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Just after midnight on the summer solstice, a white Jupiter powerboat drifted toward Fort Lauderdale beach. Employees at the beachfront bar Elbo Room spotted the gleam of...
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Think of Brazil. Old-time samba and bossa nova might come to mind. But it's also the country that spawned one of electronic music's most forward-thinking artists.
Since the...
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Master sushi chef Katsuya Uechi's first restaurant made a splash in Studio City, California, in 1997. Nine years later, when he teamed up with Parisian design powerhouse...
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After a nationally televised improv exercise that, for better or worse, offered more unvarnished reality than anything else at this year's political conventions, Clint...
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Picture this: You’re out enjoying yourself in the Design District, sipping some finely crafted cocktails, browsing through records on sale, and jamming to the sounds of...
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Carnival is traditionally a colorful bacchanal, designed to let party people go wild one last time before getting all pious (or at least trying to) during Lent. It’s not...
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Miami is a pretty bad place to be a homeless pet. Roughly 22,000 are killed every year at the local pound, and countless others are abandoned in the Everglades or elsewhere...
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In the veritable sea of Cubans that is South Florida, Dominican-American Junot Díaz stands out. Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz recently set...
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Are you the ultimate Miami Dolphins fan? Do you bleed aqua and orange? Do people still talk about your epic tailgate bash of 1998? Then Tailgate32 wants to talk to you.
John...
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If you’ve recently found yourself calling the hood of your car a “bonnet,” craving baked beans on toast for breakfast, or driving on the left side of the...
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When you think of motorbikes in Miami, you probably think of Memorial Day weekend — girls riding on the backs of seats, bent over, arms around boyfriends’ waists,...
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Stepping into the role of Billie Holiday is a bit like attempting to portray Jesus: Get it wrong, and you’re committing blasphemy; get it right, and you’re...
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Issues of race in America are rarely, well, black and white. So it falls to writers like Touré, author of Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness, to help unpack and...
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Scarlett O’Hara, Ashley Wilkes, and Rhett Butler. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo. Rihanna, Jay-Z, and Beyoncé.
Whether fictional or real, there is...
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The first time Israeli art historian Tami Katz-Freiman came to Miami, she was captivated by the city's unique relationship with nature: trapped between the beauty of the...
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Ask someone like Jon Entine, a science writer for Ethical Corporation, to describe the sort of person who claims hydraulic fracturing presents a pollution nightmare in...
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When M83 was announced as part of 2012's Ultra Music Festival, it wasn't unexpected. The band, led by Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez, was coming off a stellar year with the...
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The transformation might be complete: The crap-and-gore, genre-mincing Tasmanian devil of Asian pulp psychosis Takashi Miike we've come to know and, well, semilove since...
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Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera suffered a misfortune common among innovators: He was appreciated only after his time. Growing up on Proust and Melville, Piñera...
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Piled on a table in a quiet conference room at the central terminal of Miami International Airport is a dazzling collection of items that could be used to bludgeon and stab...
