Perfectly coiffed hairdos aside, Bon Jovi always straddled that perilous divide between rock credibility and pure pop fluff. Still, there’s no doubt about the band’s commercial viability. With massive hits “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Wanted Dead or Alive,” “Livin’ on a Prayer,” among others, and album sales in…
Rapture usually means all the saved folk have been transferred to Heaven and it’s just us sinners left behind. But in this case, “Rapture” is the art exhibit featuring Natasha Duwin and Henning Haupt in what is being called a “celebration of change and possibilities.” Haupt, whose painting and drawings…
Normally, a sophomore album from the son of a guitar genius is likely to get panned by critics. But those factors can’t eclipse the skill and intuition of Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré. You might remember his father, Ali Farka Touré, whose Grammy-winning Savane led us to believe Delta blues…
Named for a lyrical snippet from the coked-up disco track “Candy Shop” off Madonna’s 2008 album, Hard Candy, the new group show “Sticky & Sweet” at Calix Gustav Gallery toys with sex, taboo, and kink. Local artist Eurydice tacks embroidered porn and foreign film collage to the walls. Diane Arrieta…
Not many artists feel at ease mixing medieval rituals with cutting-edge concepts. But George Sanchez-Calderon, known for his public works critiquing shoddy urbanism, believes that splashing gasoline on a theoretical bonfire is the best way to stoke a heated debate. This Friday at 7 p.m., Sanchez-Calderon will present his solo…
With Milk and Brokeback Mountain doing so well in multiplexes, maybe LGBT films have gotten too mainstream for you. Enter the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which begins this Friday. It opens with a screening of I Killed My Mother, a Canadian dramedy about a gay teenager who conflicts…
The 15th annual Miami Wine and Food Festival is here, and the choices are endless: Eat to live or live to eat, vegetarian fare or meat, beer or wine, cheese and crackers, or barbecue. There’ll be smorgasbords, buffet lines, and all-you-can-eats. Miami is the freakin’ best. We have local, fresh…
In a city where the nearest 4-H club is at least a county away, it’s quite a sight to see cops pull up on horseback. So imagine the rush of witnessing 80 Argentine polo ponies kick up sand on the beach behind the Setai Hotel. Hippophiles aside, polo is marred…
If you’e only semiserious about making a difference in honor of this Thursday’s 40th annual Earth Day, don’t let your eco-friends bully you into petitioning for stricter federal regulations on toxic coal ash. Just join this weekend’s Party for the Planet at Miami Metrozoo and watch captive animals play with…
If you’re only semiserious about making a difference in honor of this Thursday’s 40th annual Earth Day, don’t let your eco-friends bully you into petitioning for stricter federal regulations on toxic coal ash. Just join this weekend’s Party for the Planet at Miami Metrozoo and watch captive animals play with…
If you’re only semiserious about making a difference in honor of this Thursday’s 40th annual Earth Day, don’t let your eco-friends bully you into petitioning for stricter federal regulations on toxic coal ash. Just join this weekend’s Party for the Planet at Miami Metrozoo and watch captive animals play with…
As if trapped in a relentlessly recurring nightmare, Orson Welles spent his entire 50-year film career warring with the studio system. His battles began with 1941’s Citizen Kane and continued as corporate hacks nixed, abandoned, or butchered one project after another. By 1958, Welles was a fat 40-year-old with no…
C. Madeleine’s is a 10,000 square foot vintage mecca in North Miami Beach, right up Biscayne Boulevard. They have one-of-a-kind vintage, couture, and designer clothes and accessories. We’re all for upsale resale but sometimes it’s hard to rationalize paying full price for secondhand goods. So check out their Annual Vintage…
Even if you don’t know his name or you keep mixing him up with that lame glam-goth TV magician (uh, Criss Angel) or you don’t know a hacked PlayStation from a hacksaw, believe us when we say: Cory Arcangel is an artist from the future. Working out of Brooklyn, Arcangel…
If you went purely by his lyrics, you might guess that whenever Trey Songz isn’t singing in that syrupy tenor, he’s either 1) constantly glued to his phone or 2) under impossibly expensive sheets, fornicating in the freakiest manner possible (it doesn’t really matter with whom). It’s tough to find…
The raw rock two-piece the Black Keys hails from the Midwest — Akron, Ohio — but boasts a penchant for ripping the roots out of American music. It was a project that began in 2002 with the pair’s debut album, The Big Come Up, and hasn’t subsided since. It was…
You might know them for their Tom Waits cover of “Way Down in the Hole,” which opens the much-beloved HBO show The Wire. But the gospel/roots group the Blind Boys of Alabama has accomplished so much more. They have won five Grammys and been invited to the White House by…
What does the average gym membership cost — $75 a month? For that, you get to shuffle your tired ass from your gray cubicle to the stuffy chain gym, where you lift weights among grunting meat heads and plastic women who can’t stop mugging for the mirror. Stop the madness…
Old money, posh hotels, and high-end shops are the norm in the 25 mph, sleepy Village of Bal Harbour. It’s the last place you’d think a so-hip-it-hurts music festival would take place. But the town will hold its inaugural Ten-in-One Music Festival at the One Bal Harbour Resort & Spa…
Trailers for art shows! It’s sort of a brilliant idea. The above previews one of the highlights of this Saturday’s Art Walk — the opening of “Believe the Hype” at Eazy Street Gallery. The group show, which features pop surrealist and mixed media street artists like Nick Gazin, Eric Althin,…
Swamp Stomp is the type of homegrown indie music bash that deserves some support. What began as a few bands on a makeshift stage — at a beer-soaked U of M house party in 2007 — has matured into a “foot stompin’, hand clappin'” showcase of underrated local talent. Last…
In the early ’90s, serial killer John Wayne Gacy spent his days on death row creating extraordinarily creepy paintings of clowns. So memorabilia dealer Stephen Koschal wrote the murderer in prison and offered to be his agent. Brickell resident Koschal estimates he sold 150 of the paintings by Gacy, who…
