After an unsuccessful attempt to crash the mainstream and its subsequent relegation to mere background music and VW commercials, electronica is poised again to enter the forefront of American popular music. The recent American release of BT's Movement in Still Life promises to continue the success started by Moby and...
In Bryan Singer's last movie, 1998's Apt Pupil, Ian McKellen portrayed a Nazi war criminal hiding out in the suburbs, passing himself off as an ordinary old man crouching behind drawn blinds. In Singer's new movie, X-Men, McKellen plays Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, the son of Jews who were murdered in...
New Times Deserves (and Welcomes) a Spanking Your flair for dramatic innuendo has about as much substance as the garbage Rick Sanchez calls news ("Rick Sanchez, Godless Communist!" Robert Andrew Powell, June 1). You deserve a spanking, but Sanchez deserves life in prison for impersonating a news anchor. I am...
Curses on the foodie(s) who came up with the term Mediterranean cuisine. The tag sounds specific, as if this type of fare could be neatly identified and pigeonholed. But the label is actually nebulous, since it takes into account all the regions of southern Europe, northern Africa, and various other...
Blink -- or, more likely, doze -- and you will miss it, this tiny, beautiful oasis in the middle of an otherwise barren wasteland. For a moment -- a precious, frustrating moment to be treasured in a movie that flaunts its disposability -- Nicolas Cage reminds us how good an...
Eduardo de San AngelIt all depends on what you mean by power. If you mean business suits and cell phones, you’ll probably see a few of them here during the lunch hour. But if you’re talking supremacy, mastery, or even just some serious clout — that kind of power — then you’re speaking about executive chef-proprietor Eduardo Pria. […]
Eduardo de San AngelIt all depends on what you mean by power. If you mean business suits and cell phones, you’ll probably see a few of them here during the lunch hour. But if you’re talking supremacy, mastery, or even just some serious clout — that kind of power — then you’re speaking about executive chef-proprietor Eduardo Pria. […]
The jungle is one of those settings that's easy to romanticize. Huge shade trees, filtered light, mysterious but musical animal calls -- sounds appealing, right? And we have plenty of examples to aid us in our rose-colored visions. There's the jungle in Romancing the Stone, where Kathleen Turner and Michael...
Kona KaiHere’s a quick geography lesson: Peru is on the continent of South America. Now here’s a quick history lesson: Peru has a large Chinese community. So large, in fact, that Chinese food is a staple in that country. Traditional Chinese fare influenced classic Peruvian cuisine, and the results are served at little places called chifas. […]
Kona KaiHere’s a quick geography lesson: Peru is on the continent of South America. Now here’s a quick history lesson: Peru has a large Chinese community. So large, in fact, that Chinese food is a staple in that country. Traditional Chinese fare influenced classic Peruvian cuisine, and the results are served at little places called chifas. […]
To refer to John Convertino and Joey Burns as a rhythm section is tantamount to calling John Lennon and Paul McCartney a couple of songwriters. It's an accurate depiction but only in the most rudimentary Etch-a-Sketch-y fashion. Of course drummer Convertino and bassist Burns have been the living pulse of...
Jennifer GouldLet’s start by categorically dismissing all male news dudes. When it comes to hair, there’s really no variety at all to be found on their heads. (We will reserve comment on what’s in their heads.) The only approved style, apparently, is close-cropped. Just once we’d like to see a guy sporting a luxuriant ‘fro detail […]
Jennifer GouldLet’s start by categorically dismissing all male news dudes. When it comes to hair, there’s really no variety at all to be found on their heads. (We will reserve comment on what’s in their heads.) The only approved style, apparently, is close-cropped. Just once we’d like to see a guy sporting a luxuriant ‘fro detail […]
Get Pitchshifter frontman J.S. Clayden talking about politics in his native Britain, and it's like listening to comedian Dennis Miller rant about crap here in the United States, only in a thick north-London accent -- and not as funny. Clayden, who sings and writes the lyrics for the techno-tinged, heavy-rock...
Azalia Snail likes secrets. The Los Angeles- based psychedelic folk rocker guards her mystique with sharp words: "No way!" she fires back when pressed to reveal her real name. "Azalia Snail, baby. I don't want to talk about my name; I just think that's such a trivial pursuit. It's something...
Don Bailey Carpets signLast year in this space we kind of goofed on Don Bailey, who is now a senior citizen but posed nude on his carpet at the age of 40 and has used the resultant painting to sell his wares ever since. You’ve seen the signs, where Bailey is propped on his side, wearing a slightly […]
Stephanie KraftThe best — and worst — politicians are the renegades, the ones who challenge the good old boy system and aren’t afraid to be impolite. The best of these generate a better and more just government, while the worst simply hem and haw at everything while getting absolutely nothing accomplished. School board member Stephanie Kraft […]
Stephanie KraftThe best — and worst — politicians are the renegades, the ones who challenge the good old boy system and aren’t afraid to be impolite. The best of these generate a better and more just government, while the worst simply hem and haw at everything while getting absolutely nothing accomplished. School board member Stephanie Kraft […]
Don Bailey Carpets signLast year in this space we kind of goofed on Don Bailey, who is now a senior citizen but posed nude on his carpet at the age of 40 and has used the resultant painting to sell his wares ever since. You’ve seen the signs, where Bailey is propped on his side, wearing a slightly […]
Here's a story that will make you feel secure flying out of Miami International Airport: The man in charge of security at MIA handed his car keys to a thief. Nelson Oramas pulled up in front of Dicey Riley's bar in Fort Lauderdale, turned to the first black guy he...
Regina Greenhill is a wealthy Jewish widow. A stroke victim, she lives alone in a condominium tower, just across a parking lot from Aventura Mall. Bridget Garcia is a working-class black native of the U.S. Virgin Islands. For nearly two years, Bridget worked as Regina's private nurse, spending up to...
