A John Lennon “Imagine” license plate greets you in the driveway of Joe Johnson’s home studio in Plantation. The common areas in the house are lightly sprinkled with Beatles memorabilia. A poster for the Beatles’ Vegas Cirque du Soleil show, Love, and an official print of Lennon’s “Dear Prudence” lyrics adorn...
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In 2008, Patrick Glemaud, the director and curator of Macaya Gallery, attended a climate change conference in Uganda. There, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame spoke of the catastrophic war between the Tutsi and the Hutu. Their war erupted over a politician who incited violence over the radio — not dissimilar...
The stadium christened as "Joe Robbie" 29-years ago now officially has its seventh name. After the "Sun Life" naming rights expired last month, Stephen Ross and the Miami Dolphins decided not to return to the most recent generic name, Dolphin Stadium, and have instead picked a new name. Emphasis on the...
Flash back to early March in the chaotic Republican primary. Miami's GOP golden boy Marco Rubio was still clinging onto faint hope that he could bring mainstream Republicans together against insurgent Donald Trump. But then the latest polls started coming out of Florida, and it clear that Rubio was bound...
Here's about as convincing an argument as I can imagine for the existence of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Disney and Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book reinvigorates an oft-told tale with star power, technology and calculated charm. It's been billed as a live-action remake (it's too good to be called a...
Top Chef season 13 champion Jeremy Ford is now also the executive chef at Market at Edition. The 30-year-old toque has been the executive chef at Matador Room inside the Miami Beach Edition hotel since the restaurant opened over a year ago, and now he's been tasked with overseeing the kitchen...
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Matisyahu was as singular an artist as there's ever been: a Hasidic Jew, long beard and forelocks included, unearthing the Judaic underpinnings of Rastafarian reggae and reconnecting them to his faith. But when Matisyahu the man (born Matthew Miller — he adopted the Hebrew moniker in 2001) broke away from...
There are few people in Miami who know more about trees than Bob Brennan. In 1969, the Coconut Grove native founded Brennan’s Tree Service, a tree care and landscaping company to inspect, feed and prune trees. Now an arborist at Fairchild Tropic Garden, Brennan is one of Miami’s foremost experts...
When people win a contest, they're usually gifted with a vacation getaway or even a new car. It's very rare that being lucky results in the opportunity to live out your career dreams. That's exactly what happened to Andy Bates and wife Frenchy MIngo, who won a a year's free...
“I’m HIV positive,” is a phrase that, for a very long time, people feared without much understanding. Over the years, humanity has finally figured out that HIV is treatable and its transmission preventable. The recent Paris 05:59 (Theo et Hugo dans le meme bateau) depicts the virus in a less glaringly...
Ben Carson on being black, Marco Rubio vs. Donald Trump as a video game, and Chris Christie as an outer space creature. It's been one helluva week. On this Super Tuesday, when the Donald is preparing to wrap it all up and move to the White House, Pepe Billete spouts...
The second season of Amazon's Catastrophe might do for the #TGIF-style family sitcom of the late ‘80s and ‘90s what the first did for the ailing rom-com: open-mouthed resuscitation on the operating table after one too many Garry Marshall–fueled heart attacks like Valentine's Day. (Or New Year's Eve? It doesn't...
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It's a little after 10 p.m. on a below-freezing February night in tiny Florence, South Carolina, a town of 38,000 not far from the coast. Just across from the municipal airport — which offers a grand total of three commercial flights per day — Club Compound is overflowing with sweaty...
It's a new year, which means millions of people are renewing their dusty gym membership, setting new goals, and putting together plans that will result in 2016 being the best version of "you." Then bam — you remember tax season is just around the corner and your motivation is killed. You plop...
There's no doubt about it. Kyu (pronounced like the letter q) is the hottest restaurant in Miami right now. This can be interpreted both literally and figuratively, because a sizable portion of the restaurant's menu is prepared on its wood-fired grill using a combination of Asian and American barbecue techniques...
There's really no question that beer has long been a man's domain. For decades, the industry wooed males in its advertising, with women either used as pinups or sidekicks. Even now, a walk into most breweries finds a skewed gender demographic, with more men brewing and drinking beer. So what does...
Thursday, June 9 Drink for a cause at the National Alopecia Areata Foundation's Art Uncorked, where guests can enjoy a philanthropic evening of vino and art. At Bottle & Bottega (2765 SW 27th Ave., Miami), sommelier Jacqueline Coleman will lead a winetasting, followed by a painting session guided by a...
It's a sad day for Miami music. It's a sad day for all music. Yesterday afternoon on Blowfly's Facebook page, a message was posted declaring Clarence Reid, also known by the stage name Blowfly, had entered hospice care after suffering organ failure as a result of terminal liver cancer. Dear Blowfly...
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Last time we checked on Cog Nomen, guitarist Buffalo Brown and drummer Ulysses Perez were campaigning to help raise funds for the release of their upcoming EP, Twin Stars. The Kickstarter campaign was also aiming to fund the production for the band's music video for “Fear of Missing Out," a project...
This past March, the music critics over at the New York Times ran a piece titled "Why We’re Not Making Plans for Coachella and Bonnaroo." In it, the authors raise several valid criticisms and concerns regarding the current state of American music festivals. Chief among the points discussed is the uncomfortably...
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we're here to bring you the weirdest. This week: 20 kilos of coke wash up on a beach, a drunk, pants-less woman who crashed into a Waffle House scores a Florida bingo, and two siblings who stole...
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