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The Hollywood Downtown Mural Project Beautifies Hood; Check Out Evoca1′s Piece

Monica Uszerowicz — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:01:19 +0000

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 [...]

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Design Agency Helium Creative Invites Participants to Get Creative, Floaty

Monica Uszerowicz — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:38:35 +0000

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, [...]

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With Community’s Help, Flagler Garden Flourishes: Proceeds From Saturday’s Night Owl Market Will Benefit the Garden

Monica Uszerowicz — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:45:56 +0000

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 [...]

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Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife! Miami New Times Moving to Wynwood

Erica K. Landau — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:43:24 +0000

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 [...]

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When Walmart Comes to Midtown: “Walmart doesn’t destroy small businesses, capitalism does.”

Salty Eggs Staff — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:10:32 +0000

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 [...]

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On Hurricane Sandy: Thoughts From a Former Floridian

Sean Piccoli — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:30:46 +0000

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, [...]

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The Wynwood Big Buy: How a Few Wealthy Developers Misappropriated Street Art to Jump Start Gentrification

Salty Eggs Staff — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:30:53 +0000

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 [...]

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José Garza, Organizer of New Monthly Event Submission, Has Big Plans, Goals for Lester’s and the Neighborhood

Monica Uszerowicz — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:49:13 +0000

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 [...]

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Girls’ Club Hosts Third Annual Art Fallout Saturday at Various Locations in Downtown Fort Lauderdale (Map Inside)

Monica Uszerowicz — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:30:43 +0000

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 [...]

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Life and Death on the Drive

Brandon K. Thorp — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:44:00 +0000

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 [...]

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