Gallery Girls, Episode Six: An Art Basel Homecoming for Liz and Amy

After five long, eye-rolling, twisty-mouthed episodes teasing a trip to Art Basel, the girls of Gallery Girls finally made their way to Miami in last night’s installment. And the result was pretty much what we expected: the Brooklyn girls trying way too hard, Liz Margulies revisiting her daddy drama, and…

Welcome to the Future: Tow Monsters

There’s no denying Miami’s weird-ass ways. So every other week, Welcome to the Future addresses the absurdity of life in the Magic City — in comic art form, naturally…

South Florida Zombie Crawl to Fill Midtown With the Bloody Undead

From the disturbing causeway face-eating incident in Miami to Maryland’s homicidal housemate, the word “zombie” probably appeared in more headlines this year than ever before. And the zombie mania isn’t over. Now that Halloween’s almost here, the undead are about to walk again — specifically, in the first-ever South Florida…

Toronto International Film Festival: Meet the Monsters

A critic’s report from a film festival like Toronto, where something like 300 features were unveiled from September 6 through 16, can be something like a Rorschach test–or, at least, it can be something like the Rorschach test depicted in Paul Thomas Anderson’s TIFF entry, The Master, in which Joaquin…

Dimensional Art Steals Spotlight With Gallery-Opening Auction

It wasn’t like Serafin Debesa just woke up one day and decided he would risk everything and leave the corporate world behind.”I had been feeling like something was missing for years,” said Debesa over a Cuban coffee, surrounded by several of his thousands of pieces in the soon-to-be-opened Dimensional Art…

Finding Nemo 3-D, and Why 3-D Filmmaking Is Not the Future

Coming to your local megaplex this weekend is the Pixar masterpiece Finding Nemo, the delightful story of a father and son clownfish who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef. The movie, originally released in 2003, was a gigantic hit, and remains the best selling DVD of all time.So why…

Artist Guido Mena Creates Vivid Works in a Single Sitting

Most artists, when they begin a new work of art, have a preconceived notion of what they’re about to put down on the canvas. But Guido Mena does not. He simply begins with a line and takes it from there.”Inspiration is a dangerous thing. A lot of artists wait to be…

The Ten Best Things to Do In Miami This Weekend

The week’s been rough, y’all. The week. Has been. Rough.Not to worry, though. It’s finally Friday — can we get a hell yea? — and we can finally start winding down and prepping for the weekend. Frankly, we’re not up for doing anything this weekend besides catching up on some…

The Real Housewives of Miami, Episode One: It’s All About Elsa Patton

See more Real Housewives recaps, interviews, news, and videos.We’ve spent all week getting psyched for the return of The Real Housewives of Miami. We attended the premiere party. We let Joanna Krupa call us a bitch (lovingly, of course). We got the scoop on Elsa Patton’s health after she collapsed.Finally, last…

Iron Man 3 Filmmakers Will Shoot In Miami Beach in October

See also: Iron Man 3 Begins Filming in South Florida October 1.Yesterday, we reported that Iron Man film crews were headed to Broward County next month — strange, we thought, because all our sources said the production would shoot in Miami-Dade.Happily, it looks like our sources were correct.The flick will…

Double Robotics’ Robot Puts Virtual Teleportation at Your Fingertips

Today’s exciting modern technology comes with plenty of old-fashioned hand-wringing. Kids don’t play outside anymore! Texting has replaced talking! You can’t sit through a civilized dinner without somebody spending the evening with his face buried in his iPhone!If you’re a Luddite who hates these modern trends, get ready for your…

Ten Things You Don’t Know About Chris Bosh

In the brotherhood that is Miami Heat’s “Three Kings,” Chris Bosh is the often overlooked middle child. Think about it. Dwyane Wade is Mr. Miami, now a New York Times bestselling author in addition to the 305’s own basketball superhero. LeBron James is arguably the most famous basketball player actively…

Optic Nerve Film Festival Returns to MOCA Tomorrow

Tomorrow night, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami will once again host Optic Nerve, a film festival of inventive short films produced by up-and-coming artists. A total of 16 films were chosen by experts in the local film and art world out of 271 submissions sent from across…