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Miami Film Festival 2015: The Record Man's Funky Party

By Jacob Katel
Mar 12, 2015

Henry Stone was probably drinking Cognac with James Brown in the afterlife looking down on the rooftop of the Betsy Hotel for The Record Man's awesome opening party. The Miami International Film Festival event was a mix of hundred million-record sellers like George McCrae, Grammy winners like Willie Clarke, Bahamian...
Miami Film Festival 2015: Sweet Micky For President Director Talks Politics, Haiti, and Pras

By Jacob Katel
Mar 10, 2015

Ben Patterson never thought the mini skirt, thong, and diaper wearing cross-dresser he was filming would become President of Haiti, but he did. And actor Marlon Wayans found the story so entertaining he jumped on board as an executive producer. Michel Martelly, aka "Sweet Micky," was one of Haiti's most...
2014's Best Street Art in Wynwood

By Jacob Katel
Dec 31, 2014

The streets of Wynwood are one of the 7 great wonders of the art world. With over 1,000 new pieces spray painted each year, it has quickly become one of the most densely muralized neighborhoods in the world. And while life goes on in the urban core, these paintings bear...
MSG Cartel's Locals Only Art Basel Show: "Paintings That Don't Cost Thousands"

By Jacob Katel
Dec 4, 2014

While other artists fight for space in Wynwood, the notorious MSG Crew have a 340,000 square foot building to paint however they want. The former Biscayne Plaza, a main site of the Michael Bay action flick Pain & Gain, is now called Midpoint, and as part of its renovation and...
Snapshots of the Swamp: Miami Book Fair's Pop-Up Lounge Welcomes Buika (Photos)

By Jacob Katel
Nov 21, 2014

The voice of Buika is a melodious blend of Africa, Spain, and the Mediterranean, with an amazing quaver more powerful than the Plava Laguna from the excellent action flick The Fifth Element. Hailing from the island of Majorca, near Ibiza, she now calls Miami Beach home. And she has a...
Ben Greenman on Questlove, George Clinton Memoirs: "When It Comes To These Books, You Have To Audition"

By Jacob Katel
Nov 19, 2014

A great book is like a great song, once it gets in your head, it's in there for the rest of your life. Just ask Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and George Clinton, two of America's greatest living recording artists, and now authors. Their albums and shows have pushed the creative boundaries...
Steve Almond's Top Ten Reasons to Say Screw the NFL

By Jacob Katel
Nov 7, 2014

Steve Almond wants NFL players who smoke weed to be able to get high in peace. The author of Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto told us, "The NFL should shut their fucking mouths about players who wanna smoke pot. They'd rather have them all shot up on Toradol, drinking...
Robert Mazur on Working Undercover: "Miami Is the Crossroads for the International Drug Trade"

By Jacob Katel
Nov 5, 2014

Robert Mazur was an undercover federal agent famous for staging a fake wedding, inviting the biggest coke lords and drug bankers in the world to his bachelor party, and arresting them when they showed up. As mafia leader Bob Musella, he infiltrated the cocaine banking underworld, where black market blood...
Knight Arts Challenge People's Choice: HICCUP Hopes to Foster Hialeah's Art Scene

By Jacob Katel
Oct 24, 2014

People's Choice Awards nominees are live. The community can vote now through November 17 via text message for one of six selected Knight Arts Challenge finalists to receive $20,000 to fund their projects. It's a text-to-vote campaign: Choose your favorite group and text its code to 22333. Of the 75...
Aholsniffsglue's "Pink Show" To Fight Breast Cancer: "This Is Dedicated To My Mom"

By Jacob Katel
Oct 9, 2014

Pink eyeballs, fight cancer with fresh pink eyeballs, get em' while they're hot. Miami's own Aholsniffsglue is raising money to fight the evil disease that took his mom's life, and you can help. Visit Wynwood's Gregg Shienbaum Gallery and purchase a special October pink edition of David Anasagasti's (AKA Ahol)...
Vice Gallery in Wynwood Opens With MSG Crew Show: "They're Not 16 Years Old Anymore"

By Jacob Katel
Oct 7, 2014

The mighty MSG Crew are a band of spraycan warriors so notorious their crew name rings bells from Budapest to the gates of hell, and their battle-scarred fists serve testament to a baptism by concrete, paint, and razorwire. Their souls, however, are free as aerosol blasting from a new can...
Jorge "Jokes" Yanes Talks Producing Avaricious and Making Movies From Scratch

