If you’re a local culture junkie it’s safe to say that Miami’s art walks, notably Wynwood and Bird Road, have been serving as a panacea as you wait for season to start. But as said junkie, your high is probably starting to wear off and you’re itching for a huge…
As news breaks that yet another cast member is leaving Saturday Night Live next year, bringing the total to three (possibly four), you’d think that Lorne Michaels would be going through a mini breakdown. But even with the departures of heavyweights Andy Samberg and Kristen Wiig, upcoming star Abby Elliott,…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
While the words “Miami” and “literary” are two words you see infrequently in the same sentence (except, maybe, in a joke), there are increasingly frequent glimmers of hope for the city’s word-lovers. The latest example: the return Thursday night of Bookleggers, an event that began, ostensibly, as a one-off last…
Read our full gonzo guide to the RNC: “Fear and Loathing in Tampa.”Sarah Palin might not have been invited to the Republican National Convention, but her porn impersonator is crashing the party.This Friday and Saturday, America’s most popular adult film star Lisa Ann will take her traveling Sarah Palin act…
When I first heard about the Raven, I was fascinated. Most people seem to be. What could keep a man motivated to run eight miles on the same stretch of sand every single day for decades? That’s every single day, despite hurricanes, concussions, pneumonia, and pain that stretches into every…
This Saturday, local comic Nery Saenz — New Times’ Best Comedian of 2011 — will achieve a rite of passage for any comedian: the recording of his very first comedy CD. He’ll be dusting the cobwebs off some of his older material and officially retiring it — or “burying it,”…
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker known for his avant-garde, surreal cult cinema classics like Santa Sangre and The Holy Mountain. His son, Adan, is also a filmmaker (as well as an actor and musician), and has similar taste. On the Kickstarter page for his upcoming project, he describes his…
As a contributor to the Miami New Times for the past few years, I’ve learned a few things. And I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others so that they too can obtain a modicum of success.Aside from my continued contributions to New Times, I am also an editor, a publisher,…
See our recap of Gallery Girls, Episode One.When Gallery Girls debuted last week, people like us compared the reality show to HBO’s fictional series Girls. And other people got all salty about it, saying the comparison is unfair because Girls is actually great and misunderstood and blah blah blah.Our response?…
See more photos from Mizucon; Seven Cosplay Characters at Mizucon; Inside Mizucon’s Shibari Workshop.As an anime newbie, I was a bit apprehensive attending Mizucon. I thought it would be, for lack of a better term, completely foreign to me. But as it turned out, I was among my people, at…
See what happens in the Magic City season one finale; Magic City’s redband trailer; and our interviews with the show’s stars.When word got out that Magic City’s casting directors had trouble finding Miami actors without breast implants a couple months ago, hundreds of this city’s au naturel women cursed at…
See Seven Crazy Cosplay Characters, and more photos from Mizucon 2012.Walking among Mizucon’s cosplay, anime showings, and teens eating Japanese candy, you would think that the annual convention of anime and other assorted geekery would be considered child’s play.But Master Tatu, his lovely assistants, and lengths upon lengths of hemp…
There were plenty of reasons to check out Mizucon, Miami’s annual anime convention, last weekend. There were parties. There were panels. There were workshops detailing the intricacies of Japanese rope-tying, which doesn’t sound all that exciting until you realize it’s for bondage in the bedroom. (More on that later.)But the…
Captain Sig Hansen of Discovery’s The Deadliest Catch is a man. A real man.After all, he faces unrelenting storms, 900-pound swinging crab pots and arctic temperatures for a living — a rare find in this modern world where the biggest workplace danger is carpal tunnel.Deadliest Catch isn’t just a clever…
It is a sad, sad day indeed when school resumes and you have send your kids, siblings, nieces, and nephews back out into the world of cruel teachers and snot-nosed classmates. If you’re really unlucky, you’re one of the many teachers or students who has to say goodbye to summer…
Earlier this month, we complained that Showtime was being too tease-y with their teasers about the upcoming season of Dexter, which will also be its last. Give us something to sink our teeth into, we pleaded.We asked, and now we have received.Yesterday, Showtime posted a two-minute trailer beginning where last…
Anyone who’s wandered into Hialeah and tried to order a cafecito with zero Spanish skills knows something about the constant culture clash that is life in the Magic City. Namely, that a healthy sense of humor helps us relate to our fellow man in the middle of a cultural melting pot. And…
When life gives you lemons, you ask for tequila and salt and you call it a day. That’s how the saying goes for us, at least. Friday has finally decided to grace us with its gorgeous presence, folks. Let’s take advantage of our weekly sabbatical from work and engage in…
See Palace Drag Queen LaTrice Royale Cast on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.Nobody likes to travel with a diva. But in the case of the “Drag Stars at Sea” cruise, sailing from Miami in December, approximately 1,000 passengers will be signing up to do just that.Travel site AlandChuck.travel, based in…
Kicking off this weekend, the University of Miami Jerry Herman Ring Theatre will present five plays written by the controversial Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera, in a grand production entitled “Absurd Celebration: The First International Festival of Virgilio Piñera’s Theatre.” The first play, Aire Frio (Cold Air), opens Friday, with the…
Today in “cartoons for grown-ups” news, Vulture reports Mad Men actor Jon Hamm has signed on to play a talking toilet in an upcoming episode of Bob’s Burgers.(Aside: Are you watching Bob’s Burgers? Not enough people are watching Bob’s Burgers. You should all be watching Bob’s Burgers.)Hamm’s known for making…
