The estranged brothers Whitman have reunited for a journey on board The Darjeeling Limited, a colorful old locomotive traversing the Rajasthan region of India. Along the way, they will stop to visit temples ("Probably one of the most spiritual places on Earth!") and shop for souvenirs (slippers, cobras, pepper spray),...
The past two weeks have been heavy with hip-hop nostalgia. Two weeks ago, VH1's Hip-Hop Honors held its annual awards show, which has essentially become a Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame for rappers. Everyone from DJ Kool Herc and Fab 5 Freddy to KRS-One has been "inducted" since the...
“I control emotion – my medium is art,” said Miami colorist Keith Smith about his unusual method of paint application. His finished products look unique because they are: Smith uses the paint’s fluidity in his favor, letting it roll and glide across the canvas in a controlled fashion. The end...
Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on their websites that direct their readers to the many places on the Internet where the home address of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is listed. AAN papers are doing so to show solidarity with the...
Art-o-philes in the FTL can finally exhale – the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) has reopened! The Museum, which had shut its doors in June for maintenance and aesthetic enhancements, will start fresh on Friday with the arrival of the acclaimed “Quilts of...
Photo by Michelle F. Solomon Ricky Martin The Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater October 10, 2007 The Review: The words Fillmore and Ricky Martin somehow just didn't seem to go together. Ricky Martin opening the Fillmore Miami Beach, the namesake of the Fillmore San Francisco where Jerry...
In all the hoopla over the influence of '60s and '70s art rock on some of today's most interesting bands, one salient fact is frequently overlooked: A lot of that stuff blew. For every Roxy Music and King Crimson, there was a Yes or an Emerson, Lake & Palmer (plus...
Jenny Lewis Photo by Jamie Puntumkhul Rilo Kiley Revolution, Ft. Lauderdale October 1, 2007 Better than: A three-way between a man, me, and Jim. The Review: The last time Rilo Kiley ventured down to South Florida it was roughly two years ago at the I/O Lounge. They performed for about...
Save That Dog — Kill Him! Lawrence Meaney wanted his dog, Diogee, to die a natural death, and after 16 years (a biblical 112 in canine years) the border-collie mix was already beginning his inexorable drift toward doggy heaven. In recent years, Diogee's wagging tail and springy step had been...
There are some moments in a musician's life when reality becomes so unreal that you know you've finally made it. One might think trading solos with Prince during an intimate late-night jam session at the legendary hit maker's home would be one of those moments, but for Maroon 5 frontman...
Students in the drama program at Santaluces High School wanted attention — just not this kind. On his MySpace page, a current student wrote, "I have come to a realization. When you are standing in a place you love, and... to the right is a newspaper stand on the outside...
The “struggling actress” is an old, anemic, American myth. David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive transmogrified the cliché into a multi-faceted mindfuck. Hollywood Dreams (2006), an independent film by Henry Jaglom now playing in South Florida, trots it out as a parody of the movie industry. A gawky Iowan girl packs her...
Public Enemy Number One tiptoes up to the hot tub. She reaches behind her neck to untie her halter. Her dress drops to the ground. Her name: Tila Tequila. Her claim to fame: being America's most famous bisexual. In her TV show, A Shot at Love, she is courted by...
Miami, literary Shangri-la? A mecca for the bookish? It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. But for more than 20 years, autumn has brought a kind of inverse solar eclipse, sending some of us scurrying from the beaches, out of the malls, off the interstate, and into the comforting, ancient...
Optical scanner? Same ol', same ol' Tailpipe was feeling as clean and serene about next year's election as he does after one of those high-pressure undercarriage baths down at the Rubber Ducky. Mysterious undercounts? Disappearing data? Spooky voting machines? All gone. For Election 2008, those unreliable "touchscreen" machines have been...
What do you get when you grab the Au Pairs, ´80s-era King Crimson, Mungo Jerry, and the guy who mixes the harmonies for The Scissor Sisters, stick them in a blender, and hit “frappe”? Goo. You get goo. It’s disgusting. Never try it. But! If you take those same ingredients,...
Sitting behind a monotonous stretch of pastel, cookie-cutter strip malls on Dania Beach's Stirling Road is a one-of-a-kind addition to Broward's cultural landscape. Blue Note Records, Miami's legendary music store, has moved its vinyl and collectibles collection into town. The new shop is located west of the railroad tracks in...
What do you get when you grab the Au Pairs, ´80s-era King Crimson, Mungo Jerry, and the guy who mixes the harmonies for The Scissor Sisters, stick them in a blender, and hit “frappe”? Goo. You get goo. It’s disgusting. Never try it. But! If you take those same ingredients,...
Well, I caused a stir with my little D. James Kennedy satire. And, in the name of Jim Naugle, I want to apologize for it. I apologize because it was rushed and should have been much funnier. Overall, it's a clunker composition-wise and I hope you'll forgive me for that...
While his older brother and label-mate Madlib was digging around in the Bollywood crates for his latest Beat Konducta outing, Oh No came up with even-more-unconventional source material for Dr. No's Oxperiment. The superpsychedelic rock records that emerged from the Mediterranean and Middle East in the '60s and '70s have...
A mother and her adult son wade through the furniture store in Fort Lauderdale, a line of rainwater marking their path. They test every other sofa until the son settles on a mocha leather number with square arms. It's for her son's first apartment, the mother tells the salesman. Bobby...
The “World” section at your local music retailer is just a way to pile together all the stuff that isn’t from America or the UK. It really isn’t fair that Bossanova joints can be found right next to some Riverdance jams, but English-born Sri Lankan M.I.A.’s latest, Kala, truly deserves...
