Sometimes, if you look hard enough, you can find beauty in the cruelty of life. These days, Boca Raton-based DJ and director of Miami's Scratch Academy Jamie Keogh, AKA DJ Immortal, is learning that lesson on a daily basis. It's been only a few months since he got a phone...
The world of indie rock has never really embraced the concept of the instrumental jam band. The few exceptions that (barely) fit into that category — Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Mogwai, Tortoise — don't really follow the genre's rules, instead occupying a space between the Fall's deconstructed rock and the...
About six weeks after New Times Broward*Palm Beach editor Tony Ortega was tapped to take over the Village Voice in New York, VVM has named his successor, Robert Meyerowitz, who comes to South Florida via the Anchorage Press. Here's the announcement from VVM Executive Associate Editor Andy Van De Voorde:...
Although even under the best circumstances, ArtServe has never been an especially hospitable site for exhibitions ¯¯ a horrible irony for Broward County ¯¯ the place has outdone itself with the current ¨Mix It Up: A Mixed-Media Exhibition.¨ First, it promotes this sprawling group show as opening on May 21,...
Adios, Absurdo So you're sick of Fidel, eh? Everyone in South Florida is sick of hearing, reading, and seeing reports about Fidel Castro, Cuba, and Cubans ("Adiós, Fidel," Amy Guthrie, April 26). So what do you come up with? Four pages of how sick people in South Florida are of...
It's a familiar story in the music business: bright ideas, no money for studio time. A finished CD but no cash for distribution. Throw in just the notion of hiring a publicist to help push the finished product and the outlook is bleak. The dilemma cuts across the board. Label...
When you grow up in paradise, it's easy to take natural beauty and a moderate climate for granted. A breathtaking beachfront moonrise? Hey, I've got work to do. A gorgeous beach day? Just a hot, sweaty inconvenience that can melt my makeup, wilt my hairdo, and deep-set the wrinkles in...
Is there such a thing as fate in musical collaborations? There is if you're former sElf frontman Matt Mahaffey and former God Lives Underwater guru Jeff Turzo. The pair came together after each found himself watching videos of the other's band on MTV's 120 Minutes — the station had confused...
Looks like ALM (American Lawyer Media) -- the company that owns the Daily Business Reviews -- is going up on the chopping block. The company, which caters mostly to the legal crowd and is known to produce outstanding journalism, consists of 19 magazines, including flagship The American Lawyer, and 14...
The boys from Snow Patrol have come a long way from the days when they posed as members of the band Belle & Sebastian to infiltrate the student union club at the Glasgow School of Art. In fact, the indie darlings (from Glasgow by way of Dundee) are big, fat...
Jack Nelson's swimmers have called him a second father. South Florida newspapers call him an icon. His lawyer says he's "a national treasure." And Diana Nyad, his former swimmer, says Nelson was a sexual predator.
Get Used To It Get used to working for a corporation, Pulpy boy. Today I was going to write about how the Sun-Sentinel's resident crotchety old man Tom Jicha needs to stick to writing lame TV pieces instead of politics (is there something in the water? Jicha rants about global...
Legendary Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil has always stood out when it comes to musical production. After the Tropicalia phenomenon he helped create in the 1960s went global, Gil left it alone. As new-wave samba and bossa nova gained foreign acclaim in the early 1970s, Gil steered away from those genres...
Elena McMahan is disarmingly soft-spoken. She keeps her head lowered as she begins a conversation barely above a whisper. She wears a headscarf that identifies her as a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, and she speaks to her two unusually well-behaved children, Vladimir, 5, and Elizabeth, 3, in Russian...
On his previous album, Joyful Rebellion, Canadian rapper k-os shouted defensive lyrics like "Hip-hop is not dead/it's the mind of the MC." That particular rhyme got him in trouble with critics who saw the Toronto-based lyricist as a preachy preacher's kid proselytizing the masses. And k-os actually is a preacher's...
Laurie Jennings understands the merits of being a singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. As former proprietor of Homestead's now-defunct Mainstreet Café, she not only developed a solid reputation by booking nationally renowned folk acts but also frequently performed with her own house band, the Pathfinders. Although the club is now closed,...
Remember those "glitches" from Election Night that had Al Zucaro thinking he'd beaten Lois Frankel to become the next mayor of West Palm Beach? Well, George Bennett reports in the Palm Beach Post today that it was the fault of an Internet company hired by the elections office to display...
Whooaaa there So Anna Nicole Smith has finally left the building. As Erica Beras reports in the Miami Herald, she was whisked away in a black hearse -- "escorted by police and trailed by a small fleet of news helicopsters" -- to Miami International Airport where she'll be flown to...
Los Angeles-based vocalist Tierney Sutton is a consummate performer. She offers the casual banter that's common among modern jazz singers, but she's spot-on when it comes to her craft. Sutton's onstage chemistry with the band members she's played with for more than a decade is obvious during her live performances,...
Since wowing us with The Grey Album, Danger Mouse has been constantly on the grind, delivering modern classics one after another. Still riding the monster success of his collaboration with Cee-Lo, last year's infectious-as-herpes album from Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere, the mighty Mouse starts this year showing off yet more...
Last week, New Times writer Ashley Harrell turned out a spellbinding cover story on Miami Heat benchwarmer Dorell Wright. The 21-year-old straight-from-high-school phenom — an amiable California youngster with big ambitions and a yearning for more playing time — seemed to come to life on the page because of Harrell's...
There is a moment early on in "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," the 14th episode of the brilliant but canceled television series Freaks and Geeks, in which gangly, bespectacled, picked-last-in-gym-class high school freshman Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) arrives home from school, makes himself a grilled cheese sandwich, and sits down...
