Just because you’re not a real spy doesn’t mean you can’t play one at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, and you’ll want to the second you set foot into the Carnival Studio Theater for their new series Cabaret and Cocktails. The concept is simple. Change out the…
Anyone who thinks the onset of Kindle and other digital readers means the total annihilation of the book hasn’t picked up a copy of Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual. Released once a year by executive director Mary Luft and her board of culture mavens, the poetry annual always features…
Miami has a bad DJ surplus. The technological trickery of programs such as Final Scratch and Traktor has vaulted a whole generation of tin-eared scenesters into thinking they’re black-jeaned Beethovens, when really, if you take away the digital beat-matching, they can’t even blend doubles of Skull Snaps. That’s why this…
If you play fantasy football, you know how quickly it spirals into a life obsession. Soon after starting, you need the other six days of the week, plus an unpaid intern, just to juggle all of your lineups. A sports technology company called Buzztime has taken note of the fantasy…
Video remix gold, brought to my attention courtesy of “CK” on the comment board at finsnation.com, the Dolphins fan site partially run by Miami New Times sports guy Chris Joseph. This is already on repeat in my iPod.And I swear I’d tattoo the highlights of the game to the inside…
The only way to make the Monday Night Football intro that will air tonight for the Dolphins-Jets game better (worse? more surreal? soulless?) is if Jimmy Buffett also sang in Spanish. But having Gloria Estefen beside Hank Williams Jr. as he belts out, “Estos listos para football?” is pretty damn…
Ah, autumn. There’s no indication of it yet in the weather, but ’tis the season to be viewing new art. Here’s what we’ll be making a priority at the Second Saturday Art Walk in Wynwood and at Art + Design Night in the Design District. “The Machine in the Ghost”…
Question: Why do liberal atheists, who wouldn’t walk into a Lutheran church on Sunday if you paid them, suddenly go all Christ-loving when a place such as the Knight Concert Hall hosts Gospel Sundays? Answer: It’s the music. The fact is some of the best pipes in the history of…
As we’ve all just learned from the FedEx Cup, the best way to suck the drama out of a golf tournament is to turn it into a playoff system that requires a Caltech degree and a TI-82 calculator to understand. So now let’s check out the Puma Open. After a…
As with Playboy, we know you pick up Miami New Times for the pictures. From inside the little red stands, the covers grab you by the eyeballs week after week. Remember Jesus with the ball gag in his mouth? Happy birthday, Fidel? Natacha Seijas, Wicked-style? This Saturday is your chance…
Miami New Times was surprised to learn today there’s an actual sailboat race happening during the Columbus Day Regatta. We wholeheartedly apologize for assuming the point of the regatta was to get as drunk as possible on a personal watercraft in the middle of Biscayne Bay while wearing as few…
Brazil is the Ferris Bueller of nation-states. Everyone loves Brazil, wants to party with Brazil, doesn’t care if Brazil doesn’t show up to the G20 meetings, and just hopes Brazil hasn’t dropped out or moved to some other planet. Seriously, Brazil, just hang here with us. We need you. Why?…
If Shakespeare had been a tweaker, he might have set something up like the Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theater Project — a veritable meth lab of creative collaboration and ad hoc performance. Lest you believe, however, that any original play conceived, written, rehearsed, and performed in a 24-hour period will be…
Remember that Urbania Fine Art Frames store at 11 NE 39th St. in the Design District? Probably not, but you will soon. In bit of clever re-appropriation, a group of Miami artists has taken over the vacated space and turned it into an ad hoc show opening this Saturday. Called…
What a day for South Florida sports news! First Dwyane Wade begins the season with a hand to the face, and now Marlins rookie pitcher Sean West — whose development this season was one of the bright spots in the organization — has had a night out in Philadelphia to forget…
Oh, this is not good. We already had our star power-or-maybe-small forward of the future in a rehab facility for a full month; Lamar Odom waffled for three weeks and then chose L.A. over us (BTW: Notice how decisive he was when it came to marrying a Kardashian. We sent…
Remember that Urbania Fine Art Frames store at 11 NE 39th St. in the Design District? Probably not, but you will soon. In a bit of clever re-appropriation, a group of Miami artists has taken over the vacated space and turned it into a venue for an ad hoc show…
The Miami Science Museum released renderings of its proposed $275 million new building this week, in addition to announcing a new timetable for the construction. Gillian Thomas, president and CEO of the museum, said the building, originally set to open in 2011, is now on course for completion in late…
In a surprise to no one who follows MMA, Miami’s own Kimbo Slice lost in the second round in a taped match last night to Roy “Big Country” Nelson as part of UFC and Spike TV’s show The Ultimate Fighter.Despite the fact that Nelson’s figure appears — shall we say…
Author Dan Brown might never recapture the sensational magic of his 2003 book, The Da Vinci Code, but the public’s obsession with medieval mystery lives on. After all, who doesn’t like learning about secret codes buried in ancient ruins or, in the case of 16th-century Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da…
Anyone who’s been driving home late on a weeknight, scanning the radio dial for something that matches one’s mood, has found comfort in WDNA-FM (88.9). The forward-thinking jazz station, with a rightful emphasis on Latin jazz, often feels like the soul of the city — intelligent, vivacious, playful — obscured…
Attention, fellow nerds! As of today, it is now safe to leave our mothers’ basements. Animation Supercon has returned to the DoubleTree Miami Mart. Multiple cast members from Pinky and the Brain — that Orson Wellesian tribute to evil genius — and Matt Groening’s greatest creation, Futurama (which surpassed The…
