What is Montreal’s impact? Mostly banana-hammock bathing suits, “Je me souviens” license plates clogging the fast lanes in February, and the band Of Montreal, whom no one over 26 has ever listened to. Also, a smaller version of the bagel and some of the best strip clubs in the world…
Julio “the Kidd” Diaz was born in Coachella, California, presumably during the third encore of a Wilco concert. Inside that seasonal cloud of dehydrated hipsters, Diaz grew up to be one of the baddest lightweights in the history of boxing. And this Friday, he takes his 36-5 record (26 KOs)…
Now and again, it becomes absolutely necessary to revisit your teen self, resetting to age 16 for a minute. Things these days can get desperate; maybe life is a permanent lost weekend, or maybe you’ve finally realized that becoming a millionaire is a totally bogus life goal. Either way, it’s…
Jazz combos helmed by a bass player have a solid track record: Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, Dave Holland, and, if electric is your thing, Stanley Clarke. Maybe one day, 27-year-old local Diogo Brown will be added to that list. He plays the electric bass and runs an outfit that fuses…
After stepping out of the limelight for eight years, neo-soul innovator Maxwell finally has a new album out: BLACKSummers Night (Columbia). It’s the first part of a long-awaited trilogy. Though the initial single, “Pretty Wings,” is lackluster in comparison to the other tracks on the disc, BLACK definitely represents a…
Origin stories have taken over comic books; why not the rest of literature? Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab is one of the more intriguing characters in American bookdom, but by the time we meet him, he’s already a whirling dervish of vengeful hatred. The closing film of the eighth annual Perrier…
Remember when there was an understanding that if an actor’s career crossed the hills into the San Fernando Valley, she was done as a serious actress? My, how things have changed. Sasha Grey, the 21-year-old porn star who calls herself a “sexual athlete,” has made the opposite leap — out…
If the last time you ate at a buffet was in 1996 when you and your meemaw hit the Sizzler for platefuls of sliced meat, it might be time to revisit the idea of copious amounts of food laid out for your belly’s pleasure. And Thursday’s Share Our Strength Taste…
Committing murder usually results in arrest, sentencing, and a lifetime of trying to hold onto the fabled soap. But the Miami Beach Botanical Garden is putting the fun back into homicide with its Mystery on the Menu series. You won’t get any blood on your linen pants, but you might…
So many of the pop songs on mainstream radio are about love, money, or — more often than not — absolutely nothing. But within the Latin Pop Album category at the Grammy Awards, Guatemalan-born singer/songwriter and two-time Grammy winner Ricardo Arjona has defied such stereotypes. In the late ’80s, Arjona’s…
You wouldn’t think the American Civil War and reggae music would be closely associated. Nothing’s less Rasta than people warring over states rights and abolition, but John Brown’s Body begs to differ, at least when it comes to their name. Originally a marching song for the Union, John Brown’s Body…
In the Venn diagram of modern electro, fidget, and hip-house, Milan-based DJ duo Crookers resides in the overlap. The pairing of producers Phra and Bot, Crookers is often mentioned alongside the Bloody Beetroots, a similarly beat-saturated set of Italian DJs that rose to prominence through blogs. But Crookers differentiates its…
Through the Lens: Photography from the Permanent Collection Arnold Newman: Photographic Legacy Through October 4. Lowe Art Museum, 1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-3535; lowemuseum.org. Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday noon to 4 p.m. A new exhibit at the Lowe features a rare image of…
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The premise, punched-up puns, and character development are more lightweight than the helium balloons in Up, but Disney’s new CGI-heavy excuse to flood the market with kiddie merch (it’s the year’s first 3-D commercial, and we’re the real guinea pigs) has a box office trick up its shallow sleeve: Jerry…
When New York’s Aaron “A-Ron” Bondaroff and local art collector Al Moran decided to open a Miami exhibition space, they didn’t choose the obvious Wynwood locale. Instead they looked to Allapattah and founded Our House West of Wynwood. As crazy as it probably sounded, it worked, and O.H.W.O.W. easily became…
Green Day has come a long way from a couple of 15-year-olds in Berkeley, California, smoking too much weed. Originally a teenage punk band called Sweet Children, the band has constantly re-invented itself over its 22-year existence (a virtual eternity in rock ‘n’ roll), winning new fans, losing old ones,…
No Regular Play is the Brooklyn-based production duo of Nick DeBruyn and Greg Paulus (originally of indie darlings Beirut). Part of a new American generation of EDM producers rooted in more instrumentalist-based music forms, their experimental genre-bending take on house and techno defies all expectations of what dance music can…
The kids of bass legend Jaco Pastorius will share the stage with noteworthy Jazz fusion guitarist Randy Bernsen at Alligator Alley this Sunday, August 2. Bernsen, who was a close friend of the elder Pastorius, infuses his guitar work with loads of effects, and is one of the more successful…
