Any frequenter of Books & Books knows the local chain’s owner, Mitchell Kaplan. The Miami-based bookseller has 35 years of experience expanding his business throughout South Florida while national chains such as Waldenbooks and Borders failed. Few, however, know that Kaplan is one-half of the TV and film production firm the Mazur/Kaplan Company, which has now released its first theatrical movie.
There’s a new airline for art enthusiasts fortunate enough to jet-set but not financially equipped to fly private. Angelhaha Airline, the “first-ever artist airline,” is a performance project/business venture by Chinese artist Qinmin Liu, who wants to manicure the entire in-flight experience, from the safety demonstration down to the smell of its recycled air.
Alpert checks in again and again with the same three families over 45 years of visits to the island, with sometimes heartbreaking results
Thursday If retailers get to start their Black Friday sales early, you should be allowed to start your post-Thanksgiving blackout early, right? Fend off the urge to nap after dinner and head to the holiday edition of Wynwood Nights: All Black Thanksgiving to dance to hip-hop, soca, and dancehall while…
… In Three Billboards, where livid, grieving mother Mildred (Frances McDormand) taunts the local police for not solving her daughter’s rape and murder (by being burned to death) from nine months prior, McDonagh has taken on a situation that demands we take it seriously.
If you’ve always thought your yoga-toned bod would look that much hotter with an original work of art, this could be your moment. Renowned tattoo artist Thea Duskin will offer Aqua Art Miami attendees the chance to acquire a one-off, single-session tattoo at Ghostprint Gallery December 6 through 10. But you might need to queue up: Priced at $500, the sessions are first come, first served.
Thousands of off-white teeth adorn masks, shoes, and codpieces in the artist duo Fantich & Young’s installation Apex Predator | Darwinian Voodoo. Presenting itself as a luxury lifestyle boutique, the conceptual pop-up merges consumer goods and postmortem objects in a macabre comment on capitalism, inequality, and the “survival of the fittest” principle often espoused by people in power.
Nalluri’s emphasis is on amateur theatrical performances, magic-lantern projections and comically competitive authors.
Author Roben Farzad told stories of Miami’s cocaine-fueled past in his recently published Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami. The book centers on Coconut Grove’s Mutiny Hotel, Miami’s epicenter of drug dealing and unbridled debauchery in the ’80s.
Despite, or probably because of, the density of its plot, Mr. Robot is almost more enjoyable if you don’t really know what’s going on
The former vice president of the United States sat down with Man Booker Prize-winning writer George Saunders at the Adrienne Arsht Center as an accomplished foreign policymaker and bereaved father to discuss his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.
It starts off as the portrait of a troubled child, but expands to become a film about community
Claudia La Bianca never took an anatomy drawing class. Instead, her lessons about the human form were learned as a child. Night after night, the wide-eyed, golden-locked dreamer sat backstage at her big sister’s lingerie fashion shows in Sicily, where she gazed at beautiful, scantily clad models strutting on the…
Today, Orangetheory Fitness is the fastest-growing women-owned company in the U.S., an exercise phenomenon with 750 studios and half a million members. But it started much more humbly, when Ellen Latham began offering Pilates classes in a spare room at her Pembroke Pines house. The year was 1996, and Latham,…
Miss Toto does not have time for your bullshit. You can either accept that Miami’s undisputed party queen is six-plus-feet of pectoral muscles, glitter, rock-hard abs, track-star thighs, shoulders so round and defined they look like cantaloupes, and the flowing tresses of a pageant queen, or you can get the…
For developers, Miami’s untapped potential is like a delicious morsel waiting to be devoured. The Magic City is a pit stop for the rich and famous, a playground for the world. Not many people consider what it’s like to live in a playground. That is, they don’t consider it unless…
Fifteen years ago, Gabrielle Union was already an icon to her fans thanks to her breakout role as Ivy in the cult cheerleading hit Bring It On, but she had yet to land a leading part in a major movie. In 2002, the then-29-year-old was still on the cusp of…
Here’s a kiddo’s quest to define a self, in this case the descent of young Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) into a land of the dead inspired by Dia de los Muertos celebrations
It’s Thanksgiving week in Miami, which means one thing: You’re going to get shit-faced. An unfortunate side effect of this fact, one that cannot be solved by carb-loading leftovers, is the hit to your bank account. Whether you’re buying rounds for old friends or forgetting your wallet at your high-school ex’s parents’ house before an awkward walk of shame, you’ll need to pad your pockets. From the Turkey Turn-Up at Mana Wynwood to the Jack Daniels’ Barbecue and Beats festival in Hialeah Park, we’ve got you covered.
This is the first time a Marvel TV show has stunned me: Why in the era of binge-able continued-narrative TV series would the producers kill dead their momentum
Miami has a lousy reputation when it comes to civic pride and generosity. Thursday belied that notion. The Miami Foundation’s Give Miami Day set a fundraising record, making it one of the most active 24-hour charitable-giving events in the nation. According to the foundation, 20,413 donors gave $10.1 million to 695 local nonprofits.
Sway those hips to the crooning of Marc Anthony Friday. Eat your way through delicious Tex-Mex cuisine at Tacolandia Saturday. Brush up your K-pop knowledge at the Fillmore to close out the weekend. And then get ready to do it over and over and over again until the New Year.
