The beginning of the school year is lurking like a creep on Christmas, and even though your coed days are long gone, the Gusman Center is allowing you a blast to your high school past with a special showing of the movie Fame. The Gusman’s Flickin’ Summer Music Series —…
It’s a steamy Thursday night, and if you’re like us, you’re about to experience the Overtown club strip. Haven’t been there? Just follow the waft of music, smoke, and love from the Vagabond, which overflows with boys and girls chugging Colt 45 tallboys; to the pool table at PS14; and…
Cobra Starship will bring its synthpop goodness to Respectable Street August 21 in support of the band’s upcoming album, Hot Mess. The first single off the disc is called “Good Girls Go Bad” and features the impossibly hot Leighton Meester singing (and appearing in the video). Surprisingly enough, Meester more…
Temps in the Jungle: David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow at GableStage
Painting Through August 31 at Edge Zones, 47 NE 25th St., Miami; 305-576-4001; edgezones.org. Open Wednesday through Saturday noon to 3 p.m. or by appointment.Hector Madera’s stark collages on view at Edge Zones offer a discordant commentary on many artists’ unease with the brutal economy. His Recession Series, featuring works…
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
“Nine Lives: Dog Days of Summer” at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
A dapper (mostly) contemporary costume drama, The Time Traveler’s Wife is abundantly interior-decorated in vintage rococo. Eric Bana, to his credit, continues to wear the outfits picked out for him remarkably well. The hip-bougie upholstery even covers the band at the fairy-tale wedding, playing “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” It’s…
Magic City Kitty: Crack Baby Daddy
Seventeen years ago, when Reservoir Dogs was setting American cinema on fire, Quentin Tarantino drove up to his favorite watering hole, a Hollywood Denny’s, in a tiny Geo that I mistook for a rental car. During a scheduled hour-long interview that stretched into nearly three, I nagged him about the…
Reality shows make things look so easy, but in the real world, you don’t have the luxury of fancy editing and strategic cut-away shots that really make the magic happen. So when you’re boogying at the Wednesday-night Factory Milonga Tango Class and Party, look in the mirror and ask yourself:…
Everybody knows the Magic City weekend begins Thursday, and party people know that having a 9-to-5 isn’t reason enough to keep them away from the clubs. Weren’t Visine and oversize sunglasses invented so you can show up at work hung over with no one the wiser? If you need a…
Miami HC/post-HC standouts Capsule will play at Benton’s weekly No Brainer party at PS14. It’s part of a string of dates around the Sunshine State that were supposed to be in support of Chicago band Lautrec — that is until Lautrec’s lead singer hurt himself really badly in California and…
Say, have you ever heard of Totó La Momposina? No? Well neither had I, until my editor put me onto her. So I set out to see just who she was, and thanks to the modern marvel that is Google, within minutes my office was filled with tribal, Afro-Caribbean, and…
The endlessly fascinating thing about this flyer for the Obey Your Mastour kickoff party is the oddly erotic moment transpiring between the two humanoid creatures, struggling front and center. To be honest, I can’t fully decode the sequence or nature of whatever’s happening here … I mean, what exactly is…
Why try to originally opine on the sounds of the heavy Miami trio Vultures Are Wolves when the band’s MySpace page is so darn descriptive? There they tag themselves as being appropriate for fans of “repulsive uncontrolled chaos” and sounding like “blasts of bloated diarrhea spit.” These carcass-feeders, though, are…
Pompano Beach-based threesome Band Number 12 is largely an under-the-radar local act for now. But the band boasts a serious appeal that lies in its overall mood, a sort of wistful, drink-dampened nostalgia for relationships that were probably actually never that good in retrospect. It’s no surprise then, that the…
Remember her? Yes, that’s right — the supersexy blond cutie AKA Colombian bombshell from Miami. Well, clearly she’s just as hot now as she was last time we brought her to your attention… only somehow even hotter musically. Fanny Lu has spent much of the past year tearing up the…
The American designer is dead. We didn’t read the obituary, but apparently there aren’t many designers of note to be found not only in the Unites States but also across the Caribean, Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America.Annual art fair Design Miami wants to change that and seemingly will…
In case you missed it, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross made it official this morning: The Fins are indeed waging the biggest celebrity love-fest in South Florida this side of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami.The Dolphins have lost 20 percent of their season ticket base since 2006, and Ross’s plan to win…
The battle to save the liveability of Miami-Dade County continues tonight.If you haven’t heard, the Mayor’s office has proposed $11 million in cuts to the county’s arts programming budget, which would put roughly 400 arts organizations out of business.Miami Today reported that the idea of a dedicated funding stream for…
The weatherfolk predict isolated thunderstorms (versus social ones, with tons of homies), a Kardashian is knocked up, and some woman took the term fire sale way too literally — so get into some shit this weekend. If watching grown men kick balls with skill and precision sounds like a dope time,…
