What happens when graffiti rats abandon the streets for a gallery show exploring the underground movement? Find out Friday at Art Center/South Florida (800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach), which has linked up with Primary Flight to mainline some street cred into its white cube setting. “Blue Print for Space” features…
Late-night provocateur and perennial appreciator of all that is politically incorrect, Bill Maher, will return to his stand-up roots for 11 dates starting in December. The tour wraps up in February just as the new season of his show Real Time With Bill Maher, now in its eighth year, starts…
Love Letters is as minimalist as plays come. Two aging, moneyed WASPs sit at desks opposite each other on stage, but in different parts of the country, and read from a chronicle of notes and letters they’ve exchanged since second grade. If it sounds as exciting to you as a…
Thirsty Twilight junkies, it’s time to get your Fort Lauderdale fix when those hot-bodied werewolves phase off the silver screen and land on the grounds of the Westin today through Sunday. That’s right: The Fantasy Twi-Life Tour, an all-things-Twilight themed celebrity convention, gives you the chance to meet and mingle…
Call him “Billy Crys-tal” because Thursday, Billy Crystal is going to be the toast of West Palm Beach. In a big win for both the Kravis Center of the Performing Arts (701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach) and South Florida audiences, Crystal brings his Tony-award winning one-man show, “700 Sundays,”…
The two of you shared a unique relationship, one that your parents would never understand. That’s why you had to sneak around, meeting up at the arcade, “your special place,” each day after school (while your family thought you were studying.) It was there that the crowds would simply seem…
Only a guy named Lars Von Trier could go to the Cannes Film Festival with a movie called Antichrist, get booed throughout the screening, then saunter into the pressroom and say — and this is a direct quote — “I am the best film director in the world.” And you…
Guess Mr. Metal Molten Hip-Hop (a.k.a. Vanilla Ice) has a warm, squishy side after all, as he is scheduled to perform at the WiLD 95.5 Morning Show Toys for Tots Holiday Block Party tonight on Clematis. Promoters are expecting about 5,000 revelers to join in the fun. All you need…
When did the moustache, that prideful patch, become an object of derision? It’s not simply the T-shirts that read “Guns Don’t Kill People: Men with Moustaches Do,” which, true though that may be, still derides our most masculine strip of fur, just like “moustache-ride” wisecracks. At some point, men retreated…
Here’s a secret about lung disease: it’s afraid of heights. OK, maybe not, but after this Saturday’s inaugural Fight for Air Climb, it should be. The event is a benefit the American Lung Association of Florida, and puts participants in a race to the top of the 30-story 110 Tower…
By the standards of Miami nightclub longevity (a system of measurement not unlike dog years), they ought to be collecting a pension and relaxing in Century Village by now. The problem (with apologies to Dylan Thomas) is that Iko-Iko, specifically bassist/vocalist/spiritual leader Graham Wood Drout, refuse to go gentle into…
You’ve got to hand it to Jerry Only and the Misfits. Despite losing Danzig, one of the most iconic lead singers in punk rock history, being sued by said lead singer, losing legions of fans, and suffering resoundingly negative album reviews, The Misfits soldier on. The originators of horror-punk are…
The Bonzo Dog Band, an eccentric Sixties British group with a penchant for silliness and satire, once released a song whose title begged the theoretical question, “Can blue men sing the whites?” That is, of course, a twist on the age-old argument about whether white musicians, who never experienced the…
In the beginning, Philadelphia native Garrett “G. Love” Dutton — hitting the national music scene like a fourth Beastie Boy crossed with splashes of Beck and Bob Dylan — created the song “Cold Beverage” with his two-man backing band, Special Sauce. The year was 1994, the shambling song came from…
Brooklyn’s Telepathe has been creating a stir for a little over a year now. Made up of Melissa Livaudais and Busy Gangnes, the duo’s synth-heavy, atmospheric pop is reminiscent of TV on the Radio, just really girly and not as full-sounding. (TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek produced Dance Mother,…
The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, Oprah-endorsed, post-apocalyptic survivalist prose poem — in which a father and his 10-year-old son traverse a despoiled landscape of unspeakable horror — was a quick, lacerating read. John Hillcoat’s literal adaptation, which arrives one Thanksgiving past its original release date is, by contrast, a…
Having braved zombies in 28 Days Later, Naomie Harris now faces a centuries-old clan of ninjas who have been hiring themselves out, Blackwater style, as government mercenaries. Sad to say, the undead were more fun. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) and with Joel Silver and the Wachowskis as…
Awkward silence is bad, but we have it for a reason: Whatever we might say in its stead would be worse. The awkward silence is a product of the forebrain, of the superego, of consciousness. It springs from the place where we keep our propriety and manners. It is a…
Local dub enthusiasts Spred the Dub’s rootsy rocksteady grooves prove to be as infectious as, well, a highly transmittable STD. Frontman Mickey Vintage delivers slick, smooth vocals that reverberate perfectly over his percussive rhythm guitar playing and his quartet’s psychedelic-tinged reggae. And lead guitarist Boris Fingermon adds an improvisational flair…
Don’t judge me, but I’m sort of digging Chris Brown’s latest single, “I Can Transform Ya.” Brown’s no fool–he recruited Lil’ Wayne to drop a rizzap on the track, and the rapper dropped it like it’s hot, helping make the song even catchier. It’s an electronic-infused R&B single, and Brown…
In its ninth year, the annual art scavenger hunt is organized by local artist Stephen Sticht and invites the public to search the downtown area for free works by artists such as Skot Olsen, Coma Girl, and Francesco LoCastro, to name a few. This year’s event is dedicated to late…
For the next seven days, Miami transforms itself into the vortex of the international art world with an around-the-clock, sensory-numbing menu of stellar events scattered across town, AKA Art Basel Miami Week. Only the foolhardy would risk scheduling invasive surgery or a drug or alcohol intervention this week — it’s…
