On April 1, as dusk settled on Bal Harbour, Dr. David Goroway parked his white Toyota Tundra on Collins Avenue. Only a few years ago, when he lived with his wife, a former model, in a mansion in Southwest Ranches, a trip to Bal Harbour might have meant a day...
Too many movie tie-in collections put profits before cohesion. Tunes by widely disparate performers, most of whom just happen to record for companies affiliated with the film studio, wind up being tossed together willy-nilly in the hope that one of them will stick, thereby inducing fans to buy all the...
By ANDY VIHSTADT DangerKeys Photo by Melanie Pullen for Fat Possum Records Akron, Ohio’s Black Keys called on Danger Mouse and a handful of guests to flesh out their two-piece sound for LP5. Stream the first single, “Strange Times,” at the duo’s MySpace page. Attack & Release hits stores April...
Junk the Machine People can count better: Great article ("Tally Against the Machine," Tailpipe, February 7)! We used the sort-and-stack method for counting our paper affidavits in Project Vote Count's citizen-run exit poll. We averaged two to three hours counting the ballots for each precinct. The counting process became more...
In 1913 Stravinsky débuted his masterpiece work The Rite of Spring for a Parisian audience. What happened next was pandemonium: Fists connected with jaws and knees jabbed into spinal cords, while insults were lobbed like racket balls across the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This did not please Stravinsky; he fled the...
Well before he became a befuddled, cuddly, idiotic reality TV star and living cartoon, Ozzy Osbourne really was the Prince of Darkness. Fronting Black Sabbath, the heaviest of heavy bands with really no precedent in sound or style, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward, and Ozzy created...
It may not have mint juleps and gaudy hats, but this year's $150,000 Greyhound World Classic — billed as "The Kentucky Derby of Dog Racing" — featured two dogs that had owners, trainers, and industry players buzzing like touts at Churchill Downs. At the Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach,...
Bret Ernst is hustling through his third state in as many days. His new film debuts on a grand scale Friday, and there’s been a lot of preparation to do, like hyping the movie from Seattle to Atlanta at limited-release premiers: Just listening to the comedian’s travel itinerary makes you...
Based on a true story," brags The Bank Job before diving into the clear blue water of the Caribbean, where, in 1970, a topless woman frolics with two swimming mates — just another day in Paradise. The trio retires to a hotel room for a sweaty, breathless afternoon quickie, which...
The Palm Beach International Film Festival is a far more manageable affair than its neighbor in Fort Lauderdale. Lauderdale's big festival runs more than a month, dragging in a gazillion theaters and any good, decent, or even just quirky movie it can lay hands on. PFIFF runs just eight days...
They Love Him Truth be told, he's light in the nuance department: Excellent review of Suite Surrender ("Surrender, But Save Your Cash," Brandon K. Thorp, January 24). You really nailed the show. You were perhaps a little more forgiving than I was, as I've never liked anything I've seen from...
During a yoga session, your body goes through metamorphosis. Granted, some of us experience a clunkier transition of shapes while others slip gracefully in and out of their postures, but the overall effect of springing from coils into lanky lengths remains the same: beautiful. Nobody knows that better than Edward...
Life is good when an artist experiences a few career highlights during a slow period. Such is the life of Detroit-based Motown recording artist KEM, who brings his brand of well-received, intimate soul to Miami this weekend. His sophomore album, Album II, enjoyed great success, nearly going platinum in a...
Read anything about Mexican mole (pronounced MOLE-ay), a sauce so contrarian few have been able to define it, and you'll probably run across at least two origin stories. One involves a 17th-century nun named Sor Andrea de la Asunción. Panicked about how to feed a visiting archbishop, the good sister...
Yes, folks, it’s here! Our most coveted national holiday, the Super Bowl, is that time of year when we congregate in the glow of crystalline high definition displays, open our hearts and minds to inane commercials, and guzzle gallons upon gallons of cheap, foamy beer. It’s a beautiful thing, and...
Jorge needed some help, so for several thousand dollars, he hired two professional "transporters" — imposing men trained in a whole repertoire of negotiating skills and takedown maneuvers. One morning last November, they drove to a group home where Jorge's eldest son was being held. Brian was just 15 years...
“Celebrity chefs bring plane food to new heights” blared the business section headline in Saturday’s Miami Herald. Charlie Trotter, Todd English, and our own Michelle Bernstein are highlighted in the article as pioneers of haute in-flight cuisine -- and also as harbingers of “the airline industry’s economic revival”. Indeed, the...
By ANDY VIHSTADT Geek Squad "This milkshake won't bring anyone to the yard," thinks Chad to himself. N.E.R.D. will be releasing N.3.R.D. sometime this spring. After an unfinished version of “Everyone Nose” was leaked, the group decided to post the final studio mix on its blog. The song brings the...
I guess I'm in the mood for feathered hair and strange accents from the United Kingdom, so I will move from Birmingham, England's E.L.O. on to Swansea, Wales' Badfinger. Truly one of the great power pop acts of the Seventies, stateside they've been somewhat forgotten. Or, when they are remembered,...
Besides his stellar career as South Florida's premier cardiologist, Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah moonlights as a bigtime Republican fundraiser. He sits on a slew of corporate and government boards. He has campaigned for three different Bushes. He has eaten dinner at the White House and loaned his private jet to...
Remember when you'd buy a really good seven-inch record and you played the shit out of it for a couple of months before you began to wonder if your crappy needle was gonna do a number on the wax? I don't (cuz I have a good needle), but I do...
This scenario is repeated each year by families all across America: Tired from the endless onslaught of Christmas commercialism, sons and daughters and parents pledge to buy less, give more, and separate themselves from the juggernaut of holiday shopping. But we all know those pledges never take hold. The Power...
