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

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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 [...]

Ultra Music Festival 2013: Pioneer Fatboy Slim Set to Play Both Weekends

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Last year, dance music icon Fatboy Slim celebrated the return of his Big Beach Boutique festival, a summer event that helped define the aesthetic of his Big Beat movement in the ’90s. This bigger, better edition hit the new Amex Stadium in his native Brighton, England for a two-day stand, packing in tens of thousands [...]

Revel on the Block Comes to Fort Lauderdale’s FAT Village Saturday

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Last June, the Fort Lauderdale-based landscape architecture and urban design firm, Cadence, helped transform two near-desolate blocks in the city’s downtown area into a buzzing, pedestrian-friendly marketplace-slash-dog-park-slash-Art-Walk. The endeavor was called Build A Better Block, and was part of a nationwide movement to improve city streets. As we discussed then, Fort Lauderdale tends to be [...]

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

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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, [...]

Here’s the Thing: Theaster Gates’ “Soul Manufacturing Corporation” Asks, What Does It Mean to Make Things?

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Theaster Gates might be an artist, but he is absolutely an urban planner. At a talk for the opening of Soul Manufacturing Corporation, his current exhibition at Locust Projects, he explained, “I don’t think that I’m engaged in artistic production at all. I am involved in meaning-making. Systems-making.” While he’s exhibited at museums and galleries, [...]

Gilbert King Talks Passion for History, Sheds Light on Research Process Behind “Devil in the Grove”; He Appears Sunday at Miami Book Fair

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Last March, a week after the murder of Trayvon Martin, HarperCollins released Gilbert King’s Devil in the Grove. As we said in our review at the time, this tremendous, impeccably researched book, which tells the story of Thurgood Marshall’s defense of the Groveland Boys — four young black men who were accused of raping a white [...]

Q&A: Julie Klam on Friendkeeping and the Delicate Art of Memoirs; Book Fair Appearance on Saturday

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Pop culture addicts who loved the original incarnation of VH-1′s Pop-Up Video prized the show for its irreverent, half-serious running commentary balloons. While, say, a hair metal ballad blared away onscreen, you might have read a comment on the vintage price of Aqua Net, or statistics on Spandex. The concept proved so beloved, in fact, [...]

Q&A: Adam Gopnik on Grad School, Food Philosophy, and the New Yorker; Book Fair Appearance Tonight

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Adam Gopnik’s most recent book, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food, centers, like so many other recent volumes, around food. But rather than spend the chapters waxing ecstatic about obscure ingredients or pushing for specific notions of health, Gopnik, appropriately for a New Yorker staff writer, takes a headier tack. [...]

Five Mystery Writers You Should Check Out at Book Fair

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While everyone loves a good mystery, it’s a genre overrun with writers, which makes it hard to decide who’s worth your time. To assist you, we’ve compiled a list of five mystery writers, both debut and established, who are participating in the Miami Book Fair this weekend and worth checking out. No matter what you’re [...]

Election 2012 Watch Parties in Miami: Free Beer, DJs, Bands, and More

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If there’s anything we can say comfortably about Election Day today, it’s that it’s sure to be an anxiety-riddled proposition for anybody who cares. Whether you voted early or not, or still have to hit the booth today, we’ve all got a long night to ride out glued to the polls. Why not share the [...]