Miami-Dade and Broward can hardly stomach each other most of the time. They’re up there and we’re down here, and mostly that’s the way we’d like to keep it. But when it comes to watching scantily costumed ladies dance to reggae, calypso, soca, and other steel-drum-heavy Caribbean music, well, that…
Claudia CalleIt’s that time of the month again: Second Saturdays Art Walk. To quell all your cravings and cramps, there’s a handful of new exhibits opening tomorrow night. But seriously, who has the patience to wander the blocks between 22nd and 40th in search of the best eye candy? No…
This Sunday, HistoryMiami will enlist the help of scholar and pirate lore devotee Nathan Samuels. He’ll separate the booty from the bilge water in regard to South Florida’s history with pirates. At Buried Treasure, Samuels, a renowned educator, will regale the audience with tales of swashbuckling schemes from Florida’s past…
Poets live in a state of perpetual observation, searching for meaning and beauty where others see barrenness. They dwell in the trenches; often acting as our greatest philosophers, reporting back in beautiful language. F. Daniel Rzicznek, a professor at Bowling Green State University and one of the top young poets…
Sarah ColonnaSarah Colonna was an Arkansas-bred, Los Angeles-based standup veteran of nine years when she started appearing on the Chelsea Lately roundtable. She parlayed the roundtable into a full time writing gig on the show. Colonna is also a TV staple, having appeared on The United States of Tara, Monk…
It’s October which means a few things: pumpkins, costume shopping, candy, scary movies, orange, black, blah, blah, blah. Unlike most places, we in fact do get a lot of events in the great state of Florida that really encourage all of us to get in the scare-the-shit-out-of-yourself spirit. We have…
RequiemRecently, the Wolfson Moving Image Archives, an expansive collection of TV shows, movies, and other moving images that showcase the evolution of South Florida’s communities, announced that they would be adding the entire video collection of Momentum Dance Company to their files. Why Momentum Dance Company? Because they are the oldest…
Flickr CC Robert Bejil PhotographyDid making devil horns make the list?For tattoo virgins, popping the ink cherry is like having sex with a chubster. Some experiences are good, and others you try and forget — like that drunken night in Tijuana when you had a donkey tattooed on your ass…
Photo courtesy of Sobe Hair Show and Beauty ExpoDerek J gets pumped.If you’re a budding hair stylist or a fan of shows like Shear Genius and Hair Battle Spectacular, you might want to hit the Miami Beach Convention Center this weekend. The SoBe Hair Show and Beauty Expo promises to gather thousands of…
A still from Christy Gast’s video work.You can judge the cultural cache of a city by how much good art you stumble upon in public spaces. For a long time, all we had in Miami were broken bowl/orange peel sculptures outside of municipal buildings and a couple Britto-splattered parking meters…
Michael McElroyTake in some smoky reading.If you put in the necessary hours at the office, work overtime on weekends when needed, and generally eat enough shit from your bosses, every once in a long while it all turns out to be worth it. Your job/career grants you a cosmic thank…
Melanie Barkely Shira Abergel talks about her first time.Much like sex, the internet is a microcosm of the spectrum of human emotion. In a medium where sharing is the rule, some seek unity and connection while others nurture lonely wounds in a vacuous space of anonymity. Back in the pre-blogging…
Images courtesy of James VictoreJames Victore is a controversial graphic designer who makes images that are engaging, direct, and really freaking neat. It’s easy to understand why this artist named his book Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss? As cocky a title as it seems, he’s just that good…
Josh WolfComedian Josh Wolf first got onstage as a smart-ass sixteen year old. He takes the Fillmore stage this Friday for the Comedians of Chelsea Lately tour alongside Sarah Colonna, Brad Wollack, and Loni Love. Wolf will go up as someone who has had TV sitcom development deals, a web-series,…
Photo by Jipsy.Celebrity emcee Elaine LancasterMiami’s been criticized way too much for our sense of style. Even though we’re known for our Latin flavor, tourists still often get instant culture shock when they spot locals wearing barely there, second-skin-style dresses. South Florida is slowly making its way up the fashion…
Science fiction, thrift store shopping, and high design aren’t typically lumped together in the same sentence, but when Mexican-born, Miami-based visual artist Pepe Mar searches for inspiration, no facet of pop culture is safe from his grasp. “Time Bomb” is Mar’s third solo exhibit at David Castillo Gallery. In it,…
Hecklers are typically drunk jerk-offs trying to impress their buddies or blind dates by stealing a comic’s thunder. Starved for attention, they’re usually more annoying than funny. But every now and again, a heckler such as DeRay Davis generates a few laughs. Before Davis was headlining the Miami Improv and…
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Miami’s been criticized way too much for our sense of style. We mean sure, we’re known for our Latin flavor. Tourists too often get instant culture shock when they spot locals wearing barely there, second-skin-style dresses. South Florida is slowly making its way up the fashion food chain, though, with…
