Sixty-four years! My gosh! Where does the time go? Seems like the ’50s were only yesterday. What an era! So golden. Oh, son. What these fins have seen. Where this blow hole has been. I was so young, hungry and filled with life. Now I’m the oldest manatee in the…
Blah blah Heat blah blah LeBron blah blah Finals. Look, we get it. The home team finally had enough money to buy players that make you want to pretend you followed basketball all along. It’s nice to be excited for them, but at the same time, it’s also nice to…
Besides a group that promotes cycling, a “bike collective” is a workshop with free use of tools, spare parts, and volunteers that help you build or fix your own bike for the low price of a suggested donation.Like, out of the goodness of their bike-loving hearts.The Magic City Bike Collective,…
Pick up any issue of Backwoods Home magazine and you’ll find a myriad of articles on how to make paper at home and do-it-yourself fruit canning. Yet for all its helpful tips on rural living, the magazine will most likely be remembered for a small classified ad that ran in…
Father’s Day is this weekend, which means you should probably start prepping yourself for the same, awkwardly stilted conversation with your dad you always have — the one where he thanks you for getting him The Best of Bob Seger and then you discuss the weather.But don’t just honor your…
Rock of Ages, the musical about Hollywood dreams coming true in the context of ’80s songs that you only hear when frat bros play them on the jukebox at Lost Weekend, opens in theaters tomorrow today. Because it was filmed down here in Miami, we’ve been tracking it for about…
This week, New Times released its annual Best Of Miami issue, highlighting its editors’ opinions on the best Miami has to offer. For the second year in a row, I’m the proud winner of the reader’s choice for Best Twitter, yet somehow, the guy responsible for choosing it officially for…
And the award for fastest week ever goes to… Seriously, where’d June 11-15 go? It seems like only yesterday that Britto’s Wynwood workspace was being vandalized and Bernice Steinbaum announced she’d be closing her gallery next month, but that news is already nearly a week old. Clearly the late nights…
On Friday, June 15, the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery will be hosting the Miami debut of Simone Sobers Dance and their newest work, Rogue. Company director Sobers, who trained here in Miami and is now based in New York, describes the 45-minute installation piece as an exploration of the “wild, rebellious,…
It’s a good time to be an artist in Miami. First, Americans for the Arts announced that Miami-Dade county spent upwards of $1 billion on cultural events in 2010. And now, it’s looking like that number will only increase in the coming years. ArtPlace, a philanthropic collaboration between the National…
Gaming may traditionally be a boy’s club, but nerdy-hot gamer chicks now have the chance to represent the double X chromosome and shoot for recreational immortality as the star of a sexy new role playing game.This Saturday, aspiring actresses can get their audition (and their party) on for Genesys, a…
Miami Heat mania is sweeping South Florida, which means that for the next week, every sports bar, Irish pub, and swank lounge will be full of rabid fans screaming and flailing with every dunk and swish.That’s great if you’re a sports fan. But not everyone is enamored with the courtside…
Being one of the most visible and outspoken citizens in Miami is hard work. Just ask director Billy Corben, who had to answer to the court Wednesday for tweeting during jury duty. Corben’s tweets and Facebook updates did not divulge details of the armed robbery trial to his 8,543 Twitter…
Rome had some nutty rulers named Caesar back in its heyday. But none was nuttier than Caligula, also known as Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Caligula was a cruel tyrant who exhausted Rome’s treasury for his own personal gain, introduced himself to folks as a god (sometimes he was Hercules;…
Sure, abandonment and isolation are incredibly depressing. But without them, The Wall wouldn’t have been the legendary record it is today. Pink Floyd’s renowned 1979 prog-rock opera clocks in at a little more than an hour and 20 minutes, and recounts the life story of Pink, the record’s protagonist. Throughout…
Miami summers aren’t for the tame. You either get blasted by searing rays from the sun or pelted by flash rain showers. But there is one good thing that comes from all the extreme weather: tropical fruit. Look up and you’re bound to see the trees in your neighborhood heavy…
Admit it — a knock-down, drag-out battle royal gets your bloodlust boiling. And when you add wheels to that hip-checking and shoulder-slamming, even better. So indulge your barbarous desires with a night out in support of Miami’s flat-track derby team, the Vice City Rollers. This conglomeration of chicks on wheels…
Screw Sex and the City. Those ladies shelling out 20-dollar bills for a watered-down cosmo wouldn’t know a real drink if it splattered all over their precious Manolo Blahniks. Your appletini might match your designer handbag, but it won’t satisfy your carb-craving taste buds. Carrie Bradshaws of the world, it’s…
New York City’s contradictory dedication to both bohemianism and unchecked greed is exposed in photographer Josef Astor’s bleak film Lost Bohemia. Astor was among the artists inhabiting the live-work studios above Carnegie Hall when, in 2007, its corporate and city government masters evicted most of the occupants in order to…
Maybe you’ve had this thought when listening to a particularly epic song by a band that blows you away: This should be on a movie soundtrack! Beloved Austin, Texas-bred post-rock group Explosions in the Sky has inspired plenty of film professionals that way. The group is a favorite of director…
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