Pop Quiz: Who’s Bree Tanner?a.) A character on Full Houseb.) An altar boy George Rekers hired to carry his groceriesc.) A baby vampire from the Twilight seriesRemember in Eclipse, the third novel in the Twilight Saga, when Victoria created an army of baby vampires to avenge James’s death? Well Mormon/vampire…
Monday: Pick up the phone and make an appointment to see new work by resident artists of the David Castillo Gallery, including Susan Lee-Chun, Frances Trombly, and Glexis Novoa.Tuesday: There’s no charge to hear tales of the 5th Street Gym and prize fighters like Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray at…
Talk of Miami fashion still prompts mentions of pastel blazers, even though that cultural reference is now over twenty years old. We’ve moved on, world. Take notice. But how best to describe Miami’s street style? One word, “effortless,” says Shareen Rubiera-Sarwar, a Miami stylist who’s worked for Dolce & Gabbana,…
What’s the plan this weekend? Huddle up. Club kids, make a beeline for Space’s 10-year Anniversary party. Hipsters, stampede the Cold War Kids/Hold Steady concert then barter your labels at Swap Miami. Older Cubans, flip through old yearbooks and vintage Beny Moré recordings at Cuba Nostalgia. High brow set, listen…
We communicate in 140 characters or fewer and read the newspaper on a 3.5-inch screen, so it’s safe to say small is the new awesome. Get ready for bite-size performance art this week as City Theatre brings its 15th annual, Carbonell Award-winning Summer Shorts Festival to the Carnival Studio Theater…
We communicate in 140 characters or fewer and read the newspaper on a 3.5-inch screen, so it’s safe to say small is the new awesome. Get ready for bite-size performance art this week as City Theatre brings its 15th annual, Carbonell Award-winning Summer Shorts Festival to the Carnival Studio Theater…
Take a stroll along Coconut Grove’s Main Highway and you’ll find a beat-up historic marker toppling over a bent chain-link fence. The Charles Avenue plaque commemorates one of the oldest communities in Miami, the Bahamian neighborhood in the west Grove. Bahamians settled here in the 1880s to work at the…
Smell that smoke? All over the world, die-hard cinephiles are burning their copies of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film Metropolis. Turns out the version we’ve all been watching for the past 80 years was missing an important chunk of scenes. Metropolis is worshipped for inventing the visual language of science…
Keith Haring died in 1990 at the height of his popularity as a downtown street artist in New York City. He was infamous for his primitive and renegade subway drawings, but he was also a pop culture icon. He represented a turn in the art world, where a kid with…
Mixing hip-hop and folk sounds about as appealing as mixing tuna fish and ice cream, but alas, Citizen Cope has found just the right ratio to make it work. Born Clarence Greenwood in Memphis, Tennessee, Cope sings radio-friendly hybrids that could be labeled folk-hop or blues-pop. His popular albums —…
Let’s hear it for female empowerment movies that are so graphic they could never air on Lifetime TV — flicks such as Hard Candy, Jennifer’s Body, and the latest The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. When it screened at this year’s Miami International Film Festival, women in the sold-out crowd…
Pop quiz: Who’s Bree Tanner? a. A character on Full House b. An altar boy George Rekers hired to carry his groceries c. A baby vampire from the Twilight series Remember in Eclipse, the third novel in the Twilight Saga, when Victoria created an army of baby vampires to avenge…
Spaghetti Westerns have come full circle. Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone ripped on Akira Kurosawa’s samurai adventure Yojimbo, and now Korean director Ji-woon Kim is aping Leone with his The Good, the Bad, and the Weird. Much like the original, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the 2008 Korean film…
Hide your heretics, France has launched a new crusade. This time ‘round, the French have invaded to sing to you about love. Crusaders of Love are a power pop, punk band on a U.S. tour for their album, Never Grow Up! They play with punk’s raw, quick energy but their…
The first Tuesday of every month, we make a tradition out of indulging our inner teenager. We slam our bedroom doors; we grunt and sigh in place of small talk; we scribble grievances that may or may not be poetry into black and white composition books. The only acceptable soundtrack…
According to Plato, “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” But we’d wager the misery of a breakup has spawned much more passionate rhymes. Literature is a greedy beast who feeds on human suffering, right? Not so, says Zimbabwean poet and novelist Chenjerai Hove: “Maybe the heartaches of…
This week, the music gods have looked down upon thee and deemed you all worthy of a smattering of free live shows. Oh, and the usual gratis art and book events are in here too. Monday: While some artists are putting their heads inside cheerio-filled Tupperware and calling washing machines…
Miami artists Jen Stark and Alvaro Ilizarbe (AKA Freegums) were recently flown to Bang Khun Thian, a town just outside of Bangkok, Thailand, to participate in an exhibit titled “Free Size.” (About that name, clothes in Thailand are often one-size-fits-all, or free-size, as a cost-saving measure.) Set in the Sinudom…
Is this the final cultural push before Miami goes silent for the Summer? This weekend has a series of multi-day events that will leave you scrambling to decide what to do. There’s a porn expo, Haitian music fest, Mexican film festival, hip-hop conference, lesbian beach parties, and the opening weekend…
If you’re ever feeling too up, you can always count on a documentary to leave you depressed (thanks Capturing the Friedmans) or simply paranoid (we’re looking at you Food, Inc.). And this year’s DocMiami International Film Festival is no different. The three-day fest is full of people overcoming troubles or…
You know the economy has gotten rough when two Miami artists are sent to work in a factory in Thailand. Artists Jen Stark, New Times Mastermind winner, and Alvaro Ilizarbe, AKA Freegums, recently set up shop for a week in a silk screen factory just outside of Bangkok. They slept…
Just in time for Arizona’s fascist treatment of Mexicans and suspected Mexicans, the Frost Museum opens “Paul Strand in Mexico” an exhibit of the modernist photog’s sympathetic portrait of our neighbors below the border. Shot in the 1930s, the photos show a black-and-white world of stark landscapes, baroque churches, dusty…
