To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here. It’s become all too common in our society to mourn the passing of those whose fame has taken them to the heights of international stardom, while all but ignoring others who perhaps lack that same stature. Michael Jackson’s recent…
Miami graffiti artists seem to be having a moment, thanks in part to Jim and Karla Murray’s Miami Graffiti tome (see pictures here). That led to an exhibition at the Mid-City Arts Gallery in Los Angeles earlier this month. Of course, you can’t invite a bunch of graffiti artists out…
It’s been a slow summer for the Miami quartet Mendacity, whose last show was this past March, and in Orlando, to boot, at that city’s stop of the Taste of Chaos tour. A few months’ break is no big deal for this long-running band, though — the foursome came together…
She Found the Right Carrera A canvas writes: Jose Carrera, who was described in “Tattoo U” (Carlos Suarez De Jesus, July 23), is a true artist with a gifted eye and a keen sense of beauty. Despite his past, which I have never given a second thought, Jose is beyond…
This post is mainly to point out that even big-time newspapers (or whatever the New York Post is) make embarrassing headline typos once in a while (I hope the copy editor gets an email from the EIC with the subject “Can We Talk?”). But in a more local angle, it seems Joan…
Luna Cafe, at 4770 Biscayne Boulevard, is now called L’artista Restaurant. Ownership is the same, meaning Tom Billante is still involved. Besides the name change, the menu has been tweaked upwardly towards a more fine dining experience than the casual Luna Cafe. Seems a curious move at this time, but…
Last night’s Miami Social was all about children: the kind you want but can’t have, the kind you find are accidentally going to pop out in nine months, the kind you send away to Switzerland, and the kind that are 30-something professionals who live in South Beach. The main drama again…
Last summer, South Florida sank under a spectacularly burst housing bubble that had been inflated well beyond reason by speculators, absent investors, and more than a few outright criminals.In June ’08, the U.S. Attorney’s Office created a task force to track down the last — the fraudsters who helped dig…
Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she’s been cast in the next season of Logo’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. She wasn’t cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to…
DJ Ryan Smith a.k.a Induce! flexes his house muscles on this live set from the Viceroy Hotel’s Club 50 way up on the 50th floor at the Icon on Brickell. Smith is an avid vinyl collector with thousands of pieces in his collection and he parlays that to great effect…
Uncle Sam’s Music, South Beach1. Playtime, Cielo2. Party Rock, LMFAO3. Fantasies, Metric4. Number Ones, Michael Jackson5. Fame, Lady GagaSweat Records, Miami1. Octahedron, Mars Volta2. The Ecstatic, Mos Def3. West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Kasabian4. Merriweather Post-Pavilion, Animal Collective5. Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors…
Ah, how I miss Joe Arriola. The boisterous ex-city manager was always good for a laugh. So it was nice to see Arriola, who appears to have shed a few pounds, as a guest on WBPT’s community talk show, Issues, this past July 24. During a 15-minute interview with host…
The Fourth Annual Florida State Rag Popping Championship took place July 28, 1988 at Tobacco Road. The competition was presided over by the International Rag Popping Association. According to the 1988 issue of New Times promoting the event, “rag popping is an eclectic mix of dance, rhythm, and juggling, all…
Bond Street, one of our best sushi establishments, is opening a branch in the tony Thompson Beverly Hills hotel (the flagship Bond Street is in NY – SoBe’s opened in 2001). One of the cooler treats at the new place will be soy sauce “caviar”, tiny dots of the dark…
First, check out New Times’ Warped Tour photo slideshows — click here for the bands, click here for the fans and the fashions.Saturday proved meteorologically unpredictable in West Palm Beach. This year’s edition of the Warped Tour had migrated pretty far north from its usual South Florida venues in Miami…
New Times does its best to get with pretty much every South Florida DJ, as long as they’re active. But DJ Erok’s so damn active that we can’t seem to get a hold of him. Oh, we sat down and interviewed the Galveston, Texas native for Head Spins months ago,…
Ben Novack Jr was into some crazy, crazy shit like amputee porn.Ft. Myers Beach fired their town manager because her wife stars in movie where her characters are described thusly: “Jazella Moore is a scandalous MILF. She’s already slept with her son’s friend once and was able to keep it…
Forget about the Aqua Girl thing and that Just Add Water party. Don’t think about the Standard and that rad view of the bay they have.This is the real Pool Party. The last time Pool Party played was at Sweat Records’ COLTOBERFEST 305, last October. No one has seen or…
Believe it … There are chimps living among us. And when these wild animals aren’t busy ripping the faces off unwitting citizens, they’re insidiously hard to spot. Cleverly camouflaged in people clothes with their hair cropped and parted smartly down the middle of the skull, they’re shopping in our supermarkets…
Yes, it’s no secret I hang out at the Poorhouse in Fort Lauderdale a lot. But here’s a new event worth mentioning at the bar: My Pod Mondays. It started a few weeks ago and is hosted by the place’s legendary bartender, Mr. Jon Owens. People interested in putting their…
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. ~Woody AllenNow that it’s fashionable to reveal intimate details of married life, I can state publicly that my wife, Alice, has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a…
