We bet you didn’t know that Miami is the only place in the continental United States with coral reefs just off shore. Well, it’s true. So why don’t these sea creatures get any attention? Colin Foord and Jared McKay are trying to change that through their artist collective/research and aquaculture…
Miami artist Jillian Mayer asks strangers to make creative babies with her on the micro-patronage site Kickstarter. You know, that site we keep talking about? The one that only seems to be a success in every other U.S. city beside Miami?Anyway, she’s looking for funding because she’s turning her smart…
Did everyone watch Mad Men last night? How was it? No, don’t tell us! We haven’t seen it yet. We were too busy looking for free events to tell you about. Here’s five for this week. Monday: If you have too much neurosis to ever get your scuba diving certification,…
As we write this, tropical storm Bonnie is banging at our back door, and our cars will soon be roof-deep in sewage-tainted floodwater. But there’s culture to be had out there, dammit! So we built a boat out of discarded pizza boxes and empty bottles of Proactive. (We’ve been watching…
If you want to see an independent film in Miami, you have to venture to Miami Beach for the Cinemathque, Tower Theater in Little Havana, or South Miami for Cosford Cinema on the University of Miami campus. For most of us, that means jumping on I-95, which can lower your…
When painter Purvis Young died of a heart attack at Jackson Memorial Hospital this past Spring, Miami ached at the loss of one its authentic cultural heroes. Young, in contrast to the ever-chipper Romero Britto, internalized and interpreted the 305’s urban strife. His paintings and murals were frantic with jagged…
If you’ve been to any Urban Outfitters location in Miami in the past year, you’ve likely seen Taylor Kienholz’s creations — he does the hipster store’s displays. But the California native’s work has seeped outside retail and into beloved bar Kill Your Idol. There you’ll find his first solo show,…
Dolphins, marlins, manatees, and ibises are the go-to symbols for Miami. But considering we’re the only place in the continental United States with coral reefs off our shores, it’s curious that these creatures get little attention. Colin Foord and Jared McKay are trying to change that through Coral Morphologic. For…
Ever since the final episode of the last season of Mad Men, we’ve spent Sunday nights making our stylish Mad Men Barbie dolls chain-smoke and cheat on their wives. So consider us the target demographic for hipster lounge Cafeina’s Mad Men party tomorrow night. Called the Mad Men-edition of the…
Blue man group at 25th Street and NW Second Avenue. More pics after you click…
Without even realizing it, you’ve likely admired Taylor Kienholz’s creations – that is, if you’ve been in any Miami Urban Outfitters store in the past year. (And we’re guessing about 80% of you have. That store is a necessary evil.) After Kienholz did store displays in New York and Los…
If there’s one silver lining to this whole BP oil spill, it’s that the world’s attention has been focused on the health and well being of our oceans. But remember when Frenchie artist Christo insisted on wrapping our Biscayne Bay islands in Pepto-pink, polypropylene fabric? Titled, “Surrounded Islands,” this 1983…
Put that gold AmEx card away. This week is on us. Below, we’ve listed one (at least!) free event for each day of the week: Wynwood galleries, celebrity book signings, climate change talks scored by the Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, and even space-western art films. Monday: Wynwood’s Bas Fischer Invitational highlights…
We’re hot on the trail of LeBron James, and if our sources are correct, he and Chris Bosh will join Dwayne Wade for this weekend’s Summer Groove block parties, comedy shows, and all-star games. If you’re part of the disgruntled lot chanting “Who’s LeBron James?,” you can skirt all this…
Remember when we bitched and moaned about Miami’s indie artists ignoring Kickstarter as a source of funding? Well, the micro-patronage site now has seven current projects in Miami, but it looks like we bitched a little too soon. According to the experience of one Miami team, Kickstarter is less a…
We’re big fans of DnD. No, not the ’70s role-playing game where make-believe wizards and warlocks shoot lighting bolts from their fingers. We’re talking about Miami’s quarterly animation event, Drinking and Drawing, where professional and amateur animators go pen-to-pen to create a two-minute film over rounds of booze. In the…
Patricia Franchini got what any American girl would want while studying abroad in Paris: an androgynous but sexy haircut and impregnated by a morally bankrupt Frenchman. She’s the protagonist of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film, Breathless, the pièce de résistance of French New Wave cinema, beloved for its film references, jump…
When you travel through the fabric tent at the door of Locust Projects, you enter a world of childlike neuroses and wonder. There are fire-breathing T-rex, docile sheep and goats made from wire and fur, dream sequence video art, and larger-than-life fabric foliage. Through the end of August, “The LAB”…
When researchers from the League of Paranormal Investigators set up cameras to document ghosts at the Deering Estate at Cutler, they captured an image of a man watching them from behind the boat basin. They also saw a woman dressed in Victorian clothing floating above the bay. So keep an…
If you ever wanted to hit replay or pause on the Wynwood art scene, summer is your chance. Exhibits have slowed, and galleries are pulling out old gems to remind you of the good things they own and you don’t. Take “Gallery Projects” at the David Castillo Gallery, where you’ll…
We really shouldn’t be telling you this, but heads up, tens of readers. Tomorrow night, you could star in your very own animation. Miami World Cinema Center’s Spencer Morin will conduct a covert, live animation at the hipster lounge Cafeina.Morin will sneakily capture images of the bar crowd, which he…
We don’t know what will surprise you more — the dancing, flickering images bouncing off the oak trees at Legion Park or the fact that there are actually people in a Miami-Dade park. This Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m., experimental film lovers and curious passersby will swarm the park…
