If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve seen that downtown Fort Lauderdale has become fertile ground for a crop of specialty design businesses like helium creative (that’s lowercase). Located on First Avenue and founded by Chris Heller, the self-described “boutique [and] full-service design agency” is just as imaginative as the feelings a balloon might inspire. They’re no spring chickens, [...]
When we interviewed Subculture’s Phillip Roffman about Block x Blog, he told us that “Black Locust Society is probably the most exciting aspect of Block x Blog for me, personally.” We can see why: whether it’s a pop-up shop or a party, the art collective’s projects—referred to as SWARM parties—are free-for-all hybrids of art and [...]
Record Store Day is to Radio-Active Records what Rex Manning Day is to Empire Records: a day that is magical, stressful, and potentially life-changing. Record Store Day at our dear Radio-Active has been massive the past few years—too many bands, food trucks, and happenings-within-happenings to enumerate here—but this year, Record Store Day will herald a [...]
In a city as beautifully green as Fort Lauderdale—nestled between the coast and a series of canals—one would expect just that: public green space and its utilization. The funny thing is, it’s there, but problems with structural planning, maintenance, and public involvement can lead to what feels like a dearth of areas in which to [...]
Home beer brewers: Have you ever felt that your concoction was so inebriatingly delightful that it had to be shared? Of course you have—artisanal foods and drink are more accessible than ever, so it’s no wonder that even Fort Lauderdale seems to have developed a surplus of home brews. Riverside Market, a mom-and-pop pizza and [...]
Advertised as “A Tale of Sluts and Bolts,” in which a man rebuilds his dead fiancée with the body parts of prostitutes, Frank Henenlotter’s Frankenhooker (playing Sunday as part of the monthly “Splatter-Rama” at Cinema Paradiso) on the surface reads like it could just as well be called Fratboystein. The film’s original selling point, a [...]
For some artists, a singular, specific vision compels the creative spirit, and many labor an entire career towards delivering an ideal iteration, or satisfying some perfection of a concept. Then, there are people like Bruce Lamont. Lamont is a multi-instrumentalist, a jack of many trades, and a scholar of what could be considered to be [...]
Real life news events are often stranger and more pathetic than fiction — especially in Florida! So is it funny or tragic that the headlines in the Onion, the long-running fictional newspaper turned “news” broadcast, often seem totally plausible? Call the publication prescient, because what started out as a student paper has become a go-to [...]
South Florida’s independent musicians may have only a few physical spaces in which to gather, but they exist. For those along other ranges of the visual arts spectrum, places to get together, feed off each other’s ideas, and sell their wares are a little more sparse. A handful of new and expanding local markets, though, [...]
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 [...]
