Rock still maintains an aura of rebellion in Iran so it’s not surprising that it continues to show up in Iranian New Wave cinema. In 2008’s animated Persepolis, Marji buys heavy metal and punk albums on the black market, providing the soundtrack for her growing disgust with the oppressive Islamic…
On the surface, Oscar-nominated A Prophet is a French prison drama. Malik is a young man of Arab descent who can’t read or write. He finds himself in jail and must navigate the power hierarchies of his cellmates. Malik undergoes a metamorphosis, surviving an Oz-like hazing and developing his own…
Founded in 2002 by artistic director Patrick Dupré Quigley, Seraphic Fire is an ensemble choir with the kind of pipes that inspired a collaboration with Shakira for her album Oral Fixation II, which ultimately went Platinum on the Billboard charts. This Sunday, at Chant: A Seraphic Fire Candlelight Experience, hear…
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Smoke the Mic is featuring poet and lyricist Umar Bin Hassan this Monday night. As the tale goes, Bin Hassan sold his sister’s record player to buy a bus ticket to New York City, where he joined the Last Poets. They were a group…
NYC-based women’s wear designer Alisha Trimble will reveal her 2010 resort and swimwear collection at Bar this Sunday night. This is fashion for the thinking woman hipster. The designer says, “The sexy woman of the coming decade is intelligent & confident in the way she expresses herself.” To prove it,…
I’ll be the first to tell you that going to Churchill’s for whatever reason is in and of itself a Big Top production filled with interesting characters, bizarre situations, contorting panhandlers, and so on. However, it seems like this Friday there will be a circus within the circus, courtesy of…
Remember Proyecto Uno? If you answered yes, you just dated yourself. Big time. These guys have been around, as the Spanish saying goes, desde el año de la corneta (since the year of the horn). Proyecto Uno formed in 1989, and in its 20-plus-year career, it has earned numerous awards…
While other little boys were channeling the Lone Ranger, Clinton Leupp had a very different idol in mind: Bewitched’s flame-haired Eudora and her colorful caftans. As he relates in his stand-up, he used to sneak into his mother’s closet and into her caftans: “100 percent polyester and I loved every…
If you happen to be a 20-something punk whose experience of ’80s hardcore is wholly derived from digitized back issues of Slash and a bootleg DVD of Penelope Spheeris’s seminal doc The Decline of Western Civilization, this Friday’s Pogo! party at Churchill’s Pub is probably the closest you’ll ever come…
There’s a cliché that all boxers die tragic, penniless deaths. And for too long, the examples have been numerous enough to make it unsettlingly true: The IRS hounded Joe Louis into the grave, Sonny Liston OD’ed in a Vegas hotel room, and bankrupt ex-champs such as Leon Spinks, Mike Tyson,…
For those of you who can’t bear to wait another month for Sex (that is, the debut of Sex and the City 2), here’s some foreplay: Last Wednesday, Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell released her latest novel, The Carrie Diaries, a teen prequel to her golden franchise of…
The World Health Organization just issued a warning that it has detected hazardous levels of romance in the atmosphere. So far, the potential risks are minimal, but Justin Bieber fans, the recently divorced, and people who haven’t yet had their soul devoured in a bad breakup should take precautions. Those…
The spectacle is bound to confuse passersby: men in trucker caps and ladies in horn-rimmed glasses hunched over light boxes, scribbling on note cards while a rowdy bunch behind them waits its turn. The event in question is Drinking and Drawing at the News Lounge. It’s a sort of animated…
Heavy metal music doesn’t usually grace the stages at the Adrienne Arsht Center. This Thursday at 8 p.m., though, brace yourself for the winds of change when Miami playwright Marco Ramirez brings his latest creation to town. A musical theater piece that “combines myth, magic, and heavy metal,” BroadSword tells…
The Argentinean murder mystery The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto De Sus Ojos) was directed by Juan José Campanella and based on a Eduardo Sacheri novel. The movie, which is told in flashbacks, won the Goya Award, the Spanish equivalent to the American Academy Awards for best movie of…
Foodies and philanthropists will gather this Thursday for Dining Out for Life, a one-day gourmet fundraiser where local restaurants, bars, and lounges will donate a portion of their proceeds to AIDS service organizations. The national event, which was launched in 1991 in Philadelphia, is observed in 55 cities and raises…
Miami is notorious for a certain brand of in-your-face films banged out in a day, whether they’re set in a bus or a foreclosed condo. Fortunately, the Miami Film Race encourages flicks with more developed plots. In this national filmmaking competition, participants have 24 hours to write, shoot, edit, and…
This past January, Animal Collective premiered its visual album ODDSAC at Sundance. The film, directed by Danny Perez, is a psychedelic visual delight featuring music by the experimental quartet. After that, the film hit the road with sold-out screenings everywhere from New York to San Francisco, and for a change,…
With all the hungry mosquitoes and stifling humidity, South Florida living ain’t always easy. But because we represent the East Coast’s party destination, Miamians bring the party even when they risk third-degree sunburns, heat exhaustion, and that nasty West Nile. The laid-back, marsh-friendly festival Swamp Stomp is an extraordinary showcase…
At last year’s Design Miami, we were absolutely taken with designer of the year Maarten Baas’s awesome “Real Time” clock project. In one memorable installation, he had a person, stationed inside a cabinet, who manually painted in the numbers of a digital clocks as the time changed. Now you can get…
Last month, Riptide told you about Jeremy Marie, the Frenchman whose hitchhiking journey around the world had stalled in Miami after he couldn’t find a boater willing to give him a ride over the Caribbean Sea. New Times, as it happens, knew firsthand of the difficulty of Marie’s task. In…
We have no idea how a tax refund works. All we know is Uncle Sam is a greedy bastard all but one day of the year, when he sends us a fat check with no strings attached. What a nasty little sycophant. That government check just scorches our wallet if…
