Last Thursday Al Arabiya News announced that Raghad Saddam Hussein, the eldest daughter of the late Iraqi dictator, is currently looking for an international publishing house for her father’s memoir that he handwrote in jail. This would not be a posthumous beginning to Hussein’s “literary” career – prior to his death he published four erotic [...]
This Saturday marks a rare coup for Florida lovers of heavy music — the annual free Scion Rock Fest returns, and this time it’s in Tampa! Past editions have hit Atlanta, Columbus, Ohio, and Pomona, California. And while the past couple of years have skewed more to the death and thrash side of things, this [...]
Most every media outlet, blogger, and wisecracking twitterite has already had their say in the case of the Miami Zombie. I’m not even going to bother tossing links around these sentences. You all know the story. Naked dude ate a half-naked dude’s face off on MacArthur Causeway while being shot by police. The cannibal, one [...]
The recent flap over the Susan G. Komen For the Cure attempt to defund Planned Parenthood served as a wake-up call — and, luckily, a rallying cry. In the wake of that barely averted crisis, hundreds of thousands of dollars from other donors, both individual and corporate, rolled in to Planned Parenthood headquarters. That outpouring [...]
Blackfinger was already on the stage when I hit the Bamboo Room at 9:30 p.m., playing some sort of Spanish-classical-guitar-by-way-of-Texas number. The trio served as soundtrack to a roiling boil of déjà vu. This was to be local Legend (of Rodeo, if not otherwise) John Ralston‘s final show before moving to Johnson City, Tenn., and [...]
As Urban Beach Week raged through South Beach, compelling handcuff-happy cops to make a flood of arrests – not to mention the most legitimate display of cannibalism since Big Lurch’s incarceration that happened just over the bridge – Fort Lauderdale’s Fat Village Arts District held it’s monthly Art Walk. The event featured open gallery exhibitions, [...]
Noise, as a musical genre, is the raw meeting of music and performance art. It’s overly aggressive and not out to please the general consuming public. And this past Friday some of the genre’s best local talent graced the Radio-Active Records stage for Weeping Willow, a promising new monthly noise event that calls out 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 [...]
My friends don’t want a Mormon president. They have non-religious reasons for disliking Gov. Romney, of course, but even if he were a decent guy who liked social safety nets and gays, they’d still take a look at his religion and say: That’s some crazy shit! And it is. Mormonism is bonkers. But my problem with Mitt [...]
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 [...]
