Whether it’s tuning in for the vice presidential debates (which boasted the second-highest ratings for a presidential or VP debate in history, according to Nielsen) or registering to vote in mass numbers, more folks are eager to become a part of the political process in 2008 than ever before. Take…
Some of the toughest SOBs on the planet are no larger than your osteoporosis-ridden grandmother. Take, for instance, Jorge “Babyface” Lacierva, a super bantamweight fighter from Mexico. If the 112-pound, five-foot-four-inch Hobbit-like man hit on your girlfriend in a bar, you’d probably feel pretty confident you could pound him. You,…
Back in the day, grassy knolls on the University of Miami campus were put to decadent and illegal use (or so we’re told). Nowadays UM tries to keep the students occupied with PG events. Case in point: Friday night’s Screen on the Green. The free movies are open to the…
We look at your Lusty Librarian and Prostitute Pirate costumes and wonder when the h in Halloween stopped being synonymous with horror and began to mean something more like ho. We know you’re forced to cover it up 364 days a year, and we don’t blame you for wanting to…
Two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Kimberly Roberts bought a video camera from a neighborhood street hustler. She planned to use it to record birthday parties, reunions, and family celebrations. Instead she captured a truly traumatic first-person account of one of the five deadliest hurricanes to hit the…
Despite being considered one of the most forward-thinking composers of the 20th Century, his close friendships with Abstract Expressionist painters like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, and Robert Rauschenberg, and his inclusion in the tight circle of the New York School of poets, Morton Feldman spoke out against the…
Michael Moore released his latest documentary, Slacker Uprising, for free on the web, which is a bit of annoyance for true slackers. As if they’re going to double-click and wait a few hours for the thing to download. Way too much work. If only there were a place one could…
Michael McElroy Clifton Childree’s latest show at Locust Projects got a bit of unwanted attention this week according to Artlurker. A distress signal from the gallery’s alarm alerted police, and once inside were startled by a mannequin that is part of the exhibit. Police asked it to lay down, which,…
via MondrianA preview of a room at the Mondrian Fast Company profiled Marcel Wanders, the Dutch designer who is making one of his first State side statements with South Beach’s Mondrian Hotel. Will Wanders’ style fit in with South Beach? Well, if his flair for exhibitionism is any indication, he…
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum Through November 2. Lowe Art Museum, 1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-3535, www.lowemuseum.org Not your garden-variety tomb raider or occultist crackpot, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie became known as the father of Egyptian archaeology. Today his discoveries can be found in more…
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most of all in cyberspace. Directed with terrific verve by Ridley Scott (coming after the listless American…
Undersize lapdogs make me grumpy even when they don’t talk, wear pink booties, and shop Rodeo Drive. So I came to Beverly Hills Chihuahua with poison pen at the ready — only to be won over by the exuberant charms of Raja Gosnell’s comedy about a snobby, privileged Chihuahua named…
Hello, Kitty: Is there a good way to ask my boyfriend to go down on me? We’ve been together for six months, and he never ventures there. He doesn’t kiss my thighs, barely touches the bottom half of my stomach — it’s totally a mouth-kissing and penetration session whenever we…
When I saw the new Actors’ Playhouse production of 1776, a row of youngsters was seated immediately behind me. Before showtime, they were discussing the election. A 13-year-old boy said, “Don’t be stupid. If Obama wins, everyone will love America.” A 10-year-old replied, “Nuh-uh. Barack Obama doesn’t even love America.”…
Back in 1900, when L. Frank Baum concocted a story about a girl named Dorothy, her little dog Toto, and a tornado, he probably didn’t imagine his story would live to see 109 years old and have more incarnations than the Constitution. But to the delight of flying monkey lovers…
Taking a shot of tequila can give you the type of heady inebriation that one-night stands are made of, and chugging beer from a frosty mug can bring you to your knees — either in front of a toilet or in front of your bedmate. But when you take the…
The point of this calendar section is to promote and sell local cultural events, with the underlying idea that if it weren’t for New Times, no one in Miami would know what to do with themselves. When the event is a lecture in south Kendall about Sri Lankan pottery, this…
In an effort to keep minds from slipping into recession — and worse yet, depression — the University of Miami’s monthlong 23-concert Festival Miami music series is knocking down prices and spreading its shows to venues across South Florida. The first can’t-believe-elegance-was-so-affordable event comes in the form of an opening…
Italians make everything better. In their hands, scooters become Vespas, coffee becomes espresso, and murder becomes “a favor.” A film such as Voyage to Italy (1953) — in which a bored English couple takes long, conversation-less walks — becomes, in Italy, an orgy of lyrical romanticism. The Godfather II surpasses…
Legendary South Beach restaurant Joe’s Stone Crab’s season began two days ago, and we’re sure the local institution has already served hundreds of decadent, tender crab claws since then. And although they’re well worth the months-long wait and equally lofty prices, they’re being served up this Sunday for a good…
In Brazil, New Orleans, and Trinidad and Tobago — the best-known meccas for Carnival celebrations — it’s a two-day fiesta meant to exorcise the demons of pleasure, lust, drunkenness, and revelry before the piety of the Lenten season washes away a season of sin. In the Magic City, there are…
A renegade freelancer at New Times recently conducted a random telephone survey of used car dealers and private sellers regarding their thoughts about alternative transportation. “You ain’t gon’ catch me in no hot-ass sun on a bike,” admitted a private seller of a Cadillac Brougham. Alex from Palermo Motors doesn’t…
