Key West was ours before we were Key West’s. And before us, it belonged to literary mythology. The stomping ground of Dos Passos, Hemingway, and Elizabeth Bishop was also the temporary home of that most American of rhyme-sayers; you know, that one who took one road instead of another and…

Wynwood’s art walk, held the second Saturday of every month, has no shortage of opening receptions for new exhibitions, but since most of them are for emerging artists, it’s nice now and then to see someone a little more established. In that vein, we recommend “Mostly Mutants,” a show of…

In Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself, a new exhibition premiering tonight in conjunction with the Wynwood Second Saturdays Art Walk, gallerist David Castillo reintroduces us to the work of several local artists — Rakel Bernie, Daniel Crews, Adler Guerrier, T. Eliot Mansa, Adria Marquez, and Aramis O’Reilly — through new…

April is National Poetry Month, but no need to go searching high and low for a way to get involved. Miami is home to one of the nation’s most respected poetesses, FIU creative writing professor Denise Duhamel, who will read tonight from her new collection, Ka-Ching! But if you’re expecting…

America is about inner circles, the ring of power inside the ring of power, and how we can get past those velvet ropes separating us from total awareness. For those of you wanting to be on the inside of the inside of fashion, GenArt has just the event. Derived from…

Politics meets arithmetic at the Monthly Networker for the Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Here’s the equation: cocktails and food by AGO + artist NOEL + Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower + Miami Beach City Commissioners + proceeds donated to the Miami Beach Gay Pride organization +…

Different ways exist to establish lineages of filmmakers, one of which—perhaps the most neglected—is the use of typeface. And while no director has yet to pick up Woody Allen’s obsession with Windsor, Stanley Kubrick’s fondness for Futura (in his case, extra bold) has already established an entire genus. His most…

Director and producer commentaries have become de rigueur in the DVD industry, but why hadn’t anyone thought of doing one live and in person? Leave it to the guys at Miami World Cinema Center, the Knight Foundation-backed nonprofit dedicated to promoting indie film in Miami, to bring in Hollywood producer…

What do you call it when two sides of seven Frenchmen try to throw a 60-centimeter-diameter ball into a two-by-three-meter goal for an hour? Answer: the four-team championship weekend of the Ligue National de Handball, AKA the Coupe de la Ligue Handball Championship, which for the first time ever is…

No, this musical performance does not take place in the back seat of a Gremlin X. Freddie Mercury is not a character, and no one spews into a paper cup at the end like in Wayne’s World. Actually, the title, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” refers only to the Czech roots of the…

All right, young men of privilege, it’s once again time to indulge the deranged unicorn galloping through your adrenal glands. Time to believe Chuck Palahniuk, Tyler Durden, and David Fincher as they tell you the following: Your rage and anger are justified, you somehow qualify as an oppressed segment of…

What if, at the dawn of 1985, Swedish guitar legend Yngwie Malmsteen had joined up with Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore for a side project titled “Enjoy the Violence”? The result might sound a lot like Brooklyn’s Ratatat. Just the third band in history to perform inside the Guggenheim Museum in…

For a land mass measuring only 9,600 square miles, Sicily has more than pulled its weight in global cultural inventiveness, having given birth to Archimedes, Pirandello, and most important, the world’s perfect dessert: the cannoli. The island also has a strong lineage in America, taking credit for directors Martin Scorsese…

Like Obama says, time to get that cash reflowing, people. And what better way to indulge in some liquidity than by going to Vizcaya Museum’s Evening Under the Stars Auction? Then at least your dollars are contributing to charity, and you’ll still bring home some quality ephemeral objects: jewelry by…

If you haven’t watched author Dave Eggers’s speech on TED.com, stop reading this and go watch it. Done? Good. Now you understand how important writing is to kids, and how awesome it is that local poet Denise Lanier was awarded one of Eggers’s Once upon a School challenge prizes. Lanier…

Ladies, quick question. Do you like shoes? (Two billion heads nod.) Do you like cocktails? (Two billion heads nod.) How’d you like to go to a cocktail reception inside a Saks Fifth Avenue shoe department? (Two billion heads explode from overexcitement.) Heart and Sole not only bridges the gap between…

Everyone has seen Hokusai’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, but the rich tradition of Japanese woodblock print has much more to offer. Collectors Shirley and Gilbert Luber spent one month every year for 30 years scouring Japan for the best examples of this exquisite art form. Now their efforts will…

You spend a lot of time drinking sherry, smoking a pipe, and ordering every foreign film ever reissued by the Criterion Collection — La Jetée, Jules & Jim, The Naked Kiss, Yojimbo — during which you dream up the strange adventure that will carry you away from Miami and into…

When Fascist soldiers intercepted Walter Benjamin as he attempted to sneak across the Pyrenees into Spain in 1940, they took away the briefcase containing his magnum opus, The Arcades Project, a sprawling, unfinished tome that attempts to describe the whole of Parisian social life during the 19th Century. After being…

What do model Anna Kournikova, the Bachelor’s Andy Baldwin, and Gold-medal Olympic skier Sarah Burke have in common, besides of course that all three will be half-naked and running on the beach together today with numbers drawn onto their legs and arms? Answer: nothing. But that shouldn’t stop you from…