San Francisco filmmaker Ivan Cash is currently traveling through out the country and asking random strangers to show them the last photo they took on their phone. In the most recent installment he traveled to Miami, and, yes, there's all the partying and hedonistic photos you'd expect, but also photos...
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Need more proof that spending dump trucks full of cash can win elections in America? Take a look at Florida's percolating governor's race, where Rick Scott -- yes, the same guy who has had trouble cracking 30 percent approval ratings for the past four years -- has suddenly pulled even...
Y'all ready for this? Dun dun, dun dun dun dun dun. One of the most recognizable sports anthems in modern American sports history, 2 Unlimited's "Get Ready for This" first arrived in this country in 1991, and nobody would play it on the radio. Techno was virtually unheard of in...
Whoa! Bro! You got boobs! For the last couple of years at Ultra Music Festival, male ravers have rocked increasingly explicit, sometimes anatomically correct, and often innuendo-emblazoned tees, resulting in many LOLs and WTFs. Some are funny. Others are gross. And others still are straight-up creeeeeepy. We've carefully tracked the...
It's August and the galleries are mostly closed or operating on short hours. The big-name artists have hightailed it for cooler climes. So how to get your art fix? Try these three off-the-beaten-path geniuses. In the lavishly landscaped yard behind his Hialeah home, Jose Tonito waves his arms like a...
Amid calls from some Miami officials to cancel Ultra after one fence storming resulted in the near-death of 28-year-old security guard Erica Mack, a new video has surfaced showing more than a dozen Ultra fans hopping another fence to sneak in. (Tickets to the three-day event retailed at close to...
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The state of Florida has always been associated with the vibrant metal scene of the '80s, thanks to recording studios like Morrisound, as well as bands like Death and Morbid Angel, which catapulted this wasteland into international consciousness. There have been metal outfits formed in every corner of the FLA...
At Pinecrest Branch Library, there are homeschooling groups where children and parents get to sit on rugs and cushions while working together. There's a genealogy group, creative writing sessions, a podiatrist teaching a 'Happy Feet' class and free summer lunches for children. And that's only on a Tuesday. It's all...
Uncomfortable-silence auteur Joe Swanberg has made a career of testing how much falseness you can strip out and still have a movie. What if people on-screen talked like people off it, and they spent as much time looking at phones and laptops as you do, and if their moments of...
Jenny Lewis certainly knows a little something about the art of performance. A former child actress born to show business parents, she's been in the spotlight since she was a toddler, first as a child actor and later at the helm of indie-pop sensations Rilo Kiley with then-boyfriend Blake Sennett...
In January 2013, an incandescently brilliant American political activist and computer programmer named Aaron Swartz was hounded to suicide by the overzealous U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz. Anyone who argues differently has a desk drawer full of government pay stubs. Brian Knappenberger's The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of...
Florida is widely accepted as the most bizarre state in the nation. We have the weirdest criminals, the weirdest politicians, the weirdest general population. So when real estate blog Estately tallied up the Internet search histories of our collective state, there was really only one surprise: "that it wasn't even...
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Question: Which is a safer bet to eat -- a food truck taco or a burger at your local gastropub? If you're one of the people who think a brick-and-mortar restaurant would be cleaner and under more scrutiny by the state, think again. Florida Watchdog.org has cited a recent study...
When his new film, Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, practically swept the 2014 Goyas, Spain's equivalent to the Oscars, writer/director David Trueba was taken aback. What he thought was just another sincere entry in his 20-year career of filmmaking made off with wins for Best Actor (Javier Cámara), Best...
Friday, Deadline reported that Showtime is developing an hourlong drama about athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs and a South Florida doctor who provides them. The site also reported that New Times managing editor Tim Elfrink will consult on the series, along with former New Times reporter Gus Garcia-Roberts, who now...
When Haven opened, a gastrolounge concept seemed the perfect fit for Miami Beach -- if the chef could pull off the "gastro" part of the deal to go with the lounge's sound and video system, which turned the space into a Parisian night scene, a snow-peaked Aspen vista, or a...
In a movie industry shamefully dominated by men, it's tough to find films made by women, primarily for women. Sure, some men make films for women, but it's tiresome to never see female directors or screenwriters working on cool, well-advertised projects - especially projects outside the genres of romance and...
On the second day of eighth grade in 1975, Teo Castellanos, a runty Puerto Rican kid in shiny new Pro-Keds, nervously scanned the hallways of Carol City Junior High between classes, on the lookout for his nemesis. The year before, a much bigger kid had approached from behind in drama...
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Deafheaven Churchill's Pub, Miami Sunday, June 15, 2014 By this point, we've heard the lamentations, death knells, and obituaries for ye olde Churchill's Pub, the alternative hub in the heart of Little Haiti, where a punk and experimental scene has flourished for decades on end. The club was recently sold...
The Bawse got beef in the Motor City. Over the weekend, Rick Ross was set to headline Hot 107.5's Summer Jamz concert at the Chene Park Amphitheater in Detroit. But according to the promoters, when big homie rolled up in his tour bus, he was turned away by "100 individuals...
The mother of the victim of a fatal accident involving a boat being driven by DJ Laz has filed suit against the popular radio personality. Maricel Valdez is seeking damages following the death of her 23-year-old son Ernesto Hernandez that names Laz (real named Lazaro Mendez), Voli Spirits, Park Street...
Only 20 percent of Florida's 12th-graders in public schools are considered proficient at math. For those of you bad at math, that means only one out of five. For those of you really, really bad at math, pick your favorite member of One Direction and pretend he's the only one...