks, and 100 live bands. Honestly, potential INC attendees don’t have to be…
If you were a slightly disturbed child with a hyperactive imagination, you’ve had that nightmare about a toy chest full of suddenly evil playthings that rise under a full moon at midnight on Friday the 13th to play with (read: murder) their owner (read: you). Now you’re an adult and…
Who is Dirty Hairy? She’s a fickle bitch with a perfect face and an ass that looks like God personally implanted it. Surprisingly, she also has an awesome sense of humor and killer taste in music. (FYI, she’s Poplife’s little sister, which explains the otherworldly genetics and general hipness.) And…
For peeps of a certain age, the memory of middle school makeout parties in dimly lit basements will be forever soundtracked to the sweet and sticky slow jams of Mr. Keith Sweat. Thanks to the sensual whining of “Nobody” and words like “Who can sex you like me?” the summer…
Even there’s not much profit in the poetry game, the art of writing verse can still be dangerous and seductive. So don’t give up hope — you, too, can be like the classic poets. You can exude confidence and daring. You can totally copy them. The first step is to sign…
Now living in Las Vegas, Brian Regan remains a Miami boy. Sure, it’s been more than 10 years since he last stopped by South Florida for the express purpose of making people laugh. But he’s coming back this Saturday and he’s happy as heck about it. With two Comedy Central…
Normally, I prefer to spend my time and money in clubs that look, feel, and smell like actual garages. But this past Wednesday, I chose instead to spend my time and money in the sex dens of that 21st century disco Sodom, otherwise known as LIV. The night was long,…
If bouts of casual pyromania are your idea of a perfect night out, then consider the hairy, sweaty, and certifiably dangerous members of Monotonix your Israeli tour guides to paradise. Like IDF explosive experts or any troglodyte teen with a Zippo, the Monotonix men — singer Ami Shalev, guitarist Yonatan…
Who is Aziz Ansari? Is he Randy the spazzy comic from Funny People who jokes about getting blowjobs in weird places, like Ikea, a car, and underwater? Or is he Tom Haverford the smarmy government official from the city of Pawnee? Or is he perhaps Sinjay the racist fruit vendor…
Although he has slipped aboveground these past few years with higher-profile projects such as Mysterious Skin with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Smiley Face starring Anna Faris, radical gay filmmaker Gregg Araki originally made his name detailing the darkest zones of underground L.A. A seminal figure of the new queer cinema of…
Everyone loves tough guys in ten-gallon hats and juicy hot dogs snuggled inside hunks of deep-fried cornbread. But even 2,200-pound Brahma bulls think clowns are creepy. So head to this weekend’s 61st annual Homestead Championship Rodeo at the Doc DeMilly Rodeo Arena at Harris Field for the cowpokes and corndogs,…
Believe it or not, there was a time when the sport of mixed martial arts was actually extreme. But then John McCain hopped on his high horse to rant about the incomprehensible evils of “human cockfighting.” And so the game was forced to get legit — backing off its vale…
It’s neither uncommon nor shameful for future masters of the written word to begin by aping their idols. Take the late, great god of gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson. He first became intimate with the English language by typing his way through the 50,061-word entirety of The Great Gatsby. Plus, as…
Even on the most mundane days, Miami’s streets are crawling with cat killers, amateur plastic surgeons, half-naked D-list celebs, thieves on roller skates, and rappers with beards large enough to conceal a corrections officer’s past. But this Sunday, the Magic City freak parade will explode tenfold as unnatural examples of…
If, like us, you’re one of the many people on this Earth for whom human laughter sounds like Satan’s screams (a condition otherwise known as geliophobia), you’ll want to stay home this Saturday. Why? Well, because the Royal Comedy Tour is gonna fill the James L. Knight Center with hee-hees…
