Key West Island Books, independently owned and operated as a seller of new, used, and rare books since 1975, has become a Conch institution for its vibrant author event series and glass-of-wine-when-you-walk-in familiarity. After Hurricane Irma, the bookstore is one of many small businesses attempting to rebuild after the intense…
In any biz — especially in the movie biz — it’s all about who you know. Finding a place to schmooze with the bigwigs in an atmosphere that’s equal parts professional networking and tropical partying could make your career. So the founders of the Grand IndieWise Convention decided…
Twenty-five years ago, Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida. Photographer Barry Fellman will mark the anniversary of the storm with a book of photos he took in its aftermath — and says we’re not doing enough to prevent another massive disaster.
As Miami’s cultural landscape boomed in the past decade — with the influx of major art fairs, new museums, and local galleries opening in up-and-coming neighborhoods — the city’s queer culture was in flux. Reading Queer, a Knight Foundation-sponsored cultural organization, is looking to change that fact by highlighting voices…
A few months before 40-year-old writer Luis Felipe Garcia began his eight-and-a-half-year stint in prison, he was selling liquid acid at a party when he accidentally dosed himself with the equivalent of 200 hits. At the time, the author of the new collection of short stories, Missing, was taking buprenorphine,…
Joining a wave of migration to Little Haiti — one that includes galleries such as Emerson Dorsch, Mindy Solomon, and Nina Johnson, as well as other cultural organizations — Exile Books has opened a storefront in the heart of the neighborhood. After three years in a small Wynwood studio, the small publisher is spreading its wings…
In its third year at the Standard Spa Miami Beach’s summer residency, Exile Books is planning a five-course dinner that pairs signature dishes, expertly crafted cocktails, and live poetry performances. Concrete Poetry, as organizers have named it, celebrates the eponymous medium that conveys verse (partially or totally) through visual representation.
You know that effortlessly fashionable friend who’s somehow always too broke to pick up the bar tab but looks like a Free People model with unlimited access to salon-quality hair products? Yeah, we can’t figure that out either. But if you’re trying to hit that sweet spot of boho-chic and bootylicious culture-crusader without sacrificing your groceries, we’re here to help. Below you’ll find events this week that will keep you seeing, eating, and grooving, even without designer funds.
The artist Ahol Sniffs Glue goes by many names: Ahol, Alouishous San Gomma, and David Anasagasti. But no matter what you call him, there’s no denying he’s a Miami institution. In fact, his work is so iconic that global brands have plagiarized it and appropriated it without his permission.
Drive east on NW 59th Street toward the Little Haiti Cultural Center and you’ll notice the murals and brightly painted building facades that echo the island of this neighborhood’s name. Unlike the arts district just south of it, Little Haiti is still resisting, with varying success, impending gentrification and the…
You can relieve your frustrations by whipping out some colored pencils and coloring in an outline of your car being towed in Jacober Creative’s Miami Beach coloring book, High Tides: Tales of Mermaids, Mayhem & Miami Beach.
Since Kickstarter’s launch in 2009, its users have pledged $3.3 billion. Miami native Alex Daly and her two-person team at Vann Alexandra, are responsible for raising $20 million of that and counting. Daly’s The Crowdsourceress: Get Smart, Get Funded, and Kickstart Your Next Big Idea is the ultimate crowdfunding manifesto…
He’s run eight miles every day starting at the Fifth Street lifeguard stand on South Beach since January 1st, 1975. He’s never owned a passport. He’s never had a driver’s license. He’s never even been on an airplane. Does he have any regrets? No way.
David Sedaris doesn’t want you to call him funny. “I feel like when someone introduces me onstage and they say, ‘Get ready to laugh!’ I’m backstage thinking ‘You’re killing me here,'” the humorist and author says. “If you say to people: ‘Get ready, this is really funny, he’s gonna slay you with laughter,’ you’re going to cross your arms across your chest and say, ‘OK, show me how funny you are, funnyman.'”
This year’s fest will feature a poetry-by-prisoners project, a Metrorail poetry partnership, a comedy night, and array of other irreverent events and projects. Festival founder P. Scott Cunningham, a former New Times staffer, gives the scoop on some highlights.
“This is war. Man is the enemy.” These words greet visitors to PopovaWorld.com, the website for a new comic book series released last week, just in time for International Women’s Day. Miami-based creative duo Dre Torres and Alex Valdes self-published the first issue of Popova with impeccable timing, because the city will witness International Women’s Strike Miami: Femmes Day of Resistance today, Wednesday, March 8.
The Cure gave its fans a reason to wear black in June last year when the English rock band made a tour stop in Miami. Now the group’s founding drummer, Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst, is giving fans a reason to read. This Friday, February 24, Tolhurst will wrap up his book tour promoting…
When Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books, had a chance to host what some consider the greatest living American writer, Paul Auster, Kaplan knew he wanted to do something beyond a simple book reading. “We were in talks with Paul about coming down here to celebrate his amazing new novel, 4, 3, 2, 1,” Kaplan says. “His 70th birthday will have just passed, so I really wanted to do something special.”
During the second presidential debate, in early October, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton “a fighter.” He said, “She doesn’t quit. She doesn’t give up.” While that’s very much true, the same can be said of Bernie Sanders, who’s endured quite a few blows, many of them from his own party.
There is a singular, solitary comfort that comes from curling up with a good book. Books are an escape into both fantasy and reality. They can help us to dream or to learn. They are loyal friends and confidants. Perhaps, then, it is no surprise that even in this digital age, the decades-old Miami Book Fair is still as well attended as it has ever been.
The Miami Book Fair kicked off yesterday, bringing another impressive roster of authors and events to Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus. But after making it through the presidential election and reading a plethora of angry Facebook comments, you might feel more like chugging a cocktail than picking up a new book.
Maybe they thought we’d all had a little too much of Donald Trump’s racist banter over the past few months. Or perhaps it just seemed all too real now that the guy who talked in broad strokes about banning Muslims and Mexican rapists is about to enter the Oval Office.
