Throw away the TV. Kids these days are into Saturday morning Internet, the post-millennial cartoon pipeline. They can access interactive content from around the world. There’s no need for cartoon networks; they program their own. And unless you’re a security expert, they’ve probably already figured out how to subvert any…
Wynwood is starting to feel like Sim City. If people keep showing up and building stuff, pretty soon we’re gonna need a bigger boat. At this weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk, we decided to check out some places off the beaten path. That road led us to Art By God,…
Ancient British costumes make a mockery of great men. Take George Frideric Handel for instance. In a 1733 portrait, he wears a lacy scarf, puffy shirt, and long white wig. Dude looks like an ugly and proud South Beach drag queen. Handel was born in Germany, but moved to the…
If the words prison sex, stinkfist, crawl away, or disgustipated make you smile, then you might be a predicate felon enjoying another stretch. How’d you get this paper in there, anyway? Or you could be a fan of Tool — that’s a band, and those are a few of their…
Saturday night in Wynwood felt like God peeled our cap back, palmed our brain, and dunked it in a vat of freezing acid. Not the kind that corrodes to the bone. The kind that makes you trip your face off. And by 11:38 p.m. our skull was so flooded with…
Basel this, art fair that. We’re glad they exist, but basically, we’re all about the streets. That’s what kept us in Wynwood Thursday through Saturday. We made movies, drank beer, and rode bikes like maniacs. While the art world was busy pretending they were Wall Street, we tried to document…
The streets are breathing aerosol. Wake up and smell the fumes. We went around the city this morning snapping pics of some of the more eye catching new work going up for Art Fair Week. There’s plenty of oven-fresh concepts, graffiti, and street promotion in Wynwood and Downtown. You won’t…
This current exhibit at the University of Miami’s Wynwood Project Space is Ricardo Zulueta’s “Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa 21st Century.” Basically, that means blown-up photos of people in their underwear. And these are the kind of people you don’t usually see in magazines and maybe don’t even want…
Addonis Parker: Earthly Addonis
This current exhibit at the University of Miami’s Wynwood Project Space is Ricardo Zulueta’s “Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa 21st Century.” Basically, that means blown-up photos of people in their underwear. And these are the kind of people you don’t usually see in magazines and maybe don’t even want…
Slip-N-Slide founder Ted Lucas says: “I remember when we had breakdancing. We used to go to the youth fair and go have a real breakdancing contest.” So he used to be a breakdancer? “I did a little something, man. I ain’t saying I was a professional.” Today, Ted wants to…
Most Miami-Dade County residents don’t live or work in the City of Miami. Matter of fact, more of the 305 is made up of suburbs, villages, gated communities, and strip mall wastelands than urban areas. Yet, creative people manage to live, work, and make their living all over Dade. The…
Los Aldeanos With Silvito el Libre Miami-Dade County Auditorium Sunday, November 14, 2010Better than: Living in Cuba.Across the street from the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, Vigila Mambisa protesters held up signs and screamed into a bullhorn against the “Salsa Sangre” being passed off as a concert. Who knew old people could…
We asked longtime pilot and Brothers to the Rescue founder José Basulto whether skill helped him avoid being shot down by Cuban MiGs. “Skill?” he asked. “What kind of skill can you put between yourself and a missile in an aircraft that only sees straight ahead?” We think he’s just…
Buck 15 is a halfway hidden, late night, upstairs drinking joint on South Beach covered in paint, stickers, tags, drawings, and whatever you left between the couch cushions, sicko. Every so often the management brings in artists to re-muralize the place and currently, Keen One and Pest are making their…
For November’s art walk, the streets of Wynwood unleashed a flood of visuals before the full climax of Art Basel. It felt good, it felt right, and our shoes are still sticky. Check out some of the stuff we saw, and tell us about whatever we missed, sometimes there’s just…
So, you haven’t heard from us in a while. Doesn’t mean rat turds aren’t ending up in your lunch break. Brush your teeth and read on to find out who’s been busted recently for health code violations at our local restaurants. The following inspections all occurred since October and were…
Los Aldeanos and Silvito el Libre at Miami-Dade County Auditorium November 14
Los Aldeanos is leading the new generation of rebel music in Cuba. Since 2003, this collective has operated from within the confines of a tyrannical dicatatorial regime and made conscious hip-hop records that call out Fidel and his henchmen. It’s music that reflects a starving, oppressed, but still deeply musical Cuba…
December is almost here. That means Art Basel is coming to town. Just like everyday life, though, the action isn’t happening in the halls of some lame convention center. It’s on the streets of Miami. This year, Wynwood Walls, the public mural park established by Tony Goldman to help him…
Blech! We used to think food recalls were a rare phenomenon. Turns out American factory culture may not have changed enough since Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle,” to stop bacterium-infected food products from hitting store shelves.The last year has seen plenty of cases of potentially blinding, stomach turning, vomit inducing,…
Opera can be brutal. In Turandot, set in ancient China, a cold-hearted bitch of a princess says that before she will marry, her suitor must correctly answer three riddles. Of the many who try, those who fail are beheaded. We won’t spoil the surprise, but later in the story, a…
