We survived this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach by complaining and drinking, crawling out at the other end of the grinding, art-stuffed week-long nightmare, barely clinging to life. But The Overthrow crew didn’t care that we’re tired. They kept the party going at Goldrush Miami last night. And their Hard…
The crowd at Churchill’s Pub for Tom Tom Magazine’s Basel showcase wasn’t all chicks with drumsticks. But there certainly were many of both. The night opened with an all-female percussion group, Gainesville’s Cave Rave. A cave rave is apparently the opposite of a sausage fest. The place was pleasantly packed…
Artist Ron English is no stranger to iconic imagery. Creating paintings from a mishmash of familiar faces and images like Marilyn Monroe and Mickey Mouse is part of what he does. So it was no surprise that English joined forces with mega-superstar Chris Brown to create the cover of his…
TV on the Radio Spotify’s Music Loves Art Ricochet Bar & Lounge Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: A Big Mac. Last night, eating a double cheeseburger, drinking a Perrier, and considering trying Spotify’s Kool-Aid, about two hundred people took iPhone pictures of TV on the Radio at Ricochet…
This Art Basel, sound, art, and design are coming together in a fantastic way. Artist, dancer, performer Nick Cave is most well known for his Soundsuits, hypnotic creations that stimulate both visually and aurally. Cave is collaborating with Beats by Dr. Dre and Fendi Casa to showcase the power of…
Artist and curator Jillian Hernandez is showing how women take the ordinary and make it extraordinary at her group show Everyday Charms screening at O Cinema. Though, she says there’s no specific gender component to the exhibition, all the artists happen to be women. The videos she’s chosen to screen will…
Your nasty ass can call her Ms. Jackson. Offstage, she’s a soft-spoken, seemingly genteel lady. But onstage, she’s a sassy little powerhouse who is every straight (and gay) man’s wet dream. The youngest of a nine-child talent tribe, Janet Damita Jo Jackson went from being a sweet, smiling schoolgirl on…
Art Basel Miami Beach is a horrible, crippling beast. It stands, hovering over the first week of December, forcing free drinks down your throat, making you listen to terrible music and look at bad art. Sometimes, though, every once in a while, it takes a step back and shows you…
Art Basel is back, bringing with it the same fancy faces and high art madness. An this week of culture isn’t all about graffiti or murals in Wynwood — the Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, made sure to put on a Basel bash with style. Last night, in cool weather…
This Art Basel Miami Beach promises to be the most fashionable yet, thanks in no small part to the pending arrival of fashion site Refinery29, which is due to open a Miami satellite next month. To celebrate, Refinery29 is throwing a fashionista bash at Cafeina in Wynwood on Thursday. The…
Art Basel not only offers an overload of visual stimulation, it also presents a time to dredge up any tragic feelings of rejection you experienced in your youth. Sure, there are like 300 openings and parties each and every night of next week, but there are only like three you…
Every Art Basel, someone’s throwing a party at a strip club. A few years ago at Goldrush Miami, a bunch of scenesters put on a fete that featured free tequila shots and Miller High Life. If memory serves, the door was guarded by a password. That was a hot time…
The Cost is one of those bands that you might hear amid, like, a dozen others and think, “These guys … Maybe they get it.” This is a band of babies. Each member is under the age of 23. They haven’t released any music. They’ve only recorded a few tracks…
For many fans of the Black Eyed Peas, last night was a sorrowful occasion. It was the quartet’s final concert together as a band before a “break,” not a breakup. At least, that’s what Taboo told New Times. But everyone knows that a “break” is usually code for breakup. Most…
Last night, Sun Life Stadium was packed with thousands of people under the age of 45. Most of them were actually little children, up late for a night to watch the Black Eyed Peas’ final concert before taking a nice, long break from each other. Though fans sported fairly conservative…
See the full 36-photo Black Eyed Peas at Sun Life Stadium slideshow. Black Eyed Peas With Cee Lo Green, T-Pain, Jason Derulo, and Sean Kingston Sun Life Stadium Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Better Than: A nice nap on the beach that ends in a blistering burn. In the history of…
After you jog through the so-called high culture of Art Basel at the Miami Beach Convention Center and bask in the glow of curator masturbation material, your eyes and paws will need a break. Your ears, however, could use some stimulation. Cashmere Kitties is a mind-expanding, consciousness-warping Basel satellite music…
Vanessa Brito: Status Quo Slayer
Jimbo Luznar: King of the Island
Ernesto Pichardo: Spirit Guide
Occupy Miami protesters took a break from camping out at Government Center this afternoon to fight an ill all too familiar to the Magic City — mortgage fraud and a foreclosure suffered by one of their own.Angela Samuels, a longtime community activist with One Miami, local unions, and Occupy Miami,…
”He is one of our coworkers, a friend, and a loyal patron,” says Mamushka’s bar manager Javier Sanchez, describing former Bar employee Dylan Nunn, known as Crunk. Currently in a dangerous coma-like state, Sanchez says, “He’s battling for his life and we want to show his family support.” You might…