By Jacob Katel
Sep 24, 2014

Jorge "Jokes" Yanes is one of the most respected filmmakers in Miami. Almost ten years before Youtube, when the TV news was still editing on Beta tapes, Yanes built his own computerized editing system in his family's home from Chinese parts bought in Doral. He's done every job on every...
Billy Corben on Cocaine Cowboys Based TV Show: "More Tony Soprano Than Tony Montana"

By Jacob Katel
Sep 19, 2014

Is America ready for a ski trip to Miami? Fresh powder is about in hit TNT like a brick to the face. The TV show based on the movie Cocaine Cowboys, currently being called "Untitled Cocaine Pilot" has officially been greenlit for a pilot by the network. It's being brought...
Borscht 2014: Behind the Scenes of Stripper Wars at King of Diamonds (Photos)

By Jacob Katel
Sep 15, 2014

Getting naked for money is coming to a silver screen near you. Stripper Wars is a new Miami film that explores the world of poledancing at one of the world's premier gentlemen's clubs. Directed by Giancarlo Loffredo, the short flick calls itself "the first art movie ever shot at King...
South Beach Bike Week: Bikinis, Hogs, and Classic Rock

By Jacob Katel
Aug 25, 2014

Even if a single drop of rain doesn't drop this beautiful Labor Day Weekend, Ocean Drive will thunder with the rumble of a thousand engines. South Beach Bike Week is here again! And that means a one of a kind "Biker Village" on Ocean Drive between 8th and 10th streets...
Puppy Mugs: Miami Artist Mxytsplyk Could Paint Your Pet as an Ironic Scarface

By Jacob Katel
Jul 24, 2014

Your dog could be immortalized as Tony Montana in oil on canvas by a mysterious Edgewater artist called Mxytsplyk. His new "Puppy Mugs," a commissioned work series of ironic pet portraits, are coming soon to a son of a bitch near you. We caught up with the talented paintrepreneur to...
Jacksonville Muralist Jessica Becker Takes Over Shots Wall in Wynwood (Photos)

By Jacob Katel
Jul 14, 2014

If you want to travel the world and do street art, chase your dream and live it. That's the message from artist Jessica Becker, who is down here from Jacksonville on a commission after winning a mural contest held by Shots in Wynwood. Now, she has three weeks and 85'...
Yo Amo 305's Latin American Artist Residency Brings Argentinian Artists to Wynwood Art Walk

By Jacob Katel
Jul 11, 2014

You've seen the shirt, now here's the truth: Yo Amo 305 are a Miami art collective doing great things for the culture of Miami. They offer a yearlong artists residency program bringing Latin American street artists to Miami to create fine art for their gallery across the street from Panther...
Uruguayan Sculptor Daniel Escardó at Gary Nader Fine Art: "Everything Has To Connect"

By Jacob Katel
Jun 20, 2014

Want to go to a free world class museum in Wynwood? The Gary Nader Fine Art offers 55,000 square feet of blue chip Latin American masters like Wilfredo Lam, Fernando Botero, Cundo Bermudez, and many, many more assorted other greats. Recently we found Uruguayan sculptor Daniel Escardó, from Montevideo, upstairs...
Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston: Inside HistoryMiami's Retrospective (Photos)

By Jacob Katel
Jun 11, 2014

Cassius Clay lived in Overtown, and became Muhammad Ali in Brownsville. He owned a duplex in the City of Miami, was loved by the local black community, and could often be found entertaining neighborhood youths with his storytelling and athletic prowess. Walk up to any stranger of a certain age...
Cocaine Cowboy Director Billy Corben on New Miniseries The Tanning of America: "Find A Good Story, Don't F**k It Up"

By Jacob Katel
Feb 28, 2014

You won't see much Miami in Rakontur's four-part docu-series The Tanning of America, which aired on VH1 this week. The national TV viewing audience was once again denied access to the truth of how integral the characters in our city have been to that "tanning" process. And you certainly didn't...
Hell Bound City Tattoo Founder Esteban Dalpra Recovering From Hit-and-Run: "I Was So Close to Dying"

By Jacob Katel
Nov 25, 2013

Last month, Angel Alberto Ochoa struck motorcyclist Esteban Dalpra with a seven-ton box truck and left him for dead in a torrent of blood on North Miami Avenue at 45th Street. The GMC w4500 work vehicle he hit the beloved Miami tattoo artist with has a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating...