Scottish heartthrob Calvin Harris may be playing Miami Beach on a Wednesday, but the crowd at LIV will surely be dancing like it’s ready for the weekend. An electronic musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, Harris released his first studio album and co-wrote songs with Kylie Minogue in 2007, turned down…
For a pixie-ish twin-sister act like Tegan and Sara, the inherent novelty and cuteness of your situation can be both a good and a bad thing. It’s good because two physically identical 20-something siblings writing songs and strumming guitars in perfect unison is an automatic marketing hook. It’s good because…
Ostensibly, the “Space as Medium” group exhibition at the Miami Art Museum (101 W. Flagler St., Miami) is a sly curatorial attempt to trace the evolutionary arc of space-based sculpture, installation, and performance art from the 1960s through the present day. However, as the exhibit enters the final two weeks…
When the Miami Heat traded for Daequan Cook in 2007, he was supposed to become the Toni Kukoc to Dwyane Wade’s Michael Jordan. Cook was expected to take full advantage of D-Wade’s ability to draw double-teams by draining wide-open threes. But the self-proclaimed “Bail Bondsman” — he calls himself this…
Before there was Rick Ross, there was Figaro, an everyday hustlin’ barber from Sivigila. He’s the star of Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville, in which he helps a rich guy meet a sexy babe while eluding her guardian’s cock block. This opera is noted for its use…
An Uneven Floor by Miami artist Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova. It’s your last weekend to experience Rodriguez-Casanova’s rolling pink hills of fuzz, a site-specific installation that evokes the stability of domesticity while throwing visitors off with unexpected peaks and valleys on the floor. Why the pink carpet? As the artist explains: “I…
When Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the battle to end South African apartheid was far from over. Tutu had already endured nonstop state harassment for more than ten years, but many of his comrades had suffered much worse. Activist Steve Biko had been murdered by…
Is your idea of a good time eating cheesecake on a lanai, singing at the Rusty Anchor, breeding minks, or telling stories about a herring-obsessed Viking town? If so, put on your best shoulder-padded, sequined dress and head to the Colony Theatre this weekend for The Golden Gays, a musical…
Oscar nominators clearly have a soft spot for Israel. In the past two years, both Beaufort and Waltz With Bashir were contenders but not winners. This year’s Israeli film Ajami just might win, though. The unscripted dialogue is mostly in Arabic; it was codirected by Israeli and Arab-Israeli filmmakers, Yaron…
Make a little birdhouse in your soul. It was good advice in 1990, before Kurt Cobain came along and told us something smelled like teen spirit, and we all went wild. They Might Be Giants could be considered the OCR (original college rockers), achieving fame via campus gigs and college…
Hip-hop and rock ‘n’ roll might not have existed without jazz. Without Coltrane, could there have been A Tribe Called Quest? Could there have been beat-boxing without scat and the incomparable jazz vocalist Al Jarreau? Probably not. But we admit that when Jarreau is beat-boxing and playing the maracas, he…
Despite what the title of their latest record, Commercial, might lead you to believe, Los Amigos Invisibles have built their career on going against the grain. In an era when the musical landscape of their hometown of Caracas was ruled by rockers and salseros, a pack of homies (Catire, Mamel,…
The controversy over same-sex marriage has clearly inspired Poseidon and the Bitter Bug, the Indigo Girls’ first independently released album in two decades. The fierce track “Love of Our Lives” points an accusatory finger at the passing of Proposition 8 in California while also celebrating the “new revolution” that has…
Somewhere in Switzerland, physicists are making two beams of subatomic particles called hadrons travel in opposite directions inside an accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. When the beams eventually collide, these eggheads think they will have re-created the conditions just after the Big Bang. We think we know of a…
Unless you woo the kind of girl who routinely spends Saturday night watching Faces of Death while self-mutilating with a stove-fired butter knife, Sarah Kane’s Blasted isn’t first-date material. When the play made its 1995 premiere in London, people fled the theater on the edge of puking and Daily Mail…
Hornitos Tequila defines mischieve (sic) as “a philosophy that prescribes good-natured misbehavior.” And misbehavior — good-natured or not — is always easier under the influence of tequila, especially when it’s consumed in cocktails named Hornitail and Horni Wallbanger. Performers and dancers will keep you entertained at Mischieve in the Garden…
Style Wars events have proved to be pretty popular in Miami, so we suppose it was only a matter of time where a paint-and-canvas equivalent makes its way down south. Art Battles, which have been going on for nine years in fancy New York City, are dripping down towards the…
This is the third in a series of articles profiling the seven finalists for the New Times MasterMind Awards, which will be presented to four local artists during Artopia at the Freedom Tower February 11.Fabio Destroyio likes to quote the old punk line about 25 singers and one microphone. And…
In a city where pythons explode after snacking on alligators and robbers break into the wrong house and rough up abuelos instead of drug lords, you’d expect stand-up comics to be growing out of the sandy soil like weeds. Instead, the local comedy scene often seems as quiet as the…
Over the weekend, a Cuban movie critic became the last person in the world to see Avatar. His verdict: meh.In a review in Granma, the official daily of the Cuban Communist Party, Rolando Pérez Betancourt pooh-poohs the money-minting, Oscar-nominated movie as a dumb action flick.”Dramatically speaking, Avatar is predictable and…
It’s something Miamians don’t like to think about, but it’s true: There exist a few unfortunate souls who are forced to periodically travel to Broward County for reasons related to work, Panthers games, and ex-wives. Now they have a bus. Miami-Dade Transit recently launched the 95 Express Bus, which travels…
This is the second in a series of articles profiling the seven finalists for the New Times MasterMind Awards, which will be presented to four local artists during Artopia at the Freedom Tower February 11.A great Cuban percussionist was once asked why he shook a maraca over and over again…
