Portland, Oregon, rocker Jerry Joseph remembers the first song he wrote as a six-year-old. It was inspired by a graphic version of the Fab Four. “The Beatles had a Saturday morning cartoon show,” he recalls, “I remember watching, and I already had a guitar, and I wrote a song. That’s…
Thursday It’s rare to see a semblance of everyday Miami life in books or movies. Popular depictions cast the Magic City as a sea of drug cartels and corrupt businessmen. On Your Feet! hits closer to home as a tale of Cuban immigrants integrating into U.S. culture and as a…
Spend more than 30 seconds at an art school or modern-art museum and you’ll realize you’re way out of the realm of beauty or skill or anything remotely familiar to a novice art appreciator. The first time you hear “hegemonic cultural institutions,” your instinct might be to take cover,…
From a Hurricane Irma benefit at Filling Station Lofts to Foster the People at the Fillmore, here are the best events happening in Miami this week.
Hurricanes swirling the trees and seas into a frenzy, earthquakes shaking buildings into rubble, the government restricting the rights of Americans as the country becomes more dangerous for its own citizens — it’s not hard to imagine that perhaps this is the end of days. Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning,…
Due to Hurricane Irma, some of these events may be canceled or rescheduled. We will update this post as changes are announced. Friday Want to use Citi Bike free for a year? All you have to do is scarf down chicken wings, as many chicken wings as you can, more…
As Hurricane Irma approaches, many of these events may be canceled or rescheduled. We will update this post as cancellations are announced. Thursday Thanks to rappers like Kodak Black and Zoey Dollaz, Haitian-Americans are more prevalent than ever in popular American culture. But what about les beaux arts? The Museum…
Art fairs and gallery openings are the name of the game this week.
November 2016 wasn’t the best time to have a baby. My water broke two weeks after Donald Trump was elected president. The world suddenly felt unstable — and my political worries were compounded by the wails of an alert newborn for whom sleep was not on the agenda.
OK, folks: It’s last week of August. The worst month of the year is almost over. Soon we’ll be able to go outside without overheating, getting a third-degree sunburn, or drowning in sweat. Sure, the weather will still be hot — it always is in Miami — but at least it won’t be “I might die if I’m not indoors” hot. That’s something worth celebrating, perhaps with these wonderful free events, including concerts, minifestivals, listening parties, and even a bookstore opening.
At last, our long nightmare is finally almost over. No, I’m not talking about President Cheeto (although I wish I were) – I’m talking about summer…
The duo Dracula’s name doesn’t just reference a bloodthirsty Transylvanian vampire. It also represents the subtler Bram Stoker depiction of the lonely and lovesick Count. The only instruments they use are one nylon acoustic guitar and two distinctively gorgeous voices. Spanish and English songs are tightly woven into a tapestry of quiet intensity…
In any biz — especially in the movie biz — it’s all about who you know. Finding a place to schmooze with the bigwigs in an atmosphere that’s equal parts professional networking and tropical partying could make your career. So the founders of the Grand IndieWise Convention decided…
Thursday The Prism Creative Group has been busy pumping us full of Miami culture this summer. This week, it’s gifting us a performance by Venezuelan songstress Manu Manzo, sweets by Elsie’s Flour Shop, and food from Fufi Restaurant in the last installment of its Summer Crafts and Concerts series. Madewell…
Thursday A life of controversy and drama can seem like good press for a young artist. But Kodak Black’s trips in and out of jail on charges ranging from drug possession to sexual assault have hampered his stardom as opposed to helping it. Still, South Floridians can’t help but feel…
On the surface, it seems like a clever move: getting rich developers to cover the costs of public art. But scratch the veneer, opponents say, and a new phase of the City of Miami’s Art in Public Places plan is at best a mess of unnecessary red tape — and…
Forty-seven-year-old Mariah Carey is casually splayed out on her kitchen counter wearing only a boob-strangling negligé in a particularly entertaining scene from her new TV show, Mariah’s World. The E! reality series premiered last December and follows her antics during her Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour. In the scene, as in…
Thursday Even if you haven’t smoked lots of psychoactive drugs, you’ve probably spent more time than you’d like to admit staring at those screen savers that change shapes based on the music that’s playing. PAMM’s latest Free Community Night is taking this concept to a new level with Sacred Geometry,…
In 2014, the German-born, Miami-based artist Dara Friedman’s film about a local man, Ishmael Bermudez, earned a showing at Art Basel Miami Beach. The film followed Bermudez, a character who lives on a valuable plot of land in the Brickell area, where he believes archaeological remnants of an ancient native…
In the Martin Scorsese-produced Amazon documentary about the Grateful Dead, Long Strange Trip, biographer Dennis McNally calls the group “the most American of all bands.” He deduces that if you take all the individual members’ backgrounds and sounds “and you dissolve egos with acid and stir vigorously,” you get the Dead.
Malcolm X died more than 50 years ago, but his life and legacy become increasingly relevant as police brutality and white supremacy become more and more visible. In Seven Songs for Malcolm X, artist John Akomfrah examines the life of the famous activist and intellectual with surrealist reenactments and…
Thursday: We may know him as the hurricane expert who guided South Florida through one of the worst storms in its history, but Bryan Norcross has continued to have a prestigious career as a hurricane specialist, covering the devastating Hurricane Sandy and routinely scrutinizing government response to natural disasters. In…
