FridayThree members of Surfer Blood play Big Black-style bedlam as the band Weird Wives. They have their first Miami show tonight at Guest Lab.The Dogfather himself, Snoop Dog, appears at Mansion tonight. Think he’ll actually perform or just smile, toke, and nod?Josh Blue won the previous year’s Last Comic Standing…
In a few months, Art Basel will swoop into town, and critics will oohh and ahhh over the latest and greatest contemporary art. But in the other 50 weeks of the year, not only do we have a lively Wynwood art scene, Miami has as abundant resource of what the…
Normally, if we were to recommend a coming-of-age novel, we’d suggest simply re-reading The Catcher in the Rye. But have you heard that sociologists have coined a new phrase to describe the life phase of today’s 20-somethings? They’re calling it “emerging adulthood,” but that’s just a fancy name for a…
We don’t know what will surprise you more — the dancing, flickering images bouncing off the trees at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens or the fact that there are actually people in a Miami-Dade park. This Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m., experimental film lovers and curious passersby will swarm…
How do you kill an Argentine? Make him stand on his ego and jump. So goes the old Colombian joke as told by Sabina, a Colombian-American girl from New Jersey, the daughter of immigrants, and the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Vida. In one of Vida’s nine stories, Sabina spends time…
The only Chilean filmmaking that comes to mind are the videos that those poor trapped miners are sending up to their relatives. That’s perhaps all the more reason to check out this week’s Cine! Chilean Film Festival at the Tower Theater. The festival, which showcases some of Chile’s best films,…
How do you kill an Argentine? Make him stand on his ego and jump. So goes the old Colombian joke as told by Sabina, a Colombian-American girl from New Jersey, the daughter of immigrants, and the protagonist of Patricia Engel’s Vida. In one of Vida’s nine stories, Sabina spends time…
If you’re like a certain unnamed New Times colleague, you only listen to NPR’s This American Life if you want to fall asleep. If you’re like me, you had to stop listening to the podcast at work because you kept bursting out in loud sobs. Then there’s the man behind…
If you’re like a certain unnamed New Times colleague, you only listen to NPR’s This American Life if you want to fall asleep. If you’re like me, you had to stop listening to the podcast at work because you kept bursting out in loud sobs. Then there’s the man behind…
The Sistene Chapel of Miami graffiti is an abandoned warehouse on 23rd Street and NW 6th Avenue. Click on for six more pics of the block-long graffiti mural, complete with pimped-out karaoke singers, boy wonders, the sickest of tags, and escaped gorillas…
Despite the worn-out copy of Four-Hour Workweek on your nightstand, you’re still a wage slave with pockets full of resentment but empty of cash. This week, though, distract yourself from your fiscal worries with little affordable doses of that c-word: culture. Monday: Damn, we already lied. You’re going to have…
While we had MIFF’s new director, Jaie Laplante, on the horn last week, verifying his role in Frisk, we also asked him how he characterizes Miami’s film tastes and which films he ranks among his personal favorites.A native of Alberta, Canada who holds a BFA in film production from Toronto’s…
When we heard about the new director for the Miami International Film Festival, we treated him like an ex-boyfriend and googled him. That’s how we found out that a Jaie Laplante played the former lover of a gay serial killer in Frisk. The 1996 film was based on a Dennis…
Charles Bukowski said, “Never get out of bed before noon.” Take the lowlife laureate’s advice a step further and stay in bed until at least 2 p.m. this Sunday — that is, if you plan on racing in the 1-800-411-PAIN Great Grove Bed Race. Homemade, bedazzled beds will rattle along…
Ding-ding. It’s the sound of your daughter’s instant messenger. You might think she’s trading LOLs with friends, but in reality, FriendlyOldGuy69 is telling her how mature she sounds and how much he’d like to meet her. One night, she doesn’t come home. The police start asking if she spent a…
A delusional actress shoots her boy toy and then mistakes the news cameras for those of a movie set: “I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille!” But in stark contrast to Sunset Boulevard’s Norma Desmond, director Cecil B. DeMille actually survived Hollywood’s transition from silent movies to talkies without flipping…
An exhibit that calls religious rites into question is perhaps a moot point in a town like Miami. You can see only so many decapitated goats discarded in Biscayne Bay without realizing that what’s pious practice to some is horrific animal cruelty to others. Still, even those dulled by prevalent…
Who’s ready for the scenester version of Where’s Waldo? These Joaquin Phoenix posters have been popping up in select cities with the pacing of a movie release. First they hit New York and Los Angeles, then Chicago and Boston, and as of this weekend, they’ve appeared in our very own…
This Thursday night, a variety show called the Millionaire Tramps Vaudeville Debut lands at Churchill’s Pub with Dangerfun!’s handpicked selection of South Florida tramps. Settle in for some stand-up and sketch comedy by Skitsations, slapstick jugglers, bunnies pulled from top hats, and the wiggles and jiggles of Hellion Burlesque. For…
In its ever rotating cast of administrators, the Miami International Film Festival has named a new director, Jaie Laplante. The last director Tiziana Finzi’s contract was not renewed with little explanation as to why, just a phoned-in “caio.” Her 2010 programming included big hits like The Secret in Their Eyes,…
Coconut Grove resident and former Miami Seaquarium trainer Ric O’Barry recently starred in the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, which captured the fight to stop dolphin slaughter in Japan. It was brutal to watch, from the sonic-bullying bangs of Japanese fisherman, to hearing O’Barry describe how Flipper committed suicide in his…
FridayStarting today, the Maya Indie Film Series brings cinema Latina to West Dade’s Regal 18. See Trópico de Sangre — a Dominican historical biopic starring Michelle Rodriguez — and Backyard, a Mexican thriller about the Juárez femicides starring Jimmy Smits.Promoting Jewish-on-Jewish nuptials, Real Housewife of New York, Jill Zarin, will…
