Check out Katie Murray’s exuberant depiction of a Queens, New York high school all-girl drill squad executing a complex series of precision movements at World Class Boxing, where the Big Apple photographer’s first video is on view. As the young women display their graceful and flowing moves on the hardwood…
Just when we got in sync with the rhythm of the galleries and new exhibits opening every six weeks, along came summer. Don’t expect many new openings until fall, and some galleries might even close for the entire month of August. The current exhibit at David Castillo Gallery, “DCG Open,”…
On a recent trip to Egypt, Anthony Bourdain ditches the pyramids to feast on some stuffed pigeons. As he eloquently says, “Fresh from an orgy of pigeon killing, and still spitting feathers and beak bits on the floor of the cab,” he heads to the next meal — lamb nuts…
There’s a strange sound emanating from suburban Lake Worth, and the suspected source is a cryptic entity called the Jameses. Riding waves of fuzz rock and ethereal weirdness, this thing is the work of three dudes — drummer Danny Hitchcock, synth man Dan McHugh, and bass-and-guitar guy Jesse Bryan —…
Ted Nugent’s bad-boy persona is stamped with a sneer and swagger, a combination that defines the distance between him and other rockers who came of age in the late ’60s and early ’70s. The difference is clear not only in his unapologetic disdain for drugs and his unabashed enthusiasm for…
To put things in perspective, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are two senior citizen skeletons that haven’t put together so much as a satisfying fart in the past 20 years. It’s sad considering the scuzzy genius of late-’60s and early-’70s stuff like Let It Bleed and Exile on Main Street…
To put things in perspective, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are two senior citizen skeletons that haven’t put together so much as a satisfying fart in the past 20 years. It’s sad considering the scuzzy genius of late-’60s and early-’70s stuff like Let It Bleed and Exile on Main Street…
Whether it’s crystal meth or driving fast, the quest for speed ain’t cheap. Now, we don’t recommend sucking drug fumes through a pen tube out of a butane-torched, upside-down light bulb. It’ll keep you up for days, make your teeth fall out, and have you robbing grannies. We do, however,…
Whether it’s crystal meth or driving fast, the quest for speed ain’t cheap. Now, we don’t recommend sucking drug fumes through a pen tube out of a butane-torched, upside-down light bulb. It’ll keep you up for days, make your teeth fall out, and have you robbing grannies. We do, however,…
Thanks to Power 96 in the ’80s, every Camaro and Trans Am blared freestyle’s syncopated drum machines and vocoder vocals. It was the heyday of Afrika Bambaata’s “Planet Rock,” which melded the tweaks of Kraftwerk with the soul of George Clinton. As the genre morphed, freestyle became synonymous with dance…
Not one to pander, director Spike Lee once said, “What’s the difference between Hollywood actors and my characters? Mine are real.” Lee has made it his mission to portray on the big screen the realities of being black in America. In Do the Right Thing, he sketched a rich portrait…
As the primary songwriter of megahits such as Usher’s “Yeah!,” Chris Brown’s “Run It!,” Ciara’s “Goodies,” and, most recently, Mario’s “Break Up,” hip-hop producer Sean Garrett is one of the decade’s guiding forces in music, penning 15 number one hits. (He’s rumored to be working on an album with Whitney…
Almost a third of all landfill waste comes from the threads in your closets. That’s right. You dress like trash. So be green and recycle your wardrobe to lower your negative impact on the planet. You’ll have the chance this weekend when the first annual South Florida Swap-o-Rama-Rama comes to…
The Florida Marlins bullpen is an absolute mess. It’s written all over Fredi González’s face whenever he needs to pull his starter and go to the pen. It’s like he’s bringing in Wile E. Coyote to hold the lead, and he inevitably blows up the stadium with his Acme TNT…
Documentary or not? The 87-minute feature Exit Through the Gift Shop smirkingly skirts the line between fact and fiction. Ostensibly the work of a wannabe filmmaker from France named Thierry Guetta, the project was commandeered at some point by the famously faceless art provocateur known by the pseudonym “Banksy.” The…
An exhibit that calls religious rites into question is perhaps a moot point in a town like Miami. You can see only so many decapitated goats discarded in Biscayne Bay without realizing that what’s pious practice to some is horrific animal cruelty to others. Still, even those dulled by prevalent…
Once upon a time, heavy tattage was the exclusive brand of sea dogs, sideshow freaks, and antisocial slime. Today, though, everybody’s been inked. Your sister’s left boob is tagged “Property of Tito.” Your brother’s forearm bears a baby pirate with a kinky kris dagger in its wooden teeth. Even Mom…
“In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And Jack boldly declared ‘Let There Be House,’ and house music was born.” So goes the Genesis-like mythos of house music, as expounded by talking head Chuck Roberts, and…
Much like director Luc Besson’s other films, Nikita and The Fifth Element, Angel-A tracks a mysterious beauty with unearthly powers. Angela is an angel, fallen from the sky, who helps a poor Parisian with his mounting debt and personal woes. It’s as if Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire was made…
Bicycle jousters, homeless homosexuals, Filipino prisoners, poor people in Connecticut, South Beach party girls, and black tranny prostitutes — these are the human subjects of a new photography show, “Rise: New Works by New Artists,” at Gallery I/D through July 7. There’s ex-New York Times intern Julie Glassberg’s Bike Kill,…
We always enjoy a little friendly East Coast/West Coast competition — Kobe Bryant versus Dwyane Wade, In-N-Out versus Five Guys, Hollywood Boulevard versus Ocean Drive — but nothing makes us prouder than when we lure a Left Coaster to the Magic City. La La Land-based DJ StoneRokk, AKA the Freshmaker,…
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