Día de los Muertos, or Mexican Halloween, shares very little with its Anglo counterpart. A celebration of ancestry, Day of the Dead, which takes place every November 1, is more about remembrance of loved ones past and respecting familial origins than demanding candy and/or acting out bratty senses of entitlement…
Traveling to exotic lands has always grasped the imaginations of those with an adventurous spirit. Looking to break from the routine of their daily grind in South Florida, friends and photographers Jacob Bacallao and Nicolas Stipcianos decided to cast their luck into the wind and travel to Southeast Asia this…
Amanda Sanfilippo is one of the younger curatorial voices working in Miami today. Trained in the Northeast and London’s Sotheby’s Institute of Art, she’s had experience working in both places and has been rising through the Miami art ranks through Legal Art and now with Locust Projects. Sanfilippo’s attitude towards…
“Never thought not fitting in any circle throughout school and post-college, my singularity as an adult has paid off, success, art, and I have my soul.” — Edward Crowell II It is hard to imagine that a young man from Pike Road, Alabama, would come to embody a version of…
The news of some folks’ death has a way of sounding initially like a bad joke — something so seemingly impossible, it just couldn’t be true. One such unbelievable occurrence was the passing of local musician, music lover and Churchill’s Pub fixture Orlando Sanchez. When news of his death spread…
The idea behind RAW is a good one. It is a community of artists in their first ten years of their careers working toward the greater goal of generating exposure and awareness for themselves. This is an umbrella association for musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, hair and makeup artists, and performers…
The independent arts organization, RAW: Natural Born Artists, prides itself on being for artists by artists. With the art season ready to start, they’ve stepped up their international presence with numerous shows occurring in tandem this week across the globe. All the major art hubs in their domain — the…
Gender identity and feminist theory — “I would like to say that the content in this show references these issues in a subtle way. What I am more interested in, is the dialog that happens afterwards or before,” says curator and INKUB8 artist resident Liz Ferrer about Spectual Sextrum: Audio/Visual…
In 2011, James “Woody” Beckham suffered a spinal cord injury while making a tackle during a rugby match between his Florida Atlantic University’s Men’s Rugby Club and the University of Miami’s RFC. Woody has come a long way through surgery and rehabilitation and continues to pursue academic interests while working…
The Fordistas initiative has been active in South Florida since 2010. In an effort to create a network of creativity and innovation through “fostering unique and honest expression, while promoting burgeoning, undiscovered talent” has seen them bring a number of interesting and diverse artists to work in Miami-Dade County. Powered…
Blowfly has seemingly saved his home with IndieGoGo and some numb-nutz named Zack Brown conned 50 grand for “potato salad.” Crowd-sourcing can be a powerful tool. From filmmakers to musicians, the possibilities are endless — even more so when a pair of local artists utilize the basic concept of it…
French novelist Paul Bourget called his poem Beau Soir, “beautiful evening” as a way to nudge the senses and romanticize the passage of time through the metaphor of the dying of the day. The Beau Soir Series might not be heavy on the implications of ageism or concerned too much…
Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes, currently based in Berlin, is no stranger to lofty goals. As a site-specific artist who relishes research in the creative process, it would be hard to imagine the comparisons between her sculptural installation at PAMM with past works of a similar nature in Europe and South…
Dim Past is making plenty of counter-post-retro-anti-Albion-ecclesiastic ruckus when it comes to music in South Florida. To quote Sweat Records momentarily so you don’t think we’re putting you on: “A key player in South Florida’s presently festering Negative Rave clique, Dim Past emerges from the self-immolated ruins of extreme and…
“Phone Dad was born of a desire to expand the standard art conversation a bit and expand it to [hopefully] do two things: make it more participatory, and draw in insights that [are] a bit outside of the fairly well-worn talking points that art talks often fall into.” Cara Despain’s…
Who shreds best? We here at Crossfade have witnessed oh so many of Miami’s punk guitarists. But this particular list focuses on those ax-wielding individuals who’ve moved us the most with their fret-working powers. Soon, we’ll post another list in honor of the best lead/rhythm combos that the 305 has…
Joshua Mehigan is an American poet. If he had achieved success in anything other than poetry, “Mehigan” would be a household name. But poetry unfortunately does not occupy the vox populi status of, say, organized sports, so you probably don’t know that Mehigan is not one of those pesky and…
Closing in on 60 years old has done nothing to slow Keith Morris. Having founded Black Flag with Greg Ginn in 1976 and then the Circle Jerks when that relationship soured, Morris was behind two seminal outfits that will be synonymous with hardcore punk forever. And now four years into…
We’ve been having some fun lately with these “Best of All Time” lists. But today, we will refrain from saying these jazz musicians were/are the best of all time. No, they are jazz musicians of note who made Miami their home. A best-of-all-time list would be way too long, and…
San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge. St. Louis has the Arch. Las Vegas has its retro welcome sign. It seems like every city has an iconic structure to represent itself to the rest of the world. Every city but Miami, that is. The Magic City is full of architectural…
Since opening its doors in 1998, Locust Projects has enjoyed a sustainability and growth that might’ve not been within the parameters of reality first envisioned by artist founders COOPER, Elizabeth Withstandley, and Westen Charles. Given the Detroit-level government abandonment of the Wynwood neighborhood at the time, it’s a hard sale…
Closing in on 60 years old has done nothing to slow Keith Morris down. Having founded Black Flag with Greg Ginn in 1976 and then the Circle Jerks when that relationship soured, Morris was behind two seminal outfits that will be synonymous with hardcore punk forever. And now four years…
