The Foreign nominations in the Oscars has always been a bit weird. Essentially, it’s one category for the rest of the world, but somehow Britain always makes the cut on Best Picture, giving the sectioning a neo-colonial bent. Last year, the Academy awarded A Separation with an Oscar. It was the second Iranian film to [...]
The Wynwood art district’s Second Saturdays gallery walk is turning more and more into a bona fide monthly street festival. This weekend’s edition, for instance, will, wisely, feature the main pedestrian thoroughfares closed to pedestrian traffic. So if you want to extend the gallery-hopping into a full, festive evening out, it’s totally natural. Luckily, you [...]
Following the trends of the last five-plus years in South Florida, it’s a fallacy to say there’s no music worth hearing around here. Of course, though, the tricounty area’s got its favored genres. Besides the obvious Latin, hip-hop, and house sounds, even the artsier crowds got its preferred flavors. If you’ve got a love for [...]
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 [...]
