“Grab the china, honey!” Yes, dear. “And buff those forks before you bring them out here, the baby threw up all over them last Christmas.” Yes, dear. The plastic forks are being buffed as we speak. “Thanks lover, and those plates?” Somebody ripped them. If this sounds like the pre-dinner…
Winter Music Conference veterans know it takes stamina to make it all the way through the week without breaking down into an uncongealed mess of fluids by Friday afternoon. Problem is, you get so amped the first night it’s hard not to blow your party wad all at once. Problem…
If the new experimental wing of the Miami International Film Festival, Cutting the Edge, whetted your appetite for non-linear cinema, then the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami has a treat for you. Abstract Cinema and Technology, an exhibit that explores how technological innovations from 1920 on provided new…
The news just broke about Maria Sharapova pulling out of the Sony Ericsson Open due to a shoulder injury she’s been grappling with for the past few months, but have no fear, you can still see your favorite blonde tennis phenom and hawker of photography products in the flesh. Today…
Hello, Kitty: My company has a Jacuzzi on the 15th floor of our office building and I’m dying to try it out. There is a special guy in my life, but I’m thinking water sports should involve someone I can get wild and crazy with, i.e., my biker ex-boyfriend. Prior…
Whether it’s the amnesiac super spy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy specializes in characters who wear so many masks that, memory loss or no, they scarcely know who they are anymore. Guided by instinct, his soldiers of fortune patrol a ruthless…
The area between Fifth and Eighth Street on Washington Avenue was long a hellhole of nasty clubs with even nastier clientele. But sometime last year things started to change and the strip rediscovered a bit of its charm. The latest addition is an outpost of the New York lounge Skyline…
I didn’t know Miami had a Latin Gay Film Festival. In fact, outside of Almodovar, I didn’t even realize there was much going on in the way of queer Latin cinema. Reading the festival’s program proved me wrong, and here, in this very post, I have re-digested what I’ve learned for your…
In Ireland, only the leprechauns are clocking in to work today. The banks are closed in honor of patron saint Patrick and the air is rife with the smell of pickled beef. Irish or no, east or west of the pond, St. Paddy’s day is an excuse to drink until…
The only film that created “around the corner” lines was Jens Hoffmann’s 9 to 5: Days in Porn, which had the unfair of advantage of cum-swapping.
Festival Director Tiziana Finzi hands Ferrara his Lifetime Achievment Award–some kind of crystal statue–and he immediately asks how much it cost
Mary Kidder, a trustee of the Columbus Museum of Art, strolled through Art Basel Miami Beach this past December and out of all the work there decided she really liked this piece by William Cotton called “Ribbon Candy.” It is a portrait of a woman with ribbon candy festooned to…
It was inevitable, but now it is official. Mickey Rourke is no longer our quirky washed up actor turned suprising Oscar Nominee for a small indie. He’s officially a blockbuster idol once again. After some rumors to the contrary, he’s signed on for a big role in Iron Man II. He’ll…
A typical scene: D’Agata fucks his Japanese girlfriend doggy-style while the subtitle reads, “I feel lost at sea.”
The prize is $500 OR a free colonoscopy, “neither of which,” according to the instructions, “is tranferable to another person.”
When the unfinished version of “The Pale King,” David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel about a group of IRS agents, is published next year, boredom will have officially become the new aesthetic ecstasy. It may be already. One of the standout films of this year’s Miami International Film Festival, Enrique Rivero’s…
Pancho Luna is no stranger to yanking perfection from the jaws of chaos. The artist often tinkers on multiple series of works at the same time, allowing his cranial crankshaft to intuitively fire the connective rods linking disparate elements of his art. “I am very restless,” the 51-year-old Argentine says…
This is it, white people, the one day of the year you can hearken back to your roots without a qualifying shame for your thousands of years of crimes against humanity. St. Patrick’s Day 2009. Yes, everyone loves to claim to be Irish, and why not? They smile in the…
Little did the United States Baseball Team realize that when star Alex Rodriguez decided to play for the Dominican Republic at the 2009 World Baseball Classic, they were getting a blessing in disguise. With plenty of advance notice, U.S. officials were able to assemble a team that needn’t rely on…
Aware of what, you ask? Music and art. The folks at Acustronic, an organization which asks to be called a “concept label,” are throwing open the doors to their brand-new 20,000 sq ft gallery slash performance space on NW 29th Street. Because it’s Miami, about a quarter of those square…
Someone hasn’t gotten the word that truth was disproved by literary theorists almost 100 years ago, because the tautological yet somehow appropriately titled “spoken word” scene is still going strong. Few of its practitioners have garnered more attention than Georgia Me, AKA Tamika Harper. One of the original Def Poetry…
Enigmatic rock musician Cleaveland Jones is one of the more interesting figures on the local scene and likes to think of himself as hard to pin down, stylewise. Take a listen to the music on his website, and you’ll probably agree. His sound coasts from Latin jam sessions to guitar-driven…
