Modern-day Miami Beach, where condo canyons stretch skyward, slick shops expand along Lincoln Road Mall (emphasis on “mall”), and overstuffed SUVs jockey for position on overcrowded causeways. Not an ideal milieu for going small and artsy. But bucking the trend for the ever bigger and, uh, bigger, is the newly…
Thursday September 4 She’s a weird chick, that winsome and wispy Tori Amos. She’s a preacher’s daughter who sings about an unreliable god, self-crucifixion, and murder. In other words, we love her. Currently touring in support of her album Scarlet’s Walk, Amos promises to satisfy the droves of her fans…
Harvey Pekar, star of a long-running comic-book series he writes and others illustrate, is reminded early in American Splendor that he’s no superhero. It’s Halloween, and the eleven-year-old Harvey, played by a bent-over, sneering Daniel Tay, stands on a stoop seeking tricks and treats from a woman who recognizes the…
“A film starring Bob Dylan” — five more frightening words you’d be hard-pressed to put into the same sentence, even among those who forgave the man for his grotesquely indulgent 1970 album Self-Portrait or sat through his disjointed home movie Renaldo and Clara in 1978. The apologists, of course, will…
So you thought South Beach was just a hotbed of nightclubs, sidewalk cafés, and beautiful models strutting their stuff? Hard to believe, but it’s about much more. It’s about Art Deco, the streamlined style that proliferated in design from the 1920s through the 1940s and is exemplified in so many…
Unless you live under a rock, you no doubt have heard the name Dontrelle Willis by now. Even the non-sports fan has been introduced to the beaming smile, tilted cap, and high leg kick of the “D-Train.” The 21-year-old rookie phenom of the Florida Marlins has turned baseball on its…
Saturday August 30 The distance between Panama and Haiti just got smaller, since the City of Miami is helping to celebrate both countries’ respective independence days today. At José Martí Park (351 SW 4th St.) on the Miami River, Panamanians will be honoring their patria, while at the same time…
Saturday 8/30 A creature stalks the swamps of the Everglades’ Big Cypress National Preserve, nestled between Naples and Miami. He wears hip boots and a hat and carries a large-format camera. His name is Clyde Butcher. Eleven years ago the swamp was a place he and his wife Niki went…
If you’re going to a new school this year, like me, you want to make a good impression. Even if you’re not new, you still need to make a good impression after not seeing your friends all summer. You don’t want people to think that you don’t care about your…
Friday August 29 It may not be the newest country on the block, but at 56 years Pakistan is definitely not the oldest. The civilization, though, has been around since well before this Great guy named Alexander went tromping over the Hindu Kush back around 329 A.D. Celebrate the rich…
Thursday August 28 There are few finer female fiddlers than Regina Carter. Dubbed a jazz musician, she is amazingly much more. The Detroit native is able to leap stylistic bounds, nimbly switching from a mournful Brazilian melody to a jaunty jazz tune to a tangled tango. Her crisp, lyrical tone…
Thursday August 28 Shaaron! Shaaaron! Are you going to give your poor husband a break for a little while? We know you “work,” but most of your shopping sprees at Tiffany and Cartier are probably subsidized by the major moola he makes while on tour. Okay, so it was your…
The last thing the Roman Catholic Church needs at this point is another exposé of its misdeeds. The shock of the pedophilia scandals and of the official coverups isn’t going away anytime soon, and when last we looked the former bishop of the Phoenix Diocese was out on $45,000 bail…
Ah, Paris — City of Light, of Love, of Liver Damage and Lung Cancer. C’est formidable, non? Who in need of a posh vacation would turn down the opportunity to luxuriate in its finest hotels, to stuff oneself with sumptuous snails, and to work on a terribly flat romantic drama…
Maverick Russian director Alexander Rogozhkin hit upon a clever idea for his idiosyncratic antiwar fable, The Cuckoo (Kukushka in Russian). The three main characters, marooned together on a remote reindeer farm in northernmost Scandinavia, all speak different languages. The Russian speaks and understands only Russian, the Finn knows only Finnish,…
Sitting down to a lunch of chicken soup and lechon (roast pork, Puerto Rican style), Latin music sensation La India, dubbed the Princess of Salsa, speaks of her latest triumph, the Latin Grammy-nominated album Latin Songbird: Mi Alma y Corazon, via phone from her native San Juan. “I’m celebrating my…
More than a hundred years ago, Percival Lowell tipped his telescope toward Mars, imagined a Venetian-style civilization, and initiated the public’s love affair with the Red Planet. Since then countless science fiction writers have painted a Mars awash with canal-loving beings intent on colonizing our watery globe. Were Lowell alive…
Thursday August 21 Ever witness one of those “only in Miami” kind of scenes and think: “Someone should write a book about this place”? Like the other night, when the angry homeless man chased the glamorous supermodel down a South Beach street, and she was saved by a machete-wielding Haitian…
Thursday August 21 Miami is a town with no shortage of things to do. We enjoy beautiful beaches, theater, galleries, and nightclubs. Sports fans have almost unlimited choices. Miami hosts teams in every major-league sport. College sports are strong, too, with UM football and baseball, FIU soccer, basketball, baseball, and…
Saturday August 23 Gearheads, unite! If it’s destruction you like, especially between two cleverly built machines, er, robots, then you surely know all about Battlebots. That’s when one team of geeks, dressed in matching Trekkie-ish shirts, pits its motorized metal creation against the robot of another team of geeks in…
Saturday August 23 With 51 of the most beautiful black women coming to town to compete in the Miss Black USA Pageant, we thought we would ask a typical black man for some thoughts about the competition. New Times caught Liberty City’s own Comedian Slo-Motion on his dinner break during…
Saturday August 23 With his stovepipe hat and raspy delivery, singer Bob Malone models himself after piano legends Dr. John and Professor Longhair. Though his look may be familiar, his songwriting and singing style is closer to Billy Joel than the nitty-gritty New Orleans legends. Still, the New Jersey homeboy’s…
