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Social Justice Group Focusing on Women and Trans Issues Brings Political Action to the Everglades; Camp Fundraising Deadline Tuesday

Terra Sullivan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:50:03 +0000

For most involved in modern social justice movements, it is easy to pinpoint and identify the major, dominant oppressors under a capitalist patriarchal model that work to uphold all that that model stands for while denying relevance to everything that it does not (i.e. nature, women’s bodies, people of color, the trans community). But what’s [...]

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Submissions Still Open for Knight Arts Challenge; Informational Roundtables Planned for Tonight, Tomorrow

Monica Uszerowicz — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:54:33 +0000

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 [...]

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Park and Reclamation: Florida-born Artist Kim Holleman Builds a Preserve From Spare Parts

Sean Piccoli — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:00:13 +0000

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 [...]

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That Iggy Pop in a Dress Feminist Meme Isn’t Entirely Accurate, But It Was Born in Miami

Arielle Castillo — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:25:41 +0000

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 [...]

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“Yoga Night at the New World Symphony” Married Healing and Art

Salty Eggs Staff — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:42:05 +0000

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 [...]

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Danation: Farewell to Daniel Inouye, the Senate’s President Pro Tempore — and Its Biggest Badass

Dan Sweeney — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:59:04 +0000

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 [...]

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Donate to Give Miami Day and Help Expose Children to More Books

Shannon Sharpe — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:19:28 +0000

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, [...]

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Tonight at Books & Books: “Trainspotting” Author Irvine Welsh Reads From Latest Novel “Skagboys”

Shannon Sharpe — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:08:06 +0000

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 [...]

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Art Collective Southernmost Situations Will Take Over the Corner in Miami, Friday

Monica Uszerowicz — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:11:03 +0000

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 [...]

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Extreme Makeover Miami: Marine Stadium Needs $30 Million to Be Awesomest Venue Ever

Sean Piccoli — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:12:31 +0000

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 [...]

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