Frank Houston

Charlie Klar crossed NE 10th Avenue with his weed whacker. He approached the six-foot wooden fence surrounding the overgrown lot on the corner of 139th Street, cranked up the trimmer, and went to work. A moment later, he turned it off. "I'm the gardener," he said as he walked back...

Call me a lowest-common-denominator kind of guy, but when I heard that Miami’s own street brawler Kimbo Slice had appeared last week on the new “CBS EliteXC Saturday Night Fights,” the first in a series of mixed martial arts cage matches, I thought our local bad-ass had really arrived. New...

A bizarre 25-year-old murder case may hold clues for prosecutors investigating the 2007 shooting of Latin music producer Fabio “Estefano” Salgado. Estefano was shot in the head and chest while sitting in the kitchen of his $5 million Venetian Islands home (“The Shooting of Estefano,” May 8). He survived, and...

Ivon David Rojas Windy City curator Dominic Molon’s “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967” swaggered into Miami last night to a raucous MoCA crowd. The show explores the nexus of visual avant-garde art and unruly rock, through album cover design, collage, photography, video, even vinyl...

Botero, Chihuly, and Lichtenstein With the sculptural works of Fernando Botero, Dale Chihuly, and especially Roy Lichtenstein at every turn throughout its 83 acres, there's widespread whimsy at Fairchild. Chihuly's glass pieces resemble plants and flowers boosted by alien DNA; Botero's languorously bulbous sculptures of people and horses seem pridefully...