Sometimes Hollywood seems like Miami’s tempered, more mellow sibling: more affordable, slightly better groomed, a little less youthful—but almost as bustling and, as of late, just as artistically inspired. Thanks to Mayor Peter Bober’s Downtown Hollywood Live Music Initiative, the city has seen some beautiful cultural growth, and the Downtown Hollywood Mural Project is one [...]
Wave (Ethan) In The Frank Oz-and-Jim Henson-directed film, The Dark Crystal, Jen the Gelfling embarks on a journey to reunite a shard with a broken crystal, ultimately restoring balance to his universe. This is a children’s movie whose main characters are puppets, but the concept is mighty complex: it is not a simple tale of [...]
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, [...]
It was a brown leather sofa that prompted Sharif Salem’s love affair with Miami’s homeless furniture. Every day he drove by it on his way to work in his Little Havana neighborhood. And each day something changed. The sofa became part of the landscape, accumulating branches, dirt, and graffiti. So Salem took a picture, labeled it “the [...]
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 [...]
Locust Projects’ upcoming Spring Fling marks its 15th birthday, but this entire year will serve as one fluid celebration for the organization and gallery, whose projects, endeavors, and overall contribution to the community are as multifaceted as a gemstone. Founded in 1998 by a trio of Miami artists—Elizabeth Withstandley, COOPER, and Westen Charles—exhibits at this [...]
For me, I suppose the festival began at noon at the Galleria Mall in Fort Lauderdale. I valeted my car there and waited along with a dozen or so other folks bound for Fort Lauderdale Beach and the two-day, country-heavy music festival. In their bathing suits and bikinis, and I in my garish Hawaiian [...]
Previously on Bardot: a chic bachelor pad laden with masculine brio and attendantly hetero-pornish decor proved an unwelcome space for Juan Maclean’s queer-friendly house music. Outdated, old-fashioned, and unfortunately all too familiar, it was a fail. Last night was a different story. Michael Quattlebaum Jr. a.k.a. Mykki Blanco a.k.a. Black Sailor Moon (a.k.a. a million other [...]
If you go to the On the Road website, which works Kerouac’s rallying cry about “the mad ones” into HTML shorthand, you’ll notice an attempt to meme the movie into modern relevance. Be it “Were you born into the wrong generation? How would you fare with the Beats?” (hashtagged #TheMadOnes) or “Have you done your [...]
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 [...]
