Dennis Miller’s Xenophobic Standup Is Seriously Offensive

Dennis Miller made himself chuckle onstage last night at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, with the line, “Arabs will go to the moon when the Israelis set up camp there.” Hardy fucking har? Out of context, it doesn’t make much sense, but the parts are what are important here…

Jenna Balfe Dances in Mangroves: Healing with Performance and Nature

Jenna Balfe climbs through mangroves. Her strong, lean body weaves through the intricately tangled branches. This is her art, her dance, and her healing. She knows that she probably won’t fall, but if she does, Balfe, a clear-thinking, creative individual, will take whatever shit situation befalls her, learn from it,…

Unit 1 Sessions Premieres Sweet Bronco’s “Crush Crush”

We’ve had privilege of introducing you last week to Ketchy Shuby’s “Key Elements of Life.” It was the first in a series of videos shot live as part of Unit 1 Sessions, Jacques de Beaufort’s visual and audio project. At his Lake Worth art space, in collaboration with Reel Tone…

Nine Things Hipsters and Hippies Have in Common

We can debate eternally about whether the term hipster is “over” or even what characteristics truly define these typically slender snobs, but we’d rather just point out what they have in common with hippies. Why? Because the internet is our brain playground, and we can do whatever we want on…

The Ten People You Met at Stonewall Pride in Wilton Manors, 2014

These sweaty summer gay Pride days are the actualization of Rainbow Brite’s outfit: fully colorful and original yet classic. While the sun is still shining and folks in floats are throwing Mardi Gras beads at outstretched hands, swinging their ass cheeks side to side, times are good. You know, before…

Beat Down with Kendrick Lamar and Future Tonight at BB&T Center

On the FM dial (or button), 103.5 used to mean SHE’s Only Rock N Roll. Once that very beloved ship sank, it later became the Beat, which offered a comprehensive selection of contemporary hop-hop, which got us flipping back to the station. Then in 2010, the 103.5 we’d grown to…

9 Best Dubstep Mosh Pit Videos

Recently, the Alternative Press alerted the internet about perhaps the most disturbing musical trend happening now: dubstep mosh pits. The idea of moshing to dubstep brings out a conflicting set of emotions. It’s exciting to watch people slam their bodies into each other, but to the soundtrack of this most…

Art on the Edge Gallery Brings the Experimental Out in Fort Lauderdale

This week, a classic Churchill’s Pub lineup is moving north to Fort Lauderdale. Though the Little Haiti bar remains open under new ownership, it’s not clear whether the folks now in charge will keep up with the experimental movement that’s been burgeoning there for the past 30 years. Luckily, Art…

Ten Things You Feel at a Morrissey Concert

A Morrissey concert is a particularly emotional experience for everyone. From the most rabid Smiths-loathing, beef-loving haters to the people who still buy Morrissey’s new albums and weep openly at the shows all over Moz tour T’s, the crowd is a hotbed for feelings. Last Saturday night at the Arsht…

Win Free Weezer Tickets!

I suppose it’s debatable, but Pinkerton is actually one of the best albums ever. Like all kinds of music or books or visual arts, you have to encounter an album or song or band at a certain time in your life for it to really hit heavy. Like if you…

Keyboard Cat Is Back With New Song, “96 Tears” (VIDEO)

No matter how shitty your shitty day was, even the mere idea of Keyboard Cat’s return is enough to make the sides of your frowny mouth turn upward. But what if the internet’s most talented musical cat performed one of the best songs of all time? For sure, that’d make…

A Night of Experimental Music and Spoken Word in Deerfield Beach

Adam Matza makes music and does spoken word. And though he’d taken a break from the music scene for a while, he’s returning reinvigorated with a vengeance and a focus on bringing experimental live sounds of the verbal and (in the broadest sense) instrumental sort closer to his Broward County…

Churchill’s Pub, My Childhood Drawings, Filth, and Art

Editor’s note: After 35 years, Miami’s Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti is switching hands and changing course. An oral history on this legendary venue will be published next week. More than six months ago, my mom gave me a big bag of papers she was still hoarding from my childhood…

Ten Musical Things You Can Do to Improve Your South Florida Summer

You can spend your summer months tripping balls while the A/C unit in your mom’s trailer blasts wet-smelling, cold air at your melting face, or you can find something kind of cool to do with your time. Just because it feels like you’re living in Lucifer’s clammy crotch from May…