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, [...]
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 [...]
Miami New Times, along with sister paper New Times Broward-Palm Beach, will be the latest creative types to call the arts neighborhood Wynwood home when they relocate in February to the Wynwood Building, that angularly gridded, black and white hypnostructure off Northwest 27th Street and Northwest Third Avenue that was also the last Goldman Properties project to [...]
The title quote is from an article by Pablo Babanegra of Miami Autonomy and Solidarity. It sums up problems within local movements fighting the entrance of Walmart into their communities, and focuses on the construction of the Walmart Super Center in Midtown Miami (which has met intense opposition from many Miami residents). The article is [...]
The hurricane seasons of ’04 and ’05 were, in climate lingo, “active” for anyone situated at the time between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. I know because I was there, living in southeastern Florida, wondering what we’d all done to deserve so much sea-borne wrath. But the six storms to reach us then — Charley, [...]
Graffiti, in one form or another, has been a form of human expression since the birth of our species. Its modern incarnation developed during the late 1960s in the Northeastern United States, primarily in Philadelphia and New York. A few aspects differentiated it from simply writing political slogans or obscenities in public spaces and on [...]
When Daniel Milewski and Gallery Diet-owner Nina Johnson opened Wynwood venue Lester’s, the intention was to create a space that fostered a creative dialogue and allowed visitors (neighborhoodies and artists alike) to have a space in which to study or work or think or eat or drink. There just hadn’t been a similar non-commercial space [...]
If the goal of progressive art spaces in downtown Fort Lauderdale is to nurture the city’s creative identity, Girls’ Club is one of the area’s undisputed leaders, an establisher of many local precedents. The size and scope alone of the gallery’s collection validates such a claim: It includes international and local, historic and contemporary artists [...]
The poster was maybe two feet wide, three feet tall. It depicted three outlandishly beautiful young gay men standing side-by-side, framed by an expansive blue sky, squinting off toward something in the distance. Their faces were solemn, and above their heads was a solemn slogan. I won’t say just what it said, but I’ll share [...]
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 [...]
