You’ve already moshed and chugged Busch beer and high-fived with the So Raw crew. But now you can fill your backpacks and shelves and drawers with awesome swank from someplace called the So Raw Store. It’s a rock ‘n’ roll shopping party! Setting up at NDS Shop through the end…
If you’re like us, the first impulse you had after seeing your first oil-soaked seagull was to rip your clothes off and hop on a bike. This Saturday, you can do just that in the company of strangers at the Miami World Naked Bike Ride to protest our nation’s dependence…
Where will all Miami’s rasta lovers be this weekend? At a lush green oasis in Little Haiti called Naomi’s Garden. They’re hosting a two-day music and culture fest dubbed Raize It Up Live. Expect African drumming and dance, Kemetic (Egyptian) yoga, natural healing and sustainable living workshops, tribal face painting,…
The Marlins Super Saturday event features a post-game concert by Of A Revolution, otherwise known as O.A.R. The band has toured the world for the past 14 years helping a mostly white college audience jam out and sing along to reggae-inspired tuneage. According to band saxophonist Jerry DePizzo, the group…
Sure, socially conscious artists are prevalent in Spanish-language music. But few acts have committed themselves so completely to fighting for the greater good than Aterciopelados, whose zeal for placing social and political causes right before the public’s eye is legendary. The band’s most recent album, last year’s Grammy-nominated Rio, is…
In 1987, weeks after a 7-year-old girl barely survived a brutal attack by a neighbor’s pit bull, Miami-Dade became the one of the first counties in the nation to ban the entire breed of dog.The law remains on the books today, even as it’s earned the scorn of everyone from…
For the past four years, the members of local comedy crew Model Citizens have been locked in a hot and hilarious three-way. It’s been sweaty, silly, and occasionally skeezy. But now Kimberly Cox, Jason Finkelman, and Michael Murray are breaking up. Why? Well, Cox and Finkelman have decided to abandon…
A new exhibit at the Dina Mitrani Gallery takes a firm stance on technology: The digital age murdered photography. Remember how long you spent composing a shot in the days of film? Compare that to your indiscriminate snapping with your digital camera. It’s the image that’s become expendable, not the…
Warning: This Night & Day article will self-destruct upon completion. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to accrue autographs and uncomfortable photographs from the most random hodgepodge of C-list celebrities to ever share South Florida’s oxygen. Your targets are Richard Roundtree (Shaft), the Soup Nazi (Seinfeld), Leslie…
The Florida Marlins bullpen has been blowing so many leads this season that it’s a lot like the BP oil spill: You know it’s coming, and it’s going to kill everything in the ocean. That’s right. Every time a Marlins reliever blows yet another lead, a baby sea horse dies…
Oft-imitated king of crunk Lil Jon will guest-DJ at Mansion this Friday for the weekly We Rock Hip Hop party. You’ll get a taste of the crunk juice that’s made the performer one of the most sought-after collaborators in the biz. He’ll be behind the decks, alongside resident DJs Ideal…
Just when you thought you knew every inch of Miami, a new event space opens. The Simigo Gallery and Workspace is the creation of two artists: photographer Jayme Gershen and painter Rosaura Perez. The duo has already enticed international artists for residencies and performances. This weekend, they will host Luis…
Just when you thought you knew every inch of Miami, a new event space opens. The Simigo Gallery and Workspace is the creation of two artists: photographer Jayme Gershen and painter Rosaura Perez. The duo has already enticed international artists for residencies and performances. This weekend, they will host Luis…
Her iconic hit “Stay” is still kicking around in our heads, but what has Lisa Loeb been up to the past 16 years? Well, she released her famous Purple Tape album on CD, made some children’s music albums, filmed a couple of reality shows, and in a genius move, designed…
With American withdrawal set to begin in July 2011, President Obama might narrowly prevent the war in Afghanistan from eclipsing Vietnam as the longest military conflict in U.S. history. But given Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s unhinged threats to join the Taliban as well as the Pentagon’s muted skepticism of the…
“Like a cocaine cowboy/Making deliveries/I’m at your front door/Bringing you histories.” Listen to Black Bobby and you just might learn something. This D.C.-born indie rapper studied politics at Harvard before moving to Miami to start a record label. He worked on the Obama campaign, got fed up with politics, and…
Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi takes us through the underground music scene in Tehran, where all Western-style music is prohibited. Based on real people, places, and events, Nobody Knows About Persian Cats follows Negar Shaghaghi and Ashkan Koshanejad of the indie band Take It Easy Hospital (yes, a real band) as…
In 1977, Barbet Schroeder filmed the interactions between a 6-year-old lowland gorilla, Koko, and her teacher, Dr. Francine “Penny” Patterson. After being purchased from the San Francisco Zoo, the ape had been brought to Stanford University, where she was being taught to use American Sign Language and recognize spoken English…
In this city, you don’t drive in the fast lane; you drive in one of the fast lanes. So it’s no surprise that record-breaking Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves calls the Magic City home. It’s also not terribly surprising he’s a Dancing With the Stars champion. Whether landing spreads in…
An intellectual snark of the highest order, Christopher Hitchens has been waterboarded by ski-masked U.S. torture trainers for the pages of Vanity Fair. He wrote a book with the very PC title God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. He called Margaret Thatcher “surprisingly sexy” and Ronald Reagan “a…
Almost all industrialized democracies have done away with the death penalty, but not the United States, putting us in the illustrious company of China, Iran, and Iraq. Some states have abolished it, but here in Florida, it’s standing room only on death row. A local theater company, Alliance Theatre Lab,…
The Swedes are good at a lot of things: Modern-looking furniture that looks easy to assemble but turns out to be a pain. Swedish meatballs and lingonberry jam. Creepy old dudes producing bubblegum hooks for pop-tart wannabes. Playing convincing vampires on hit HBO shows. And scary death metal music. Oh,…
