Arts & Culture

Land Mine Legacy in Coral Gables

Tourists are scarce during Miami’s summer months for two good reasons. Just idly standing outside sends sweat glands into overdrive, and sudden thunderstorms often dampen one’s mood. But weather be damned! It isn’t going to stop the band of downtown misfits of Poplife from making the Sunday hangover a little…

Marlins fans: You might want to grab a barf bag before you read this one.Remember John Henry? The guy with the pretentious eyeglasses who bought the Marlins from Wayne Huizenga in 1999 and then waffled around for three mediocre seasons before selling out and heading to Boston? Well, the 59-year-old…

Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company and the production team behind hits such as Project Runway and Top Chef have been talking about a similar series set in the art world, and this month they’re finally casting.Reads the news release: “In each episode of the series, contestants will create unique pieces highlighting art’s…

T. J. English’s best-selling book, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution, went over like a lead balloon in certain corners of El Exilio. The book paints Fulgencio Batista as a corrupt leader all too willing to play ball — and take kickbacks — from powerful mobsters,…

I used to spend a lot of time and money purchasing slick vinyl re-issues of “forgotten” or “lost” eras in American music: albums with titles like New Orleans Funk, Vol. 1: The Original Sound of Funk, 1960-1975 and Miami Sound: Rare Funk and Soul from Miami, Florida 1967-1974.Listening to the artists,…

It’s not your average prodigal son story.When exotic dancer Jessica “Jesse” Brown discovers that her father- — the head of one of the oldest and most respected churches in Atlanta — is terminally-ill, she returns home to a family who doesn’t want her back. Except her father, who tells her…

The manual for the Turret Tower arcade game reads a like an Army recruitment ad: “Who knew saving the world could be this fun?!” it proclaims. “Three different weapons to choose from!” Next to the slogans, a happy geek is firing pretend bullets at the screen.But what if the game…

Last night, Miami International Aiport in cooperation with American Airlines and Miami-Dade County (and thanks to the efforts of the Odebrecht Corporation), unveiled two 50-foot long murals by acclaimed Brazilian artist Carybé.Despite the ceremony feeling like a scene out of The Wire (too many speeches and too many of them…

Apparently there’s been a rumor going around that the graveyard portions of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (aka the best music video ever) were shot at the Charlotte Jane Cemetery in Coconut Grove. The Herald, CBS4, and various blogs have all mentioned it. Never having heard that before, we had to know if it…

When we get drunk over here at the New Times, we tend to throw on some Jimmy Buffett and reminisce about the good ole’ newspaper days of the late 1760’s, when reading the “pape” was not only expected, it was required by Divine Order of the King. (Damn, I miss…

There’s nothing more Floridian than cultivating a sunburn as you sniff burning rubber and gasoline exhaust. So when the lethal days of late June finally hit, head for Homestead-Miami Speedway for a full weekend of daredevil bikers whipping around the 2.21-mile road course as part of the Championship Cup Series…

Going to Club 50 this Friday is not going to help disabuse you of the idea that Italy is filled with wealthy nobility and huge estates. That’s because the guest speaker at the Viceroy Wine Series is none other than Sandro Chia, renowned painter and owner of Castello Romitorio Winery…

There are certainly worse karmic fates than coming back as DJ Irie. Let’s see, official DJ for Jamie Foxx and the 2006 World Champion Miami Heat, weekly gigs at Mansion and the Delano, drive-time selector on 99 Jamz, and friends with basically every single celebrity in town. It’s no wonder…

Your bologna has a first name, it’s l-u-n-c-h, but now your dinner doesn’t have to be so mundane, processed, or salty thanks to Chef Allen Susser. Each Friday through July 31, join the man himself, his chef de cuisine Daniel Serfer, and others at Chef Allen’s for their über-delicious Interactive…

Just as electronic music flows through Miami’s veins, jazz is the lifeblood of New Orleans. Katrina may have battered the bayou beyond recognition, but as long as there’s a three-piece combo left between the Mississippi River and Rampart Street, the city’s soul will remain intact. One of the true deacons…

At first, Facebook was an invaluable way to connect with a friend of a friend of that girl you knew in your poli- sci class. But things were different way back in 2003. Now the social networking site has members who can barely spell college, and has expanded to include…

For Groucho Marx, the stock market was nothing to laugh at. The mustached wag invested his fortune, a quarter-million dollars, on a tip from a bellhop at the Ritz-Carlton during the height of the Roaring Twenties. On Black Tuesday, he lost it all. By 1929, Wall Street tycoons had popularized…

Besides presiding “over the boards,” as they say, what music producers like to do best is throw wicked birthday parties sponsored by energy drink companies like Red Bull (Motto: It gives you wings, plus an intensely overinflated sense of self that you can use to hit on any creature–animal, vegetable…

It would be enough of an accomplishment if 24 – year – old DJ Chachi simply spun at Tenjune — after all, it is one of the Big Bad Apple’s hippest hotspots. But that’s not nearly enough for this go-getter, who also counts to his credit residencies at both Mur.Mur…

Their website claims they’re the original British Invasion band, just above a scrolling banner begging visitors to “Call your local Oldies station and request a Herman’s Hermits song TODAY!!!” It’s alternately sad and cute, especially after doing a little research and finding out they actually rivaled The Beatles for a…

Fred Everything (born Frédéric Blais in Quebec) got his moniker back in the rave days, when he was known as DJ Everything, because he’d spin everything from house and techno to drum ‘n’ bass. With a prolific career dating back to 1993, when he first opened for Sasha at Montreal’s…