The embargo the United States placed on Cuba for more than half a century comes with a cultural caveat. For years, the Communist island banned all propaganda that emanated from the West. On the other coast, the U.S. shunned artists who supported the regime and propped up the work of...
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Has $14.9 million ever bought less? As Jeb Bush's dispiriting campaign for president limped to an all too predictable wet thud of a finish in Iowa last night, his supporters played down the ramifications. New Hampshire matters much more, they say. Iowa's strictly conservative base was never a great fit...
For the past 17 years, the Chavista wave started by Hugo Chavez and carried on by his successor Nicolas Maduro has held an iron grip on Venezuelan politics, from the national assembly to the presidential palace. While Maduro still holds onto his executive power, Chavismo has taken a historic blow at...
The Albert Einstein quote "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere" aptly sums up the point NatGeo's hit show Brain Games tries to make. Our brains interpret information and influence every millisecond of our lives, yet the average person knows little about the most important part of the...
In the wake mass protests in Cleveland, Ferguson and Baltimore, cops nationwide have scrambled for ways to better police themselves. Body cameras have quickly emerged as a consensus choice to add clarity to the often muddy waters that follow a fatal police shooting. Miami's no different — the past year,...
The results of local elections have a huge impact on our lives. But across Miami, local election turnout has historically been meager. In the last Miami Beach mayoral race, in 2013, just 25 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot. In Miami, that number fell to 11 percent. And across...
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As the Golden State Warriors inch closer to breaking the Chicago Bulls' twenty-year old NBA record of 72 wins, talking heads have begun arguing over which team is the best of all time. Sports fans love to claim that whatever we're witnessing at the moment is the best ever, while...
French artist Jérémy Gobé has spent the past couple of months living and working at Fountainhead Residency in Morningside. His first visit to Miami has inspired him to create new sculptural pieces and remount an installation of his much-lauded Freedom Guided Wool (2014) at BassX. The exhibition space, located next...
A month after opening this past September, Marion seemed the culinary rebirth of artist George-Pierre Seurat's masterpiece Un Dimanche Aprés-Midi à l'Île de la Grande Jette. Like the 1884 painting depicting a well-appointed crowd enjoying a bucolic weekend afternoon in Paris, this gold-splashed, 260-seat bistro on the ground floor of...
If chillwave is as dead as the blogosphere claims, someone forgot to tell Chrome Sparks. Born Jeremy Malvin, the Pittsburgh-bred and Brooklyn-based musician, best known for his viral hit "Marijuana," will perform at Bardot as a three-piece band this Friday after opener Moon Diagrams. If it were possible to genetically...
In 2008, Patrick Murphy was a Republican who cut a $2,300 check to Mitt Romney. In 2016, he's a Democratic congressman running for Senate who just got the endorsement of Barack Obama. My, my, how things can change. This despite the fact that a poll released yesterday shows that while the majority...
Aylen Hidalgo says her supervisor has always been a stickler for clocking in on time and not leaving her desk or making personal calls. As a result, her job in finance at CareerSource South Florida, a county agency with a $70 million budget to help job seekers, has always been...
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Last night, Bernie Sanders managed to pull a historical upset against Hillary Clinton in the Michigan Primary but to capture the nomination he'll have to pull off a few more of those magical upsets. A strong showing in Florida, the state with the fourth most Democratic delegates, next week would...
The main offices for the 33rd-annual Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) are hidden within the 91-year-old Freedom Tower on Biscayne Boulevard. On a recent windy Monday morning, Jaie Laplante, the festival’s director of programming, laces his fingers around a paper coffee cup in the building’s shadow and shows off the...
If you’ve been at all acquainted with the music scene in the past few years, you’ve likely heard of Pocket of Lollipops, a pair of locals who describe their own unique rhythmic flavor as “posh punk." The musical mainstays have been performing around these parts since 2008, and from the looks...
It wasn’t just multi-million dollar super yachts clogging the waterway at last weekend’s Yachts Miami Beach event, located on a 10 block stretch west of Collins Ave. in mid-Beach. Volunteers on standup paddleboards and in kayaks picked buckets full of styrofoam out of the water surrounding the event, too. Tracy...
Florida's Republican-lead legislature has a reputation for passing laws favorable to the gun lobby, but some measures even go to far for them. A bill that would have allowed people to carry guns onto college campuses has died in committee just nine days into the legislature's 2016 session, and doesn't...
The Brazilian butt lift is an increasingly popular cosmetic surgery during which fat is sucked out of one area of the body and inserted in the buttocks, leaving the appearance of a larger, firmer behind. It sounds simple enough, but be warned: when performed by the wrong hands it can...
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The night of May 3, 2014, in the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, federal prosecutor Dana Seetahal sat before a slot machine. Gambling was her favorite form of relaxation and one of her only hobbies. Her law enforcement career had left her little time for much else, and the brainless...
Inside a small guest cabin on the Carnival Victory, 6-year-old Qwentyn Hunter and his 10-year-old brother, Jermaine, begged their parents to order peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from room service. It was the last day of the family's four-day trip from Miami to Mexico in October 2013, and the ship...
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. On Friday we're here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a man manages to lock himself in his own trunk, a shoplifter is caught because she left her phone and her urine in a fitting room, and a woman makes a...
Floridians can't agree on a lot. Which is to be expected in such a diverse swing state, and the results of USF's annual Sunshine State Survey certainly attest to that. Floridians are split on all sorts of hot button issues from Common Core to offshore drilling. In fact, one of...