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Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do This Weekend Under $10

​Hello, weekend. What a relief that you're finally here. This has been a miserable work week, and we're so looking forward to disconnecting for the next few days. But not to sound like a broken record, our funds are dwindling. The available balance in our checking account is less than the ATM mi ... More >>

DJ Le Spam Talks Spoken-Word Records, Broken Social Spam, and O, Miami

Andrew "Le Spam" Yeomanson, DJ and collector of obscure vinyl.​What's the most obscure spoken-word record you own? I'm not embarrassed to say that a copy of Walter Mercado's Walter '86: Aquario, the Puerto Rican astrology god's predictions for Aquarians in 1986, tops my list of weird vinyl. It di ... More >>

O, Miami poetry fest wants to deliver verse to Miami's masses

Andrew "Le Spam" Yeomanson, DJ and collector of obscure vinyl.​What's the most obscure spoken-word record you own? I'm not embarrassed to say that a copy of Walter Mercado's Walter '86: Aquario, the Puerto Rican astrology god's predictions for Aquarians in 1986, tops my list of weird vinyl. It di ... More >>

Wax Poetic About Your Favorite Miami Restaurant For O, Miami

Green Eggs and Ham - classic food poetry.If you've ever loved your dinner so much you could write a love poem about it, this contest is for you. O, Miami, the month-long project by The University of Wynwood to bring poetry to everyone in Miami through a series of events, is looking for poetry ... More >>

FriendsWithYou and Christy Gates

Green Eggs and Ham - classic food poetry.If you've ever loved your dinner so much you could write a love poem about it, this contest is for you. O, Miami, the month-long project by The University of Wynwood to bring poetry to everyone in Miami through a series of events, is looking for poetry ... More >>

Potent Verse

Green Eggs and Ham - classic food poetry.If you've ever loved your dinner so much you could write a love poem about it, this contest is for you. O, Miami, the month-long project by The University of Wynwood to bring poetry to everyone in Miami through a series of events, is looking for poetry ... More >>

Tell It on the Mountain

Green Eggs and Ham - classic food poetry.If you've ever loved your dinner so much you could write a love poem about it, this contest is for you. O, Miami, the month-long project by The University of Wynwood to bring poetry to everyone in Miami through a series of events, is looking for poetry ... More >>

It's All About the Poetry, Bro

Green Eggs and Ham - classic food poetry.If you've ever loved your dinner so much you could write a love poem about it, this contest is for you. O, Miami, the month-long project by The University of Wynwood to bring poetry to everyone in Miami through a series of events, is looking for poetry ... More >>

Concert Review: Sloppy Seconds, Nobunny at Churchill's and the Axe and the Oak at Sweat Records, June 5

Big, beautiful white guys​Sloppy Seconds, Nobunny, and the Spits at Churchill's Pub, MiamiThe Axe and the Oak at Sweat Records, Miami Saturday, June 5, 2010 Better Than: Sitting at home on a Saturday night with a $10 dollar jug of wine and having my ass handed back to me on a casual game of Scrab ... More >>

Around Town: ANR, MillionYoung, Dave Barry, Art Walk, and Yo' Mama

Chicken for dinner: Just a glimpse of the fare at this Sat's Art Walk. ​We don't know about all of you but we're exhausted from busting homophobic hypocrites and providing fodder for unfunnyman Jay Leno and funnyman Stephen Colbert. What have you accomplished this week? No matter. Everyone deserve ... More >>

Of Pythons and Poems

Chicken for dinner: Just a glimpse of the fare at this Sat's Art Walk. ​We don't know about all of you but we're exhausted from busting homophobic hypocrites and providing fodder for unfunnyman Jay Leno and funnyman Stephen Colbert. What have you accomplished this week? No matter. Everyone deserve ... More >>

Copy Great Poetry with P. Scott Cunningham and the University of Wynwood February 2

​Even though these days there's not much profit in the poetry game, the art of writing verse can still be dangerous and seductive. So don't give up hope, you can be like the classic poets, too. You can exude confidence and daring. You can totally copy them. The first step would be to sign up ... More >>

Copy Writers

​Even though these days there's not much profit in the poetry game, the art of writing verse can still be dangerous and seductive. So don't give up hope, you can be like the classic poets, too. You can exude confidence and daring. You can totally copy them. The first step would be to sign up ... More >>

We Do Haiku: Artists Wax Poetic About Lack of Arts Funding

Creative CommonsWhen life gives you a dearth of arts funding, make haikus! The Knight Foundation and the University of Wynwood recently cosponsored "Do You Haiku" -- a contest to find the best haikus written about the impact of Miami-Dade's lack of arts funding. They received a grand response; it tu ... More >>

Workshop Workshop Makes Zines Inside Design Miami

Jim Drain​Beginning December 1, Jim Drain of Bas Fisher Invitational, British artist Graham Hudson, and I are co-curating a project inside Design Miami (where my wife works) called The Brief Happy Life of Workshop Workshop. Here's the press release, which I wrote, so I guess it's a press release i ... More >>

Haiku Contest at KnightArts.org offers $500 First Prize

via Wikicommons​Seventeen syllables for five hundred dollars is a pretty good deal right?That's what my friends over at Knight Arts are offering right now to the Miami-Dade resident who can write the best haiku on the subject of the recent public arts funding budget hearings. Just go to their webs ... More >>

Ten Under $10 For the Weekend of October 23 - 25: WOW POW, Junior Boys, Alligator Alley RIP, and More

Junior Boys play the Vagabond on Saturday​Friday, October 23*Local live hip-hop-ish duo the Big Bounce -- made up of piano man Brendan O'Hara and beatboxer Komakozie -- play tonight at the mod Moonchine in Miami. It's a restaurant, so admission is technically free, but you'll have to buy dinner. L ... More >>

Your Second Saturday Guide, Now with 40 Percent More Art Gluttony

Start massaging your art belly because this weekend's buffet of openings is going to stretch your ocular capacity. (Mixed metaphor disaster...Campbell McGrath, I have failed you!) Tomorrow is the first Second Saturday of the fall season, as gallery owners and artists return from vacations, fellowsh ... More >>

Get Your Art Crawl On

Start massaging your art belly because this weekend's buffet of openings is going to stretch your ocular capacity. (Mixed metaphor disaster...Campbell McGrath, I have failed you!) Tomorrow is the first Second Saturday of the fall season, as gallery owners and artists return from vacations, fellowsh ... More >>

Higher Learning

Start massaging your art belly because this weekend's buffet of openings is going to stretch your ocular capacity. (Mixed metaphor disaster...Campbell McGrath, I have failed you!) Tomorrow is the first Second Saturday of the fall season, as gallery owners and artists return from vacations, fellowsh ... More >>

We Believe We Can Fly

Miami’s cultural Icaruses share tales of flying just below the sun.