By Olivia Feldman Seeing a band play its hometown — especially at a venue the members used to frequent — gives a cool glimpse into its past. Especially, when the bouncer at said venue tells you he remembers throwing the members out multiple times eight or ten years ago. Now…
By MR Sheffield It’s 9 p.m. in a dark room behind a local coffee shop. A statuesque young woman with blue and pink hair poses on the stage holding a Styrofoam skull with nails driven into it, a mask partially obscuring her face, a plastic dagger sheathed at her side…
By Sean Chambers Yoga Noir is an unusual way to stretch limbs and find your center. Instructor and creator Jacquie Roach made sure that there wasn’t just one thing about these classes that make them special, but a slew of little cool things. First of all, it takes place in…
Art Houses Are Reshaping the Culture of Broward and Palm Beach
Broward and Palm Beach are drowning in independent cinemas. You’d never know it during a day at the mall, but small theaters like the Gateway and Cinema Paradiso in Broward and the Lake Worth Playhouse and Living Room in Palm Beach are booming. This week, we provide short reviews of…
New Times Broward Palm Beach is looking for video freelancers. Ideal candidates will have experience both shooting and editing video, and be able to work in Broward and Palm Beach. He or she should be able to collaborate with editors to come up with video concepts, work on tight deadlines,…
New Times Broward Palm Beach is looking for a restaurant critic. The ideal candidate will have experience both reporting about food and writing long-form restaurant criticism. He or she should have knowledge of Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, which makes up one the nation’s most burgeoning epicurean scenes. Job duties…
A Monroe County judge yesterday said a Key West couple can’t marry despite his ruling that Florida’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. Chief Judge Luis Garcia said in an appeal by the State of Florida, “The automatic stay, currently in place, shall remain in place until completion of appellate…
By Dennis Romero What’s it like partying with 134,000 of your closest friends? After a fourth year covering Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, the size and scope of America’s largest electronic dance music festival (and, really, one of the country’s largest music events, period) still just leaves us breathless…
By Dennis Romero The Clark County coroner is investigating the death of a 24-year-old who collapsed outside Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas on Saturday morning. An autopsy was being conducted this weekend, but results aren’t yet available to the media, an official at the coroner’s office told us. If…
Game on! We did it! Best of Broward-Palm Beach 2014 is complete! Places to eat, places to meet people, places to go pee in public… This annual issue has got it all. Of course, though, New Times’ music department is most hyped to discuss the counties’ top tuneage and party…
By Jena Ardell Fans of Danzig have learned difficult lessons in the past, like never film Danzig onstage and never punch Danzig in the face, but the best lessons are learned when Danzig talks about his beliefs. As much as Danzig is presumed to spread negativity, he also provides useful…
Earlier this year, Lady Antebellum had to schedule a quick break from its Take Me Downtown tour so co-lead singer Hillary Scott could have a baby. With this new addition to the trio, Scott told CMT back in April that bandmates Dave Haywood (who will also be a new parent…
When news broke last week that Senior Writer Michael E. Miller had won the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi award for nondeadline writing, it was just the cherry on top of an unparalleled year of national prize-winning for Miami New Times. Miller’s award comes for his feature story “Champ,” which tells…
On Thursday, Coachella attendee Kimchi Truong died after an apparent overdose. It’s believed to be the first death tied to the giant annual festival since 2008 — though the actual number is hard to ascertain, since the Riverside County Coroner’s Office says it does not track them. But as always…
Chris Victorio By Adam Lovinus As a dusty wind whipped behind her in hazy stage light, Solange and her ultra slick backing band brought serious chops and swagger to the polo fields as nighttime fell over Coachella. And then Beyonce showed up on stage dancing to “Losing You.” It was…
Timothy Norris By Mary Carreon There are certainly plenty of single people wandering around the Coachella grounds; the volume of Craiglist “casual encounters” can attest to that. But there are also ten tons of couples, the vast majority of whom are completely adorable. Here are the cutest we saw…
Photo by George Martinez Ultra Music Festival is epic. Until it’s not. There is much about the EDM fest that’s awe-inspiringly, eye-bulgingly, brain-meltingly awesome. It’s among one of the best raver parades on the planet. It’s got 200-foot LED stages that look like arcades from outer space, complete with lasers,…
Another year, another Ultra Music Festival. We here at Crossfade always make the annual pilgrimage to Ultra land. And from one UMF to the next, there is a lot of stuff that’s not-so-shockingly new. Or as Deadmau5 might screech: “It’s the same fucking thing every year!” Inevitably, though, there’s also…
A stage visionary redefines the way South Florida sees theater. A thrift-shop connoisseur turns his love of collecting into an art career. A musician describes himself as “half Cuban Native Indian, half German Anunnaki wolf.” You can say a lot of things about 2014’s MasterMind Award finalists, but you can’t…
By Marisa Cutaia Some time in the not too distant future, some form of legal marijuana might be coming to Florida. Just the idea of it gives us the munchies. But we aren’t satisfied with a bag of Cheetos; our foodie palates are far too refined to settle for that…
By Regina Kaza In a sleepy town like Boca Raton where almost every restaurant stops serving food by 11 p.m., late night cravings are a struggle. Luckily, there’s a new place with a large enough menu to satisfy your midnight munchies in ways the Denny’s down the street or that…
Psst, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. For the procrastinators, CVS and Target quickly run out of sought after velvet heart boxes of treats, leaving nothing but bags of candy that scream I-love-you-but-I-just-don’t-prepare. Butter up your sweetie pie with some homemade goodies from Pinterest, It will look like you…
