In the song "Street Fighting Man," Mick Jagger wrote a lyric that seemed to suggest an employment opportunity: "What can a poor boy do but to sing for a rock 'n' roll band?" Indeed the Stones have slogged it out for the better part of the past 45 years, but...
The sad and seamy underbelly of the mythical American dream is not a place of hope. Nor is it a world that is easily described, though New Theatre's powerful production of Day of Reckoning makes a scattered attempt at embracing quite a bit of America's historical landscape: Ku Klux Klan...
With its unfurled red carpet, jutting boom microphones, flashing lights, and the sound of screeching reporters jockeying for an interview, Malachi Farrell's Interview (Paparazzi), makes a raucous declaration that France's National Foundation for Contemporary Art (FNAC) has arrived in highfalutin style. "Shortcuts Between Reality and Fiction: Video, Installations, and Paintings...
Tijuana-based Tania Candiani teases rather than ignites fires with her solo show at Kunsthaus Miami, but her work might provoke if one's perceptual libido responds to erotic irony laced with the soft and subtle instead of the hot and sweaty. "Mattresses" distills what she refers to as "the cruel game...
This past May 1, Donna Halpern arrived at the Miami-Dade County Animal Services shelter to rescue a Persian cat that had been surrendered by its owner. She arrived at the shelter, walked into the sick ward where the Persian was being held, and was flummoxed by the scene. Two three-by-three-foot...
After ingesting the weird brew served up at the Bettcher Gallery, one is left wondering whether Toc Fetch and Tricia Cline are savant fugitives from Bellvue's Peter Pan ward or just plain old-fangled eccentrics living off the fat of imagination in their Woodstock Xanadu. "Exiles in Lower Utopia" narrates the...
National Weather Service and National Hurricane CenterBEST WEATHERCASTER National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center Some people get the weather by sticking their heads out the window. Everybody else gets their weather — at least partially — from the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center. Even the major news outlets rely on information from the NWS and NHC before […]
Madiba has come to South Beach by way of South Africa, with a stopover at Fort Greene, Brooklyn — which is where Mark and Jenny Henegan, with long-time friend Serge Jules, opened their first Madiba in 1999. Their new establishment made its debut this past September in the neighborhood once...
The idea of organic, nutritional, sustainable cuisine, first replanted in this country by Alice Waters, has since sprouted into a whole-food movement that has widely affected the American diet. Anyone who doubts this observation need only note the crowds strolling through the gargantuan Whole Foods Market. In recent years, raw...
Five weeks after the Miami Herald canned columnist Jim DeFede, his spot in the newsroom appeared, well, rather strange. A crash dummy in a baseball cap, jeans, and Nikes sat in his chair. Its left hand rested on the desk next to a bottle of Australian Chardonnay. Nearby was a...
Listen to the pugnacious Ecuadorian fellow with the New York accent, whom shady Miami bankers tolerate with a nervous smile. "Miami has a well-deserved reputation for money laundering," says Charles Intriago, a former federal prosecutor who has built a lucrative business on that experience. "There are four major categories of...
You can find these and more NYE listings in our Listings Search on the Night & Day page. Acqua. New Years at Acqua: Kickoff the evening celebrations with a festive champagne reception at 8:30 p.m. followed by a gourmet seven-course dinner with pairing wines at 9:15 p.m. Live jazz will...
National Weather Service and National Hurricane CenterBEST WEATHERCASTER National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center Some people get the weather by sticking their heads out the window. Everybody else gets their weather — at least partially — from the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center. Even the major news outlets rely on information from the NWS and NHC before […]
Those who live by the wind can also die by it, or at least get extremely hurt, which can be bad for commerce, particularly when it involves kiteboarding. After wind and wing conspired to hurl Claudio Silva headlong into a tree this past December 31, Francisco Escudero lost his permit...
SAT 4/2 Like bats out of the Hell's Angels, 40,000 crotch-rocket enthusiasts will be revving up their engines and throttling over to the Miami Motorcycle Show. Weekend road warriors will mingle with those tattooed long-hairs who scare the bejesus out of grandmothers when their clubs zoom down the highway. Don't...
If you spent much time at this year's Art Basel Miami Beach art fair, you heard plenty of talk about truth and beauty, of how a painting could be so transcendent as to be priceless, its value incapable of being measured in mere dollars and cents. Save it, sister, at...
Dominican Charo Oquet is a well-known Miami artist with a gift -- she is a master facilitator. Since 2003, as Edge Zones director, Oquet has presented a series of important shows at the World Arts Building in Wynwood. Numerous Miami artists have been featured in these collective exhibits. In addition,...
Miami Light Project launched its sixteenth season Saturday night at the Gusman Center for the Arts downtown, with Laurie Anderson's The End of the Moon. The season continues November 11 with Haiti's Beethova Obas, and soars all over town with such diverse offerings as the local debut of Japan's Rinko-Gun...
There was a time when Coconut Grove was my hangout of choice. Back then, I worshipped Kurt Cobain, wore ripped corduroys, and shoplifted at every opportunity. I'd get dropped off in front of CocoWalk by my mom. The only parts of my anatomy that I used for sexual encounters were...
Get ready to see your local justice system spirited away over the next few years, thanks to a flaw in a brave new computer imaging system that Miami-Dade County is using to scan and file court records. "The SPIRIT system is not adequately secured or protected to ensure the reliability...
Among mainstream hip-hop acts, few are known for albums that resonate beyond the genre's own idiosyncrasies. But critical acclaim is little reward when rap domination is defined by the number of platinum plaques one collects. For the Roots, a band with notoriously outsized ambitions, the piddling two gold discs they...
You think you know all about the local education system -- the politics, the money crunch, the learning gaps. But schools are not mere hatcheries of learning, into which varying measures of intellectual formaldehyde are mixed with an inchoate population to produce the Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons of...
