Start massaging your art belly because this weekend’s buffet of openings is going to stretch your ocular capacity. (Mixed metaphor disaster…Campbell McGrath, I have failed you!) Tomorrow is the first Second Saturday of the fall season, as gallery owners and artists return from vacations, fellowships, etc., and the schedule is…
This coming Second Saturday’s ridiculous abundance of openings (which the Culture Blog will preview tomorrow morning) is a testament to just how diverse and far-reaching Miami’s art community has become. It also highlights how impossible it is now to see everything that’s happening–even if you limit yourself to just Wynwood–in one…
In 1999, every kid with a Jansport had a freestyle demo tape tucked into the front zipper pocket, a notepad, and a motto derived directly from Company Flow: “Independent as fuck and lovin’ it!” Most of those kids are now junior associates at firms specializing in contract law — consider…
Up in Boca Raton, salsa is just the chunky red stuff on your coffee table during football games, so if you said to a Ratonian: “Gilberto Santa Rosa is the gentleman of salsa,” she’d probably assume you meant Rosa is the Juan Valdez of party snacks. But down here in…
Labor Day weekend is over, and if you’re like us, you spent the past couple of days on the back of a boat with a handle of Nicaraguan rum, a bag of powdered doughnuts, and a pair of high-powered binoculars. In other words, Tuesday morning felt like a death sentence…
Is there anything more romantic than old Miami Beach — the hotels, mobsters, celebrities, and of course the swimsuits that covered more skin than modern-day wedding dresses? No question, the Beach is still charming, but imagine if the city had enforced a strict height limit on buildings, retaining that sense…
Before Donald Trump’s empty condo buildings completely block out the sun in Sunny Isles, run to Samson Oceanfront Park. The beautiful, 2.1-acre facility is one of the last open spaces along the North Miami-Dade oceanfront, and this Wednesday, it will host a Sunny Serenade Concert. From 7:30 to 9 p.m.,…
Miami native Crissa-Jean Chappell teaches creative writing and cinema studies at Miami International University of Art and Design. Her first YA (‘Young Adult”) novel, Total Constant Order, was published by Harper Collins in 2007 to universal acclaim, garnering a Florida Book Award medal, A VOYA “Perfect Ten”, and inclusion on…
This profile is part of the Culture Blog’s series on young Miami artists. For more, stay tuned to Riptide 2.0. Lily Erlinger was born in Munich, Germany, but moved to Miami when she was 6, attending the Cushman School, Ransom Everglades, and, briefly, the Design and Architecture Senior High School…
Last year’s Hugs and Spoons Show didn’t draw quite the crowd organizers expected, so this year the Fair Expo Center decided to change course and host Victor Bean’s Southern Classic Gun and Knife Show. The doors to the Fuchs Pavilion will open at 10 a.m. this Sunday, and inside will…
Even if you’ve never wanted to own a motorcycle, admit it, you’ve at least wanted to be in a bike gang. Not a gun-toting, Gimme Shelter gang maybe, but an open road, Easy Rider bunch? With American flag helmets, leather jackets, and a mean pair of cowboy boots? Definitely. Well,…
“Jeho-vah is why we are in Vietnam,” Ishmael Reed wrote in his 1969 Neo-Hoodoo Manifesto, an anti-religion, pro-religious tract that serves as the touchstone for the exhibition “NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith,” showing at the Miami Art Museum. Reed’s essay-poem claims “every artist is a priest” in neo-hoodoo, a…
It didn’t cost $2 billion, just a simple request to the North Miami municipal government for a special designation, but Stickball Boulevard is a world-class facility. Every Sunday, a group of dedicated players puts out the orange cones, and spectators of all ages bring beach chairs to watch one of…
Ah, autumn in South Florida! The weather somehow gets even hotter; the Marlins are through teasing us with a 2003 redux; and it’s time for a sport this county actually excels in: road rage. But football is back, too, and the legions of Miami Hurricane fans (slightly diminished since so…
If you’re a famous work of art, say Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas, you can run from the Travel Channel’s Lee Sandstead, but you can’t hide. Host of the show Art Attack, Sandstead shows great art no mercy, hunting it down with ruthless precision and peppering it in a hail of…
According to UFC President Dana White, there are only four or five fight teams in the nation capable of producing a champion, and South Florida’s American Top Team is perhaps the best of them. Boasting a roster of mixed martial arts fighters that includes world featherweight champ Mike Brown, Thiago…
J.J. Colagrande is an adjunct professor at Miami Dade College. His first novel, Headz, was just released by Buffalo, New York-based publishing house BlazeVox Books, and this Tuesday, Colagrande will give his first official reading in Miami at — where else? — Books & Books in the Gables (265 Aragon Ave.) at…
Former Miami New Times staffer, Palmetto High grad, and current New Yorker editor Ben Greenman will read from his new book, Please Step Back, this Saturday at 5 p.m at Books & Books Coral Gables (265 Aragon Ave.).If you missed our review of the book — a retrospective of the ’60s and ’70s…
That tired old adage “Those who can’t do, teach” has never been true in the art world. If you can get accepted to a topnotch MFA program, you can study with John Baldessari (UCLA), Michael Asher (CalArts), Peter Halley (Yale), or a myriad of other well-accomplished men and women, some…
Florida’s peninsular shape has often looked like a hand extended in friendship to refugees seeking political asylum in the United States. Now, Miami Beach will honor the courageous people who traveled dangerous waters in search of freedom, by constructing the Miami Beach Pier Museum, a so-called horizontal monument to America’s…
You damn kids and your Pitbull music, your Culture Room, and your Vagabond. Where’s the Friday-night music event that will soothe us and booze us without raping our earholes with 150-decibel 808? Does no tonic exist for Miami’s relentless assault of crunkism? And if that tonic does exist, can we…
Tired of mutha f**king indie rock? Mutha f**king hip-hop? Mutha f**king Jimmy Buffett? Indra Lounge says it’s time for some Mutha F**king House Music. Beginning this Saturday night at 11 and every Saturday thereafter, DJ Doc Brown will spin progressive, techno, electro, and yes, house music all the way till…
