Miami’s revelers always visit the other half of Coconut Grove’s Grand Avenue — the commercialized strip that’s home to chain retailers and college bars. The other half — which contains rundown buildings and shady lounges with tinted windows — typically gets nary a glance as cars cruise to their highfalutin…
British DJ John B helped tear the lid off drum ’n’ bass in the mid- to late-Nineties. Within a year of his first rave, John adopted this rogue art form as his music of choice and soon got deep into the process of creating his own records. In 1997, his…
Welcome to Coconut Grove — artist community turned hotbed of chichi consumerism bordering balmy Biscayne Bay. At this picturesque crossroads, where battered bohemia meets rampant capitalism, locals fondly remember their subtropical enclave’s freewheeling cultural vibe during the Grove’s Sixties and Seventies heyday. For some folks who recall hitting a bong…
Photo courtesy of Nicejewishgirlsgonebad.com Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad The Alfred I. DuPont Building Saturday, May 31, 2008 I dig bawdy. And I dig burlesque. Lots. In fact, the bawdier the burlesque the better I dig it. Those of you who know me know I was back in a booth…
Ivon David Rojas Windy City curator Dominic Molon’s “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967” swaggered into Miami last night to a raucous MoCA crowd. The show explores the nexus of visual avant-garde art and unruly rock, through album cover design, collage, photography, video, even vinyl…
CANNES, France — Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be interpreted according to its president’s presumed taste. Days before the 61st Cannes Film Festival ended, rumors were rife that the jury was having difficulties reaching consensus. As the…
Botero, Chihuly, and Lichtenstein With the sculptural works of Fernando Botero, Dale Chihuly, and especially Roy Lichtenstein at every turn throughout its 83 acres, there’s widespread whimsy at Fairchild. Chihuly’s glass pieces resemble plants and flowers boosted by alien DNA; Botero’s languorously bulbous sculptures of people and horses seem pridefully…
Brazil’s big moment in the international cultural sun is still ahead of us. Hipsters might resist this assertion; after all, they’ve been onto Brazil since at least 2002, when Fernando Meirelles released Cidade de Deus (City of God), the Southern Hemisphere’s answer to The Godfather. All of a sudden, everyone…
Observing viewers engaging Robert Wilson’s sensational series of high-definition video portraits at the Bass Museum of Art was akin to watching a pet dog discovering its own image in a mirror for the first time. People stood transfixed in front of the celebrity and animal portraits before reeling back with…
Oh, please — spoiler alert? Fine, I won’t tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you’ve already seen that gown flying around on the web. Given the Sex and the City vibe, some fans might be more interested in whether the frock — which…
Boorish tae kwon do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) is a strip-mall hero for whom demonstrating his cinder-block-breaking skills to parking-lot gawkers is “my fucking life.” Fred takes seriously—or at least talks seriously about—the tenets of his combat technique while being completely oblivious to what’s happening just outside his storefront…
It takes a nimble-fingered hand to master the complexities of the guitar, and it takes a local genius to handcraft a sound reflective of Miami’s cultural rebirth. The University of Miami Gusman Concert Hall will reverberate with that kind of musical renaissance during Orchestra Miami’s season finale at 8 p.m.,…
There’s a cool breeze of discontent cutting through the sweltering Orange, and Daleena Segui is fanning the blast. Seven months ago, the scrap-happy comedian and her boho chums started a series of Miami ArtParty events as a reaction against their disappointment with the local scene. They began organizing genre-hopping blowouts…
Try this out for an equation — peninsula + wealth = proliferation of boats in South Florida. Lotsa boats means lotsa boat-related events. And thus, two of Miami’s favorite boat-racing events return to local shores. Spring into Summer Regatta (formerly the Mid-Winter Regatta), an inspiring series of boat races, returns…
Your parents warned you about girls like these. Remember how your mother always fantasized about you settling down with a Jewish girl — Yentl in a nightgown? These gals are no Yentl. With a mix of comedy, cabaret, and burlesque, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad will simultaneously give your mother…
We’re in the dog days, when there’s a whole lotta nothing happening at our favorite watering holes. We don’t know about you, but around this time of year, the prospect of outdoor fun sounds ghastly. When it’s hot and icky, we prefer indoor entertainment. And lucky us, there’s a slew…
On one hand are the Marcel Prousts of the world, sitting in bed and typing their 10-volume novels a couple hundred words at a time. On the other are the people who get married after a one-night stand in Vegas, make minute rice in 40 seconds, and enter the Second…
Indie film. Indie art. Indie fashion. Indie-ana Jones. Ah yes, one of these things is not like the others. We’re all about celebrating the efforts of up-and-coming artists making a name for themselves without funding from The Man. We like it even better when the artists are flying the 305…
Sure, it wasn’t the singing and skipping at the beginning of Laverne & Shirley, and it wasn’t a woman crooning “Thank you for being a friend” à la geriatric chick-sitcom Golden Girls, but when the first few chords of that familiar ditty played, we knew the BFFs in our heads…
When former owner Stephanie Spiegel blessed Miami with its first and only clothing exchange and boutique — the Rag Trade Happy Clothing Company (4600 NE Second Ave., Miami) — hipsters rejoiced. They came out in droves to buy locally designed clothes by the likes of SO-ME, Adrienne Ruffin, and Tinymeat…
Any douchebag with nothing better to do can yell out correct answers during classic Scripps Spelling Bee reruns of yore (praise be to ESPN for covering all such nonsporty competitions). It takes a real topnotch wordsmith to step up to the mike, give a decisive throat-clear, and w-i-n without even…
So far you’ve just been trudging through life, taking things one drink at a time, one puff at a time, or even one-night-stand at a time. We applaud your mastery of the art of instant gratification, but we also think it’s high time you came up with some type of…
