After a 2003 New York Times article criticized Bill Clinton for not showing his face enough in the neighborhood around his Harlem office, Jamaica-born, New York-bred artist Dave McKenzie donned a suit, tie, and Clinton mask and paraded along 125th Street while blasting Louis Armstrong’s rendition of “We Shall Overcome”…
When we say “mos def” in casual conversation, it means we most definitely agree with whatever you’ve just said. When thousands of fans scream it, that means they’re thirsty for more wickedly conscious rhymes from one of hip-hop’s longest-lasting and most underrated MCs, Dante Smith — AKA Mos Def. A…
Despite their recent 5-0 loss to Mexico, the U.S. soccer team is surging. In July, they defeated World Cup champion Spain, stopping the squad one victory short of setting a new record for consecutive unbeaten matches by an international team. Then two days later, they took Brazil down to the…
It’s time to chase those crazy baldheads out of town. Catch the Florida premiere of RiseUp, a film that pays homage to Jamaica’s rich reggae tradition, this Friday at 8 p.m. at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater. The film, which won Best Music Documentary at Silverdocs, traces the…
Like interspecies erotica? Then you’ll love the liger, offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. And Jungle Island has one. His name is Hercules, and he stands 11 feet tall and weighs 900 pounds. (That’s one fat pussy.) There’s also an albino croc, African pygmy goats, and all…
Too often some wannabe rock star fancies himself a modern-day shaman, experimenting wildly with every available substance, both legal and not, in pursuit of sonic superpowers. So the fact that Miami indie rappers Heroes on Drugs sound very, very stoned isn’t any big thang. No, the difference here is that…
Who in 1985 could have imagined Robert Downey Jr. blasting around the big screen in a tin-can superhero suit? What was the probability that Tracy Morgan would get funnier after leaving Saturday Night Live by doing nothing but karate and trying to get females pregnant? And then there’s Kevin Nealon,…
For more than eight years, the hipster hangout DaDa Restaurant and Lounge has hosted poets, musicians, singer-songwriters, and just about anyone who has something to say or play during its weekly Open Mic night. The event shifted from one night to another over the years, but now takes place on…
Remember the part in Cocaine Cowboys 2 where some guy declares, “Through practice, I became the Michael Jordan of crack cookers,” and then reveals his recipe for making the best crack ever? Well, apparently the New Zealand Office of Film and Literature Classification isn’t too keen on drug-making instruction and has…
Poet, UM creative writing professor, and former Miami New Times theater critic Mia Leonin grew up believing her father was dead, and after years of listening to her mother’s disparate stories regarding his identity – -internist, ophthalmologist, Filipino, foreign islander — she finally learned the truth shortly after her 16th…
Tonight, if muzak is what you’re running from and music is what you’re after, check out Jacob’s Ladder at the Dugout, or dance while Marques Wyatt spins at the Electric Pickle. If your winter lover dumped you for the summer, watch two happy people — Tony n’ Tina — get faux-married at…
While the man is doing all that he can to thwart the arts in Miami (we kid, man, don’t hurt us), Gibson Guitar is injecting a bit of it into every corner of the city. Remember when the flamingos took to the streets of Miami in colorful defiance? Gibson is…
Beginning tonight and lasting through Sunday night, the Bank of America Tower (formerly the CenTrust Building), will be lit up black, gold, and green to commemorate the 47th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence and celebrate the Jamaican diaspora’s cultural contributions to South Florida.According to Jamaica’s Consul General, Sandra Grant Griffiths: “To see the…
If you haven’t yet seen Fuerza Bruta, you have only three more days to catch this visually dazzling, interactive spectacle. For the $64 general admission ticket, you will see some pretty nifty acrobatics; get socked with confetti, spritzed with water, and dragged into a dance routine; and touch a glass ceiling. The show’s…
An antiquities expert is summoned in the middle of the night to a major European city in order to investigate a mystery that he soon realizes is a cross-historical conspiracy with devastating modern implications. If you thought, “That’s the plot of The Da Vinci Code,” you’re close, but it’s actually…
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Viva Bourgeois By Molière. Adapted by Paul Tei. Through August 22. Mad Cat Theatre at the Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Tickets cost $30. myspace.com/madcatcompany Molière’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, first performed in 1670, was about a man struggling to cope with wealth, obscure his piss-poor origins, and achieve classiness…
At Diaspora Vibe in the Design District, Jorge Rojas lives in a cardboard box for his My space: Miami art installation
Miamian Ric O’Barry’s The Cove Hits Theaters
The bad news: It’s been yet another average workweek in the all-too-average blur of your increasingly average existence. The good news: It’s officially Friday and tonight you go glam. So toss on some expensive rocks and slip those feet into a pair of crystal slippers for Glamorous Life Fridays at…
