Sharif Salem Captures South Florida’s Homeless Furniture in Show at PAX, Friday
It was a brown leather sofa that prompted Sharif Salem’s love affair with Miami’s homeless furniture. Every day he drove by it on his way to work in his Little Havana neighborhood. And each day something changed. The sofa became part of the landscape, accumulating branches, dirt, and graffiti. So Salem took a picture, labeled it “the [...]
Miami Gallery Locust Projects Celebrates 15 Years With Spring Fling
Locust Projects’ upcoming Spring Fling marks its 15th birthday, but this entire year will serve as one fluid celebration for the organization and gallery, whose projects, endeavors, and overall contribution to the community are as multifaceted as a gemstone. Founded in 1998 by a trio of Miami artists—Elizabeth Withstandley, COOPER, and Westen Charles—exhibits at this [...]
Q&A: Joey Halegua of Gutter Films Talks April, or “Fatal Fauna Month,” at O Cinema
It used to be that going to see a B-movie in a theater was nearly a 4-D experience, with the decrepitude of the cinema matching the scuzz on screen. Multiplexes and boutique art houses have basically done away with those kind of lively rat holes, making baby noise and excessive texters the primary terror to [...]
Review: Infest at Churchill’s Pub
When it was announced that powerviolence pioneers, Infest, had finally been convinced to perform outside California’s borders, the cogs of the internet hype machine were immediately set in motion. The fact that the band was performing again and outside of California would have been a big enough deal to stir up some serious hype, but the fact that this [...]
Q&A: Zach Ohler of Strong Intention, Opening for Infest Saturday at Churchill’s Pub
Strong Intention has got friends in low-down places. The veteran genrefuckers enlisted the considerable whiskey-soaked talents of EyeHateGod throat Mike IX Williams to add some extra oomph to the title track and “3rd Space Gorilla Generator” on the group’s most recent 7-inch, Razorblade Express. His corrosive yowls add a little New Orleans spice to Strong Intention’s [...]
Brad Bernstein’s “Far Out Isn’t Far Enough” Chronicles the Trials, Tribulations, and Magic of Tomi Ungerer
The beginning of Miami-based director Brad Bernstein’s film, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story, features images of the titular figure’s home in Ireland, displayed in a dreamy, pastoral slideshow. Then the music goes quiet and Ungerer appears in his studio, his smile too knowing to be mischievous, too impish to intimidate. He [...]
Q&A: Avi Kulawy of Magrudergrind, Opening for Infest at Churchill’s Pub on Saturday, Talks Band and Upcoming Tours
The storied legacy of East Coast hardcore owes as much to its gritty, uncompromising sound as it does blood and broken bottles. And while NYC and Boston get the lions’ share of recognition, it’s well worth mentioning the trouble brewing further south as well. Maryland lies roughly halfway between Beantown and Gainesville, and much of [...]
Q&A: Rick Smith of Shitstorm, Opening for Infest at Churchill’s Pub Saturday
Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover, or a band by its title. Colorful, genre-specific monikers like Pig Destroyer, Electric Wizard, and Satanic Warmaster make it easy enough for even an outside observer to get an idea of what kind of aural beatdown lies ahead, and we can comfortably add Miami’s gnarliest vice peddlers, Shitstorm, [...]
Miami MC Soarse Spoken Returns To Music, Releases New Video For “Pu$$y & Art”
In the mid- to late-’00s, Miami rapper Soarse Spoken was a fixture in the small, but fervent underground hip-hop world. The Colombian-born artist specialized in thoughtful, sometimes bilingual wordplay that celebrated consciousness as much as it did beautiful women. But after a particularly creative spurt a few years back, Soarse seemingly dropped off the scene. [...]