Miami is a city in visible transition, and like a baby in the midst of his mental growth, it’s a fascinating thing to watch. In case you haven’t noticed, the crop of culture that’s been flourishing lately has been artistically nourishing, entertaining, and sincere. The Knight Foundation is, in no small way, partially responsible for [...]
Anywhere there’s a park with signage displaying park rules — “Don’t feed the bears,” et cetera — there is somebody at some point not observing the rules. So it goes even at the “park” built by New York artist Kim Holleman. Holleman’s “Trailer Park,” an old Coachman travel camper with a living jungle inside, was open to visitors late last September [...]
Spend some time on the social justice/feminist web — or really, just on Facebook — and you’ll likely come across this image featuring Iggy Pop in a halter dress, toting a Lady Dior snakeskin bag. It’s inspiring, to be sure, and certainly sounds like something Iggy would say; if there ‘s an American rock and [...]
On Friday night an original and sublime occurrence transpired at the New World Center in Miami called “Yoga Night at the New World Symphony!” The inaugural event combined a 30-minute symphonic performance inside the concert hall with a one-hour yoga class outside on a grassy pavilion known as SoundScape Park. At 7 p.m., the Frank [...]
Among all the talk of fiscal cliffs and shootings, the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii on Monday didn’t reach the level of newsworthiness to which it was perhaps due. Following the death of Sen. Robert Byrd in 2010, Sen. Inouye became the longest-serving member of the Senate’s majority party, and thus the Senate [...]
As Mortimer J. Adler wrote in the preface of the 1972 version of his classic How to Read a Book, “the educators of the country have acknowledged that teaching the young to read, in the most elementary sense of that word, is our paramount educational problem.” It’s been 40 years since that revised guide was published, [...]
I was 18 years old when I first saw Trainspotting, the film based on Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel of the same name. At that point in my life I was utterly clueless about the world of heroin addiction in Edinburgh, Scotland, and any interest I had was lost in the struggle to understand what the characters in [...]
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 [...]
When Hurricane Andrew tore through Southern Florida 20 years ago this week, one of its casualties was a structure that survived the storm but not the aftermath: Marine Stadium, a towering grandstand with a sail-like concrete roof and the waters of Virginia Key for a stage, withstood Andrew but was quickly declared unsafe by its [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
