The term space porn may evoke images of alien life forms fornicating in zero gravity. But for the members of L.A.-based Particle, it's a fan's apt description of their music. "I think a lot of our music is very ethereal and electronically based," drummer Darren Pujalet explains. "It gives it...
SUN 1/25 It's a bit strange to be interviewing a fellow writer for this piece, especially when it's about her band, and especially when the band came together while all three members were working at another alt-weekly. Former New Times Broward-Palm Beach staffer Emma Trelles, along with freelance photographer Mindy...
SUN 1/25 Say what you want about the South Florida Speaker Series, a succession of three lectures by famed politicos, but you've gotta admit, it's reasonably fair and balanced. It ends May 2 with a speech by splotchy Fox News blowhard Bill O'Reilly; on March 14, it features a speech...
Duncan Cameron isn't going to lie to you. This is all about success. It's about fame, money, fortune, exposure, selling a superior product, and being recognized for those achievements. The Hashbrown guitarist just wants to acknowledge the crowds that have made the hard-funk band one of South Florida's favorites. "All...
The Pompano Beach water scandal is starting to feel like a bad dream, or a Dolphins game at New England, or, worse, a Terry Gilliam movie, non-Monty Python. Faces change, nonsense is uttered, awful things keep happening, and the thing just won't end. Now, high levels of dangerous lead --...
I was attending a Rutz Cellars Chardonnay and Pinot Noir tasting at Joe's Stone Crab in Miami Beach the other day when talk turned to Palm Beach. Another guest had asked winery owner Keith Rutz where he planned to display his signature wares next, and he mentioned heading to West...
Mastodon drummer Bränn Dailor, it seems, might be pulling my leg. "You know that [Iron Maiden singer] Bruce Dickinson flies an airplane for Iceland Air? We were flying over there, and I was like, 'How cool would it be if we heard Bruce Dickinson come over the speakers?!' That's wild,...
It's fitting that John Lee Hooker's final release finds him takin' care of business. The blues legend, who essentially invented the boogie sound as most modern listeners understand it, was still weaving his smoldering spell before he passed away two years ago. His daughter Zakiya put some final, mostly successful...
"Let the eagle soar Like she's never soared before From rocky coast to golden shore Let the eagle soar" -- Words and music by John Ashcroft Few people have seen the clever propaganda memo that the White House recently released in an attempt to stem the tide of youth protest...
On July 26, 1999, at 5:01 p.m., 57-year-old Al Polito walked into Gold Coast Check Cashing, a squat, pink, concrete-block building on the corner of Margate Boulevard and U.S. 441, with an FBI microphone strapped to his body. He was there to meet John Mamone, a six-foot-two, 260-pound New Jersey...
Just before it reaches Sunrise Boulevard from the south, Fort Lauderdale's NW 19th Avenue shrivels into a forlorn road lined by the razor-wire-topped walls of a junkyard. At the end, oil-soaked asphalt gives way to tire tracks woven in mud. Then, a scrubby, sandy berm rises about three feet to...
Nothing can incite a crowd of Democrats like talk of the 2000 election. So that's immediately what West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel goes for in her fiery speech. She's warming up a crowd of a few thousand in front of the downtown library. Hiding behind a ficus hedge, waiting...
TUE 12/9 In the mid-1990s, art people swooned over Inka Essenhigh and her fantastic use of high-gloss enamel paints, touting her as an innovator who would help revitalize painting. The young artist had a curious response to the critical adoration: She switched to oils. In doing so, Essenhigh proved that...
SAT 1/3 It isn't easy, girls. You brave the city streets dressed in your Sunday best, your workout gear, or even a sandwich board, and sometimes it doesn't seem to matter. The catcalls and whistles follow. What's a girl to do? Deborah Harry heard one of those familiar calls --...
There was no denying it any more: Marty Rapp was dying. Parkinson's disease had taken control of Rapp's muscles, causing the once-nimble ballroom dancer to lie dormant in his sterile hospital bed. His vision was poor, he had zero control over his body, his hands shook and quivered, but the...
The past is prologue," goes the old saying, but for much of the theater, ancient and modern, the past isn't even past. Many plays have been constructed about past crimes that have risen to disturb the peace of the present. It's an ongoing trend that's particularly interesting in contemporary America,...
After recent, overindulgent, and sometimes-uninspired offerings from the experimental ilk, there seemed to be a stagnant air in this genre. Then again, one should never say never, and with Atlanta native Richard Devine's latest offering, the sonic blueprint has once again been revamped, transmitting some of the most jaw-dropping cerebral...
It's fitting that the young American artist Inka Essenhigh has a series of paintings called "People that do weird things to their bodies," because the artist herself, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1969, does some extremely weird things to the bodies of the people in her pictures. To say...
Change is a funny thing. Some of it is dramatic, embodied in single moments -- a wedding, a birth, a terrorist attack. But a whole lot of change happens incrementally, so slowly that it isn't noticed until after the fact. These thoughts may come to mind when contemplating the Coconut...
Yup, it's the real thing. And it's really, really good. I was a bit skeptical when I heard that the 18-month-old Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza on South Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale used an authentic coal-burning brick oven to bake its pies. Not too long ago, I learned that in...
When all the ex-principals of Fort Lauderdale's long-gone Collapsing Lungs agreed to get back together again, the holiday season just seemed like perfect timing. All seven members of the industrial-rap band have family in the area, the last time they played together as a complete unit was the summer of...
Jarvis Francis, a broad man with sleepy eyes and a mop of black dreadlocks that looks like a petrified jellyfish, is penciling in a green grid to tally how badly his cricket team is getting shellacked. "Baby steps, Virgil!" the 34-year-old hollers across an Opa-locka schoolyard to teammate Virgil Francis,...
