Chris Brogan, considered a social media rock star by many, will visit Southwest Florida to speak at a Twestival event in Sanibel this Saturday at 10 a.m. Twestivals are Twitter-based grassroots fundraising events that take place all over the world on assigned dates. A social media veteran for more than ten…
You know social media is working when realtors look to geeks. BarCamp has become a meet-up model for the sales set. The first one took place four years ago in Palo Alto, California. It was named for the computer programming term foobar (not to be confused with FUBAR). These geeks gathered for a…
The South Florida Twitter community is as varied here as types of palm trees. They might all look the same, but they’re not. Twitter, the social networking and conversation tool that has changed the way people communicate all over the world, is particularly buzzing here in the tri-county area with…
Geeks don’t hide behind their Twitter accounts. And they do often come out from behind their computer screens. In the last three years the tech and social media communities have grown fast. There are all kinds of get-togethers for brainstorming, networking and yes — just plain socializing. Two of these meetups take…
Editor’s Note: Maria de Los Angeles will be writing about social media for Riptide. The title of her scribbling, Silicon Beach, refers to….well you know, you geek! There’s a different kind of silicon in Miami and no, it’s not inside boob implants. This gooey stuff is virtual and social. It’s…
Frustrated with the rut you’re in? Mad at your boss? PO’ed at the driver who cut you off on I-95? Chillax, dudes. Friday night you can beat the crap out of whatever ails you by jamming to the beat of a different drummer: Jeffrey Deen, drum-circle facilitator, professional drummer, and…
Tasty nibbles instead of high-stakes bluffs will be served at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for the 15th annual Celebrity Chefs Food Tasting and Auction at 7 p.m. A stellar roundup of local chefs will put their cards on the table for a good cause — the event…
Typically only bipeds are allowed to stroll the beautiful grounds of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, but this year the historic gates will open for the first Dog Day at Fairchild. Because what pooch doesn’t love frolicking in big, open green spaces? The 83 acres of lush landscape feature a rain…
The playwright who scribed “For all of life is a dream/And dreams are nothing but dreams” could never have imagined just how much that simple verse would inspire other artists across the centuries. This summer, the words of 17th-century playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca come alive in the International…
Still working out with two feet on the treadmill? Tsk, tsk. That’s so yesterday! Not everything that goes up must come down. Crunch’s new AntiGravity Yoga class will prove that when you get tight and hang loose using a fabric hammock hung from the ceiling. Call it yoga of the…
New Orleans has Mardi Gras, and Rio has Carnaval, but who the heck else has the King Mango Strut? Coconut Grove has been doing Miami’s wackiest parade for 26 years. The event was originally a poop-flinging reaction to the highbrow Orange Bowl Parade. Now the Orange is kaput and the…
You don’t have to be a student playing hooky to enjoy the University of Miami’s Bill Cosford cinema. Named for the dearly departed former professor and film critic, the Cos lives up to its moniker as Miami’s grooviest art house, where big-screen fanfare and cushioned seats put some glamour back…
If you’re tired of singing in the shower and have a hankering to bring out your inner child, why not head on over to the Miami Children’s Chorus’s first All Together Now community sing-a-long? Ya know, we don’t really do the whole Christmas-carols-by-the-fireplace thing here, so this is a great…
On the opposite side of the spectrum from Miami’s glitzy reputation for fast cars, bootylicious women, and hard partying is the long history of Jewish Cuban families that have shaped South Florida’s multicultural environment. Photojournalist Randi Sidman-Moore knows smoked salmon isn’t a typical Cuban breakfast, but has raised a glass…
Ladies who love ladies will party hardest, but everyone is welcome to a sultry night of drinks, dance, and music with sexy, sexy burlesque group the Knockouts. The event is a celebration of four years of some of the best party- and panty-throwing in SoBe, courtesy of Siren, the longest…
o maybe you’re as flexible as a concrete beam in one of those condo megaliths that are sprouting like mushrooms around the city. Then stop sitting around and head to Yoga by the Sea at The Barnacle. At this all-levels class, you can enjoy a relaxing yoga practice on the…
Shake it, sisters! This week’s edition of Siren, a weekly Saturday-night party for women who love women, should be a feast for your hips as well as your eyes and ears. Produced by Lynn Bové of Icandee, the rhythmic romp features a tribute to the Fania All-Stars, one of the…
We love that old Florida Cracker saying “I’m up to my ass in alligators.” Miami has many canals and waterways where the saying could be scarily true. Not to worry — you’ll have the pleasure of mingling with gentler critters on the Matheson Hammock wading tour, during which you’ll learn…
Did you know you don’t have to go to Publix to buy fruit? Oh yes! Our neighbors to the south in Monroe County know this, and they aren’t shy about boasting their knowledge of the “forbidden” or otherwise perfectly delectable fruit you can grow right at home. Come get your…
Tom Tancredo might think Miami is a Third-World country, but Arts at St. John’s isn’t afraid to celebrate and belt out what’s great about South Florida. This weekend the organization will serve up another performance supporting its mission to embrace diversity among not only people but also art forms. Around…
In a bit of top-shelf irony, the Diabetes Research Institute invites you to booze it up, but heck, it’s for a great cause. The sixteenth annual Feast Among the Grapes, held in cooperation with Wine Spectator magazine, claims to be the “hippest happy hour in town,” and there’s no doubt…
DeBilzan at the Garden promises to be as surreal as an opening scene from CSI Miami, complete with music, full-body hand-painted models, a performance by Cirque du Soleil’s Sasha, top bar magician Frank Everhart, and uniformed flight attendants from Exotic Flights serving mojitos with dry ice cubes. We’re sure Horatio…
