We’ll admit it — we’re a sucker for a good logo. We regularly find ourselves perusing the aisles of completely impertinent stores, if the sign outside is good enough. (Is it illegal to be vegan in a taxidermist’s shop? C’mon, the singing fish outside was hilarious.) Miami design super group…
The 54th Venice Biennale opened last weekend with its largest edition yet, boasting a record 89 national participants (find a comprehensive list of artists here). Early buzz surrounded some of the most politically freighted work seen in recent years. Before opening, the Biennale was already dealing with issues of censorship…
John Rodriguez and his friends, brothers Gilberto and Fernando Gomez, are the Miami-based, indie production company, Full Moon Productions. They’re currently raising funds to get their absurdist comedy film, Unemployed Wolfman, produced via the community funding site Indie GoGo. Rodriguez and Gilberto have worked as production assistants on Man v…
Thought last week of Basketball Wives was good? Episode two didn’t disappoint either. When we spoke to Jennifer Williams a few months back, we got the feeling she and Evelyn Lozada were growing apart. Last night’s episode proved that might indeed be true. Jennifer can’t really take her friend seriously…
Composer Gabriel Pulido, who conceived the multimedia performance work Deep Surface, has a degree in music synthesis. Perhaps that’s one reason why the Venezuelan-born artist’s collaborations take him to Paris and New York from his home base in Miami, bringing together influences from a variety of sources to create a…
It’s not often that you find a sport that both Nancy Regan and Larry Flynt would enjoy. Roller derby has broken out of its entertainment mold and into the legitimate sports world, complete with competitive rules, penalties, piercings and fishnets. This past Saturday, we went to see South Florida’s Gold…
“He gave me half my performance with the lighting,” says actress Kathleen Byron of cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who shot her in 1947’s Black Narcissus. A rebuke to style-versus-substance segregationists, these words pay tribute to the star of Craig McCall’s documentary, a soapbox for the wizened eminence to explain the innovative…
The Real World Miami was one of the Magic City’s all time most popular reality shows. And right up there with it was Miami Ink, which exposed much of the mainstream to what goes on in a tattoo shop. So the prospect of combining both those shows into one has…
Because he hasn’t yet had an icky cameo on Glee, you might not realize that actor and comedian Joel McHale’s star is cresting. He plays heartthrob Jeff Winger, a lawyer forced to go back to junior college, on NBC’s Community. And he hosts E!’s The Soup, a clip show that…
If you went to G.W. Carver Middle School, you probably remember that, around this time each year, you and your classmates were lucky enough to spend a few hours on the sports field watching Caribbean dancers get down and drumming in shimmery, feathery Junkanoo costumes in preparation of the Goombay…
Fashion Breakdown: Shirt from Hugo Boss, tie and suspenders from thrift, jeans and shoes from All Saints, and rings from flea markets…
City Theatre’s 16th annual Summer Shorts kicked off this weekend at the Arsht Center as Phil Collins’s “In The Air Tonight” spilled from the loudspeakers. The actors were introduced by Miami Heat P.A. man Michael Baiamonte as if he was introducing LeBron, Dwyane, Bosh, and the boys.Headliner Jai Rodriguez then…
Like the unrepentantly skeezy, unexpectedly political monthly porno mag he founded, edited, and expanded into a worldwide publishing empire, Larry Flynt has been “hardcore since ’74.” That’s the official tagline at least. But really, Flynt’s wild and seedy misadventures actually stretch all the way back to the day — November…
It’s Friday and we’re in a gay mood, our gayety buoyed by the fact that we just got wind that “the gays” might be coming back to South Beach. Hooray! And we also can’t help snickering at those NBA don’t-use-the-word-gay commercials although NBA players let loose with gay epithets faster…
Tomorrow’s your chance to score some duds that will make you look like the Barbie of Hip-Hop. Yes, Nicki Minaj is just one of Miami designer Karelle Levy’s Krelwear line celebrity fans. The designer describes her tubular knits (often in day-glo colors) as “newer, more avant garde Missioni.” Levy, who…
The hipster bug swept Miami, first landing in Wynwood, possibly directly from Patient Zero in New York City. Scenester kids were among the first to be infected on account of their low body fat and weakened immune systems stemming from a vegetarian and bullshit diet. Many emo kids soon followed…
Have you been watching the HBO series Treme about post-Katrina New Orleans? With the start of Hurricane season this week, we don’t think we’s like to endure another bad storm without bayou jazz, Mardi Gras Indians, or second lines. Those old enough to remember Andrew know that there were no…
Just a few days ago, Meeka Claxton entered our lives as the new cast member on Basketball Wives. And there is one pure and simple reason why we like her so god damn much: She is actually a basketball wife. No, she isn’t a former wife, an ex-fiancé, or a…
Fashion Breakdown: Bathing suit from American Apparel, bag and belt from a vintage shop, shoes Aldo, bracelets from BCBG and Aldo, sunglasses from Rainbow, earrings in a small shop (doesn’t remember the name), hair is natural (grew it out for three years , then she cut it herself)…
If there’s one grating thing about the all-but flawless Project Runway, it’s when they make Tim Gunn do a sponsor name drop with “Don’t forget to make good use of the Bluefly accessory wall!” Wretch. How dare they turn our beloved Gunn into a corporate puppet! But it looks as…
Ha! We knew it was just a matter of time until all this Miami Heat hysteria would filter down to our city’s artistic lifeblood and provide a much needed adrenalin shot for the summer doldrums. Actually, we never thought it would. Why would it unless a newly crowned Lebron James,…
First it was Toronto, then Miami. Now Sam Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval, better known as the art collective FriendsWithYou, are taking their whimsical outdoor installation, “Rainbow City,” to New York. From what press materials reveal, it seems it will be similar to the installation done in Miami’s Design District’s…
