Swiss sampledelic outfit the Young Gods has survived for more than 15 years in an industry that treats innovators like lepers. But it hasn't been easy. Led by composer- vocalist Franz Treichler, the Young Gods take qualities that typically torpedo bands -- bombast, camp, and long-windedness -- and turn them...
There's a lovely paradox at the heart of some recent works by Pérez Celis. The Argentine artist anchors his mixed-media canvases in mundane, earthbound objects, then superimposes those objects with colors and forms that send the imagery up and out into the cosmos. For Celis -- who was born in...
The online ad was clear. Framed by images of stretched anuses dripping with cum and engorged penises, some in the mouths of mustached men, the text read: Orgy style, no attitude, private sex party for HIV POZ guys ONLY ! You must be in shape and 18-45ish. For invite, send...
Rock is a genre that made a name for itself by being mouthy. So what would happen if the lead singer -- who so often dictates the attitude of a rock band -- were suddenly to disappear, leaving the music to convey its message without language, in an egalitarian symphony...
Thursday, April 17 A little late with your taxes? Well, if you're willing to brave Boca Raton on Passover evening, Billy Boloby might be able to help you. The boys have taken time out of their busy schedules to play a set at Oh! Martini (131 Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton)...
When Anthony Venter saw the crime-scene tape and police outside his estranged wife's apartment, he bolted from his car toward the door. Thinking only of his son Kyle, a bright-eyed, blond-headed 3-year-old, he questioned the first policeman he came to. "I'm the kid's father," Venter recalls telling the officer. "Well,...
Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the 2001 murder of 3-year-old Kyle Venter. The boy was killed by his mother as revenge against his father, Anthony Venter. Dunitse "Dee" Venter is currently free on bail while facing a second-degree murder charge. Anthony, after two bitter...
After assuring the desk attendant and the first of three omnipresent security guards that I was equipped only with pencils, not the dreaded ink pens, I made my way into what turned out to be one of the most daring exhibitions I've ever seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art...
It has been a few weeks since it hit the headlines. If you haven't been paying attention, Nilo Cruz, the Cuban-born, Miami-raised, New York-based playwright, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his lyrical Anna in the Tropics, a play that received its world premiere last fall at the teeny...
They were loud once, deafeningly so--and dumbingly so, if such a thing is possible. They wore skins of leather stuffed with cucumbers of foil, towered over dwarves who danced around a Stonehenge made of pebbles, sang about women who fit like flesh tuxedos and explored the majesty of rock and...
Walking around his Riviera Beach headquarters, one can easily figure out that Warren Mosler isn't trying to impress the buying public. The place has needed a good sweep for months. Dirt and leaves are strewn across the entrance. The white walls are streaked with greasy fingerprints. The counters look as...
After calling the eight-month-old Cohiba Brasserie in Pembroke Pines, I wasn't too jazzed about my forthcoming visit there. I'd phoned for two reasons -- to find out if reservations were required, given that it was a Saturday evening, and what type of cuisine was served. You know, the normal questions...
Krisztian Katona's inviting smile hints at his unhindered optimism. Nothing seems to bother the 25-year-old with the wire-rimmed glasses, thin goatee, and wave of brown hair that crashes gently around his head. He speaks with a slow eloquence that gives his Eastern European accent a soothing rhythm. "Krisztian just likes...
Massive Attack's slow-paced release schedule has made each of its albums a de facto statement on the UK dance-music scene: 1991's Blue Lines practically ushered in trip-hop; '94's Protection and its companion, No Protection, introduced us to electronica's dub roots (not to mention Tricky), and '98's Mezzanine posited group members...
Eye pressed to a digital video camera, Chris Blackwell pans the view from the wood hut on stilts overlooking an inlet in the Caribbean that he calls his main office. A long table surrounded by batik-upholstered chairs and littered with DVDs, books, and CDs dominates the sun-filled room, where on...
For a long time, the notion of taking glass seriously as contemporary fine art made me a little nervous. It was at best decorative and at worst utilitarian. A heavy glass orb streaked with color or encasing dried flowers was something to spruce up a coffee table. A vase, however...
When Nicholas Hoffman worked for the City of Pompano Beach, his duties ranged from the menial to the monumental. He didn't just clean the bathrooms; he made sure the water in them -- and throughout the entire city -- was safe to drink. Hoffman, a 24-year-old student with spiked black...
After 12 years in the business peppered with who knows how many number one singles, reggae icon Buju Banton is still frustrated. Fondly known as "the Gargamel," a name given to him by his Jamaican brethren, he does not believe he has achieved the re- cognition he deserves. "The way...
Like the attenuated Mexican cuisine in the magical realist novel Like Water for Chocolate, expertly handled Thai food seems to arouse certain predictable emotions to which no one is immune. I find, for example, that tangy, lemon grass-infused soup soothes away stress. A well-balanced curry, containing the precise amount of...
... um, the Air & Sea Show? As someone who is on the nonviolent political left, I very much commend New Times for the superb cover story, "War Pigs" (March 20). Although I have had my differences with your paper previously, Bob Norman's story was excellently written, with a perfect...
