Friday, November 6 *Like we recommended earlier today, the Jacobs Ladder EP release party at Churchill’s in Miami tonight, where $10 entry also gets you a copy of the band’s new disc. *And the similarly recommended Astari Nite, plus a million other bands, at White Room in Miami tonight. We’re…
In this age of laptop-toting faux live electronic dance music acts, an actual band employing actual live instrumentation and vocals is a rare thing, especially when said band is delivering funked-out dancefloor bangers like 2020Soundsystem. The musical brainchild of Leeds-based DJ and esteemed 2020Vision label owner Ralph Lawson, the Soundsystem…
Last week, we introduced you to Mixhell, the husband-and-wife DJ / remix / production team of Iggor Calavera and Laima Leyton. Metal fans will, of course, recognize Calavera’s name instantly — with his brother, Max, as a teenager he helped found Sepultura, one of the most influential metal bands, well,…
Welsh DJ/producer Sasha (born Alexander Paul Coe) is that rare breed of artist that has managed to balance massive commercial success and notoriety with artistic integrity throughout his long-standing career. I won’t go into too many details about his myriad accolades through the years, which include over a decade of…
The last time New Times caught up to Dainamite, Miami’s hardest-working reggaeton artist was bouncing back and forth between a seminar called “A Millionaire’s Approach” (where he was the lone invited performer) and American Tévé (where he was about to make his third appearance in as many weeks). Well, less…
If you missed them last week, here’s a little heads up fo’ yo’ ass (not a head up yo’ ass…like that guy in front of you on your way to work this morning on his cell phone, giving you an even worst case of Moooooondays than you had to begin…
In a boon for intellectual life in Miami, the University of Miami unveils its brand-new Center for the Humanities–the first of its kind in South Florida–this evening at 6 p.m. in the Storer Auditorium in the School of Business Administration (5250 University Drive, Coral Gables).What is a Center for the…
Miami gets animated in a new graphic-animated novel from creators Gianfranco Bianchi and Kevin Sharpley. The duo teamed up to create a sexy, gritty action-thriller set against the backdrop of South Beach.Titled The Beach Chronicles, the series is the antithesis to the rampant depictions of Miami culture as being only…
Don’t call it a comeback, and rapper JT Money isn’t rising from the dead, but his last hit, “Who Dat,” was in 1999, and he’s back for Halloween weekend — so you can call it a resurrection. Jazz chanteuse Nicole Henry has returned from Russia (with love) and will be performing soulful…
With all the bad news usually posted on Riptide, this is a nice change of pace. Above is a video local art/graphic design/animation duo Friends With You, consisting of Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, made for Nick Jr., a cable channel popular with the pre-school set. But you don’t…
There’s something very old-world Italy about going to catch a flick at the Miami Beach Cinematheque. Not only because of the inevitable catcalling, but also because of the ambiance and seclusion of the cobblestone street that lend a quaintness to the experience, which ends with you tucking in for a…
You know how Michael Benjamin Bay got his start? He made a short film about a helicopter flying into the sunset:Which he parlayed into multi-million dollar box office smashes. This is how it works, fledgling film directors. You make a kick-ass short. People take notice.That’s why you should enter the…
As the curtain rose on The Color Purple’s long-awaited Miami run, a young woman on stage suffered labor pains as a joyous church congregation sang of the glories of the Lord. Then the gossiping church ladies and bombastic preacher disappeared as Celie, the play’s protagonist surrendered her newborn son to…
The world’s largest rubber band ball stands six feet seven inches tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds, and contains approximately 720,000 rubber bands. The outer layers consist of multicolored industrial-size bands that…
NeckFace’s “Devil’s Disciple” at O.H.W.O.W. turns heads and stomachs
An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks.
Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty at GableStage
The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man: Bad for the Jews
Based on award-winning author Sherman Alexie’s short stories, Smoke Signals centers on two boys on the Coeur D’Alene Indian reservation in Idaho, who could not be more different. Victor is the extrovert who excels at basketball and Thomas is the savant who lives with his grandmother after the death of…
Author Philip Smith grew up in a world most Americans can’t understand: Miami, specifically 1960s Miami, a time of heightened racial tension and bad city planning. Even weirder, one day Smith’s dad, a decorator (it’s Miami!), realized he had a gift for healing the sick and communicating with the dead…
Style Wars. It’s a battle where clenched fists and gnashing teeth are replaced with sewing needles and, um, gnashing teeth (used for cutting thread and fabric at a breakneck pace). The fighting ground: Well, it’s more Macy’s than rolling fields covered in blood, but the pleasure and pain at Style…
In an off-season that saw Shaq go to the Cavaliers and Vince Carter get traded to Orlando, the Miami Heat stood pat and will look to build on last year’s 43-win season by asking Dwyane Wade to, once again, play the roll of Atlas. Despite an inconsistent supporting cast, D-Wade…
