Orlando, March 1993, some forgotten dive bar. Standing beside a small, sticker-laden Toyota are four fanzine-peddling teenagers from Palm Beach County. The reason for their three-hour sojourn: to get an interview with the evening's headliner, NOFX, the clown princes of punk rock. At the time, Orlando was as far south...
Willie Nelson has made a career of bucking the conservative conventions of Nashville's Music Row, the nominal capital of mainstream country music. Still, Nelson achieved hard-won stardom with and beyond the country music audience: rednecks, punks, squares, and hepcats comprise Nelson's fan base. But this past Valentine's Day, Nelson pulled...
Of course, it's the producer who gets the performer into these pages; does this look like People magazine to you, huh? Fact is, anybody other than Rick Rubin produces this thing and it's forgotten day before yesterday. But the expectation outweighs the result, so here we are some three decades...
Back in December, New Times called the Museum of Art's King Tut exhibit — "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" — beautiful but stingy. But we didn't have evidence about the things that happen around the show. Now, two months in, what is the experience all about, its...
"Malcolm Morley: The Art of Painting," now at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, is the final installment in a trio of exhibitions surveying the careers of painters who are very different yet also very similar, and what a smashing conclusion it is. Think of the series as...
Barefoot Boy With Shoes On, which opened last week at the Public Theatre of South Florida, is more a dance than a play. It's all emotion all the time, in a dance of anger and frustration about being a young Hispanic man with no options in urban America. It's as...
Ah, sweeps. That magic time of year when our local television stations pull out all the stops to get us to tune in. Four times a year, local news programs roll out their best stuff in the scramble for Nielsen ratings and supremacy in the viewing market. For some, that...
When a magazine calls itself MaximumRocknRoll and covers bands with names like the Crucifucks and the Meatmen, you’d think that its readers would appreciate a little sex, drugs, and free-thinking amid the music reviews. However, ask columnist Mykel Board, and he’ll tell you otherwise. Since Board joined the MRR crew...
Keep on Versifyin' A little acclaim for our own long fellow: Thank you, thank you, thank you from all the volunteers, workshop participants, and audience members for your great article ("They're Poets, and They Know It," January 19, Dave Amber). Your review is imaginative, funny, and, best of all, a...
On a recent sunny Saturday, the Coral Springs Center for the Arts and environs bustled with activity. The center's auditorium was hosting a graduation ceremony for a local school, and the surrounding athletic fields were all in use. The sprawling parking lot, usually mostly empty, was so full that several...
Even in its infancy, Florida's 2006 race for guvna is controversial. Last month, the Broward Republican Party broke with convention and endorsed Attorney General Charlie Crist for governor over state Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher. Broward's political types alleged that the premature endorsement was intended to push big money into...
It was the kind of news story that merits only a few short sentences in the daily newspaper. Last month, a man had been killed trying to cross I-595 on foot. Both the Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported the death of Jason Louis Livers as digest items, just...
Returning to South Florida has not been an easy task for the Radiators this year. Not only were the August shows canceled as a result of Hurricane Katrina but these New Orleans-based boys experienced the storm's devastation first-hand. Since its inception in 1978, the Rads have built a loyal fan...
When the Plantation Acres Improvement District had an emergency government meeting on January 5, no agenda was posted. But everyone in attendance knew exactly what was going to happen. They were going to fire Lee Hillier, manager of the $1 million, tax-subsidized district that oversees water drainage in the Acres...
Along the edges of the Florida East Coast railroad, which slices through the center of Lake Worth, dwell the poorest of the poor. Spanish-mission bungalows peel and fade in the sun, and motor oil stains the sidewalks of the auto body shops and old warehouses. Gravel streets turn to dirt...
First, a couple of basic axioms: Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek is underrated; Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock is overrated. That said, Sun Kil Moon's Tiny Cities, an album of Modest Mouse covers, just doesn't add up. While Kozelek has previously paid tribute on disc to AC/DC and John Denver, the...
When Piety Stinks Something fishy about Gil Fernandez's repentance: Congratulations on a well-researched and well-written article ("Muscles, Murder, & a Messiah, Part 2," Trevor Aaronson, January 12). Judge Imperato's question is important and still needs to be answered for the families of the victims: Why won't this defendant provide closure...
Already an Internet legend of sorts, at least in the minds of unredeemed boozehounds and womanizers, Tucker Max added to his infamy last month with the debut of his New York Times bestselling collection of dubious drunken tales, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. Max's stories have been passed...
"Fashioning Art: Handbags by Judith Leiber" is a retrospective featuring more than 150 high-end designs that "transcend utility to become objects d'art." Her 30-year career defined handbag trends of the elite and allowed her to join the ranks of esteemed designers such as Tiffany and Cartier. Leiber won the Council...
Heat faces Mavericks and Knicks FRI 11/25 In much of the professional world, jumping from job to job while callously spurning your current employer and being openly courted by other organizations is frowned upon. For New York Knicks Coach Larry Brown, whose stop in New York marks his eighth NBA...
