Arts & Culture

The crowd at the recurring TechnoSluts parties is pretty much unlike any other. Think a colorful Venn diagram meeting of that rarefied overlap between candy ravers, cyber goths, bass-heads, and fetish enthusiasts, and you’ll get the vinyl- and hair-fall-filled picture. For the past four years, this loose artistic collective has…

Punk isn’t just a city thing. All across this great and shredded nation, there are snotty little shit kickers in backwaters and barnyards who’ve just discovered anarchy, Manic Panic, and safety pins. And about 15 years ago, Off With Their Heads’ singer and guitarist Ryan Young joined the ranks of…

Those triple-stacked rows of yellow dynamite might have come from Israel in the briefcase of a thugged-out Hasid. They could have come from Amsterdam and made it here in the keister bunny’s blown-out O-ring. E pills sold on the streets of Miami might be funding the purchase of missiles and…

The blogosphere is a band-eater. In 2007, those behind laptops adored Jax indie poppers the Black Kids. They raved about their debut EP, Wizards of Ahhhs, and the single “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You.” The pulsing online buzz launched them to the number five…

Sure, everyone always assumed Barbie liked Ken best. They had that dream house together, and Ken always was a spiffy dresser — not to mention that hair. But while Ken was upstairs perfecting his John Edwards coif (and probably fantasizing about Skipper), Babs was out in her dream car cruising…

The big, blonde behemoth, otherwise known as Brock Lesnar, has traveled a weird and twisting road. Back in the day, he was the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling champ. But rolling around in public with sweaty college boys doesn’t typically lead to immediate career opportunities. So, after graduation, Lesnar did what…

Forget dorky helmets and hand signals. There’s a better way to get around town than bicycling. Need to refill the beer fridge? Take a direct path to the grocery store — vault over your neighbor’s fence, dodge that rabid dog, scramble across crumbling rooftops, scale the sides of vacant condos,…

Whoop, whoop! Steve Aoki is back in town this Thursday hawking his brand of mainstream hipsterdom. This time, the venue is SET. Now let us take a moment to guide you through a typical Aoki DJ set: (1) Lights dim as “Circle of Life” (AKA The Lion King theme song)…

Starting today, the American Black Film Festival takes over the Ritz-Carlton as its headquarters and will screen films at Lincoln Road’s Colony Theatre and the Española Way’s Miami Beach Cinematheque through Saturday. But with 17 films, a shorts competition, workshops, and symposiums, you can’t make it to everything. Here’s where…

Two years ago two University of Miami students filmed a documentary re-enacting the last days of former city commissioner Art Teele Jr.’s life. After making the rounds on the festival circuit, the documentary, Miami Noir, will air on Miami PBS in July, but it is now entirely online up at…

The Buena Vista Social Club will play its first American shows in seven years this week, with appearances in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.Like Silvio Rodriguez, the band’s likely skipping South Florida for fear of protests from fringe exile groups. The legendary geezers are just the latest Cuban musicians…

The U was a raucous look at the fabled ’80s-era Miami Hurricanes football team, and Run Ricky Run made us wholly reconsider the Dolphins’ enigmatic superstar running back. Silly Little Game was a hilarious chronicling of the group of baseball-adoring friends who unknowingly launched the $2 billion fantasy sports industry; No…

Are you ready to have a little piece of your soul destroyed? We warned you that a Golden Girls parody porn was in the works. Well, it’s here, and it looks kind of horrendous. As part of New Sensations’ triple-X parody lines, G=The Golden Girls: A XXX Milf Parody promises to,…

Ah, the first day of Summer. But as the mercury rises, our finances continue to dip. Here’s a rundown of free things to do this week.Monday: Don’t wait for a plague of locusts. See the end-of-days exhibit “20(12)” at a pop-up midtown venue called Miami Art Space. Local painter Kiki…

Moving at a glacial pace towards a new home at Bicentennial Park, the Miami Art Museum made some progress Thursday. Thomas “Thom” Collins has been named its new director.The museum had been without a director since December, when Terence Riley abruptly resigned. Collins, a relatively young director who now oversees…

Anyone who’s ever done time in a South Beach club line already knows this: Club bouncers judge you.Lauren Rivera, an Ivy League-educated sociology researcher at the Kellogg Institute, ended up infiltrating an unnamed trendy club in Manhattan (probably the kind this guy frequents) by working as a coat-check girl. After…

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. The New Yorker editor and novelist — and let’s not forget, Miami New Times alum — has won acclaim for his McSweeney’s-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009’s Please Step Back. The book tells the tale of a fictional ’60s-era…

Your memories of Tom Green are totally gross and hilarious. You remember a skinny manchild spazzing out in a roomful of sausage. You remember him herding shit-filled farm animals into his parents’ suburban home. You remember him humping a dead moose. Well, that was then. These days, Tom Green is…

Taking center stage at Diaspora Vibe Gallery in the Design District is a group video exhibit featuring artists from throughout the United States, England, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Peru. “Exodus” seeks to examine the use of video to generate dialogue and investigate the media’s influence on world events, popular culture,…

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