There are few cities in the United States that are as perfectly suited for motorcycle riding as Miami. Riding season lasts all year in South Florida; when most bikes up north go into the garage as their owners mournfully accept the onset of another bitter winter, the Magic City is…
Miami can be an unforgiving city. Amidst the swaying palms and the sauntering sex bombs straddling the cracked sidewalks, there are some unpleasant individuals doing unpleasant things. Rapists and robbers, vandals and vagrants, assholes and arsonists. It was one of these fare that destroyed the Performing Arts Network (PAN), setting…
You might have heard of Robert Mapplethorpe, the artist whose exhibit “The Perfect Moment” was the focus of the film Dirty Pictures and which led to Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center standing trial for obscenity after hosting the exhibition. But have you heard of Mike Diana? Only a few years after…
South Beach, in the decades since its boom in the 1930s and ’40s, has grown into a full-blown cesspool of touristic masturbation and a parade ground for this city’s local breeds of yeyo. In spite of this, it has also remained one of the most beautiful and architecturally enchanting slivers…
Scrawled across train cars passing through the bowels of the city and massive signs punctuating the skyline along the highway, ATOMIK is a name that’s as notable to the eyes as to the ears — one of Miami’s native graffiti artists and a man whose living lore is as big…
Have you ever wished for a more artful Cinco de Mayo experience? Do you crave a touch of taste beyond the vicious bite of tequila and salted lime with which you’ve so eagerly been waiting to celebrate? Well, fear not. Yo Miami is stepping up to the challenge of helping…
If you were taking a casual stroll down Ocean Drive yesterday afternoon, you may have noticed something peculiar. Beyond the everyday array of half naked weirdos, sand-caked and sunburned tourists, and steadily inching traffic that usually molds the atmosphere of South Beach’s most popular strip, there was a less common…
There is finally a spark of hope that Marine Stadium will soon be resurrected as a unique venue for extraordinary entertainment.
Poetry is cool shit. It’s closely connected to images of a sensitive manly man or a powerful lady heroine, and everybody wants to feel like a hero at some point in the day. And it’s at that time of day that O, Miami’s ongoing Pin Up Pop Up Poetry event…
Poetry and parade are not a pair of terms you often find nestled close together in the same sentence. So how do the organizers of the O, Miami Poetry Festival intend to pull off the thrilling conclusion to their month long, city-wide cultural festival with such a seemingly ill-fitted coupling?…
This year, New Times received an press pass to the Blacks’ Annual Gala, one of the ritziest events in the Miami Beach social calendar. Now, why New Times would receive such an invitation remains a bit of a mystery. It’s not exactly known as a paper that pays loving homage…
The Dorsch art gallery was the first art exhibition space, among droves that would follow suit, to open in Wynwood. Since its 1991 launch, it has been an influential establishment in the burgeoning art district, and this past Friday, it reopened its doors as Emerson Dorsch, with a pair of…
Bill Burr is a name that might sound familiar to you. Perhaps you’ve seen one of his three comedy specials: Why Do I Do This?, Let It Go, and You People Are All The Same. Maybe you know him from his appearances on Chapelle Show, his role in Date Night,…
We’ve got a pretty interesting mixed bag of characters in this town. You name it, you can find it down here, from Cuban Canadians to Mexican Ukrainians and every amalgamation in between. So it would make sense that Mark Okun, author of A Short Jew in the Body of a…
Miami Beach is beautiful. With its long, sandy shoreline, lovely climate, and amazing confluence of world cultures, the Beach has gone from a sleepy seaside resort to a world-class city. And in the short history of that process, it has also become one of the most distinctive and fascinating architectural…
However you may feel about the monthly fair/fiasco that is Wynwood’s Second Saturday, there is no denying the event’s immense popularity. So it’s hardly surprising that art-fair impresarios David and Lee Ann Lester decided to expand the tried and tested monthly art-walk concept to another week and another setting throughout Miami’s streets:…
Let’s be honest: Miami isn’t exactly known for its particularly good drivers. You could drop somebody in the middle of a school of 400 famished hammerheads in the Galapagos, naked and marinated in warm fish blood, and they might actually be safer than most drivers on the Palmetto.So it takes…
Miami is a flourishing, young city, barely a century old and fluid in its rhythms, its culture, and its image. That image has evolved year by year with the rising and falling of skyscrapers all across the county, as we continue to find ourselves wandering about fascinating new pieces of…
Miami is not a city that lends itself to summary. This town is too vast in its varying shades of weird beauty and visceral energy, its myriad colors and countries splashed about the streets. From Doral to downtown, from Hialeah to Homestead, from Miami Gardens to Miami Beach, there is…
Billy Corben has proven he knows Miami well. As the director of Cocaine Cowboys and the ESPN 30 for 30 special The U, Corben has forevermore associated himself with two things all Miamians know and love: University of Miami football and blow.But now, a former UM fullback is hoping to associate…
See that guy over there at the right? This is Skip. Skip is a troubled little man. He likes to yell a lot and he talks a great deal of nonsense, mostly while trying to resist the apparent temptation to take a sizable bite out of Stephen A. Smith’s neck…
Once again, with the last semi-chilly gasps of another weird year in this Magic City, we’ve arrived at that peak of cultural extravaganzas, Art Basel. It’s the annual onslaught of the art world’s best and brightest, what The Telegraph called “the Olympic Games of modern artistic commerce. But while we’re…
