A graduate of University of Miami’s Marine Biology program, Aki Shiroza is now a researcher who works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But he’s also an artist. So when he recently ventured to the Gulf to document the onboard activities of NOAA’s Gordon Gunter, which was in…
Those of you who went to this Saturday’s Art Walk may have caught a glimpse of Karolina Wojtasik portrait photography series “{Sundara} Faces of India” at Gallery I/D. She spent two months riding rickshaws and motorcycles through India and Nepal, taking locals up on their hospitality, and snapping their portraits…
We hear you spent all your money on iPhone apps that track how poor you are. So we’ve researched a lineup of free things to do this week to keep the inevitable depression at bay.Monday: What to do when the summer lull kicks in? Look for art in strange places,…
FridayTonight, at Books & Books, hear the former tech editor of Fortune, David Kirkpatrick, discuss The Facebook Effect, his new book that softly but thoroughly investigates the social networking phenomena. The Cliff’s Notes: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is awesome.Filo al Fuego is a play about professional boxing in’60s Miami, set…
Last week, Larry King announced that he’ll end Larry King Live at the ripe age of 178. Nah, just kidding. He’s only 134. Anyway, we’ve only just come out of our shocked stupor and stumbled across this TV clip from the 1960s starring King, which reminds us that the suspender-wearing…
Miami can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to being associated with gun violence. The above short film is “Debrief,” voted Best Film of the Miami Film Race 2010, where two hit men have to figure out a way to hit their mark, a shut-in. The national Film…
We have good news and bad. Miami artists FriendsWithYou were commissioned to art up a public park, create installations in high rises, and treated like art royalty. But it all happened thousands of miles away from the 305 in a completely different country called Canada. (It’s not part of the…
Karolina Wojtasik shoots people. She shot South Asian farmers, fishermen, soldiers, mothers — eyes wide in youth or crinkled with time — in her portrait photography series “{Sundara} Faces of India.” She spent two months riding rickshaws and motorcycles through India and Nepal, taking locals up on their hospitality, and…
Think of the new Miami Art Museum exhibit, “New Work Miami 2010,” as CliffsNotes to the local contemporary art scene. Curator René Morales calls it a “complex show that represents a complex art community,” but if pressed to summarize, he says a lot of the pieces deal with urban development…
We’d wager the richest person in the world is the guy who created the “I Heart NY” design that covers souvenir tchotchkes to T-shirts in Third-World countries. But Milton Glaser never received a penny when NYC officials commissioned his graphic design skills for a morale-boosting PR campaign during the murder-…
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…
FridaySurprise, surprise. Courtney Love completely unraveled at Hole’s DC gig earlier this week. A Washington Post writer reports that she seemed to forget her own songs, belting out fragments instead of songs for her three-hour. She also spent much of the concert cursing out the crowd, finally disrobing only to…
Almost 30 years ago, Marc Joseph was a health counselor who worked with refugees at the Krome Detention Center in Southwest Miami-Dade. After one of the distraught detainees hanged himself, Joseph, also an accomplished musician, wrote the reggae-infused protest song “Refugee” for his band. Twenty years later, the same detainee…
Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, we all live in glass houses. At least you do if you’re one of the 500 million users of Facebook, a social networking site he founded that makes our private lives public. But what began as an interactive college yearbook has become a phenomenon where many…
Sure, you could continue to toil away at your day job, bank $8 an hour, and save up for a life of leisure when you’re too curmudgeonly to enjoy it. Or you could yank out all the crazy ephemera you have stashed in your closet since Aunt Dotty passed and…
There is no lapel ribbon pin, charity run, or celebrity spokesperson for humanity’s number one killer: old age. But according to Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner, gerontology is an active research field, albeit one with a long history of eccentrics. In Long for This World, he catalogs the search…
Monday: The best tribute bands are the ones that focus on the capturing the sound and not the look of their honorees. Go hear a free show of Roll the Stones at the Van Dyke Café for free renditions of “Start Me Up” without all that creepy Mick Jagger lip-smacking…
Asked the difference between his characters and Hollywood’s, director Spike Lee answered, “Mine are real.” Lee has made it his cinematic mission to accurately portray being black in America. In one of his first films, Do the Right Thing, he sketched a rich portrait of racial tension in a Brooklyn…
FridayTattoo artists from all over country will descend on Miami’s downtown Hyatt this weekend for the three-day Tattoolapalooza. There’ll be tattoo contests, marauding evil clowns, inking seminars, gnarly bikers, and goth punk bands. If you’re going to get inked, this is the place to do it.Yes, it is genetically possible…
The cool kids’ table in the cafeteria is inviting you to sit with them. Or at least that’s what it feels like when the Borscht Film Festival announces it’s accepting submissions for next year’s festival. Above is a trailer for their CCCV short series (CCCV is the Roman numeral for…
The blogosphere is a band-eater. In 2007, those behind laptops adored Jax indie poppers the Black Kids. They raved about their debut EP, Wizards of Ahhhs, and the single “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You.” The pulsing online buzz launched them to the number five…
If you believe tribal legend, Miccosukee Indians fell from the celestial skies into a Florida lake and had to swim ashore to build their village. In 1992, those same skies released the wrath of Hurricane Andrew, downing their Australian pines and thatched-roofed huts. The tribe members looked for help, but…
