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 [...]
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 [...]
With the holidays and the height of “season” coming up — hello, Art Basel and New Year’s Eve — now is a good time to stay a little conservative with your weekends. Drink water, rest up, and consider some more wholesome fun before you start leaking dollars and brain cells for real. Luckily, this weekend [...]
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 [...]
Art walks, like all festival-type events, demand much from attendees, who must find a parking spot, wade through crowds that may or may not contain awkward acquaintances and extend their attention beyond themselves to take an interest in others. Sigh. Such outdoor events in Florida’s sweltering June heat tax the body as much as the [...]
This past Saturday, FAT Village gave visitors a glimpse of the downtown area’s potential. By creating a more socially interactive and visually pleasing street, neighborhood artists and volunteers were, according to Cadence’s Rebecca Bradley, “demonstrating, in a temporary way, ideas that we hope to become permanent.” She continued: “We want a more organized way for [...]
Between Fifth and Sixth streets, downtown Fort Lauderdale’s Northwest First Avenue is a relatively sidewalk-less hunk of warehouses and skimpy grass, flanked by apartments on one end and train tracks on the other. On Saturday, June 16, it will be abuzz with local businesses’ pop-up spaces, cleaner landscaping, more sidewalks, colorful murals, and cleverly shaded seating constructed [...]
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 [...]
