In almost every sense — except the most extreme — Tao Lin’s for sale. Of course, there’s his published output, including the poetry books You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am ($14) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy ($14.95), the short story collection Bed ($14.95), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee…
“When I was in high school, I was editor of the paper, and we did an April Fool’s issue that was all fake news. I look back at that and look at what I’m doing now, and I realize just how little growth there’s been in the last 30 years.”Andy…
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Go to match.com to find your mate and then go to the Antique Jewelry show to pick up the old, borrowed, and blue. Pauly Shore can’t help it if he reminds you of the ’90s. Take your time machine (the metrorail) to…
Last night, the Bas Fisher Invitational celebrated five years of artistic innovation and its newest portfolio, “Wow We Have Come This Far,” a tribute to past exhibits and a variety of works by 12 BFI alumni. The project is being sold to match a Knight Foundation grant and raise money…
To try to breeze through the accomplishments of award-winning writer, director, playwright, composer, and auteur Melvin Van Peebles would be more like making your way through an onslaught of gale-force winds.One of the pioneering black artists in America’s history, he has contributed highly acclaimed works of art such as the…
Born in Central Connecticut, poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi now lives in Los Angeles and teaches. Her accolades are numerous–Stegner Fellowship, Jones Lecturer, Rona Jaffe Women Writer’s Award, Bernard F. Conners Prize, Connecticut Book Award–but even they don’t prepare a reader for the richness inside her debut The Last Time I Saw…
There was no indication, early on, that Tom Healy would become a poet. Growing up on a farm in upstate New York, in an environment he describes as “brutalizing in every aspect,” Healy didn’t get much intellectual encouragement. Mostly, he spent his time doing the hard work required on a…
In a move that would surely tickle its founder Andy Warhol, Interview Magazine will be curating the Mondrian South Beach’s luxury vending machine during Art Basel. Mondrian’s vending machine, which we wrote about earlier this year, usually includes such pedestrian items as a $400 marabou feather vest and the keys to a…
He has long been a stereotypical Miami character: The elderly exile who never loses hope of going home, who views life as a never-ending quest to topple “El Tirano.”Then there’s his counterpart: The compañero on the island who refuses to give up the revolutionary dream despite the world crumbling around…
Take a look at the biographical blurb and accompanying author photo on the back cover of David Hajdu’s latest book, Heroes and Villains, and you’ll discover that not only is Hadju a professor, but he looks like one. Smiling wryly behind frameless spectacles, the 54-year-old prof (and music critic for…
To squash a common misconception, the rash of illegal horse slaughter in South Florida is not the work of some sophisticated mafia. The horse killers- who have been doing their thing for years before the media took notice — are rarely connected to each other, and they’re usually just opportunistic…
Back in the 1970s, while working on George McGovern’s doomed presidential bid in Texas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch shared a room with two driven young Yalies named Bill and Hillary Clinton. When the man from Hope won the White House in ’92, Clinton invited Branch — in secret, even from…
To grasp how dramatically a city can change in a short span, all one need do is look at Miami’s morphing skyline. Along with the runaway building boom that transformed downtown Miami and the Biscayne corridor into a jungle of high-rise condos and cranes has come a new performing arts…
In a society where what you drive is nearly as important as the way you wear your hair, don’t you want to know where all the auto-obsession started? it surely didn’t start with your ’72 Oldsmobile, so head to the Wolfsonian’s Styled for the Road to discover the role that…
Devil’s Disciple NeckFace, the graffiti ghoul who has earned international street cred as the budding Rembrandt of the repulsive and ribald, has brought his nightmarish vision to the Big Mango to wrack the spine with a chilly frisson of dread. In one of the gallery’s rooms, the artist has covered…
Completing his multifilm vendetta against the world’s tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to level the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower, and a priest-filled Vatican City in his newest end-times thriller, 2012. From Independence Day (1996) to The Day After Tomorrow (2004), taking down…
Compared to its madcap predecessors — the psychotic Holden Caulfield update Donnie Darko and the delirious welcome-to-the-21st-century extravaganza Southland Tales — the new Richard Kelly movie is basically a sock of coal for Christmas. A mysterious stranger offers a nice American couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) an unusual deal:…
Seven months after its theatrical release in the United Kingdom and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a different title (it was formerly known as The Boat That Rocked) and most of its better bits excised. Writer/director Richard Curtis, paying homage…
Hello, Kitty: I’m a lesbian dating a woman who was born with both male and female parts. I learned about her “situation” after we’d been dating for two months. I’m not angry or upset — I’m falling in love with her. She says that she loves me too, but she…
The sexual perversity showcased in Sexual Perversity in Chicago is neither very Chicagoan nor very perverse. That is, if you judge perversity by things done rather than things thought about. But like most people in Chicago and elsewhere, Deborah, Danny, Joan, and Bernie — the denizens of this David Mamet…
Bikers are rugged individuals, but they also like to travel in packs, especially packs that meet where hot wings and beautiful girls are in abundance. And that’s the case every Tuesday night at Hooters Doral for Motoport Bike Night. In case you didn’t know, Motoport is a great small-engine store…
You probably know Samantha Ronson better for her tabloid magazines and gossip site notoriety than for her skills as a DJ. For a while, even we played a game of is-she-or-is-she-not when her seemingly 24/7 companion, fallen starlet Lindsay Lohan, fueled speculation the two were romantically involved. And when the…
