Ever dreamed of a place where musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, and performance artists could congregate, cultivate fresh ideas, and share new ways of looking at the world? While getting drunk? Look no further. Welcome to Artopia, an eye-popping art event that would make Leonardo DaVinci, Sir Thomas More, Andy Warhol,…
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After all of those politically conscious goths, poetry café types, and other assorted folk who think regular cigarettes are too mainstream helped Barack Obama get elected, what does he do? He turns around and bans their beloved clove cigarettes! How long until he bans cigars too?The Miami Herald today chronicles…
The only things little goys really know about Jewish culture they learned from A Rugrats Chanukah and kindergarten multicultural holiday celebrations. Basically this amounts to knowing there are eight days of presents and candle lighting, latkes taste great, and the lyrics to the dreidel song. During those kindergarten multicultural holiday celebrations, the teacher…
For fellow writers, Jonathan Lethem needs no introduction. 1999’s Motherless Brooklyn, the story of a detective with Tourette’s syndrome, put Lethem on the map, but by that point, he’d already written four novels that breached the genre line between science fiction and literary fiction, a line that, thanks in large…
In Coral Gables, it’s wine and cheese. Along Calle Ocho, it’s mojitos and arroz con pollo. In SoBe, it’s vodka-Red-Bull and air. Deep in the farmlands of South Miami, apparently, they get down with Heineken and horse meat. On July 3, an anonymous tip alerted Miami-Dade cops to this bin…
Former Miami Herald scribe and current Sports Illustrated senior writer S.L. Price makes his living where sports and culture intersect. His 2000 book Pitching Around Fidel was an exploration of the crumbling Cuban sports machine, and the importance of play to a people deprived of basic freedoms. His newest non-fiction…
Leading up to Miami Book Fair International, Riptide 2.0 will be publishing profiles of visiting authors. Check back often as two to three will going up per day until Sunday, November 15.Dan Goldman is one of the few creators who carries a boatload of style, credibility, and innovation in the…
Seventeen syllables for five hundred dollars is a pretty good deal right?That’s what my friends over at Knight Arts are offering right now to the Miami-Dade resident who can write the best haiku on the subject of the recent public arts funding budget hearings. Just go to their website and…
The work of Friends With You has already redefined “absurdly cute,” and through collaborations with Kid Robot and Memobots the duo of Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III have gently expanded their burgeoning design empire into retail. Now, they’re set to open their own flagship boutique in the heart of…
A year ago, a 33-year-old financier named Javier bought a two-bedroom condo in a posh new building downtown for just under $200,000. From his white leather couch, his gigantic windows offer spectacular views of both the river and the bay. He walks to Heat games, takes the Metromover, and is…
Ruth Reichl comes to the Miami Book Fair International to plug a huge 1,000-plus recipe cookbook called Gourmet Today — on the heels of the announcement that there would be no more Gourmet magazine tomorrow. That’s sort of like Bernie Madoff going on a financial self-help book tour in the…
Leading up to Miami Book Fair International, Riptide 2.0 will be publishing profiles of visiting authors. Check back often as two to three will going up per day until Sunday, November 15.Marie Ponsot is the best poet you’ve never heard of.Her first book, True Minds, was published in 1957 by…
Not many records released this year will have as much good karma on their side as Lost & Found, the new album by Miami nonprofit Voices United.Voices United was founded in 1989 by then 17-year-old director Katie Christie. It brings together 150 local children a year together to write and…
The 2009 Miami Book Fair offers a strange brew of talent
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A Christmas Carol: A very CGI Christmas
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Devil’s Disciple Through November 21. O.H.W.O.W., 3100 NW Seventh Ave., Miami; 305-633-9345; oh-wow.com. Monday through Friday noon to 5 p.m. NeckFace, the graffiti ghoul who has earned international street cred as the budding Rembrandt of the repulsive and ribald, has brought his nightmarish vision to the Big Mango to wrack…
World leaders should see the Frost Art Museum’s latest exhibits
Few people can boast the success Joan Rivers has achieved during her half-century on the stage. Since reaching stardom on The Tonight Show in the ’60s, the raspy-voiced fossil has gone on to become a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer, and syndicated radio host…
