We veered east of North Miami Avenue in Wynwood this week to track down street art in the few block towards the railroad tracks. Although it’s not as wallpapered with paint as the blocks to the west, we stumbled upon a trifecta of awesome murals at Northeast First Avenue and…

The reason you have Monday off is that President Cleveland needed to appease striking workers after six laborers were unjustly killed by his federal goons. Over the past century or so, Labor Day has morphed into a long-overdue respite from overwork and day-job fatigue. In Miami, we like to honor…

On Sunday, the museum will screen Images of the World and the Inscription of War, a 1989 movie by European filmmaker Harun Farocki. The film, deemed an “austere cinema poem” by the New York Times, considers aufklärung — the German word for both enlightenment and aerial surveillance — during World…

The past 30 years can be easily divided into pre-9/11 and post-9/11, but the terror-filled turning point is now a dulled, muted memory from ten years ago. Granta, a quarterly British literary magazine, has turned its latest issue into an exploration of how the world has changed since the four…

Fashion’s Night Out officially kicks off New York’s Fashion Week. But in actuality, it was created to revive consumer habits in a sleepy economy. Profits must have been good, because now cities such as Miami are enjoying their own FNO with an annual evening of celebrity designer appearances, extended store…

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough never finished his biography of Pablo Picasso. Why? He said the artist turned out to be boring. And if the guy who invented Cubism and was BFFs with Gertrude Stein and Andre Breton can’t inspire a complete book, how many pages do you think your…

On the anniversary of their first kiss, David Becks gets an email from his dead wife. Eight years earlier, while vacationing at a secluded retreat, he was knocked unconscious while his wife was kidnapped and presumably murdered by a local serial killer. In actuality, his wife was… oh, never mind…

That great romantic Jon Bon Jovi once said, “The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I’m not about to lose that to her and her lawyers.” Which might be why Tenso in the rom-com flick A Boyfriend for My Wife (Un Novio Para Mi…

Remember when life was measured in 2MB floppy disks? That all feels so ridiculous now –using something ten times bigger than a flash drive to transfer a thousand times less information. But there’s also something sad about the life cycle of technology. And for London artist Nick Gentry, who was…

Just four years after Mad Men originally aired on AMC in 2007, the ’50/’60s fetishism has finally peaked. This fall’s new lineup includes Mid Century-based series like Pan Am and the Playboy Club, and chain store Banana Republic is even offering a new Mad Men line. But any mania about…

When L’Age d’Or screened in 1930, crazed audience members threw ink at the screen and destroyed artworks by Salvador Dalí and Man Ray in the lobby. The uprising could have had something to do with the scene of a girl performing fellatio on a religious statue’s toe. Or it could…

We’re not shy about our love for the Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual showcase of video art, the Optic Nerve Film Festival. Heck, New Times even voted it Best Film Festival in Miami this year. From Coral Morphologic’s glowing sea creatures to Christy Gast’s tap dancing on the rim of…

Remember when life was measured in 2MB floppy disks? That all feels so ridiculous now —using something ten times bigger than a flash drive to transfer a thousand times less information. But there’s also something sad about the life cycle of technology. And for London artist Nick Gentry, who was…

There’s plenty going on over at NW 25th Street in Wynwood. This sprawling mural involves a possible Che, a topless Frida Kahlo, gorillas, Donnie Darko-style bunny heads, and Tim Burton-esque ghouls…

There’s a new Bansky phone app, which provides an interactive map and profile of nearby Banksy street art. And while we don’t (officially) have any Banksy’s in Miami, if there was ever a town in need of a street art guide app, it’s the 305. Yes, there are occasional graffiti…