Heavy bass, ear-shredding distortion, booty beats, syrupy synths, and prime rhymes. Even though the 305 is a sunny city, it’s definitely got a weird, dark, and dirty side. So while this year’s top local releases were often sexed-up and fun-obsessed, they were also experimental, X-rated, drugged-out, deeply gritty, and unrepentantly…
Seriously, almost an hour passes before he exits that door.With the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Peter Jackson has given the world 162 minutes of imaginative visions never before realized on a movie screen, save for those in Jackson’s previous 12 hours of Middle Earth adventures. It’s not…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
Like a grade-school bully who keeps yanking the pigtails of his crush, Girls Gone Wild founder and professional smarmypants Joe Francis won’t leave Joanna Krupa alone. First, he showed up on The Real Housewives of Miami, apparently for the sole purpose of spreading rumors that he’d had sex with both…
The setting is on the road. Two guys in Miami who both ride classic Italian Moto Guzzis see each other, nod, and ride on. This happens a lot in the world of vintage motorcycles. Then comes the twist that makes the whole thing sound like a missed connections ad on…
Ahh, Bougainvillea’s Old Florida Tavern … The quaint, woodsy little shack in the middle of South Miami. It’s an oasis where you can come in with a couple friends, get a cute little table in the garden, and get kersplammered. However, twice a year, Bougies goes Barry Bonds, taking over…
Joan Manuel Serrat and Joaquín Sabina Dos Pájaros Contraatacan Tour American Airlines Arena, Miami Friday, November 16, 2012 After the huge success of a world tour dubbed Dos Pájaros de Un Tiro (Two Birds with One Stone) in 2007, Joan Manuel Serrat and Joaquín Sabina have returned stronger than ever…
Becoming an art collector isn’t as easy as laying down a couple hundred grand. Money fulfills only the base requirement, aka the finances to acquire art. But to become a big fish and make a name for yourself as a real connoisseur, you need to hone your artistic eye, learn…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
It wasn’t long ago that Miami didn’t have much of an art scene. That was before Art Basel took root, before Rebeca Raney left Miami in 1999 to go to college. By the time the scene got going in earnest, Raney was off living in New England.But in all that…
Bad news for porn aficionados, Kim Kardashian-obsessed pervs, and Catwoman fetishists. The rumors of a second Kardashian sex tape are apparently untrue.See also:- Kim Kardashian Starts a “War” With North Miami Residents- Kim Kardashian Does Not Live in the Ghetto- Kim Kardashian, Sexy Catwoman, Gets Birthday CakeThose rumors — that…
This weekend the Arsht Center will present a unique performance, Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project, choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Mills and performed by his Austin City Ballet Company. The work is a culmination of a three-month community and education collaboration in Miami-Dade — it’s both a dance and an…
This November, make your vote count. No, we’re not talking about Mr. Women Full of Binders or Mr. Hope Gone Awry. In fact, if we get one more swing state pollster call, we’re going to knock someone out. And we’ll do it in our Lover or Fighter shirt from Teeology,…
As an actor on the South Florida theater scene, Antonio Amadeo has played a wisecracking Afghan-American cabdriver, a revolutionary in late-’60s Czechoslovakia, a captured writer in a totalitarian police state, and a barkeep caught in a web of 9/11 conspiracy theories — to say nothing of his award-nominated performance as…
It’s been 40 years since the first videogame grabbed the attention of besotted television watchers and thrust them firmly onto the couch and into an interactive world of multimedia home entertainment. See also: – Hotline Miami: An Awesomely Bloody Neon Magic City Browsing your local GameStop is one thing, but…
In the final weeks of one of the dirtiest presidential campaigns we’ve ever seen, it’s hard not to ask yourself, “Why can’t we all just get along?” But in Miami, one group of women is proving that hard conversations don’t have to be mud-slinging contests, and that talking politics and…
Around the four-minute mark of my first viewing of the Cloud Atlas trailer, as the M83 track swelled to its bursting point and a hoverbike darted through future-Korea, I remember e-mailing and GChatting at least a dozen friends with a link to the preview and my take: “Holy Sh*t.” Naturally,…
Nothing is spookier than a flock of hipsters wearing ironic costumes, and anyway, Nicole McCauley says, the South Beach scene is dying. This year’s big, fun events are moving back west, over Biscayne Bay, to the home of the Miami hipster, Wynwood. What a perfect place to throw a Halloween…
Look, if there’s any part of you that thinks you might be interested in catching BAD 25, Spike Lee’s two-hour celebration/behind-the-scenes history of Michael Jackson’s 1988 Bad LP, then seriously, get to it. This is a bliss-out. The performance footage alone is thrilling, and Lee has augmented it with archival…
Halloween is that time of the year when it’s acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow’s Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside… See also:…
In his filmmaking debut, journalist David France, who wrote the first story about ACT UP for Miami New Times’ sister paper The Village Voice, assembles a thoroughly reported chronicle of that direct-action advocacy group’s most vital era, from its founding in 1987 (six years into the AIDS epidemic) through 1995.Expertly…
