What is it about orchids that engender so much devotion and wonder? Sure, they’re nice to look at, but they grow just about everywhere on planet and there are over 26,000 different species. You could say they’re the tuna of horticulture world. Hmm? Maybe that’s it. We love us some…
The Wynwood art walk has been sort of a nightmare for a few years now, especially in the summertime with the heat and cheap wine. But lately, even in the winter, it’s really a waking nightmare. The whole second Saturday thing has gone from uncomfortable to completely unmanageable. Last month,…
If you’re anything like us, you look at your DVR and think to yourself, “What the hell is my deal?” It mainly consists of an occasional Oprah episode, everything airing on Bravo and anything that somehow involves a wife of some kind. And our personal favorite is Basketball Wives. Why?…
Everybody has a personal life that no one else has access to or cares to notice. Like our “to do” lists or old credit cards. When someone dies, the world gets a peek into those private matters and a fuller picture of the person is revealed.Catalina Jaramillo used this new perspective…
Fashion Breakdown: Black beaded necklace from Out of the Closet, Amarettie leather jacket, dress from Young, Broke & Fabulous, men’s girdle from ZARA men, and boots Franco Sarto…
During the past five years, photographer Clyde Butcher has journeyed from his studio deep in the confines of the Florida swamps to crisscross the country from sea to shining sea. Perhaps best known for his panoramic views of the Everglades, Butcher who looks a bit like Grizzly Adams or Santa…
In Magic City Memoirs, Mikey, Manny, and Angel Jr. are three private school buddies. Three months before graduation, they are living the fast life of sex, drugs, and hip-hop in Miami. The story is narrated by Mikey, who is a top baseball prospect torn between living clean and joining his…
Despite all the art walks, art festivals, art districts, art nights, art schools, and art galleries in this city, Miami just can’t seem to break free of its reputation for having more looks than culture. These days, it seems like every move the city makes is to prove how much…
The Miami Herald reports that Andy Cohen is this year’s grand marshal for the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade and Festival, which starts April 12. We ran into Cohen, Bravo’s Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development, at the Eden Roc last week, where he told us he loved…
With an elegant and soulful soundtrack by The Roots’ Questlove enveloping its frames, Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 is a powerful documentary that does proper justice to the black power movement and its place in American history.Taken mostly from unseen 16 mm film shot by Swedish journalists, the often blunt and…
Remember when you read On the Road and you thought “I’m going to be a writer”? So you wrote in your moleskin daily. You poured yourself out over pints and espressos. Sunlight would shift overhead and you’d go lurching for your pen and moleskin as inspiration flooded in.That was then…
During the past two decades, Mark Dion has created a skull-staving catalog of projects exploring how nature is represented in science and culture. Dion, who has snagged an honorary Ph.D from the University of Hartford, has had solo shows in museums across the globe including New York’s Museum of Modern…
Things just got serious. And way cool. Wynwood was the scene of some late night filmmaking magic last week as the Borscht Film Festival production Play Dead brought zombies, explosions, and post-apocalyptic poodles to the neighborhood. Filming went on until late-night and early morning Friday (can you say a 5…
Opening this week at Actors Playhouse, August: Osage County, tells the tale of the Westons, a large family that is forced to come together after their booze-hound patriarch up and disappears. Meanwhile, their the 65-year old matriarch pops pills, and confronts the family with their dark and astonishing secrets in…
There’s no need to line up for free booze at the Second Saturday Art Walk in Wynwood this weekend: The artworks alone will make you think you’re seeing double or at least make you look twice.From the sights and sounds of carnival to visions of goddesses, from brainy op and…
In 1772, we find the young German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe flunking out of law school and getting drunk with his friends. He’s a free spirit trapped in a stringent world where class is everything. All Goethe wants to do is write poems and get them published. But his stern…
March 12 Wynwood art walk packs a visual punch
Jersey Boys at the Arsht: Goodfellas in a jukebox
Young Goethe in Love: A great romantic romp
Magic City Memoirs: MIFF goes local
MIFF goes local
The Interrupters: Gang-bangers interrupted
