Take fiber textile art and fuse it with modern dance and you’d have Soundsuits by Nick Cave. These life-sized sculptural objects are beautiful when they are still. But they are breathtaking as they are worn — both for the resulting sound and choreographed movement of materials. The ones we recently…
Somewhere on the road to artistic maturity a chasm developed in Miami’s fine art offerings. You have Art Basel and its galaxy of satellite fairs for the upper echelon connoisseurs–the real nose lifters. And then there are the weekend art warriors who think getting blitzed at mainstream art festivals like…
“For So You Think Can Dance?, you need to learn all this material right now in order to go before an audience and perform it,” says J.R. Glover, director of education for the School of Jacob’s Pillow, a summer program for aspiring dancers at one of the nation’s most respected…
Every country has its own particular style of kites. Dan Ward, owner of the Skyward Kites at Haulover Park knows this better than most. For 18 years he’s operated the kite shop in one of South Florida’s best sites to fly kites, and has heard countless stories from patrons who…
If there was a zine/album cover artist laurete, we’d nominate Raymond Pettibon. Not only is he the man behind the four-bar logo, flyers, album covers of the band Black Flag. But his angry, dishelved pen and ink graphics provided visuals for a smattering of punk bands in the early 1980s:…
If there was a zine/album cover artist laurete, we’d nominate Raymond Pettibon. Not only is he the man behind the four-bar logo, flyers, album covers of the band Black Flag. But his angry, dishelved pen and ink graphics provided visuals for a smattering of punk bands in the early 1980s:…
If there was a zine/album cover artist laurete, we’d nominate Raymond Pettibon. Not only is he the man behind the four-bar logo, flyers, album covers of the band Black Flag. But his angry, dishelved pen and ink graphics provided visuals for a smattering of punk bands in the early 1980s:…
Chef Douglas Rodriguez shows you how to prepare his signature dishes at Whole Foods Coral Gables. The demo leads up to Rodriguez’s appearance at the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival in February. Feeling lucky? Participants are entered to win a pair of tickets to the festival’s Grand…
With so many great places to eat in Miami, it’s challenging to pick just one. Sushi in South Beach? Steak in Coral Gables? Empanadas in midtown? What’s a foodie to do? Well, what if for one night, all of your favorite food in Miami congregated in one place? Enter the…
Once the Miami Heat got its big, free-agent prizes LeBron James and Chris Bosh in place to play alongside Dwyane Wade, it was time to build a roster around the big three. A major piece of that roster was supposed to be Mike Miller. A former fifth-overall pick and 2001…
Despite what his followers would have you think, Jesus Christ wasn’t a meek, peace-loving hippie. He was a bad ass who hung out with social outcasts and acted out in temple. Such is the case with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose image has been homogenized almost to the point…
The beat of a drum is one of the most powerful intoxicants known to humankind. The crack of a snare can send you to war. The drop of the bass can make a dancefloor out of a line at the bank. This Sunday, get drunk on rhythm with DRUMline Live…
While looking at porn, have you ever paused and thought, “Gee, this image of a girl licking some dude’s rear is super hot, but I wish it was a bit more artistic?” Well, you’re in luck. “Erotic Signatures,” an annual traveling exhibit that showcases the very best in fleshy art,…
It’s easy to miss Redland. Actually, it’s harder to find, even for lifelong Miamians (unless you’re on your way to the Keys without a Tom Tom, take an errant right turn off U.S.1, drive absentmindedly for miles, and stumble across it). Redland is one of South Florida’s last remaining agricultural…
Irvin Rosenfeld is a record-breaking pot head who claims to have smoked 115,000 joints over little more than a quarter century. But unlike other brothers-in-pot, the 57-year-old Fort Lauderdale stockbroker smokes spliffs to ease the symptoms of a rare case of bone cancer. And he does so with the blessing…
The best aspect of a Renaissance festival is the wonderful absence of jerks thumbing through their Blackberries. It’s a celebration of life unplugged — of a simpler time when men were covered in tin, and women had to worry only about keeping their bosoms heaving and their hair braided. Although…
What do a nun, hyena, bartender alien, and Ted Danson have in common? Whoopi Goldberg. Caryn Elaine Johnson — the woman whose stage name is composed of a fart noise and fake surname her mother thought sounded Jewish-enough to make her a star — has had quite a career. Her…
Take Art Deco out of Miami, and the city is just urban sprawl with a few Mediterranean-style porticos. Deco is our claim to charm. It’s our proof of history. So in celebration of the Colony Hotel’s rounded corners and eyebrows (the shelf-like structures above its windows), the Miami Design Preservation…
Because Jeff Daniels seems to be a fundamentally decent human being, it feels gauche to mention he’s most famous for depicting a loose-boweled, snot-streaked imbecile who trades blows with Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber. He’s generally been cast as the “other guy” to bigger names such as Keanu Reeves…
White Wedding is Coral Gables Art Cinema’s second film in a row with an African theme. (White Material — that sure is a lot of white — opened earlier this month). This time, the flavor is farcical as South African groom-to-be Elvis (Kenneth Nkosi) and his best man Tumi (Rapulana…
Local artist Aholsniffsglue’s signature eyeballs decorate the side of a warehouse facing I-95 in Wynwood. Inside, the Margulies Collection’s “New Exhibition” leaves your optics in the same wide state of wonder with a show expertly programmed by longtime Margulies curator Katherine Hinds. It seeks to “activate the space” via videos…
Grime may have hatched in East London, but three boys from Manchester are carving out a new place for the dark, dubstep sound. Virus Syndicate is the project of MCs Goldfinger, JSD, and Nika D, and producers MRK1 and Plasticman. When Planet Mu Records released Virus Syndicate’s debut album Work…
