Ever since Metrorail finally became linked to the airport last year, there has been less of a pressing need for Miamians to build our own flying machines. But old habits die hard — often by plummeting off a 30-foot tower into the water — so this Saturday the Red Bull…
When Alejandro Mendoza flies, his carry-on luggage includes the usual items: a toothbrush, spare eyeglasses, a 35-foot sculpture. As the creator of a nomadic public art exhibit called “Giants in the City,” the Cuban-born, Miami-based artist totes massive inflatable sculptures to urban spaces around the world. But when there isn’t…
Marlins fans already have March 31, 2014 in their calendars as the start of pre-season baseball. But the most masochistic of Marlins fans — a group that would buy Cracker Jacks at their own beheadings — have March 21 reserved with a blood-red X. That’s the date that Miami Marlins…
When Alejandro Mendoza flies, his carry-on luggage includes the usual items: a toothbrush, spare eyeglasses, a 35-foot sculpture. As the creator of a nomadic public art exhibit called “Giants in the City,” the Cuban-born, Miami-based artist totes massive inflatable sculptures to urban spaces around the world. But when there isn’t…
Sure, it’s one thing to show up when Chelsea or Spain is playing, but true soccer fans spend the day at the stadium when there’s no match. This makes it even more difficult to tell the difference between people who like watching soccer and people who like watching grass grow,…
Historians remember 1973 as an exciting time for fans of government overthrows (coup-noisseurs?), with leaders toppling in Afghanistan, Uruguay, Thailand, and Chile that year. This Friday, we’ll think about Chile by Dancing on Pinochet’s Grave at Sweat Records (5505 NE Second Ave., Miami). In ’73, the elected socialist president Salvador…
Historians remember 1973 as an exciting time for fans of government overthrows (coup-noisseurs, if you will), with leaders toppling in Afghanistan, Uruguay, Thailand and Chile that year. On Friday, those coup-noisseurs can think about Chile by “Dancing on Pinochet’s Grave” at Sweat Records. In 1973, the elected socialist president Salvador…
Altruistic peeping Toms finally have an event created just for them. The Miami Children’s Initiative, dedicated to improving the lives of kids in Liberty City, will host its second annual Over the Edge Miami event this Friday and Saturday on the side of the JW Marriot Marquis Miami (255 Biscayne…
Ever wish South Florida were more like Kentucky? Then you must not live in Broward. But for the rest of you who just like a little banjo on a Sunday afternoon, we have a less awkward option than letting Netflix base its recommendations for you on the fact that you’ve…
Edwidge Danticat’s cousin was buried alive under his own house. Like so many other Haitian-Americans, the Miami author lost family in the 2010 earthquake that by some estimates killed more than 300,000 people in and around Port-au-Prince. “At some point, his body was moved to the family mausoleum, but his…
Last night’s appearance by two-time National Book Award finalist and MacArthur Genius grant recipient (and Miami’s own) Edwidge Danticat continued more than three decades of Books & Books bringing the world’s most important and entertaining writers to Miami. It was also one of the first to streamed as part of…
Edwidge Danticat’s cousin was buried alive under his own house. Like so many other Haitian-Americans, the Miami author lost family in the 2010 earthquake that by some estimates killed more than 300,000 people in and around Port-au-Prince. “At some point, his body was moved to the family mausoleum, but his…
There are a lot of satellite art fairs in Miami during Art Basel Week, so many that you might even be one and not realize it. Are there people in weird glasses trying to talk their way into your colon’s VIP section? No? Safe for now, then. One of the…
Talking about the great films you’re going to make can get your pulse racing. So can chugging a whole pot of coffee. Doing them both at the same time is the cineaste’s equivalent of backhoeing Pop Rocks and Coke into your yapper. But if you dream in Cinemascope, then maybe…
Well, it has finally happened. The Miami Marlins are now just one step away from hosting tractor pulls in the outfield during the home at-bats and two steps from converting the upper deck into a poorly rated youth hostel. On Saturday, Marlins Park (501 Marlins Way, Miami) — the stadium…
Let’s say you’ve got a friend who’s not fully sold on the whole “Nazis were dicks” thing. Chances are that you’re not going to get him to go to the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU (301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach). Unless, that is, you convince him to attend the Florida premiere…
Well, it has finally happened. The Miami Marlins are now officially one step away from hosting tractor pulls in the outfield during the home at-bats and two steps from converting the upper deck into a poorly rated youth hostel. This Saturday, Marlins Park — the stadium that stares blankly across…
This year’s finalists in the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami’s Optic Nerve video festival include a documentary that seeks to answer why Super Mario eats mushrooms, salt and pepper shakers wandering through a kitchen in search of an egg to be sprinkled upon, a lyric video for a really…
Going to Brazil to see movies is inconvenient. First of all, it’s plenty far away. Second, it’s really hard to keep the theater seats hygienic in the tropics when everyone wears only a thong. Fortunately, a whole slew of Brazilian films are tanned, hairless, and on their way to you…
Going to Brazil to see movies is inconvenient. First of all, it’s far away. Second, it’s really hard to keep the theater seats hygienic in the tropics when everyone wears only a thong. Fortunately, a slew of Brazilian films are tanned, hairless, and on their way to you as a…
Consider the 61-year-old woman who was beaten until unrecognizable, raped, and strangled to death. Two televisions and a VCR were stolen from her home. Or how about the 26-year-old shoeshine girl stabbed more than 50 times and left to die in a church driveway, also after being raped? “It’s too…
There are other ways to express yourself on a Wednesday night besides sitting alone and finger-painting with tears on your ex’s photo. Do it in public! But where? Outside your ex’s window? No, do it at the first of three weekly Open Studio events at the Museum of Contemporary Art…
