Referring to a pre-Castro Cuba, the Smithsonian’s website states, “Havana was then what Las Vegas has become.” Frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, and Ernest Hemingway, Cuba was indeed a self-indulgent escape from everyday life. And for a mere $50 roundtrip ticket, regular Joes were also able…
Over the years, Miami has served as the backdrop for hundreds of Hollywood movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of the classics shot right in our own backyard. Anyone who’s seen the 1978 French comedy La Cage Aux Folles, or better yet, a live production, knows that Mike Nichol’s…
The closest thing Miami can boast to the Great Wall of China is the old RC Cola Plant at 550 NW 24 Street. Just as the Great Wall can be seen from space, Miami residents have been treated to epic graffiti murals that can be seen clearly from I-95 (or…
Originally a manufacturing plant for the RC Cola company, the abandoned building visible from I-95 has served as a concrete canvas for graffiti artists over the past two decades. The walls surrounding the plant have displayed some of Miami’s (and the world’s) most notorious graffiti artists, including Crook and Crome…
In the innocence of youth, we could be duped into believing that a pastelito is a pastelito, is a pastelito. But once our taste buds evolved past Little Debbie Snacks and 7-Eleven nachos, we could no longer be satisfied with mediocre gastronomic experiments.Then one day while strolling down the rows…
Us saguesera kids usually get left out of all the cool, hip cultural events going on in Miami due to our geographical disability (not living on the East Side). Lucky for us, with the Bird Road Arts District making a comeback and events like the Hell Yeah Open Mic, it…
How can you go wrong with a musical that promises to tell the story of all the “dreamers, scoundrels, bigots, saints, politicians, and millionaires” credited with the rise and demise of Miami Beach? Unlike novels such as Diary of a South Beach Party Girl or South Beach: The Novel, which…
When you think about Latin theater in Miami, productions tailored to your parents and abuelitos probably come to mind. Yoshvani Medina, the director of Artspoken, wants to change that. Medina has dared to fully invest himself in establishing a performing arts center in the middle of Little Havana, dedicated to…
Singers and dancers from Texas’s Danmar Academy of Performing Arts will stop in Miami this weekend to perform America Latina: A Mosaic of Cultural Expression, which could easily be subtitled Miami: The Musical. After all, we’re no strangers to the myriad cultures Mosaic represents: Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Brazil,…
Cage passing a kidney stone – we mean acting.Over the years, Miami has served as the backdrop for hundreds of Hollywood movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of the classics shot right in our own backyard. During pre-production on 8MM, director Joel Shumacher (the man who ruined the Batman movie…
ArtSpoken’s Yoshvani Medina.When you think about Latin theater in Miami, productions tailored to your parents and abuelitos probably come to mind. Yoshvani Medina, the director of Artspoken, wants to change that. Medina has dared to fully invest himself in establishing a performing arts center in the middle of Little Havana,…
Flickr CC CowbiteSpin the bottle? Or ghost story time?Remember the nights when you would sit around a campfire with your friends, holding a flashlight under your chin and tell ghost stories? You don’t? True, we don’t usually come across many marshmallow-roasting opportunities in Miami. Well, not to worry. The Naked…
Having read several positive reviews about the produce at La Guardia as well as tasting it first-hand at El Bajareque, the next logical step was to pay La Guardia a personal visit. Nothing could have prepared us for what we found.Shopping for produce at La Guardia is, to say the…
In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of the classics shot right in our own backyard. Oh, those Farrelly brothers! They do love to shoot in our fair city, don’t they? Five years after filming There’s Something About Mary, Bobby and Peter came back and brought Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon with…
Olive Garden commercials promise that when we visit one of their restaurants, we’ll be treated like family. Of course, we all know that isn’t necessarily true. There is at least one restaurant in Miami, however, that treats clients like family–El Bajareque in Wynwood. On any given day, you might meet…
Rat-a-tat-tat! Crash! Boom! No, it’s not a ten-car pileup on I-95. It’s the latest ear-candy extravaganza from the creators of Stomp, who have put together another show full of inventive uses for everyday stuff. This time, instead of using regular objects to make beats, they use regular objects to create…
Rat-a-tat-tat! Crash! Boom! No, it’s not a ten-car pileup on I-95. It’s the latest ear-candy extravaganza from the creators of Stomp, who have put together another show full of inventive uses for everyday stuff. This time, instead of using regular objects to make beats, they use regular objects to create…
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the ’20s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…
This past Sunday Miami natives were treated to a rare sight. Stationed in the parking lot of the Walgreen’s on 117th Avenue and Sunset Drive was the iconic Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in all its plumped up glory…
Last Saturday was International Read Comics in Public Day. Did you miss it? Do you even know where your local comic books store is? Such stores have gone the way of Blockbusters and dodo birds; they’re practically extinct. Tate’s Comics in Broward gets a lot of love, but what about…
Florida was America’s film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of…
The term cool can be confusing. To some, being cool means wearing day-glo leggings with yet another generic, nondescript tunic shirt from American Apparel, skipping the “before midnight” line at the Vagabond, and impressing younger siblings with sardonic wit. What the word cool really means, and has always meant, however,…
