As we creep into October, news of Art Basel Miami Beach, everyone’s favorite Swiss art fair, is slowly rolling in. While it’s clearly our favorite week of the year, we’re aware that most Miamians find it a smidge too high brow, a touch too elitist. But hey, this your free…
Those scamps at Netflix are at it again! First they announce that they are doubling their subscription fee for people who want both the delivery service and streaming. Then they announced that they would be losing streaming rights for many of the major distributors, and they’re making each account unable…
That’s Disgusting is a new video series in which interviewing is only half the fun (trying not to vomit is the other). All interviews take place in a disgusting, Miami environment from public bathrooms to the underbelly of urban living. The below episode features comedian Dave Williamson, whose humor centralizes…
Tyra Banks may have just penned America’s Next Top Novel, for teens, that is. Alas, the joke is terrible, but it needed to be made. The former supermodel published her first book, describing it as a fantasy and adventure tale for young women entitled Modelland.Her goal is to make young…
Fashion Breakdown: Top from H&M, skirt by Anthropologie, shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti, belt by Hermès, watch by Cartier, manicure polish by the new fall collection from Essie “power clutch,” and lipstick by Make Up Forever #36…
There was a time when awards shows, the Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, heck even the MTV Movie Awards meant something in American culture – mostly that there was a 3-hour block of Sunday night where you’d be riveted to television. But those days are long gone. Today, awards shows are the…
Nicholas Cage is a weird dude. And evidently, weird dudes attract weird dudes. While promoting his new movie, Trespass, at the Toronto International Film Festival, Cage recalled a bizarre incident that occurred one night at his southern California home. “It was two in the morning,” he tells reporters. “I was…
The unhip jab wasn’t meant to be an insult. Not totally. It’s just that the locally filmed All Men Are Beasts, premiering next week at Paragon Theaters in Cocowalk, is not exactly the type of hipster Miami filmmaking that’s been garnering attention lately. But we’re thinking that’s a good thing…
On the second page of Birds of Paradise, Diana Abu-Jaber evokes local carpet salesman Don Bailey as that “thirty-foot naked man reclining, selling God-knows-what.” The novel, which is steeped in the visual cues of Miami life, flips back and forth between a wayward daughter’s street life on the pink sidewalks…
Feel that breeze? The relentless humidity has knocked down from torturous to somewhat muggy. We no longer have to wring our shirts out between exiting our cars and entering a building. And because we live in arguably the best state (well, really, the best city) in the country, you need…
Debuting today: a new website where you can find the best Miami has to offer, New Times style.Voice Places is just getting started. But it offers a multitude of choices for a good time — from almost 6,000 restaurants to 100 bars and hundreds of retail stores. There are links…
Russians are notorious for scribbling in their journals. Dostoevsky kept a diary and so did Anna, his wife. Celebrated Russian hoofer Nijinsky chronicled his descent into dementia during the six weeks he spent in Switzerland before being committed to an asylum.But Ukrainian’s are no slouches either when it comes to…
I grew up chubby. As a baby, it was cute. But in the JC Penney boys section, it was downright embarrassing. Until I outgrew children’s clothing, I wore a size “husky.” I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was retail’s clever way of calling me fat. “Should I…
Perez Hilton: Celebrity ass-kisser. MS Paint pro. Children’s book author. Yes, the former Miamian and Belen Jesuit grad thinks he can appeal to kids. The result? The Boy With Pink Hair. The plot goes something like this: a little boy is different because he has pink hair and gets bullied…
Fashion Breakdown: Dress from Great Glam, boots, jacket from Vera Wang, contact lenses from FXeyes.com, and bracelets from Andy Wardrobe’s closet…
As if we needed any more proof that Miami (and by extension, Florida) is badass, the Latin Recording Academy announced yesterday that local artist Miguel Paredes would be the official artist of this year’s Latin Grammy festivities. That means the New York native who now lives and works in Miami,…
Princess Di and Charles? Pssh. Apollo must have screwed a lady-dragon in a volcano filled with overcooked Hot Pockets, because there’s no other explanation as to why Prince Harry is so sizzling. We mean, just look at him! Ginger hotness can not be contained. And if Tabasco’s website is correct…
We love HBO. Having said that, we’re thrilled their summer series are finally over. Aside from (spoiler alert) Tara being shot in True Blood, Michael J. Fox’s guest appearance on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Entourage altogether ending, we felt that Sundays’ season finales were uncharacteristically weak. In fact, True Blood’s…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. Among the more amazing aspects of the 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival is the attention to spectacle. But while the world is waking up this morning to…
These days, if you’re still not satisfied with the kickball or roller derby leagues popping up all over South Florida, maybe bicycles will whet your alternative sport appetite.The Miami Bike Polo league (polo, as in a mallet in one hand, a handlebar in the other, and a street hockey ball…
When Steve Jobs sold his functioning liver to the Devil in exchange for the iPhone, his first thought probably wasn’t, “I bet someone will create apps that ease no-strings-attached sexual encounters.” Just kidding, he’s a savvy dude so I’m sure he knew right away people would use the device for…
Some artists like to create works from scratch. Others prefer destroying what already exists to imbue the resulting detritus with new life. At Primary Projects, “His Wife & Her Lover” is a new exhibit whose curatorial premise is the notion of causing damage to something in order to redirect its…
