First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of magical adventures experienced from the front porch of a dilapidated manse held aloft by hundreds of helium-filled balloons. Such, of…
Not quite The Further Adventures of Cain & Abel, the second coming of Beavis & Butt-Head, or Peyton Meets Eli, but energetic fun nonetheless, Rudo y Cursi is a multiple brother act: It’s written and directed by Carlos Cuarón and produced by elder sibling Alfonso, director of Y Tu Mamá…
Magic City Kitty: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Together)
Havana Bourgeois is an import from Los Angeles, with a mixed cast of local actors and gifted carpetbaggers (including the hunky Danny Pino, from television’s Cold Case). But spiritually and emotionally, this is a Miami show. Some of the most extreme audience reactions I’ve ever witnessed in a theater were…
Aramis Gutierrez has a gift for engulfing both his characters and the viewer in looming anguish. His deftly rendered painting At the Water Park depicts a scene some South Floridians will be familiar with. In it, two pasty-skinned, slightly dazed tourists are at the end of a frolic on a…
No offense to the sisters Kardashian and their new Dash location, but the biggest boutique opening on Miami Beach this season will be the long awaited opening of The Webster’s permanent location. The boutique has operated out of a temporary location while the three French owners (Laure Hériard Dubreuil, Frederic Dechnik…
Unlike certain other shows, Dexter is a Miami-set series we can get behind despite the fact it’s not actually set in Miami. For three season our dark hero Dexter has kept the streets of Miami safe from serial killers, by serial killing them naturally. But in the upcoming season four Dexter…
After a fateful art walk a couple years back we went home and dreamt that we vomited out Jen Stark’s work. That sounds like a slight, but it’s not. Star is one of our favorite local artists, and nothing would make us happier than having her calculated works of colorful mayhem emanating from our…
If something Che Guevara-related happens in America and Miami Cubans don’t make a fuss about it, did it even actually happen? A sculpture has been set up at an entrance at New York’s Central Park that bears a slight resemblance to Che Guevera, since November. Except, it’s not even Che. It’s supposed to represent a Barcelona street…
A fashion spread being shot in Miami isn’t exactly big news, but there’s a pictorial in the latest American Vogue (with Cameron Diaz on the cover) that made us do a double take. For one, it stars actor Morgan Freeman –not exactly a fashion mag regular– and Dutch model Lara Stone,…
Last December, New Times went deep into the strange world of Miami’s lawless exotic rental car market- a niche industry that seems to attract more than its fair share of fly-by-night hustlers. One of our wierdest encounters revolved around Exoticars, a tiny store on the ground-floor of the dingy Bays…
All you hard-drinking, never-novel-finishing people out there, listen up. Sometimes we all need a jump start. Ours over here at the Miami New Times is that cruel Muse we call “Deadline”, whose red tail is forever smacking us in the back of the head just when we’re getting into a…
Hernan Bas’s latest show, The Dance of the Machine Gun and Other Forms of Unpopular Expression at New York’s Lehman Maupin Gallery, has only lead to more praise for Miami’s art boy wonder. BlackBook magazine recently sat down with the artist after the show’s opening night and talked about everything from Ru…
Because SoFla strippers are adept at defying gravity in oh-so many ways, it takes a lot to impress folks ’round here. But when Cirque du Soleil comes to town, all bets are off. Each show offers vivid costumes, intense musical scores, and acrobats who lack fear and possess elastic cartilage…
North One 10 is holding its’ Special Edition Memorial Day Beer & BBQ this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (May 22nd, 23rd and 24th) — and like those years when Easter and Passover coincidentally occur on the same week, Dewey and Dale LoSasso’s shindig falls precisely on the same weekend as…
DJ Desyn Masiello is a true child of the British house movement. Born and raised in London, he experienced the acid house explosion first-hand as a teenager and was schooled in the UK’s diverse subcultural sounds, hopping from Balearic parties to the outdoor traveler raves of the early 1990s, and…
I was looking more closely at this Tron as Fuck event that is going down at the original Fat Cats next week. It’s the third in a series that apparently goes down the last Tuesday of every month and it looks like a pleasant cluster fuck of colliding styles and…
In life you’re told to follow your instincts, but if said instincts land you in bellbottoms and a muffin-top bearing baby tee – it may be time to turn your style over to more capable hands. The hands of the stylists and personal shoppers at Simone Vivian. Have tons of…
Nicky’s Week at RA Sushi commemorates the loss of 13 year old Nicholas, nephew of one of the restaurant’s founders, to brain cancer. As such, every restaurant in the Scottsdale, Arizona-based, 22 location, nationwide chain participates in a week of charity fund raising, and our South Miami outpost will do…
Lest the proliferation of mass distractions cloud your mind, Memorial Day is not just an excuse for a BBQ. We’re still at war folks, and we have been for a while. That means troops in the field, troops back home, and broken families missing loved ones . With that in…
I used to work doin’ video production stuff up in North Miami next door to The Hit Factory for a dude by the name of David Haylock. When I’d get to the job around 11 every morning, I’d see these rectangle planters with green stuff growing out of em’ sittin…
If your dog could talk, what would it say about you? Would it dime you out for that illegal cable hook-up? Tell you to stop whining about your ex-girlfriend already? Order pizza when you asked it to? The canine brain has become more than an obsession for dog-owning writers, it’s…
