Batwoman is back and she is no longer a second class citizen of Gotham City. The character, originally introduced in the ’50s, was intended to be a romantic interest for Batman but the idea never took off, and she was eventually killed. DC Comics had introduced her to dispel the…
The ten year anniversary of 9/11 has everybody looking for a way to commemorate. It seems especially prevalent in the art world, where artists of all kinds are helping to voice the range of emotions that other people are feeling about America. But there is some art that speaks about…
“Where my money? I need, I need, I need cash!” Maybe Rick Ross wasn’t singing about the everyday grind of paying bills. But there once was a young Rick Ross, who struggled to find a way to balance his creative ambitions and cash flow. In “Everyday Hustlin’,” we talk with…
If there’s one decade we never want to revisit, it’s the ’80s. Needless to say, we were devastated to learn that Top Gun is being converted to 3D. Early this morning, the Hollywood Reporter announced that a four-minute, three-dimensional teaser “featuring the ‘Danger Zone’ aerial flight sequence,” had been screened…
If the Wynwood Art Walk has taught us anything besides what an amazing level of talent and creativity Miami has to offer, it’s that cops love food trucks, it’s okay to keep your kids out late for the sake of art, culture is blazing through the streets like a wildfire,…
The Robert Fontaine Gallery is one of the hippest and most internationally relevant art galleries in Miami. Relatively new to the block (since January 2011), formerly known as the Art Modern Gallery, this space houses emerging and mid-contemporary artists, as well as well-known masters. You want to find a Warhol…
Guiri Reyes, a Brazilian transplant who has been shredding the curbs, stairway railings, and streets of Miami for the past few years, recently won first place in the Air Attack Street Best Trick competition during the World Cup Skateboarding (WCS) in Belgium.How old is this guy? A mere two decades…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. The 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival continued all weekend long with three more popcorn-packed days. After weeks of steadily building anticipation, director Cameron Crowe world premiered Pearl…
Fashion Breakdown: Corsette and blue pumps from Trash and Vaudeville, leggings from Target, whip and cross necklace from costume store, and wig from best friend’s closet…
“So we’re just gonna sit here and talk for a couple of hours, and then you’re going to kill yourself.” Actress Sally Bondi, who plays Mama Thelma in the Alliance Theatre Lab’s production of ‘Night Mother, sums up the plot of this play by Marsha Norman (which was also made…
Football is back, damn it. So prepare to spend your entire weekend busy doing nothing but sinking lower and lower into your lazyboy — so deep that your skin fuses to the leather and you need a spatula (grab the one you’ve been using to scoop nachos into your mouth)…
Although California artist Brian Bess won Optic Nerve XIII this year and had his short purchased by MOCA, it was local artist Karlo Andrei Ibarra who took home the Audience Winner Favorite. In his video work Crossover, he filmed Puerto Ricans singing America’s national anthem. Spoiler alert: They get it wrong…
If you feel the need to be seen in South Florida, there is a very good chance you went out last night for Fashion’s Night Out. The basis of the evening was to help the economy by shopping for overpriced goods, but all we saw was a lot of drinking…
Film Fiend features dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. The 36th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Queen Bee film festival of the Americas, kicked off yesterday with 300+ films vying for attention from press, industry and…
Gumby, the absolute last claymation figure you’d expect to succumb to the pitfalls of childhood superstardom, has hit rock bottom. Well, sort of. Earlier this week, a man dressed as the little green guy unsuccessfully tried robbing a 7-Eleven, but the store’s clerk didn’t even flinch. Instead, he laughed it…
TGIF, right? Meh. The freaking rush of an upcoming weekend of leisure seems a little anticlimactic when reduced to a four-letter acronym. So allow us to break down the situation for you: we all spend about 60% our lives either working or asleep. From the remaining 40%, about half of…
Just a couple of days out from the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 and you’ve already started to see what we can only expect will be full out patriotic pomp and circumstance the likes of which we might never have seen before. And deservedly so. The day changed all of…
The new art season is upon us. Wynwood art dealers, wringing their sweaty palms, are in a sniff over who did or didn’t make the cut for Art Basel. The galleries are cranking out dozens of fresh shows like the conveyer belt at Krispy Kreme. The food trucks will be…
Fashion Breakdown: Sweater by Ellen Tracy, top Forever 21, leggings by Garage, ballet shoes by Steve Madden, bag by Michael Kors, watch by Guess, the green bracelet is an organic one by Juan Valdez Cafe, the red awareness wristband is for “Imagine There’s No Hunger” for John Lennon, the cheetah…
It’s hard to think of many local art spaces other than the big private collections or even the museums capable of pulling off the three seamless, impeccably presented solo shows currently on tap at Wynwood’s Dorsch Gallery.In fact Audrey Hasen Russell’s “Gold Slaw,” Cheryl Pope’s “Matter of Fact,” or Raymond…
Paul Isaac, of local New Wave-inflected foursome People From Venus, is best known around town as a rock frontman. But close followers of the band might have noticed that his and the other members’ artistic aspirations have always seemed to extend beyond just music. Everything People From Venus does is…
Hitting its five-year anniversary, the Arsht Center is clearly exceeding expectations. Not only is it not in the red, it’s thriving with packed houses and rigorous programming. But still, some criticize that the programming, which includes shows like Wicked and The Adams Family, is too mainstream. What’s more, for the…
