Few stores have played as big a role in the history of Miami as the Macy’s in downtown, which the company announced would close permanently in the near future. Before it was a Macy’s, though, the building bore the name Burdines, and it was the flagship for Florida’s first family of retail.
Musicians leave Miami and go to cities like New York and Los Angeles all the time. Why is that? What makes them leave? What might make them stay? New Times speaks to four musicians to try to find out.
The second annual Wynwood Life Festival is gearing up to get underway this month from the 24th to the 26th and this year’s celebration of art, food, and fashion is expected to be an even bigger event than its inaugural predecessor. This time around, the stages will showcase the likes…
People from around these parts often describe themselves as having a love/hate relationship with Miami. It is, after all, not a city without fault. But for the most part, the faults we spend most of our time complaining about are not with the city, but with the people who either…
How you hanging in there Miami? I know, I know – you don’t want to talk about it. But we need to talk about this. He’s gone. He left and I know it hurts, but it is what it is. These things happen, people change and they move on and…
For almost 15 years, the Byron Carlyle Theater has been a neon haltered shell of its former self. Before the projectors went dark in 2001, the 71st street cinema had been a North Beach fixture for decades, standing as the local theater du jour for many, since it opened with…
Wynwood is constantly teeming with photo shoots and roving videographers setting their works in the color-drenched backdrop of once-bedraggled warehouses turned blossoming outdoor art museum. People make music videos, build modeling portfolios, and create surreal melodramas there. And some have taken to making documentaries about this burgeoning nerve center of…
Do you like smoking weed? I do. At the moment, though, as you may know if you’ve ever been pulled over and swallowed a roach or hidden a sack in your sock, marijuana is a Schedule I drug, meaning the DEA lists it in the top tier of dangerous drugs…
It’s 9 o’clock and I’m in a rutty lot full of raw materials and odd edifices on the south border of Wynwood. It’s begun to rain, but I’m sitting comfortably on a dry church pew inside a gutted school bus, waiting to talk to the guys who have made this…
Among the few buildings in Miami’s sprawling cityscape that have grown long in the tooth and rich in history, the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami (600 Biscayne Blvd.) stands out. Architecturally, it is a majestic Spanish-style masterpiece that is distinctive in the mass of glass and steel surrounding it, harking…
From Critical Mass to Art Walk to Downtown Art Days, Miami’s monthly calendar is peppered with weekly and monthly events that inject a few more hours of color and character into this already colorful city’s communities. And every third Friday, the injection is plunged powerfully into one of this town’s…
The concept of “Creole” is far more complex than most people who only had a passing interest in their 8th grade history courses might recognize. To most Miamians, it’s a language spoken in Haiti and among the burgeoning Haitian population of the city. That’s far too much of a simplification,…
San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge. St. Louis has the Arch. Las Vegas has its retro welcome sign. It seems like every city has an iconic structure to represent itself to the rest of the world. Every city but Miami, that is. The Magic City is full of architectural…
San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge. St. Louis has the Arch. Las Vegas has its retro welcome sign. It seems like every city has an iconic structure to represent itself to the rest of the world. Every city but Miami, that is. The Magic City is full of architectural…
San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge. St. Louis has the Arch. Las Vegas has its retro welcome sign. It seems like every city has an iconic structure to represent itself to the rest of the world. Every city but Miami, that is. The Magic City is full of architectural…
San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge. St. Louis has the Arch. Las Vegas has its retro welcome sign. It seems like every city has an iconic structure to represent itself to the rest of the world. Every city but Miami, that is. The Magic City is full of architectural…
Dear LeBron, When I first read the news that you’d be opting out of your Miami Heat contract, I have to admit, I was more than a little upset. I imagine many Miamians had the same reaction, from the guy down the block with a picture of your face and…
Hattie Mae Williams is a Miami-bred badass. After graduating from New World in Miami and then getting a degree with honors from Fordham/Alvin Ailey in New York — one of the single most respected contemporary dance programs in the country — Williams established her own modern dance corps, the Tattooed…
The painted walls of Miami Marine Stadium are so familiar to most Miamians that they’re nearly ubiquitous. Even though the layers upon layers upon layers of graffiti never seem to lose their charm, they’ve come to represent the normal aesthetic atmosphere of the stadium, to the point where all types…
In Miami, “transportation” means cars — yours, a friend’s, your parents’, whomever’s. We have no functional public transit system to speak of, and getting into a cab basically means paying an eccentric stranger a ridiculous amount of money to drive you three miles and nearly kill you 14 or 15…
It may be the case for many that Wynwood on the weekends has become somewhat blasé. Between art walk here and there, and the regular routine of a few hours here and there at Wood Tavern or Gramps, it’s easy to understand how the place that was the most exciting…
Street festivals are oftentimes more than outdoor parties. They can be amazing exhibitions of local artists, smorgasbords of a wide array of delicious eats and drinks, and, most important, great unifiers of the community. A good street fest can bring citizens together in celebration of the things that make their…
