It’s December, and we’re still shvitzing in South Florida. Though winter seems to have gotten lost on its way to this peninsula, the holidays have booked their flights, packed their bathing suits, and are coming to stress you the hell out. Everyone needs a break from his or her kinfolk…
If there were a genus of mammals that should be most grateful for the internet, it’s the felis, which includes the domestic cat. And not just the most flawless of kitties have benefited from the World Wide Web. Nope. Differently abled and homeless felines have found as much, if not…
It’s December, and we’re still shvitzing in South Florida. Though Winter seems to have gotten lost on its way to this peninsula, the holidays have booked their flights, packed their bathing suits, and are coming to stress you the hell out. Everyone needs a break from their kinfolk during these…
From what I gathered from our half-hour conversation, Huey Lewis is a neat guy. He laughs a lot and talks to you, not down or at you. He mumbles funny stories and name-drops totally unpretentiously and has sort of an accepting and easygoing attitude. He’s cool like the Dude, but…
Tortuga Music Festival took the salty life to the next level by planting a beer-, boob-, and beach-friendly festival square on the sand in Fort Lauderdale. The inaugural event brought in waves of music lovers in cowboy hats and flip-flops. The lineup was country-heavy, but there was some folk, blues,…
When Miami heard that the legend, the fashion (and karma) chameleon, and now comeback kid, Boy George, would be coming to play a DJ and an acoustic set during Art Basel Miami Beach week, every mouth was yapping about it from Hialeah to Wilton Manors. There’s no one quite like…
Marc Vedo sweetly schooled those at Mansion Nightclub in dance music this past Saturday night. He handed them their sonic diplomas right before his cohort and tourmate Boy George took over the decks. At first, the packed room was staring up at the crotches of dancing, glittering, and barely clothed…
Dave Neri is no stranger to helping out people out by raising cash for their good causes through music. A Fort Lauderdale resident for almost 40 years, he’s hosted and performed benefits since he was 17, first with the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He’s done the toy run for Joe DiMaggio…
Last night, I tweeted at Kanye West for the first time ever. Did I think he’d read the tweet? No, duh. But I did want to document that my feet hurt a lot, and that it was his fault entirely. A substantial group gathered under the Flaunt magazine tent in…
The day after Thanksgiving, we spoke with SZA, the Top Dawg Entertainment-signed songstress with an ethereal voice. She’s intelligent, cool but not pretentious, easy with a giggle, and told us that all she’d eaten the day before at her mom’s was collard greens –since she’s a non-grain-eating vegetarian. She’s performing…
The black walls inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami are glowing and buzzing with Tracey Emin’s work. Lines like “People Like You Need to Fuck People Like Me” and “My Cunt Is Wet with Fear” become iconic when emanating flattering light from delicate neon tubes. We met Jay…
The business of being funny is a rough one. It’s obviously ironic that comedy is such a pain in the ass to break into and succeed at. And for the ladies, it’s even more of a serious challenge. Maybe that’s why Paula Poundstone often wears a suit and tie. She’s…
Millennials, you still do all the drugs and have all the sex, but I have to break it to you — #realtalk — you do not know how to party. And it’s bringing me down. Heading over to what’s supposed to be the “jam,” hosted by 24-year-old “scenesters,” I always…
Back in the 1990s, we wore Blossom hats. That’s right. And we rolled the sleeves up on our oversized T-shirts. We put on comically massive jeans called JNCOs and parted our hair so far over, that our comb-over gave our Uncle Jerry’s a run for its two dollar bills. Despite…
“I really feel like I did some of my best work while at the Miami Herald,” Evelyn McDonnell admits. The writer spent eight years there as the pop music critic. But she was familiar with Miami even before moving here. She’d attended years of Winter Music Conference (which she calls…
Certainly there are local shows aplenty blowing out eardrums all over the 954 and 561, but we’d like to tell you about a few huge concerts storming through our area this week. A few are throwbacks, and a couple are dubstep. And that’s what it’s all about up here: dichotomy…
Sierra Mizrahi, AKA James, got her second name in the ballroom scene amid drag queens, men dressed like moms and club girls, and artists of the vogueing sort. “I knew that I wanted to be in women’s clothing. I knew that I wanted to do drag,” Mizrahi says. Slight and…
Rock musicians. They usually have big hair, tight jeans, an insatiable appetite for yayo and even bigger-haired sexual companions. Well, that’s the image of the narcissistic, power-hungry wannabe rock god many of us have in our heads. But we hate stereotypes around here. That’s why when we saw that West…
There are concerts galore and wild parties, too. But it’s not every day that you hear about a blowout for which you’d leave your dog un-walked, mom alone on the grocery store line, or boss’ calls unanswered. So, when we got wind of the first ever Clash of the ’90s…
“Do you know anything about me?” Cyndi Lauper aggressively questioned me last week over the telephone. I was, needless to say, taken aback, confused, sort of desperate to see where the conversation had gone wrong even though we’d only been on the phone two minutes. Before the call, I was,…
Miami darkwave foursome Astari Nite is back in the spotlight with their upcoming screening of the video for “Pyramids.” The sexy shoot features ballerina Julie Callea Sease doing an interpretive dance to their synthy sound and Mychael Ghost’s dreamy vocals. Ghost describes her as “kind of like the girl in…
If there were a touring duo that’d make both your grandma, a newborn, every hipster and mom, even your dog piddle with excitement, it’d be Paul Simon and Sting. And guess what? Prepare to pee your pants, cause these two are heading, not only around the country (and Southern Canada)…
