Between the power chords and one-love vibration, State Radio’s performance last night at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale in support of their latest album, The Barn Sessions, was electrifying. After browsing the band’s website, I wondered whether Urmston, who pens lyrics about conscientious objectors, was going to preach or…
A new documentary, “Posada Carriles: Terrorism Made in USA,” recounts the exploits of Miami’s most infamous elderly militant Cuban exile, who as recently as 2000 was caught trying to kill Fidel Castro in Panama. The Committee to Free the Cuban Five has organized showings of the film, though as of…
Several New Times employees opened their email this morning and saw the accompanying ghastly picture that detailed the plight of an Indian widow whose son, Ramesh, has leukemia. The author, who calls herself Nadeem Mohammed, claims to have no money and begs for donatons to help cure her ailing son…
The Florida Elections Commission socked Kentward Forbes with $13,100 in fines for breaking state law governing political campaigns. The ruling was released this past June 1. Forbes did not attend the FEC’s meeting this past May 16 to defend himself. He declined comment. Last year, the Redland community activist had…
It’s obvious, upon first entering the Mark K. Wheeler gallery at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, that the artists behind these works must be young. Not because their work is amateur, it is anything but. The art that is on display as part of the 33rd Annual Student Art…
Cotton candy? Check. Tiaras? Check. Oversexed pop music? Check. With all of this involved, last night’s Fergie show in Boca Raton was a 10-year-old girl’s wet dream. The Dutchess sauntered in dripping with glitz, in a tiara and a sparkle-lined, bubblegum pink robe. In between belting lines of “Here I…
Recently, acts such as My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy have brought the world of eyeliner, girls’ jeans, and angsty lyrics to the mainstream. The success of these bands has prompted the most perplexing, and annoying, question: What is emo? Everybody wants to know. It is the most frequently…
All thanks and praises to MySpace Photo by Tovin Lapan Last night, MySpace threw a “secret show” at Studio A, which was PACKED by 9:30 pm (what kind of secret is that?), featuring Stephen “Raggamuffin” Marley and his brother Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley as performers. The show opened with Mr…
After a major American tour backing Panic! At the Disco in 2006, Bloc Party has returned to our shores. This time, they’re headlining large venues in support of their sophomore album, A Weekend in the City, released this past February. Sunday night was the band’s South Florida stop, at the…
Barington Levy Miami’s Best of the Best concert, which took place over Memorial Weekend, was a star-studded reggae extravaganza that exceeded the six months of hype that was attached to it. Consider that Barrington Levy, who was on stage belting out hits like “Under mi Sensi, and “Too Experienced” was…
Ten years gone It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since beautiful troubadour Jeff Buckley went for a final midnight swim in the mighty Mississippi. Ten years since Grace, ten years since that last, haunting “Hallelujah.” But like so many other stars with silver screen looks who have…
Since Seal had his couple of big stateside hits in the Nineties (the seemingly immortal “Kissed By a Rose” being the most recognizeable), lately he seems to have been relegated to the role of Mr. Heidi Klum. So who goes to a Seal concert in Miami in 2007? Well, for…
Bebel Gilberto’s Myspace page has a background of waves in black and white. It’s appropriate considering the sonic timbre of the voice that belongs to the daughter of Brazilian bossa nova legend Joao Gilberto. It is a swoon-inducing, cosmically breathy thing that moves like water over smooth river stones. It’s…
Long before recording the first of over 70 albums and embarking on a career which spans five decades, Oscar D’ Leon would keep his piercing and rangy voice in tone by welcoming passengers with snippets of Benny More songs as he maneuvered the steering wheel of a taxi cab. On…
Is a band playing with arena-style theatrics to a crowd of less than 100 prescient or pretentious? Confident or cocksure? Wednesday night’s performance by hard rockers Godhead and American Head Charge, at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale, did little to dispel the notion that the answer to both questions…
This week the New Times kicks off our gallery of graffiti and other street art from around the city, StreetWorks. Each week we’ll comb the area for new samples of urban art. View the first StreetWorks slideshow here…
Photo by Tovin Lapan It was a long night of hip hop at Studio A Wednesday. DJ Maneuvers and Wreckonize hosted the show which opened with local groups Famous, Major League, Artificial, Garcia and Mayday. The place was packed by the time KRS One made it on stage at 2:30…
This morning Parrot Jungle was swarming with anti-corruption law enforcers and ethics watchdogs. Alas, they weren’t there to blow the lid off another public scandal involving Miami-Dade taxpayer money. In fact, no crimes were being committed at the publicly subsidized bird park. Parrot Jungle was hosting the Florida International University…
In 1988, Seth Putnam formed the band Anal Cunt in Boston, Massachusets. Almost twenty years later he is still touring, recording albums, and abusing drugs. Seth is a six-foot-tall, 39-year-old zombie with long hair who hobbles around on a cane. Just before midnight this past Saturday, May 5, we met…
Meet the South Beach Man Whore. He hasn’t been on the blogosphere for long, and apparently before he appeared, he was a proud resident of LaLa Land. Amid posts about receiving massages, blow jobs, and T-shirts from women that he paints to be clueless, he says: I’m thinking, “wow, she…
Off the top of my head, crepes, croissants, and champagne: Three very good reasons you gotta love the French. Now there are officially four: French Tuesdays, which are brightening up what is classically the most boring day of the week. The brainchild of Pierre Battu and Gilles Amsalem, the Francophile…
There isn’t a definition for the word superexclusive, but if one existed, it would have pictures of the Miami Live weekly event that’s held at Santos on South Beach every Wednesday night. The ambiance at this event is like nothing you’ve ever experienced. You feel as if you’ve been invited…
