Sweatstock 2012 is your chance to meet Ambassador Iggy.
We were already pumped to be co-curating the music lineup at Sweatstock 2012. Now that Iggy Pop is the official ambassador of Record Store Day 2012, which happens to fall on his 65th birthday, and will be visiting Sweat Records to mosh with the rest of us, WE ARE ALL-CAPS PUMPED!
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It’s Friday the 13th and Borscht Corp, the team behind the Borscht Film Festival, is celebrating the demonic date by hosting a FREE midnight screening of the German horror film “The Burning Moon” at O Cinema. Directed by Olaf Ittenbach and banned in many countries after its 1997 release, “The Burning Moon” is infamous for the gruesome imagery of its two central stories, one featuring a blind date with a serial rapist/killer and the other stars a murderous holy man.
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After being shut down last month, the food truck roundup is back on for Saturday's Art Walk in Wynwood. -- photo by Robby Campbell
Love ‘em or lament ‘em, the food trucks are going to be back in full force at Art Walk Saturday night. The organizer of the food truck roundup, which sets up in a lot west of N.W. Second Avenue, between 22nd Street and 23rd Street, just sent out an email to all the trucks eligible for the event proclaiming, “WE HAVE A PERMIT AND THE EVENT IS OFFICIALLY ON! START TWEETING AND GET THE WORD OUT!”
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Last month’s Second Saturdays Art Walk in Wynwood and Design District was slow for two reasons: Scope New York stole a few gallerists’ attention and the food truck court got shut down amid controversy. Facing neither of those contingencies this time around — yes, love or lament ‘em, the food trucks are back — Art Walk this coming Saturday is jammed with more promising exhibitions than you will be able to attend in one night. Here’s a preview of each show to help you plot your footsteps.
Let’s Begin With A Line @ Dorsch Gallery
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Walmart answers 10 of your questions about its plan to open its first Miami location. -- illustration by Robby Campbell
On March 29, we gave you the opportunity to grill Walmart on its controversial plan to open its first location in the City of Miami, a two-story store in Midtown, and scores of you took the opportunity to be heard in the form of post comments, emails, tweets, and Facebook postings.
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Sketchy Miami, the sibling site of Beached Miami, is bringing together Miami/SoFla musicians and Miami artists to celebrate both communities. If you are familiar with Sketchy Miami, you know the goal of the project is to create a portrait of every person in Miami. For its part, the goal of Sketchy Bands is to create a portrait of the bands (or solo performers) that make our hometown musical, and all of ‘em are welcome to participate.
Since launching Sketchy Bands on Monday, 40+ bands have submitted photos and a handful of artists have submitted portraits, including one of Ketchy Shuby frontman Jason Joshua Hernandez-Rodriguez by Samantha Thrall (below) that we’ve lovingly dubbed the Ketchy Sketchy. To view the Sketchy Bands series in full and learn how you can submit your band’s photo for artful immortalization, visit sketchymiami.com/bands.
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An illustration of the Jacuzzi Boys playing a gig in London, by David Z. Greene.
Miami garage rockers Jacuzzi Boys are currently having the time of their young lives (presumably) on their 28-gig tour of Western Europe behind the trio’s latest LP, Glazin’. The tour’s first gig, at London’s Shacklewell Arms, drew a tepid review but a pretty cool drawing from The Stool Pigeon’s David Z. Greene, whose illustration of the atmosphere at the Boys’ performance lines up pretty darn closely with the frenzy of their Churchill’s sweatfests, from the frenzied crowd to singer Gabriel Alcala’s silly ad-libs (“Boys and giiiirls. Rats and squirreeeels … thank you so much.”). Judging by this peek into the band’s Europe stomping, it seems like they’re doing Miami proud. You can see Greene’s full drawing after the jump.
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The final digital single in the beko 100, “Water Shadows” is yet another transporting aural experience crafted by Sumsun, the stage name of West Palm Beach-based electronica artist Judson Rodgers. As mentioned in the Miami Music Guide, Sumsun will be performing live with Millionyoung (aka Mike Diaz) at the Vagabond on Friday, April 13 (full details). Until then, close your eyes and wade into “Water Shadows”.
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Someone do this in Miami.
It’s telling of The Way We Live Now that self-imposed ephemerality is a trend. Pop-ups of all stripes — restaurants, shops, even parks — comprise a fad that, paradoxically, I suppose, doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. The appeal of the pop-up, as I see and understand it, is that it gives whatever is popping-up an irresistible sheen of newness (“I’ve never seen that before!”) and infuses it with the perfume of imminent disappearance (“I may never see that again!”). What distinguishes the plurality of pop-ups from a Brand New Limited Time Offer from, say, McDonald’s is that they are often associated with words like gourmet, boutique, experiential.
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Got questions about Walmart's plan to open its first Miami location? The retail giant is at your service. -- illustration by Robby Campbell
Walmart’s plan to open its first City of Miami location, a two-story store in Midtown, has sparked contentious debate between people who see it as a threat to an emerging neighborhood and others who see it as a boon to residents who will benefit from easy access to inexpensive goods and new jobs. With so much at stake, Beached Miami, which has been leading the local media with its coverage of the Midtown Walmart debate, asked the retail giant if it would field questions from our readers. To its credit, Walmart agreed to be grilled.
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