A renegade freelancer at New Times recently conducted a random telephone survey of used car dealers and private sellers regarding their thoughts about alternative transportation. “You ain’t gon’ catch me in no hot-ass sun on a bike,” admitted a private seller of a Cadillac Brougham. Alex from Palermo Motors doesn’t…
You usually see them on Lincoln Road, poking their adorable heads out of Louis Vuitton handbags, or sitting at sidewalk tables, lapping water from Scotch glasses while their owners nosh on sushi. Dogs — especially teeny, hairy lap dogs — run Miami Beach. The mainland, not so much. But Saturday…
Up-and-coming fighters who can kill ordinary men with their feet are the featured attraction at the IFC Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts bout, taking place this Saturday night at the Miami Mart Airport Hotel. Black-belt martial artists and businessmen Diego Molinari and Kevin Cardona founded Kinte Promotions in order to…
It’s the little rhyme every American child learns when October rolls around: In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Okay, so maybe he wasn’t trying to discover a new land, and there’s major speculation about who actually got here first, but it’s still one of the few pseudo-facts we don’t…
Capturing the hidden in plain sight was among photographer Clarence John Laughlin’s most consistent themes. “He was one of the most awesome artists of the 20th Century,” says Barry Fellman, director of the Center for Visual Communication. “He pushed viewers to find depth and magic in the everyday. He showed…
She is called “the queen of crime” and known internationally for her brilliant journalistic skills and fearless reporting (you don’t win a Pulitzer for crime reporting by being a desk jockey). After leaving her newspaper gig at the Miami Herald, Edna Buchanan became one of the world’s premier crime novelists,…
It’s absolutely fine to admit that a layer of crust is coating your feet like a pair of thick socks. We won’t judge you if you say the knots in your back haven’t felt a caress since you broke up with your massage-fetish boyfriend in 1988. Your checkbook is carefully…
Entering the World Class Boxing gallery, you notice a waist-high stack of Styrofoam cups. What is this crap? you think to yourself, but you are transfixed. Magic seems to emanate from this sculpture. You look around at the other pieces in the group exhibit (“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” curated…
Some people like their news “fair and balanced.” Others prefer to watch broadcasts on “the place for politics.” But between cable news channels such as Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, many stories fall through the cracks. That’s why we thank Jah for the Internet — the magical series of tubes that…
We might not be able to see Russia from our homes, but we nonetheless live in a pretty cool place. Sure the summers leave us sunburned and heat-exhausted, but October’s entertainment upswing is like Christmas Day — highly anticipated and totally worth the wait. For all of the concerts, galas,…
Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost isle in the Caribbean, is known as the home of calypso music. But once the pre-Lenten ritual known as Carnival has ended, the season’s serenaders are left with a bushel of party-starting anthems and a repentant audience. For the rest of the year, the top-tier…
Over the past decade, Pandora Events has become the top women’s event producers on the East Coast. The hundreds of events they produce every year attract over 20,000 women annually. From South Beach to Atlanta, Orlando to New York and cities in between; their “estrogen only” parties, soirees, shows and…
Rowing along the picture-perfect, sun-dappled waters of the Indian Creek waterway with the Miami Beach skyline as the backdrop — is there really any other way for a race to be done? The Head of the Indian Creek Regatta offers such an experience. This 2.8-mile rowing race against the clock…
One way to ride out the recession? Invite Birdman to your birthday. The New Orleans rapper attended Lil’ Wayne’s birthday bash at Mansion Monday night and according to Perez Hilton brought along a Louis Vuitton brief case filled with a million dollars cash as his gift. Not that Weezy F…
Logan Fazio Jay-Z canceled his second “Last Chance for Change” concert in support of Barack Obama yesterday due to a soar throat or some such. Many fans had waited in long lines for tickets for the first event, only to be turned away. Only to finally snagged tickets when the…
Yanko DesignA piece from the Campana’s Transplastic furniture collection. Design Miami already announced that they’ve commissioned Aranda/Lasch to plan the fair’s structure, but now they’ve announced that Fernando and Humberto Campana will be named Designers of the Year at the fair in Decemeber. Part of the Prize? They get to…
A look for Cortazar’s latest Ungaro collection. In fashion circles, invoking the name of a South Florida city is considered one of the ultimate insults. Unfortunately for Esteban Cortazar, fashion scribes can’t help but to go there when discussing his work. Two season ago, the South Beach raised designer was…
Once you get beyond the sugar rush of Kaws’s playful paintings at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, what stays with you is the painstaking manner in which they were made. “Saturated” marks the first solo show since 2002 for the graffiti rat turned artist and designer. It features nearly a dozen boldly…
Process/Processed Through October 4. Fredric Snitzer Gallery, 2247 NW First Pl., Miami; 305-573-5810, www.snitzer.com Loriel Beltran’s “Process/Processed” is a dendrochronologist’s wet dream. These folks are scientists devoted to “the study of tree time.” Beltran’s solo debut at Snitzer includes several acrylic and enamel paint, tree bark, and plywood pieces that…
Redolent of Roman decadence and authority gone mad, the title Religulous rolls pleasingly off the tongue. But Bill Maher’s one-man stand-up attack on religious fundamentalism is a dog that has more bark than bite — a skeptical, secular-humanist hounding of the hypocrites, amusingly annotated with sarcastic subtitles and clips from…
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered might not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble tale of family pathology gussied up with vérité camera work, world music, and improvising actors both trained and not. You can find the worst and the…
Director D.J. Caruso fancies himself a hipster Hitchcock, with Shia LaBeouf as his snarky Jimmy Stewart. Last year the duo remade Rear Window and called it Disturbia; last week they returned with their North by Northwest/The Man Who Knew Too Much mashup, Eagle Eye, which is also flavored with overpowering…
