The door to the auditorium is slightly ajar. Inside is a large blank projection screen pulled down across the face of one wall and an entire theater of chairs arranged in carefully regimented rows near the center of the room. The place is empty. No one else is here. But…
On May 8, 1902, the city of St. Pierre on the tiny island of Martinique was immolated when stratovolcano Mount Pelée erupted, spewing superheated gas, rock, and ash. Within minutes, town hall, the cathedral church, the shrine at Morne Rouge, the chamber of commerce, and the botanical gardens were utterly…
As a quote-unquote adult, you aren’t supposed to like laser shows. Your aesthetic sensibility should be much too evolved for some ironic stoner trip through outdated sci-fi atmospherics and a classic rock soundtrack. Yet this Friday, you will stuff your mouth with mushrooms, fill a water bladder with home-brewed hooch,…
Roofless Publishing debuts with Lazaro Rodriguez’s I Swear
Bas Fisher Invitational’s “Weird Miami” remaps the city
A notably mercurial figure, local artist Lazaro Rodriguez lives in a world of cigarettes and shadows, beer and hot tubs, Gucci Mane, puppy dogs, gay beefcakes, and breakdancing on the beach. Until now, he’s mined that sprawling territory and more for his blogs, “Plan2Cry” and “everybodywasfeelingfine.” This Friday, though, Rodriguez…
Taking public transit is traumatizing enough without having to watch a man dismembered on the tracks. But in Puerto Rican artist Teo Freytes’s comic book Estampa Niuyorquina (Image of New York), a blue-collar laborer finishes work for the day, only to have his subway ride interrupted by a suicidal jumper…
In a deadly short span of time, Matt Preira and Dana Bassett of Roofless Records have wrestled the Miami music scene into an affectionate headlock — staging shows at underground spots, releasing strange slabs of vinyl, and being named New Times’ Best Record Label of 2010. And now, Basset is…
The future looks dangerously bright for Drew Spears. Right now, the 21-year-old standup comic is chasing a double major in Motion Pictures and English Literature at UM. Translation: He can look forward to near-certain unemployment, probable starvation, and an almost 50-percent chance of homelessness. “The school of communications makes you…
On Tuesday morning, a 20-year-old cyclist named Michael Lum was seriously injured in Coconut Grove when he was hit by a car. Since then, he’s been at the Ryder Trauma Center, undergoing surgery and beginning his recovery. As of yesterday, Lum was listed in critical condition. Help Lum and his…
If you have any nagging doubts about Miamians’ commitment to the environment, climate change, acid rain, tree hugging, and The Issues, then you should have attended Tuesday night’s Lexus salon, the Darker Side of Green. The crowd was quiet, contemplative, and engaged. It was a total eye opener. Just joking…
We live in a world where the disparity between rich bastards and poor proles is exponentially expanding. The haves are CEOs and socialites who crap foie gras and visit the spa once a week to have liquid gold massaged into their bleached and Botoxed faces. The have-nots, meanwhile, are a…
For little Kyle Cease, life began in the tiny Washington town of Bothell. It’s a nice, innocent place famous for its biopharmaceutical industry and 112-foot Christmas tree. So how exactly did this wholesome American boy fall into a career as a comic? What deep, irrevocable childhood trauma sent him down…
You are a gearhead, a car junkie, a donk devotee. On your bedside table sits a fat stack of auto porn — Hot Rod, Lowrider, Super Street, etc. — along with a half-used bottle of motor oil. Out in the garage, several modern-day muscle cars lie stripped and naked on…
When the Vietnam War was raging, American hippies tried to defeat the military-industrial complex through free love, random nudity, and countercultural agitprop. Although those longhairs lost the battle, that doesn’t mean their master strategy was totally bunk. Maybe it’s time we retest the battle-readiness of boobs. Running until August 31…
Man, it really sucks when some stiff old white dude shows up with his posse of greedy corporate goons and starts saying things like, “I’ll finish you, your friends, and your whole damn neighborhood!” Before you know it, there’s a convoy of bulldozers rolling up to the doorstep of your…
The manic countdown to the August 17 DVD release of Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman’s ‘Canes epic The U continues, rumbling and raging like Warren Sapp at the Shore Club. (The charges were dropped, OK?) And this week, Miami’s most notorious movie moguls reached deep into the Rakontur vault and…
It smelled like sweat and diesel fumes. Minutes before noon, outside the Design District’s Buena Vista building, a giant yellow Blue Bird school bus sat idling at the curb, parked crookedly across three spaces. The sidewalk was clogged with 32 art nerds and civic enthusiasts who had all signed up…
Surrounded by steaming swampland rife with 20-foot pythons, man-eating gators, and marauding skunk apes, our little burg at the end of the continent is a certified hot spot for the dangerous, deranged, and bizarre. We’ve already had sex offenders under a bridge, cat killers in our midst, and tar balls…
It was a very strange thing when Louis CK scored a family sitcom on HBO called Lucky Louie. Why? Well, here was a guy who’d made his name telling the dirtiest, most depraved jokes about his wife and two little daughters — crotch smell, toddler masturbation, borderline coprophilia — and…
If you weren’t totally rabid with adrenaline — T-stepping through the end zone, starting fistfights at the cineplex, throwing coke-powered countdown parties, hiring strippers like Tipdrill and Spyda for lunchtime lapdances, running naked across campus — in the run-up to ESPN’s December premiere of Rakontur’s documentary The U, then you…
Man, it really sucks when a stiff, old white dude shows up with his posse of greedy corporate goons and starts saying things like, “I’ll finish you, your friends, and your whole damn neighborhood!” Before you know it, there’s a convoy of bulldozers rolling up to the doorstep of your…
