Has the Culture Room gone a little soft for your tastes this week? Plain White T’s, Boys Like Girls, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous are all on this week’s bill, but not to worry, true metal fans. Saturday is a new day, and Culture Room is opening the doors for a…
Before the straw-haired singer-songwriter Jim Camacho was one of South Florida’s acoustic darlings, he fronted one of the most exciting South Florida bands, the Goods, during one of the most exciting eras of South Florida music, the early 1990s. Delivering melody-driven garage rock, the band developed a rabid fanbase almost…
PL0T presents another installment in their continuing series of brilliant German minimal bookings, with a Miami debut performance by Frankfurt-based DJ/producer Robert Dietz at White Room this Friday night. A relative newcomer to the scene with a few releases on the Cécille and Deep Vibes labels, Dietz brings a refreshingly…
If we’re to believe the Bravo network, the housewives of America have unlimited funds and hours to spend on spa excursions. The ladies of The Real Housewives of (your fave city here) celebrate mani Mondays, toenail touch-up Tuesdays, woo-woo waxing Wednesdays, right on up to salicylic acid peel Sundays while…
“I like you.” “I want to be with you forever.” “You’re getting on my nerves.” “Drop Dead.” All relationships have a beginning, a middle and an end. What happens in between is “(500) Days of Summer,” an anti-love flick from emerging director Marc Webb. Witness the emotional 500-day rollercoaster ride…
It’s not easy being a great girl volleyball player. Wake up, apply acne-preventing face wash, dance with your friends to generic bubblegum pop music, catch a rerun of The Wizards of Waverly Place, chant to your Jonas Brothers poster for a few minutes, txt ur buds, and then gather up…
Sushi is difficult to eat with chopsticks. It’s even more difficult when birds are swooping out of the sky, trying to peck your eyes out. Don’t worry about the latter. It will only be depicted on the wall of Moonchine Asian Bistro during the new Tuesday series, MiMo Classic Film…
When Beyoncé said goodbye to Destiny’s Child to embark on a solo career, music critics, fans, and haters compared her to Diana Ross. They called her a ruthless and selfish woman who had left her friends in the dust in the name of moola. Seven years later, people are hardly…
The Florida Marlins’ favorite victims, the Washington Nationals, are in town this week. And you could not ask for a better matchup for a team that seems to have finally regained its mojo. The Marlins were stumbling around like a moose on tranquilizers the past few months, what with its…
You deserve some oceanfront pleasure. No, not just on the Fifth Street Beach. No. Try the Ritz-Carlton. At Sarava Sunday — a regular event that’s held the last Sunday of each month — you can sip seven-dollar Leblon Cachaça cocktails poolside as DJ Sage spins Afro-Brazilian house music. Live samba…
Juan Loumiet is bringing Andy C to Black Sheep (formerly Laundry Bar). Besides being one of the first kids on the block with that drum ‘n’ bass stuff and besides the fact that he is dope on the tables, not always sticking to two decks, he is also known for…
Sure, it’s been known to keep more than a few dead bodies moist, but Biscayne Bay is much more than that. So we’re glad Dragonfly Expeditions has chosen to offer it up via kayak and hydrobike, a contraption that resembles the lovechild of a bike and banana boat. During Innovation…
Just like the old days, record collections are growing fast. And mimicking the communal spirit of the late ’60s, crate diggers are eager to share and share alike, trading LPs and mutual goodwill. If this sounds good to you, check out the Cinema Paradiso Record Swap. The night starts off…
Quick, what do you know about Brazil? Steak houses? Rio? Bikinis? You probably didn’t come up with square dancing, Brazilian country food (mostly made from corn), family-friendly county fair-style booths and games, and more people wearing jeans and plaid shirts than you’d think possible in a trendy bar. But that’s…
Imagine you were one of Miami’s original cocaine cowboys, a man infamous for having transported — by air, sea, and street — $2 billion worth of Colombian powder into the United States. How would you choose to celebrate your birthday? Excessively, right? Surrounded by naked ladies, loaded weapons, and a…
Arnold Abner Newman never got to graduate from the University of Miami — his parents ran into financial trouble and couldn’t afford the tuition — but the lack of a degree didn’t slow his success. Newman’s iconic portraits of people such as Pablo Picasso, John F. Kennedy, and Igor Stravinsky…
Not all film festivals are created equal. Winning the Golden Turkey at the Live Oak Movie Hoedown is nice and all, but it probably won’t help get your film into distribution. Receiving a Special Jury Mention at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival, however, is nothing to sneeze at…
Miami is home to more than a few film festivals. Whether you’re a woman or a Jew, gay or Brazilian, there’s a celebration of your group’s cinematic acumen. This weekend, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) will shine the spotlight on films produced and directed by, starring, and featuring the…
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as entertainment — and be grateful. This is blockbuster porn absent even the suggestion of care or concern for…
Dave McKenzie plans to meet a stranger at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. He’d like to take that person to dinner and pick up the tab. The Jamaican artist has installed a Plexiglas drop-off box at the museum where visitors can fill out a slip with their…
Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen’s Whatever Works. Allen’s exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho Marx singing his trademark paradoxical assertion (“Hello, I must be going”) and is powered almost entirely by the presence of a single, larger-than-life, and less-than-likeable figure. Whatever…
Magic City Kitty: New Ways to Masturbate
