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  By and for Young Artists, the Flex Brings a Fresh Music Competition to Miami

  December 18 at 10 a.m.

  Kalil Bohannon invested only $150 in the launch of his avant-garde music showcase. It took place in an empty parking lot at Florida International University. Only 40 people showed up for the outdoor open mike composed of a tent, lights strung on a wall, and a few strewn-about tables. "It wasn't that great," Bohannon recalls. "I thought it went terribly. But the people who showed up, they loved it. They saw the vision, what I was trying to do."

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  Bold Moves Propel the Artist Behind "Young Thug as Paintings" to Miami Art Week

  December 7 at 9 a.m.

  "Young Thug as Paintings" is a viral Instagram account pairing existing photos of the Atlanta rapper with fine art depicting subjects in similar poses.

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  Prolific Hip-Hop Photographer Shows Huge Polaroid Collection at Dream Hotel

  December 5 at 11:19 a.m.

  Renowned hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion rolls out a stunning collection of 665 Polaroid photos of hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Outkast, and Ludacris.

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  Okeechobee Fest Is Canceled for 2019

  November 30 at 8 a.m.

  For those eagerly anticipating the 2019 edition of Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, there's some bad news: It's not happening. Thursday afternoon, the festival announced on its Facebook and Instagram pages what many had suspected because of the delay in announcing a lineup: There will be no...

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  Boombox Opens in Former Bardot Space

  November 26 at 9 a.m.

  The creak of a door opening in a new venue in Miami is like a drop of blood in a shark-infested ocean: All of the city's night crawlers can hear the sound a mile away. But the noise is even louder when the new spot occupies the former space of one of Miami's most beloved venues. In July 2017, the owners of Bardot...

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  Key Biscayne Mounts a Smear Campaign Against Ultra Ahead of Today's Hearing

  November 15 at 7:04 a.m.

  Over the weekend, the Village of Key Biscayne released a video concerning Ultra Music Festival's possible move to Virginia Key. In it, Mayor-elect Mike Davey resorted to scaremongering to warn that Ultra was "evicted" from Bayfront Park because of "environmental destruction, noise, and increase in alcohol- and drug-related violence."