Recycled Life. If you think your job stinks, this short film might help put things in perspective. Documenting the lives and work of those who sustain themselves and their families by picking through the 40 acres of Guatemala City's garbage dump, Leslie Iwerks (granddaughter of Ubbe Iwerks — animator, cartoonist,...
Clearly nobody needs a primer on indie rock. We all have our own idea of what it is, right? Still, why is it that so few of us can agree on who deserves such a designation? Fact is, trying to define indie rock universally is as futile a task as...
South Florida gallops toward the fall election with barely a mention of the X-factor that could decide how Congress is going to shape up for the next two years: Diebold. The company that brought us electronic voting with no paper records to verify results has already been shown to be...
Two months ago, I came across a MySpace group for the Foundation, the long-defunct West Palm Beach club that was the hub of underground music in Palm Beach County (groups.myspace.com/foundationnightclub). But what began as simple cyber nostalgia soon spawned a real-life reunion (or, as MySpace heads call it, a meet-up)...
For nearly three years now, Tailpipe has been watching with disbelief the radical transformation of Gulfstream Park. It has been like seeing an elaborate piece of slow-motion computer-generated imagery — a futuristic tank becoming a rocket-powered flying machine, say, or Dracula turning into a bat. Since 2004, the old racetrack...
The Nashville way of making music is unlike any other, comparable only to the studio system of Hollywood's golden age — a closed system of songwriters, producers, record labels, and artists that creates most of the sounds you don't want to admit you listen to on the radio when no...
In his Miami Herald column, Channel 10's Michael Putney nails the obscene nature of Charlie Crist's ad campaign: ----------------------------------------------- "The principal reason for my cynicism is the avalanche of fiendishly clever and monstrously misleading political ads we've been subjected to. They poisoned the well of the body politic and the...
I'll begin by announcing that this post isn't to pick on the Boca Raton News. It's a tiny newspaper on a shoe-string budget. I have nothing against it. But for the first time, I stumbled upon the on-line editorials in that newspaper and found them incredibly entertaining. You know, in...
Clearly nobody needs a primer on indie rock. We all have our own idea of what it is, right? Still, why is it that so few of us can agree on who deserves such a designation? Fact is, trying to define indie rock universally is as futile a task as...
The Palm Beach Post has a front-page story this morning on Nintendo's new Wii video game system that may or may not have much worth. Reporter Pat Beall explores complaints on the Internet that the system's hand-held device has been flying out of people's hands while playing and breaking household...
Sharkwater. Even if you don't completely buy into the premise of this riveting documentary — that sharks are among the most misunderstood creatures on the planet — it's hard to argue with its assertions that sharks are a crucial component in the marine food chain and therefore an essential element...
I lost my connection with surf culture when my band broke up more than a year ago. Intense and driven, I had relied on the contagious calm that the guys — all of them surfers — brought to my life and to our collaboration. They were the vibe; I was...
The Nashville way of making music is unlike any other, comparable only to the studio system of Hollywood's golden age — a closed system of songwriters, producers, record labels, and artists that creates most of the sounds you don't want to admit you listen to on the radio when no...
Another year, another milestone. Another moment to reflect on all the sneaks, cheats, felons, and freaks who help make Broward and Palm Beach the fabulous fricassee that it is. The New Times Dirty Dozen of 2006 includes a make-believe doctor with a taste for boobs, a nationally known talk-show smackdown...
The next chapter in the Miami Herald's Marti saga has already been written, but we'll have to wait until Sunday to read it. Herald Editor Tom fiedler announced to his staff via e-mail this morning that Clark Hoyt has done an "important report" on the "decisions leading up to publication...
Best-known for incredibly catchy punk songs about murder and monsters, Misfits-Samhain mastermind Glenn Danzig is the only alumnus from hardcore's old-school scene to land an album at number one on Billboard's classical album chart, with 1993's Black Aria. More sophisticated and eclectic, Black Aria II is without lyrics, but the...
Ladies, prepare to go to the mat. Dan Aber pauses his video camera and leads two women wearing only baseball hats and G-strings into what passes for his gym: a large private room above a bowling alley, empty save for a 12-inch-thick wrestling mat on the floor. Veteran wrestler "Coni,"...
Recordings of DJ mixes have been multiplying like e-mail spam over the past decade. The sheer volume of said releases is overwhelming, and it makes one wonder: Who the hell is buying them? There must be a demand if labels keep issuing the things as if the music industry has...
I keed. Vote. It's important. Ralph De La Cruz has an inspirational column about it in the Sun-Sentinel today, but for some reason it's not on the newspaper's web site. So if you don't have the paper, you'll just have to take my word for it. But there's more than...
Binding mortality, relationships, and blessings together poetically in one exhibit, Marsha Christo's "Contemporary Approaches to Printmaking" explores the art of replication. Using a variety of printing approaches — silk-screens, stencils, woodblock stamps, and plaster and rubber relief prints — the Albanian-American artist shows the power of printmaking to explore an...
TV on the Radio's latest effort is a tad overwhelming at first. But after taking the time to fully absorb the layers and layers of incredibly dense textures woven by guitarist/producer David Andrew Sitek, it's clear that the baby justifies the labor. Wading through the fractured, shape-shifting aesthetic is made...
OK, so Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott are asking for it by naming their latest megaproduction Déjà Vu. These dudes aren't exactly paragons of innovation, unless taking rhetorical hysteria to awesome new heights counts. As the opening credits roll — by which, of course, I mean roll, zip, flicker, fade,...
