Art Basel’s weirdest: Balls in a jar and nude pig wrestling
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011’s weirdest art: Balls in a jar and nude pig wrestling
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Brian Posehn is an American comedian of hefty build. Thanks to his gray and red beard, he could easily be an Amish farmer for Halloween. But that’s not how people know him. He’s known for his appearances in popular movies that rub against the social grain: Dumb and Dumberer and…
Scenes From Hopelandia
Fans literally faint with rapture during Sigur Rós concerts. It’s all due to the Icelandic postrock band’s haunting bowed guitar, sparse arrangements, and lyrics sung in Hopelandic, a gibberish language that frontman Jónsi uses as an instrument. And just when the bandmates were peaking in popularity, they returned home to…
Sedaris’s Holiday Humiliation
While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris did a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy’s in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, “The SantaLand Diaries,” which he read on…
Bunny Behind the Lens
How do you attract the peepers to your spanking-new 250,000-square-foot art and automobile museum during a whirlwind December when the eyes of the international art scene have been left glazed over by Basel? If you are mogul collector and developer Michael Dezer, the answer is simple. You fill the exhibition…
Seducing Charlie Barker at O Cinema December 9-15
Seducing Charlie Barker at O Cinema December 9-15
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Who Should Replace Mark Wahlberg in Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain?
Off-shore bank accounts, a Hialeah hostage, and 60-inch biceps — three critical components of a botched, mid-90s plan to swindle millions from a successful Miami accountant. When “Pain and Gain”, Pete Collins’s three-part crime feature, ran in New Times, the story’s underlying elements immediately triggered images best suited for a comedic,…
Jillian Mayer’s Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke Selected to Screen at Sundance
“I received notification by phone from California the day before Thanksgiving,” Jillian Mayer tells us. “I heard that Sundance makes a tradition out of calling people around Thanksgiving to make the holidays a bit more joyous.”What a joyous Thanksgiving for Mayer it must have been, as her collaboration with Lucas…
Real Housewives of Miami Season Two: Our Predictions
There is a very good chance that when you watched the Real Housewives of Miami, you thought there was no chance in hell they were getting a another season. Much like their sister show, Miami Social, we thought they were goners for sure — mainly because, much like Social, the…
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MasterMind Awards Gives Free Money to Artists — No, Really
Art Basel is over, and the 1% have all gone back to The Hamptons or Dubai or their secret “rich people only” underground compounds where they’ll wait out the apocalypse. But don’t worry, Miami artists — New Times still loves you. We’re handing out our annual MasterMind awards again this…
Dharma111’s “Funk-Dark” Duds
Fashion Breakdown: Adidas long sleeve shirt bought in Tokyo, patched pants co-designed with girlfriend, Alife shoes from Barnes in New York, ;messenger hat from Bates, cyber mask-mic (with blinking lights) from Cyber Cog in London…
Lit Nerd Gift Guide: Ten Presents for Bookworms
‘Tis the season of consumerism — two weeks of frantic shopping and searching for the perfect gift to prove to your loved ones that you care. In that spirit, Cultist presents a series of holiday gift guides for the cultured snobs on your list. Read on, buy things, and thank…
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Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin on Glee; Miami Celebs We’d Rather See
Miami’s TMI tía and South Florida’s favorite Puerto Rican uncle are heading to television’s McKinley High. Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin will appear on an episode of Fox’s Glee next year, according to Adam Anders, the show’s executive music report. “We just announced Ricky Martin and Gloria Estefan for a…
Jersey Shore Shark Attack Fulfills Our Reality TV Fantasies
When we first saw the words “Jersey Shore Shark Attack,” we immediately imagined that the Jersey Shore cast had returned to Miami for another season of embarrassing, drunken antics — and were tragically eaten alive in the waters of South Beach. (On-camera, one hoped.) It turns out that didn’t happen…
Real Housewives’ Jacqueline Laurita: Why She Skipped The Reunion
Remember when New Jersey was just the armpit of New York? Well, those days are over. Maybe not everyone agrees, but it definitely has the attention of the country. A lot of that has to do with the Real Housewives of New Jersey. And one lady who was there when…
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Illuminautians Club Dancers Use Flames, Sparks and Artistry-a-Go-Go
Miami is nothing short of party central, and with all that partying comes a lot of fun to be had — and money to be made. The party scene is brimming with opportunities for clever entrepreneurs with something to offer, like Kyle Head, aka Antic Icon, head of the Illuminautians…
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol: A Smart Spin on Dickens’ Classic Tale at the Miracle Theatre
Like your drunk uncle slurring “Jingle Bells” and your nieces and nephews whining over whose turn it is to mess around with the new Wii games, Ebenezer Scrooge’s iconic humbugging is an irreplaceable sound bite from many Americans’ Christmases.But what would Scrooge’s tale of rebirth be without the ominous haunting…
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011: A Week of Fashion
Another season of Art Basel raged through the streets of Miami and South Beach and the fashions, once again, were on another level. The silhouettes were classic for both men and women, but splashes of color seemed to pop everywhere we looked. Black continued being the superior shade on the…
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2011: Winners & Losers
That’s it, folks! The tenth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach and all the events and sideshows that surround it are done. Now we are left to pick up the discarded canvases and paint cans left behind.But Basel did leave something worthwhile behind — and we’re not talking about the…
Video: Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
Art Basel Miami 2011 may be over, but reliving it through photos, videos, text messages, status updates, tweets, and old school real life conversations has only just begun. Here’s some of what we saw, including Ron English, Mr. Brainwash, SCOPE art fair, Design Miami, the Neckface movie, Salem at the…
Twain Gives Shaw a Figurative Punch in New Theatre’s Twain and Shaw Do Lunch
Toward the end of the drive out to the New Theatre’s new location inside the Roxy Performing Arts Center in a strip mall in West Kendall, we half expected to see cow pastures crop up on either side of the road. Dramatic? Yes. But hell, we’re writers, and if there’s anything…
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Tough Love Episode Ten: Bahama Mamas Get on The Love Boat
So, last week’s hot seat took not one, but two different Sunday nights to get through. Maybe because there was not one, not two, but three different ladies that did the worst last week. And Miss Christine took the cake as the hottest mess of them all. She not only…