The afternoon crescendos suddenly. Just as the rose-petal-infused Plymouth gin shaken with lemon juice and sweet pear purée takes hold, singer-songwriter Rachel Goodrich appears brandishing a kazoo and a ukulele. Soon, the musician (who turned 31 this past Sunday) begins cooing a mélange of indie-sounding, almost-Vaudevillian tunes. The sun slips...
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A normal movie ends with the American Humane Association's assurance that "No animals were harmed." But Tippi Hedren's doomed 1981 obsession Roar isn't normal.
With some races expected to be agonizingly tight, tonight's election results may get sweaty. So please feel free to keep an electric fan pointed at you at all times. Its not against the rules. As always, we'll fill in the results of the most notable elections up top as they...
The vast income inequality in Miami is no secret. Barring traffic, you can be driving around and surrounded by mansions with well manicured, fenced in lawns one moment and then surrounded by slums ten minutes later. Homeless people sleep on sidewalks blocks from glittering luxury condo towers designed by some...
Every once in a while — even in Miami — a story will emerge to restore your faith in humanity. This is one of those stories, and it all started in a place that's hardly been a well of good feelings lately: American Airlines Arena, home of the floundering, injury-wracked...
"My brain is weird," Darren Foreman tells New Times when prompted to explain his uncanny gift for sound. Internationally renowned as Beardyman, the 32-year-old Londoner seems to possess the auditory equivalent of photographic memory. Not only can he tap into a seemingly endless mental database, from the precise timbre of...
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Much like music, noise is everywhere. “People are so used to listening to noise that they’ll sit for hours and see it [on film],” Frank Falestra AKA Rat Bastard claims. “Take away the picture, and it’s just noise.” Sitting in the living room of his South Beach apartment-turned-recording studio, the...
Ivan Gomez spent years in the U.S. Army, including a tour overseas during the Yugoslavia conflict in the early ’90s. Today he suffers from type 2 diabetes and other physical and mental ailments. To help him cope, he says, he keeps service animals. “My dogs are everything to me,” he...
The NFL Draft is mere days away, and the Miami Dolphins are in desperate need of some offense. Of the many holes the Dolphins have to fill this offseason, one the biggest problems is at running back. The Fins have a dynamic, proven back in Lamar Miller, but it's anyones...
Whether or not you have a background in modern dance, Delma Iles and her company of dancers at Momentum Dance Company want spectators to look beyond the movements they see on stage. Drawing inspiration from modernist paintings, classical music, and devastating real life experiences, the company's artistic director and her...
Alan Levan, the former chairman of Florida-based BankAtlantic Bancorp, has been found responsible by a federal jury for intentionally defrauding investors in 2007 right before the bottom fell out of Florida's housing market. Levan will not face criminal charges, as the judgment came as the result of a civil suit...
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Blues legend Bessie Smith was arguably America's most powerful black woman during her heyday in the 1920s and '30s. Her reign wasn't just based on being the highest-paid African-American entertainer of her generation, but, according to the new HBO movie Bessie...
It's been a rough month for the Miami Beach Police Department. First came video of a detective punching a handcuffed woman in the face, followed closely by a press conference announcing that more than a dozen officers had sent or received boatloads of racist and pornographic emails. But don't be...
On the bum-ridden downtown Miami street corner where Micah Edelstein's Nemesis Urban Bistro once stood, French-Persian owner David Foulquier strives to deliver some continental European and Middle Eastern comfort. The 25-year-old is a first-time restaurateur who grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His family often hosted large dinner parties...
Even our “Eat Me” bikini bottoms and weed-leaf knee socks are soaked. Ultra Music Festival 2015's opening day was wet. Very wet. And the drizzles, showers, and storms eventually led to five of the fest's seven stages being temporarily shut down. At about 6 p.m., the rain started falling. It...
From its triangular tip topped with cheese to its chewy, pillowy crust, a slice of pizza is the perfect food. For many folks, this ever-popular Italian indulgence is one of the sticking points that keeps them from opting into a plant-based lifestyle. But Mellow Mushroom is solving this first world...
In March, 2014, Versailles patriarch Felipe Valls, Sr. was named in a whistleblower and defamation lawsuit, along with Cova, Inc., d/b/a Versailles Cuban Restaurant. Now, attorneys for Valls are claiming their client is too sick to talk. In a document filed on March 20, 2015 in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, the...
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Oracio Garrell has been making jerk since he was 11. As a kid in Montego Bay, Jamaica, he used to work for his cousin, Ayenee, slathering whole birds in the spicy, piquant paste. "I needed summer money," says Garrell, who's 30 and goes by the nickname Jay. "He did it...
Back in September, on the set of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, cameras rolled in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as actors playing prudish protesters hoisted signs ("Crap Rap N.W.A") and ran over a pile of the group's records with a steamroller. A little later,...
It's unsurprising that a film like Kenny Riches' The Strongest Man would premiere at Sundance -- the festival for this strange film -- but less surprising that it would make its way back home for the Miami International Film Festival, because this is a movie that couldn't have been made...
Andrew Gilbert knows his mushy peas would infuriate any bona fide British citizen, including his mother. They're not the kind you'd find at an English chip shop.