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 [...]
If you’re feeling particularly ambitious, head to any of the early morning yard sales in the Tri-County area one weekend. If they’re hosted by one of the area’s antique geeks, you’re bound to stumble upon Mid-Century Modern pieces. There’s something distinctly coastal about that era in design; you can imagine the sleekness of the wood [...]
In our era of dwindling attention spans and bloated media outlets hungry for eyeballs, there’s been a lot of talk about people not caring for the foundational and civilizing practices that separate humans from dirty swine (the few to begin with). God’s been dead since 1882, people are foregoing families for their careers in finance [...]
Last week, a set of portraits by Miami-based artist, Inez Hollander, entitled Miami Mosaic opened at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU — a forest’s worth of colorful, tropical bouquets may as well have (gently) exploded on the walls. On display until May 5, Hollander’s works, drawn from her Miami Grid series, are a cross-section of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
