Miami Beach’s North Shore is the new South Beach. And we mean the SoBe that existed before Chris Paciello opened Liquid in 1995 and turned the neighborhood into a throbbing clubland. If you’re nostalgic for sleepy, ocean-breeze-kissed streets filled with art deco buildings and leathery-tan seniors, venture 60 blocks up…
A year after winning a Grammy for “Jackson,” his duet with June Carter, Johnny Cash nearly died in an underground cave. He had crawled deep inside a Tennessee cavern like a drug-addled wildebeest looking for shelter and got lost in the dark, airless crevices of both his mind and the…
Baseball and Fourth of July are classic slices of an Americana summer, at least in places without 90 percent humidity. When the Florida Marlins take on the Philadelphia Phillies on Independence Day, the postgame fireworks might be overshadowed by the blasts coming off the road team’s bats, because the last…
His muscles tense as he grips his cannon. Thick, glowing goo splats across her exposed skin. She rubs it in, wipes it from her lips, and smiles. Meanwhile, the 6,000 party people surrounding her are doing the same. This isn’t the scene of the world’s largest orgy; it’s Dayglow, the…
Most of mainstream America’s exposure to custom cars begins and ends at MTV’s Pimp My Ride, in which the easily excitable Xzibit and a crew of mechanics upgrade junky cars with accouterments such as mobile music studios in trunks, laptops in center consoles, and thin fish tanks instead of windshields…
Hearing the word supercon, you can’t help but picture a crowd of middle-aged men with paunches squashed into Spider-Man costumes and bald heads sandwiched between prosthetic Spock ears. But this year, Florida Supercon is doing it’s best to break that stereotype and bring out the inner geek in everyone. In…
With all the martial arts out there (karate, tae kwon do, muay Thai, jujitsu, etc.), it’s difficult to know what sport you’re looking at anytime you see somebody in a gi (a karate training uniform). And now with images of The Karate Kid (both Ralph Macchio’s and Will Smith’s son’s…
We’ve had a flurry of urban, gay parties going on lately in South Florida. Gay, urban parties that normally take place in Atlanta and other gay-friendly cities have been making their way down here because (1) There is a huge market for them, and (2) everyone wants to party in…
The so-called No Wave period of artistic expression, which flourished in ’70s and ’80s New York, was one of the last times artistic subcultures truly intermingled. It was a time when starving artists were really starving — not playing at trust-fund stuff — and the city was teeming with rats…
Superman goes by many titles: Man of Steel, Last Son of Krypton, and Illegal Alien. He arrived on Earth from another planet, like E.T. and Dennis Rodman, with the goal of helping mankind through the use of his incredible abilities. His non-American origin was discovered by Donald Trump after numerous…
A who’s who of local culinary talent will join forces Thursday for Taste of the Nation, an evening of food and drink to benefit Share Our Strength. At the Fairmont Turnberry Isle, guests will sample wine and spirits as well as dishes prepared by more than 40 local chefs, including…
Sticky-fingered friends are no good. They’ve stolen your best CDs over the years. But Treasure Fingers is a hand you probably wanna get familiar with. The disco-house DJ and producer is Atlanta-bred Ashley Jones. Appropriately signed to Fool’s Gold Records and working out of New York, he creates original tracks…
You’ve probably heard by now — Doug Hutchison, the 51-year-old who played Percy “Worst Human Around” Wetmore in The Green Mile, has married a girl too young to get a full driver’s license in every state but the Dakotas. Her name is Courtney Stodden, she’s reportedly 16 years old, and…
Gallagher, famous for letting out his anger on watermelons, lit up a room of mostly middle-aged white folks cloaked in plastic last night at the Seminole Casino. Though most people seemed amused, let’s just say, it’d be hard to imagine sitting through a dinner with the guy.For a progressive woman…
The FDA just announced that soon cigarettes would come with large picture warnings on packages to go along with classic written warning they’ve had for decades. Disturbing images of people on respirators, rotting teeth, damaged lungs, and a hole in the throat will soon adorn packs and are likely to…
Feeling restless this summer? You don’t have to travel half-way around the globe to witness something awesome. Just take a drive in the 305. Coral Castle in Homestead is just creepy, weird, and wonderful enough to lure in both locals and tourists.Like the Taj Mahal, the Castle is a monument…
This is the strange but true tale of how I recently spoke with Jackie Gleason, one of the most beloved South Florida entertainers in history. I must admit, it’s impossible to exactly explain the logistics, because he’s been dead since June 24th, 1987. In homage to Mr. Gleason, I have…
Ryan Trecartin has been called the first YouTube art star. Rather than simply go online to see his hallucinatory flicks, it’s a lot more fun to view the movies spooled together at the Museum of Contemporary Art , where videos, sets, and props for Trecartin’s opus will be on display…
Fashion Breakdown: Dress by Mono B from Hannah Bella in the Design District, bag by Moyna, shoes by Michael Kors, watch is a Rolex, hammered cuff found at Beverlee Kagan Antique and Vintage Jewelry, the wheaton rope cuff found in a market in Cape Cod, belt by Ports 1961, make-up…
Well, the TV gods must have their dials turned to “Miami.” After Adult Swim featured a video from Coral Morphologic, we flipped by Web Soup a few days ago and saw Miami’s very own Jillian Mayer. The G4 show played her I Am Your Grandma video and followed it with…
Oh, Orlando, good thing you’ve got your beautiful lakes. Otherwise you’d be cage fighting Ocala for the title of Florida’s Official Crotch Wart. And speaking of a nasty, unexplainable rash that won’t go away, Casey Anthony’s murder trial is in full swing in the birth place of ‘N Sync. And…
British artist Mike Nelson is known for his discomfiting installations that typically leave viewers disoriented and evoke all manner of literary, historic, artistic and cinematic references. For his daring, epic-scaled “I, Imposter” at this year’s Venice Biennale, Nelson spent nearly three months in the city transforming the neoclassical British Pavilion…
