Local Jeweler Kathe Cuervo Opens First Store, in Upper Buena Vista

Artisan Kathe Cuervo carries a large brown box in one arm and holds her 6-year-old son’s hand with the other. She excitedly unlocks the door to her store and carefully places the heavy box on an empty countertop. The Colombian jewelry maker is gearing up to open her first brick-and-mortar location — inside Upper Buena Vista — and it’s a moment she’s been anticipating for some time.

The 15 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Despite the occasional cold front that drops temperatures into the frigid 50s and 60s, Miami doesn’t get much of the strange season northerners refer to as winter, where the rain freezes and covers the ground (how bizarre!). If you’d like to get a taste of this weird…

Eyes on Miami: Gucci Mane, Gloria Estefan, Rick Ross, and Others

It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…

Miami Sports Story Lines to Follow in the 2020s

With all of the reflecting and reminiscing for the 2010s over and done with, now’s as good an opportunity as any to look ahead to the next 10 years, specifically, the upcoming decade in Miami sports. While it’s impossible to predict whether or not the Miami Heat’s Bam Adebayo will…

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Awakens With a New Live Score

South Florida visual and sound artist Richard Vergez is set to perform an original soundtrack for the influential 1920 German horror film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” during a special screening this Saturday, January 11. The special screening is celebrating the movie’s 100th anniversary.

The 15 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday, January 9 Forget eight nights of presents: Try two weeks of cinema. Taking place at theaters, synagogues, and community centers across greater town, the Miami Jewish Film Festival will show dozens of new films and documentaries on the Jewish experience alongside classics such as Casablanca, Amadeus, and The Cabinet…

Five Reasons Miami Rocks in January

January doesn’t get enough credit in the Magic City. The month between New Year’s and Valentine’s Day usually catches a lot of flak for being long, uninteresting, and devoid of things to do. It’s also smack in the middle of tourist season, meaning the city becomes flooded with out-of-towners clogging…

Director Tod Lending Premieres the Resilient Saul & Ruby, to Life! at Miami Jewish Film Festival

Nearly a century onward from the Holocaust, filmmaker Tod Lending figured every story about the atrocity that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews had already been told. That was until he heard about Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz. The two, who reside in South Florida, survived the religious persecution of the Nazi regime and went on to form a klezmer act the Holocaust Survivor Band 70 years later.