No natural-born punk worth his or her back issues of Maximumrocknroll could ever forget the first rule of DIY: “Our scene is the best scene.” And with the supposed forging grounds of NYC, London, and L.A. reduced to trading on the names of the dead — CBGB, Sid Vicious, Darby…
No, this musical performance does not take place in the back seat of a Gremlin X. Freddie Mercury is not a character, and no one spews into a paper cup at the end like in Wayne’s World. Actually, the title, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” refers only to the Czech roots of the…
What do you call it when two sides of seven Frenchmen try to throw a 60-centimeter-diameter ball into a two-by-three-meter goal for an hour? Answer: the four-team championship weekend of the Ligue National de Handball, AKA the Coupe de la Ligue Handball Championship, which for the first time ever is…
Director and producer commentaries have become de rigueur in the DVD industry, but why hadn’t anyone thought of doing one live and in person? Leave it to the guys at Miami World Cinema Center, the Knight Foundation-backed nonprofit dedicated to promoting indie film in Miami, to bring in Hollywood producer…
Among those who care what Britney is eating or the type of mousse Zac uses, celeb rag US Weekly has ruined Marc Anthony’s rep. The magazine has made him look like some overbearing stage hubby who won’t allow his superstar wifey and bearer of his babies any room to breathe…
Different ways exist to establish lineages of filmmakers, one of which—perhaps the most neglected—is the use of typeface. And while no director has yet to pick up Woody Allen’s obsession with Windsor, Stanley Kubrick’s fondness for Futura (in his case, extra bold) has already established an entire genus. His most…
Huggy Lowdown’s piercing Steve Urkel-esque voice comes careening through car radio systems each morning during the top-rated Tom Joyner Morning Show. The comedian with a name straight out of the ’70s gives listeners celeb juice, social commentary, and straight-up tomfoolery in a biting, no-holds-barred style that listeners can’t seem to…
Politics meets arithmetic at the Monthly Networker for the Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Here’s the equation: cocktails and food by AGO + artist NOEL + Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower + Miami Beach City Commissioners + proceeds donated to the Miami Beach Gay Pride organization +…
America is about inner circles, the ring of power inside the ring of power, and how we can get past those velvet ropes separating us from total awareness. For those of you wanting to be on the inside of the inside of fashion, GenArt has just the event. Derived from…
Baseball season is back, and so is the Florida Marlins Super Saturday Concert Series. Kicking it off are a couple of the hottest acts in hip-hop and reggaeton. Flo Rida, who hit it huge with “Low” last year and is doing it again with “Right Round,” will perform with Miami’s…
April is National Poetry Month, but no need to go searching high and low for a way to get involved. Miami is home to one of the nation’s most respected poetesses, FIU creative writing professor Denise Duhamel, who will read tonight from her new collection, Ka-Ching! But if you’re expecting…
In Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself, a new exhibition premiering tonight in conjunction with the Wynwood Second Saturdays Art Walk, gallerist David Castillo reintroduces us to the work of several local artists — Rakel Bernie, Daniel Crews, Adler Guerrier, T. Eliot Mansa, Adria Marquez, and Aramis O’Reilly — through new…
Wynwood’s art walk, held the second Saturday of every month, has no shortage of opening receptions for new exhibitions, but since most of them are for emerging artists, it’s nice now and then to see someone a little more established. In that vein, we recommend “Mostly Mutants,” a show of…
Key West was ours before we were Key West’s. And before us, it belonged to literary mythology. The stomping ground of Dos Passos, Hemingway, and Elizabeth Bishop was also the temporary home of that most American of rhyme-sayers; you know, that one who took one road instead of another and…
You are in your apartment. It’s Friday. You’re alone. The Chinese take-out you ordered and devoured has given you a brief injection of energy, tinged with a mild stomachache and the melancholic feeling this isn’t the first Friday you’ve sat at home wishing someone would read to you from a…
“This is a man’s world!” declared the late, great James Brown. “This is a man’s world!” he blasted again for anyone who didn’t hear him the first time. And then slightly softer and with noticeably less force, “But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing – without a woman or a girl.”…
Giardino Gourmet Salads was conceptualized by husband and wife team Kenny and Ody Lugo, formally a firefighter and Miami-Dade school teacher. Starting today, South Beach sandwich shop — which also features salads and soups — is holding its first Wrappy Hour. This is a catchy way of saying Buy one…
The final two outdoor, organic, paradisiacal dinners of 2009 take place this month. The groovy gastronomic get-togethers down at Gabriele Marewski’s Paradise Farms always bring great food and wine (from Stacole Fine Wines). Fellow diners tend to be in amiable, festive spirits, and the setting is simply unbeatable. This Sunday…
South Florida native Brian Hecker’s uncomfortably strained directorial debut — a semiautobiographical comedy about a high school senior who can’t find a prom date — foolishly believes that Windsor fonts, swing-era songs, and Jews are enough to invoke Woody Allen’s wit. It’s a quirky indie, you see, as nerdy class…
As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, Ralph Provisero bombed the streets of Miami with his inventive graffiti art. His natural-born talent took him to the prestigious Parsons School of Design in New York and later to galleries in places as diverse as Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Mexico…
Woody Allen would probably have a ball writing this event up, but as the New Times is a secular institution, we’ll keep it straight-laced and just dish the facts. Billed as “The only kosher-for-Passover nightclub”, the Matzo Ball Party keeps Miami Beach relevant for observant Jews during the holidays by…
Does the artist influence the world or the world influence the artist? Maybe a better question is whether the painter has control over the canvas or whether the canvas has control over the painter? In the case of Marcos Raúl Valella, it’s definitely the latter. “The way I handle the…
