Domestic life can be really stressful. Sometimes you just wanna stuff your head into a Tupperware container full of Cheerios or mash a peanut butter and jelly sandwich so deep into your face that the world evaporates. And if anyone knows, it’s Miami-based artist Lee Materazzi. The Central Saint Martins…
In the mid-1950s, Cubana Airlines offered the Tropicana Special, flying socialites from Miami to Havana for just one night of glamour and debauchery at the glitzy Tropicana nightclub. They even removed rows of seats to make room for a showgirls stage and any impromptu, mile-high conga lines. This Saturday at…
Having been bestowed honors such as a John Steinbeck Award, an ASCAP Founders Award, the Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award, and even an honorary doctorate degree, Jackson Browne boasts a bio that reads more like that of a poet or philosopher than a folk rocker. But then again, Browne is…
Haitian Proverbs 101: Sak vide pa kanpe. Translation: An empty sack does not stand. Meaning: You can’t work without food. Now, do your part to help fill Haiti’s sak by kicking off the 12th annual Haitian Compas Festival weekend with the 10 p.m. All White Affair, featuring music by Nu…
Haitian Proverbs 101: Sak vide pa kanpe. Translation: An empty sack does not stand. Meaning: You can’t work without food. Now, do your part to help fill Haiti’s sak by ending the 12th annual Haitian Compas Festival weekend with Sunday’s annual soccer blowout, the Madame Gougousse Cup Final at FIU…
Gen Art, the organization that specialized in supporting and exposing emerging talents in the fields of fashion, film, music and visual art will officially close after sixteen years in business. Gen Art had offices in Miami, as well as New York, LA, Chicago and San Francisco.”It is with an extremely…
Beloved humor columnist Dave Barry no longer writes his weekly syndicated column for the Miami Herald (much to the chagrin of the paper’s circulation department, we’re sure). He hasn’t completely hung up his pen, but he has hung up his sperm; and he’s written all about it in his new book, I’ll Mature…
“I have a dream that there shall one day be a place I can go that will include a really nice golf course where no Jews shall tee off behind me, and a stuffy restaurant where the only blacks are there to serve me overcooked shrimp. And potential members of…
Monday: Sometimes it feels like we need a flux capacitor just to get through Mondays. Continue with that theme at Buck 15’s Buck to the Future party for some Rum and Tab soda. No cover!Tuesday: It’ll be strange to see her without Stacey and Clinton but What Not to Wear’s…
News alert! Arty, creative things are happening outside of the Wynwood Arts District.Tomorrow, a new art walk officially kicks off in Miami’s original arts neighborhood, Coconut Grove. Held the first Saturday of every month, the Grove Art Walk will unveil new galleries and debut new artists from 7 to 10…
If you’re a manic fan of things like metal, musical comedy, and Satan, it’d be tragic if you missed BroadSword at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater. Written by Marco Ramirez, directed by Paul Tei, and starring members of the Mad Cat Theatre Company, this ridiculously funny festival of…
FridayGot a week’s worth of aggression pent up? Feel the release of watching someone else get their face pummeled at Friday’s New Generation boxing and MMA contests at the Miami Beach Convention Center.OK, so the Sex and the City movie wasn’t half bad and we’d be lying if we didn’t…
Of the many things Chad Ochocinco has given us, the best is clearly his T-Rex end-zone dance. Since then, he has taken his crazy dinosaur shuffle to Dancing With the Stars, where it’s working really well for him. He’s one of the five z-list celebrities still in the running!But he’s…
Art this week: Fanged demons and fried pork rinds
GableStage and the New Theatre on plucking your eyes out
Furry Vengeance is a movie with a message and not much else
What exactly does it mean when one discovers the severed head of a giant, garlanded Buddha resting on a sand patch in the middle of a Wynwood gallery? Is this some kind of ancient Far East spiritual riddle? Nope. It’s just the centerpiece of “10 Years” at Charest-Weinberg Gallery, the…
After four commercially uncertain years together, the teen punk catfight known as the Runaways finally ended in 1978, and guitarist Joan Jett was the only member to survive that pop apocalypse with her music career intact. Singer Cherie Currie made a few movies and then disappeared. Drummer Sandy West floated…
Now in its 14th year, the traveling Pro-Am International Hip-Hop Conference has already tagged two stops — Vegas and San Fran — on its nine-city world tour. This weekend, the fest will make the third, Miami Beach, as breakers, freestyle MCs, graffiti writers, and scratch DJs battle for cash, prizes,…
One of the monsters spawned during the earliest days of New York hardcore, Agnostic Front is an unnaturally brutal beast that eats the streets, drinks diesel, and bleeds black blood. Like Cro-Mags and Murphy’s Law, AF probably could have retired after releasing its debut 11-track LP, Victim in Pain, and…
Only one in every million boys is blessed with a 9.75-inch penis like gnomish über-mensch Ron Jeremy. For the rest of us short, fat, greasy-haired hedgehogs, the closest we’ll ever get to starring in a sex flick is this weekend’s Exxxotica Expo at the Miami Beach Convention Center. If you’re…
Kicking off a national tour in support of their upcoming album, The Sound of Sunshine, Michael Franti & Spearhead will bring their blend of hip-hop, reggae, funk, and rock to the Fillmore Miami Beach this Friday. Though Franti and Spearhead released their first album, Home, in 1994, their most recent…
