Labor Day in South Florida doesn’t really mean what it does elsewhere. If you want to wear white after it, nobody cares — rock on with your tacky self. It doesn’t signal the end of hot weather, either. (Nothing ever does). What it does mean, though, is, probably, an influx of tourists on your usual [...]
Tuesday afternoon: Provisions: two six-packs of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style pale ale. Carton of cigarettes. A well-charged phone and access to GrubHub. TV on C-SPAN. Click! Some kind of huge young Republican male is talking angrily about how Obama’s screwed his generation. And now a similarly huge young Republican female is doing likewise, giving [...]
First, let’s consider some facts: Fact one: Paul Ryan is a liar. You can see recent evidence of that here, here, here, here, and here. Fact two: Paul Ryan is a Catholic — and touts himself as a devout believer at that. He made a point to go to a weekday mass after accepting the GOP’s vice [...]
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan don’t pull any punches. So don’t expect any glossed-over facts about the American political machine in their new book The Silenced Majority. The sequel to their New York Times bestselling book Breaking the Sound Barrier, based on their Kings Features Syndicate column of the same name, Goodman (host of the grassroots public television and radio program [...]
Miami seven-piece Ketchy Shuby is a young act that, often, sounds purposefully old. With a style the members have dubbed “downtown soul,” the group often sounds like a dusty shelf of vinyl come to life — vintage funk gives way to early reggae, ska, and psychedelic rock, then back again. It’s a type of brew [...]
Sure it’s an inflammatory headline, but it’s also accurate, which is more than I could say for the Republican vice presidential nominee’s speech last night. It should come as no shock that politicians of all stripes stretch the truth in their speeches. Some are quite good at lies of omission and exaggerations. (Hell, our current [...]
Across the street from a main checkpoint outside the Republican National Convention yesterday, I stood listening to an anonymous member of the Oath Keepers, a conspiracy-minded organization of former and current military and law-enforcement officers who have vowed to disobey any unconstitutional orders given to them. The man called out to the “brothers” in sheriff’s [...]
Forget genres like indie rock, metal, and the like. Of all the misunderstood and dramatically underrepresented musical genres in South Florida, jazz may take top honors. After the closing of Arturo Sandoval’s Jazz Club in Miami a few years ago, Miami in particular has lacked a dedicated jazz venue, and most supposed “jazz” venues in [...]
Where to begin? “Ann Romney Takes Biggest Stage Yet to Humanize Husband,” reads a recent Bloomberg Businessweek headline. Sure, this seems funny — here’s a presidential candidate who comes across more as a cold, calculating robot than a warm, empathic person. But it actually speaks to something quite sad about American politics. The relationship between [...]
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 [...]
