What’s better than watching sweaty, burly men ride on a big, muscular, writhing beast? Nothing. It’s time you took in some good old-fashioned bull riding. Luckily, you don’t have to travel to Kentucky to get an eyeful. The Davie Arena will host the Pro Rodeo’s Davie Championship Bull Riding this…
This Saturday marks the ninth anniversary of 9/11. So from morning to midnight, CNN will be a maudlin Ferris wheel while Fox News stokes the shards of hurt and fury that still float in your system like kidney stones. The networks will probably air footage of the towers falling repeatedly,…
A clown has two faces: the smiling, cherry-cheeked joker and the dangerously depressed, homicidal boozer. One makes us laugh, and the other makes us crap our pants with fear. Silent film funnyman Fatty Arbuckle was a perfect case in point. The guy was so hilarious that he actually invented the…
If you’ve been watching Showtime’s hit series Dexter but not reading the source material, you’re missing out on novelist Jeff Lindsay’s take on the creepy world of Dexter Morgan. (Spoiler alert!) After the second season, the TV show took a drastic turn away from Lindsay’s vision. The biggest difference: In…
Everyone knows about the Delano’s Florida Room — the basement-like space transformed into a private playground for Miami’s A-list. But above ground, located in the lobby of the historic hotel, is the Rose Bar. You probably didn’t think you had any reason to visit, but now you do, thanks to…
The Miami Heat start playing preseason games in exactly 34 days, 1 hour, and 51 minutes. Soon all of Miami will know whether LeBron-mania was just a temporary schizoid fit or a permanent state of being. Are we gonna stay crazy forever, mama? Probably not. For now, though, people are…
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…
If you’re like a certain unnamed New Times colleague, you only listen to NPR’s This American Life if you want to fall asleep. If you’re like me, you had to stop listening to the podcast at work because you kept bursting out in loud sobs. Then there’s the man behind…
[jump] Dear Christ Lover, As a sadistic cunt, I am glad you are feeling guilty about your desires. Guilt is one of the primal forms of masochism, and as a devout Catholic you should know this. There is nothing wrong with practicing BDSM and being a total religious freak at…
We’ve got a lot of questions. Like … Are we the only ones willing to listen to how fucking dumb Kristen is because of all the crazy-funny shit she says? Is Dirty D an actual ex-heroin addict or is she just faking it to be a Debbie Downer? Or when…
[jump] Name: Josh Strode AKA Lok-JawOccupation: Self-contractorDescribe your style: Industrial, post-apocalypticDo you have to take your piercing off for an airport security check? No…
You might not know it. But there are approximately two billion and a half film aficionados who’d argue that creator-actor-writer-director-producer Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is a cinematic masterpiece full of raw human emotion that explodes across the screen in supernovas of beauty, soul, and specialness. Hahaha … I lied. If…
Because Art Basel Miami Beach is only a few months away, we jumped at the chance to speak with the new director of Design Miami/, Wava Carpenter. The Design Miami team, who, interestingly, are mostly women, seek out the best in contemporary and historically influential design and house it under…
The term cool can be confusing. To some, being cool means wearing day-glo leggings with yet another generic, nondescript tunic shirt from American Apparel, skipping the “before midnight” line at the Vagabond, and impressing younger siblings with sardonic wit. What the word cool really means, and has always meant, however,…
The Sistene Chapel of Miami graffiti is an abandoned warehouse on 23rd Street and NW 6th Avenue. Click on for six more pics of the block-long graffiti mural, complete with pimped-out karaoke singers, boy wonders, the sickest of tags, and escaped gorillas…
What does a baroque altar piece depicting the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus have to do with a pair of incandescent pink and purple ghetto-fabulous sneakers? At the Bass Museum, it’s the clever juxtaposition of historical and contemporary art that generates dialogue and enhance public interest.”We want to become the…
On an otherwise nondescript street in Wynwood, a two-story building seems to be breathing fire in the middle of NW 36 Street between Second and Third Avenues. This is the home of Hell Bound City Tattoo. As soon as you walk in, you quickly realize this isn’t South Beach. When…
Last night, Jimmy Fallon hosted the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, and he got about as many laughs as Hurricane Katrina, which hit five years ago yesterday. Relying on a guitar, “funny” songs, and tweets from random Emmy viewers, Fallon once again proved to be the Keanu Reeves of comedy…
Despite the worn-out copy of Four-Hour Workweek on your nightstand, you’re still a wage slave with pockets full of resentment but empty of cash. This week, though, distract yourself from your fiscal worries with little affordable doses of that c-word: culture. Monday: Damn, we already lied. You’re going to have…
This weekend, James Cameron re-released his multi-million dollar epic film Avatar in 3-D theaters. This is great news for James Cameron, because people are determined to fork over their cash for nine additional minutes of tail sex and a chance to relive a grandiose robbery of time. In 3-D!But let’s…
While we had MIFF’s new director, Jaie Laplante, on the horn last week, verifying his role in Frisk, we also asked him how he characterizes Miami’s film tastes and which films he ranks among his personal favorites.A native of Alberta, Canada who holds a BFA in film production from Toronto’s…
