Maybe it’s Apple’s fault for having such a sunshiny image in the first place. It’s not as though Foxconn, the Chinese company that has made headlines over the last several years for horrifying working conditions, only makes Apple products. Sure, the company manufactures iPads and iPhones. But it also assembles Amazon’s Kindle, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, [...]
At just 33 years old, Billy Corben, one-third of the Miami-based documentary production crew Rakontur, seems young to be celebrating a retrospective of his work. Yet Corben and his partners in Rakontur, Alfred Spellman and the less-public David Cypkin, boast a decade in the business under that brand name — and even more from the [...]
The concept behind the new photography exhibit at ActivistArtistA in Boynton Beach, which opened this past Friday night, hits close to home — hell, it even has journalist in its title. The exhibition is called “Journalist/Voyeur: The Work of Jonathan Dvoretz and Michael Herb,” and it runs through April. (Note: I haven’t checked it out [...]
Blood. Sweat. Whiskey. These are the three essential ingredients for every occasion that finds Mike IX Williams, Jimmy Bower, Brian Patton, Joey LaCaze, and Gary Mader onstage together. And on Saturday, the fine denizens of Miami had better brace themselves. Mama, get your gun, because NOLA’s finest are coming to town. EyeHateGod have been trawling [...]
Long-time readers of my work will know that I have whipped Dick Cheney like a mule for years. The old man has always seemed like some nightmare combination of Cardinal Richelieu, Heinrich Himmler, and Dr. Strangelove. He represented the personification of that distinct madness that gripped America in the years between 9/11 and the start [...]
My expectations were low. Mad Men creator Matt Wiener has always let his characters find their own way, which often leads them in a direction that the audience knows is wrong. It’s part of the show’s genius, but it also frustrates a viewer who wants the best for these beloved-but-flawed characters. Incredibly, last night’s long-pined-for [...]
The nation’s largest-ever gathering of irreligious people, the Reason Rally, took place in Washington D.C. over the weekend, and it very nearly escaped popular notice. An unscientific survey of the media landscape suggests the Rally commanded only slightly more of the national attention span than Miami’s concurrent Ultra Music Festival, which is put on every [...]
New Order playing the first night of Ultra seemed like such an inspired choice at the time of announcement. The seminal band that crystallized post-punk, new wave aesthetics, and electronic dance music during the 1980s — pre-dating and influencing so much of the house music that is the basis of Ultra – performed Friday to [...]
Note from the Editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
