Edison Farrow is the godfather of South Beach gay nightlife. When he began promoting events under his company name, SoBe Social Club, he pulled the gays out of the Beach’s early-millennium social doldrums and reminded them it was fun to go out at night. His creations — Martini Tuesdays, the…
When it comes to bringing out everyone’s childlike innocence, nobody does it better than art collective FriendsWithYou. Comprising artists Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, FWY creates pieces that challenge the viewer to let go of adulthood — whether it be through their adorable plushies, vivid watercolors, or interactive playgrounds…
This Tuesday at 7 p.m., Wynwood’s Charest-Weinberg Gallery will pop the cork on “Herd Thinner,” a bleeding-edge exhibit curated by the Big Apple’s David Hunt and featuring the work of more than a dozen artists who will be on hand for the launch of Art Basel week. It offers a…
You started out braiding zigzag declarations of love called friendship bracelets, the addictive wrist confection and, color-wise, the only competitor Lisa Frank unicorns ever had. Because it’s been years since you’ve picked up a soggy spool of embroidery thread, it might be time to flex your craft muscles on the…
The last time the Miami Dolphins saw the Buffalo Bills, the Fins had just lost Chad Pennington the year after his shoulder crumbled into a fine powder. They were forced to start Chad Henne sooner than expected and were sitting at an abysmal 0-3. All seemed bleak and hopeless. But…
A funny thing happened shortly after the turn of the millennium: Boston sports teams suddenly stopped sucking. First it was the New England Patriots, who won the first of their three Super Bowls in 2002. Then those perennial heartbreakers, the Red Sox, finally won a World Series in the modern…
If the Borscht Film Festival were a character in a Hollywood film, it would be John Matrix from Commando. The film scene in Miami has been kidnapped by the twin dictatorship of New York and L.A., and Borscht (insert closeups of café con leche residue in mustache) has only a…
This Black Friday, skip the Wal-Mart stampede and stay home eating leftovers and drinking the beer you woke up with on the couch. Watch a few Chris Farley movies, smoke a fat bowl, make some prank phone calls, shoot a YouTube video of you making ugly faces, and walk into…
Quick, name the best Miami mascot. Sebastian the Ibis? Billy the Marlin? Bernie, the Miami Heat’s fuzzy acid-rain victim? All wrong answers. It’s I.C. Snowden, the ever-melting snowman who will lead the festivities at the 35th annual Winternational Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the tradition of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,…
Rock star, star artist — what’s the difference now? If you’re former Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler, probably not much. The man who gave John Hughes the title song to his seminal film Pretty in Pink is still touring and writing new material with an updated version of the Furs,…
Instructions for not gaining ten pounds this Thursday: First, easy on the dark meat, dude. Second, stop drinking gravy straight out of the porcelain boat. Third, choose apple pie, pumpkin pie, or ice cream — your indecision does not justify combining all three into a sadness pile. Last, and most…
You’re a broke but hip downtowner and you want to party during Art Basel Miami. No problem, bro. Just visit O.H.W.O.W.’s elaborate 20th-anniversary re-creation of the legendary NYC bar Max Fish, running Wednesday through Sunday. Reviving the former PS14 space at 28 NE 14th St., Miami, the installation is the…
The uninitiated often make the erroneous assumption that Art Basel Miami Beach is actually about art. But the real reason for staging the fair, one of North America’s most massive and moneyed art-world office parties, is just that — to party. If you’re one of those big-baller investor types, your…
Where does our affinity for mustaches begin and end? The answer rhymes with infinity, for what male mug is not instantly improved by a paint-brush of testosterone? And what if that mug, by growing and maintaining that hair-bonzai, is also raising money to fight testicular cancer? Then you have an…
You’re a broke but hip downtowner and you want to party during Art Basel Miami. No problem, bro. Just visit O.H.W.O.W.’s elaborate 20th-anniversary re-creation of the legendary NYC bar Max Fish, running Wednesday through Sunday. Reviving the former PS14 space at 28 NE 14th St., Miami, the installation is the…
If everyone in the world was socked with the wrong side of a memory stick and forgot their age, a Miley Cyrus song would be the perfect barometer to set everyone straight. If her country-fried screech doesn’t turn you into stone, you’re in the tween zone and unqualified to vote,…
The key to impressing that special someone lies not in etiquette, fancy clothes, physical fitness, intelligent conversation, Hummerzines, intimate knowledge of the kama sutra, or an assistant calendar editor’s position at New Times. It’s all about skills in the kitchen. And what says, “I chop down mountains with the edge…
On Wednesday at 8 p.m., self-described musical auteur Danger Mouse, iconoclastic filmmaker David Lynch, and maverick rock recluse Sparklehorse will combine their otherworldly musings for “Dark Night of the Soul” at O.H.W.O.W. The exhibition will highlight more than 50 original photographs by Lynch displayed to the tunes of his sonic…
Being one of the premiere art festivals of the year, not just any Joe Blow can show during Art Basel. You’d need connections, talent, or…a pack of markers, a glue gun, and some stray sequins. This year, the Scope Art Show has opened up their grand ol’ doors to the…
A breaking news release from an Israeli newspaper: Ten middle school students in Naples, Florida have been suspended after taking part in what they termed “Kick a Jew Day” at their school, school district officials reported. The one day in-school suspensions were served earlier this week. The incident occurred a…
T minus one until Turkey Day, but the true date of anticipation is still a week away, Art Basel’s kickoff — December 2! There are events popping off from the Gables all the way up to Aventura, and if you think your head is spinning from all the Facebook invites…
Every now and then you just have to let the press release speak for itself, as is the case with this year’s ART BURN fair in Wynwood (123 NW 23rd Street). Setting off this Thursday, December 3, ART BURN bills itself as an “International Contemporary Art Expo and Immolation” and…
