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 [...]
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 [...]
Salty Eggs’ Valyn Calhoun was at Fort Lauderdale’s ArtServe on Saturday to capture Red Eye, the annual event aimed at showcasing and promoting new, underground, local artists. Photos by Valyn Calhoun: Check out our Facebook page for the full gallery in hi-res. Tag and share away!
Local tattooists and tattoo enthusiasts crowded Green Room Friday for a tribute to the late shock artist Telle Crooks. The second event of its kind at the downtown Fort Lauderdale nightclub, the Art of Tattoo 2 featured DJs, a performance by Web3, and works by local tattoo artists. Photos by Valyn Calhoun: Check out our [...]
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 [...]
Andrew Vincent’s boutique, Public Image Vintage, is named after the English post-punk group Public Image Ltd – so it’s fitting that the shop’s headquartered a few doors down from Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale. The neighborhood is all hemmed together nicely: local businesses drawing inspiration from each other and working together. In fact, Vincent premiered his [...]
At first it looks like an amateur sex tape – not that high-quality National Geographic porn. The huge 1,500-pound creatures flop around as beach goers watch, and are shockingly fleet-flippered when chasing down one particular manatee. A kid yells, “they’re mating!” while a man observes it as more of a “gang bang.” But instead of [...]
Until recently, Radio-Active Records sat in a nook of the Gateway Shopping Plaza on Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale, a hideaway between stores selling sandwiches and soap and vintage dresses. Like the archetypal record store of the imagination, Radio-Active was born when, creatively speaking, its surroundings were in the midst of a dearth — Blue [...]
Record Store Day has gotten so big so quickly, it’s spawning subplots: Will the hardened eBay sellers who try to buy up all the limited album pressings spoil the fun for everyone else? Will the resurgent vinyl LP — the centerpiece of Record Store Day’s expanding product line — continue its retail revival? Or have [...]
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 [...]
