Singin' the Greens "Show Us Some Green" (Deirdra Funcheon, May 15) is an excellent accounting of the Green Party's views and activities. Green Party aspirants would be highly effective if they began to "bore from within" to infiltrate one or both of the two major parties — especially so the...
Go anywhere in the Arab world, and one sound is omnipresent, bumping from car stereos and wafting hypnotically through narrow café-laden streets — the oud. This traditional lute instrument gets taken for an improv joyride with Majâz ("metaphor" in Arabic), the new release from Le Trio Joubran, a classical yet...
Mexican food is the fastest-growing trend in ethnic cuisine in America, probably for no other reason than the popularity of the Mexican grill. These days, you can't say "Pass the salsa" without an attendant from Chipotle or Baja Fresh chirping in, "Rojo o verde?" And did we mention On the...
My dad occasionally speaks of our family clan's unluckiness: "We never win anything." I've never asked why he thinks that, but knowing my eccentric assortment of relatives, I don't doubt that one of them could have pissed off some voodoo queen enough to get the whole family hexed. Whether luck...
When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer, and then walked out — essentially paying full price for a fraction of the final product. Superfans are happy to do that sort of thing...
CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-and-a-half-hour Che—an epic non-biopic that might well have been approved by Roberto Rossellini, envied by Francis Coppola, and even appreciated by its subject. (And the...
Driving his Buick Regal around Aventura, Nicholas Spanakos might seem like just another 70-something snowbird. But look closely. The nose gives him away. It bulges to the right — beaten that way by a few dozen jabs or maybe snapped suddenly by a single hook that caught him flush. Spanakos'...
I don't feel the need to comment on this screed that came across the transom today regarding Sun-Sentinel Executive Editor Earl Maucker and his upcoming appearance at the IRE conference in Miami. Other than to say it's damn interesting. It's comes from one "Titus Groan" (make sure to go to...
For the last couple of days, there was a lot of buzz all over the Internet, and even locally on the radio (93 ROCK) that Mötley Crüe were to make some sort of special announcement live last night at 7 p.m. And, okay, no band would announce something SUPER-devastating or...
1 Days of Water and Roses The couple peruses the menu from plushly pillowed pods set along the perimeter of a Zen-like reflection pond. After they decide on wok-fried lobster with coconut foam and grilled Florida pompano in curry sauce, the only choice remaining is whether they should pair their...
It’s a question that’s haunted us since the dawn of time: What would happen if Dancing With the Stars and American Idol merged? Holy shit. Would Earth implode? Would the time/space continuum rip, creating an interplanetary vortex that transports us all to another world where people’s heads are replaced by...
Things seem mighty boring around this burg lately. It's got me in a foul mood, to tell you the truth. You'd think with all the journalists working in South Florida (600 or so?) there'd be a lot more interesting stuff to read. Seriously, what do you people do with your...
Duran Duran boasts a rare longevity in the world of pop music — 12 albums and some 30 years in the business. The group's two distinguishing members, synth master Nick Rhodes and vocalist Simon LeBon, still speak to each other. Fans have accustomed themselves to the periodic, reptilian sloughing of...
Tego Calderón with Locos por Juana, Circo, and Beto Cuevas Friday, April 11 Studio A, 60 NE 11th St., Miami. Show starts at 8 p.m.; free with registration on MySpace Ages 18+ with ID 305-358-7625, www.studioamiami.com The folks at Myspace are releasing a full bilingual version of their social networking...
Beach Food Market clerk Pratap Chowdhury spends a lot of time focusing on South Beach diplomacy efforts. He practices basic Spanish, learns customers' names, and reaches out with the handshake or fist bop deemed appropriate for each customer's apparent nationality or culture. As such, New Times thought we might offer...
The long, exhausting election season is beginning to seem to Tailpipe a lot like Napoleon's march on Moscow. No snow yet, maybe, but a grueling retreat for all the blow-dried candidates of January and plenty of bodies along the road. It's in the blizzard of second-tier races, though, that the...
There are few kinds of music more evocative of the place from which they come than that made by the Malian desert nomads known as the Touareg. One can almost see the endless stretches of sand laid out in all directions when listening to the sparse guitars and minimal but...
It's no secret that Khia, of the famous 2002 cunnilingus anthem "My Neck, My Back" is not the biggest fan of Miami's top female rappers. Early on, there was the debacle involving Jacki-O over her status as the self-dubbed "Queen of the South." Then there was her beef with Trina,...
For the first six albums, a dozen years into their collective career, the North Mississippi Allstars opted to take a more traditional approach to their rural, rootsy designs, resulting in a sound that paid homage to blues by the book. Then again, that's not surprising considering their family pedigree —...
Debbie Wasserman Schultz's political acumen has never been in doubt. Nor has her ambition. At 26, she became the youngest woman ever elected to the Florida Legislature. A decade later, she decided to run for U.S. Congress representing the district around her Weston home — despite having just given birth...
If the Southern-rap money train ever ran out of steam, it would be fitting for that end to take place in the land of its Technicolor, reality-detached origin: Miami. Flo Rida, proprietor of the most hyped-up album release of this bleak commercial down-cycle, started his career as a hypeman for...
Smell that? Is it patchouli oil? Organic chai tea? The collective aroma of hundreds of sweaty rock ´n’ roll musicians and their groupies? Actually it’s all of the above, which could only mean one thing: The arrival of Florida’s favorite multi-day, progressive, camp-tacular music festival, Langerado! This year’s fest is...
