We’re back at the head-to-head matchups on day two, with a tied game following yesterday’s amazing 5-5 tie. In case you missed it, I’m looking at the final 10 speakers from each night of the convention, comparing their speeches, deciding who did better, and then adding up the scores and seeing who had the better [...]
DWNTWN Art Days is a welcome, long overdue effort to bring the arts to downtown Miami – presumably from Wynwood’s Art Walk and the Design District. Consider the Adrienne Arsht Center and the number of artists’ studios, and the area makes a good, unsown venue for art display. While DWNTWN Art Days is two days [...]
5 p.m.: Convention opens with a blast of funk, and a huge scrim displaying a pastoral, and the words “Democratic National Convention: Americans Coming Together.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz looks gorgeous. Hair, white dress, makeup — this is the least tired she’s looked in a year or so. “Welcome to our deliberations,” she says. “We shall hold [...]
There’s not a lot I can say about day one of the Democratic National Convention that hasn’t been written about in a million places already. All the ups and downs, highlights and lowlights. But how did the RNC compare to the DNC on each of their first days? I’ve put together a head-to-head list of [...]
Uzoamaka Maduka has a theory: Counter to many people’s assumptions, young people do think. They read, write, argue, analyze, and debate. In fact, they are willing and able to contribute to the cultural discourse in society! Being part of the digital generation doesn’t mean their collective attention span is stretched by things more complex than LOLcats. [...]
Famed composer John Cage passed away just over two decades ago at age 80, long before Miami really figured as a place for Serious Culture. And yet, majorly forward-thinking cultural boosters working in the city managed a coup back then. Local experimental musician and artist Gustavo Matamoros managed to present a performance by Cage as [...]
Seventy-two hours before the Republican National Convention kicked off at the Tampa Bay Times Arena, I decided that I had to be there. Not because I wanted to go party for Mitt Romney, of course, but because it appeared that a movement of people, many anti-Republican, and others just anti-Romney, would be prepared to make [...]
At this point, complaining about Mitt Romney‘s inconsistency seems almost as fruitless an exercise as it is predictable. The GOP pick for the presidency routinely changes his positions in what can best be described as shamelessly pandering to voters. We know this — and we have known this since Mitt’s first White House bid. This [...]
Note from the editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]