As the Miami Heat’s recently concluded best season ever amply demonstrated, this city’s sports fans have only one mode of transportation: bandwagon. Sunshine fans in the Sunshine State. If our team loses a few, we disown it. It wins, we break out our T-shirts and pennants and pose about how…
Ask twenty rappers what their favorite film is, and you’ll get the same answer over and over again: Brian De Palma’s Scarface, 1983’s bleak snow globe of a movie written by Oliver Stone in the midst of a yayo hangover. The film recalls a flurry of iconic images that speak…
He might not be internationally known, but he has been known to rock the microphone. Oh yeah, baby. We’re talking about Rob Base, the Harlem rapper (born Robert Ginyard) who busted onto the scene in 1988 with DJ EZ Rock (Rodney Bryce) and their hit song “It Takes Two.” Although…
In a city with countless club DJs blasting electronic music, it is fitting for one of them to host the premiere of a documentary about that musical genre — and follow it with a party featuring DJs and electronic performances, of course. Darkbeat: An Electro World Voyage, a 60-minute doc…
The old joke goes, “It’s called free jazz because nobody in their right mind would pay to hear it.” But does that mean when regular jazz is free that nobody in their right mind would listen to it? Well, you don’t have to be in your right mind to enjoy…
If your parents had long hair and blissful smiles in their photos from the early Seventies, they probably went to at least one laser light show. The eye-popping, brain-searing experience was a rite of passage when just about everyone was turning on, tuning in, and dropping out. The Miami Museum…
It is the kind of name best said through clenched teeth and with a jutting jaw: Bunny & Chad. Handbag designer Rebecca Ryan, who was inspired by the “casual elegance of the style” of Cape Cod and Nantucket, “wanted the name to capture the resort lifestyle,” so she chose a…
What do you get when you cross sweaty, chiseled beefcakes with scantily clad ladies lookin’ for a fight? No, not South Beach at last call; you get Miami Fight Night! Tonight American Airlines Arena and Big Star Productions are throwing the throwdown of the summer. Colombia’s Oscar León and the…
The hook for playing poker in a bar is that, should you be losing, you can drown your sorrows; if you are winning, you can celebrate with a cold one. Oh yeah, you can bet we know our multiple addictions. Whether you’re a degenerate or not, you can beat the…
Ah, Independence Day. A time to enjoy your American freedom with beer, barbecue, and, most important, fireworks. Gary Avins, owner of pyrotechnics company Firepower Displays, has been lighting up Florida’s skies for almost twenty years, and he promises this year will be among his very best and brightest. The display…
Ripples of heat are rising from the street, and you need a refreshing drink, stat. There’s no better way to combat the oppressive humidity than with a mojito. Cool down with Mojito Madness at Ortanique on the Mile. Every Monday all summer long, the famed Caribbean fusion restaurant will be…
L.A.’s electronic dance duo The Crystal Method has given ravers tweakin’ funky beats since 1993. With a solid mix of soulful pop, hip-hop, and tripnotic rhythms, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland continue to drop tracks that reel in new fans while keeping old-school techno lovers on their aging feet. Often…
If you’ve never completely gotten over that fourth-grade spelling bee you lost because you misspelled erroneous, now is the time to redeem yourself. This is not your run-of-the-mill elementary school competition, though. You are an adult, and things must be done the grown-up way — with alcohol. The first Sunday…
Unlike other venues where bored staff languish in the summer heat, the Biltmore Hotel is rocking every night of the week. “People are in town and there’s nothing to do,” says Vanessa Lopez from The Agency public relations. “Because summer is so slow everywhere else, this is a great way…
Given that John Singleton directed the second movie in The Fast and the Furious franchise, it makes a perverse kind of sense that Justin Lin would follow. Just as Singleton did with Boyz N the Hood, young Lin quickly made a name for himself with a powerful breakthrough film that…
Forget what a fun couple Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves were in Speed. In this slow and heavy kickoff to the summer romance season, they play the mopiest lovers to hit the big screen since Tony and Maria channeled Romeo and Juliet on the fire escapes of New York City…
First let’s suck the marrow out of the matter: Some of the members of the London-based CandoCo Dance Company have one arm or one leg. Others use wheelchairs or canes. The label alone — mixed-ability, disabled, integrated, or inclusive, depending who you ask — is enough to distinguish the troupe,…
Beehive: The ’60s Musical Sensation: Even as the fine band warmed up the crowd with an “It’s My Party”-infused medley, deep in my gut the pain began. It was the same pain that accompanies all such musical reviews, and it sharpened with the play’s first chipper hit-parade memory, “The Name…
When the military blockade was lifted this past October, Steve Martin returned from Nashville to his Julia Street studio in New Orleans’s Warehouse/Arts District unsure of what, if anything, he would find. It had been more than a month since Hurricane Katrina mauled his city, and survival was the only…
Enigmatic Figures: This exhibit touts Argentine Mateo Arguello Pitt’s breakout appearance at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries. The show also features works by Aurora Cañero, Maria Gamundi, and José Benito, who provide little more than background noise to Pitt’s quirky paintings. He, at least, has something to say. The female artists appear…
Night Watch (Fox Searchlight) Every once in a while, Hollywood needs somebody else to steal a genre and totally reimagine it; it keeps old ideas young, like celluloid Botox. Well, Hollywood’s gonna need one big needle to absorb Night Watch, an insane, insanely cool Russian action/horror/sci-fi brew that’s like nothing…
Not long ago, videogames were about collecting coins and rescuing the princess. Now you’re more likely to gun her down in a drive-by. Or eat her alive. Welcome to Jaws Unleashed. You’re a pitiless great white, hungry for human flesh. Unfortunately, this absurd and aimless chompfest can’t decide whether the…
