According to Plato, “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” But we’d wager the misery of a breakup has spawned much more passionate rhymes. Literature is a greedy beast who feeds on human suffering, right? Not so, says Zimbabwean poet and novelist Chenjerai Hove: “Maybe the heartaches of…
The first Tuesday of every month, we make a tradition out of indulging our inner teenager. We slam our bedroom doors; we grunt and sigh in place of small talk; we scribble grievances that may or may not be poetry into black and white composition books. The only acceptable soundtrack…
Have your heartfelt letters to politicians gone unanswered? Then maybe you should have been sending cold, hard cash on diamond-encrusted platters. It worked for Jack Abramoff, the subject of Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s Casino Jack and the United States of Money. The film has money, power, Indian casinos, Russian spies,…
Historically, the evolution of language moved only as fast as humans could walk. But then came the Morse telegraph, radio, and the Telex, cutting down messaging time from days to hours to minutes. And now, there’s the Internet, a globe-choking network of networks that’s constantly feeding information to billions at…
Hide your heretics, France has launched a new crusade. This time ‘round, the French have invaded to sing to you about love. Crusaders of Love are a power pop, punk band on a U.S. tour for their album, Never Grow Up! They play with punk’s raw, quick energy but their…
Way back in 1897, there was an inventor dude named Thaddeus Cahill who came up with the Telharmonium, a 200-ton electronic tone-wheel instrument whose sounds would warp in response to human touch. Now, there’s no recorded example of Cahill’s sound machine in action, so this little factoid is not entirely…
“I know way too many people here right now that I didn’t know last year, who the fuck are y’all?” No doubt, you’ll be hearing that song by Drake while having similar thoughts as you approach Collins Avenue for this year’s Memorial Day weekend. As usual, though, expect dunk ryders…
“I know way too many people here right now that I didn’t know last year, who the fuck are y’all?” No doubt, you’ll be hearing that song by Drake while having similar thoughts as you approach Collins Avenue for this year’s Memorial Day weekend. As usual, though, expect dunk ryders…
Through years of enjoying Locos por Juana’s funky reggae-cumbia fusion, perhaps you’ve sometimes wondered, “Hey, what do you suppose they would sound like if they crossed over to the electro scene?” Sounds pretty intriguing, no? Well, whether or not you’ve previously thought about it, your curiosity can quickly be sated…
Spaghetti Westerns have come full circle. Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone ripped on Akira Kurosawa’s samurai adventure Yojimbo, and now Korean director Ji-woon Kim is aping Leone with his The Good, the Bad, and the Weird. Much like the original, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the 2008 Korean film…
Hip Hop Weekend, or as the rest of the country knows it, Memorial Day Weekend, has traditionally been confined to the clubs of South Beach. But on Sunday, the third annual Memorial Weekend Comedy Festival brings the festivities off the beach and into the James L. Knight Center. Chris Rock…
Doral will be a stage for local fashion designers, artists, musicians, and entertainers (AKA FAME). Upcoming fashion-design duo Jeannine Prats and Kettysley Hernandez will model their line, TroubleTimes2. Expect live performances by the New, Fly Kingdom, Big Fun 3, Magic Population, Morning War, Michael Guartos, and others, as well as…
Pop quiz: Who’s Bree Tanner? a. A character on Full House b. An altar boy George Rekers hired to carry his groceries c. A baby vampire from the Twilight series Remember in Eclipse, the third novel in the Twilight Saga, when Victoria created an army of baby vampires to avenge…
After a blowout weekend celebrating its ten-year anniversary, Club Space this Saturday presents a serious bill of out-of-town stars that should keep the lines at the door as long as ever. In the main room is London-based favorite Funkagenda, which hits Miami in just one of a handful of U.S…
Let’s hear it for female empowerment movies that are so graphic they could never air on Lifetime TV — flicks such as Hard Candy, Jennifer’s Body, and the latest The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. When it screened at this year’s Miami International Film Festival, women in the sold-out crowd…
Mixing hip-hop and folk sounds about as appealing as mixing tuna fish and ice cream, but alas, Citizen Cope has found just the right ratio to make it work. Born Clarence Greenwood in Memphis, Tennessee, Cope sings radio-friendly hybrids that could be labeled folk-hop or blues-pop. His popular albums —…
Did we wake up in the early ’70s? The nation is polarized by internal rage and fierce divisions, American troops are caught in a never-ending conflict overseas, another Nixon is running for office (yup, Tricky Dick’s grandson is making a bid in Connecticut), and James Taylor and Carole King are…
The ruckus is coming to Miami. If you don’t know Leon Black from Noel White, your enthusiasm might be curbed, but JB Smoove can help. It’s easy to pigeonhole this comedian in his popular role as the Hurricane Edna refugee on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Yet Smoove has quite…
Keith Haring died in 1990 at the height of his popularity as a downtown street artist in New York City. He was infamous for his primitive and renegade subway drawings, but he was also a pop culture icon. He represented a turn in the art world, where a kid with…
Considering the number of times we’ve been mugged while out getting milk, it was a huge surprise to discover Miami has a real-deal superhero policing its streets. His name is the Avenging Avenger. “He’s tired of the crime in the magic city of Miami, so he’s decided to scour the…
Smell that smoke? All over the world, die-hard cinephiles are burning their copies of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film Metropolis. Turns out the version we’ve all been watching for the past 80 years was missing an important chunk of scenes. Metropolis is worshipped for inventing the visual language of science…
Take a stroll along Coconut Grove’s Main Highway and you’ll find a beat-up historic marker toppling over a bent chain-link fence. The Charles Avenue plaque commemorates one of the oldest communities in Miami, the Bahamian neighborhood in the west Grove. Bahamians settled here in the 1880s to work at the…
