2013 was a good year to be bad. This year’s best villains weren’t just goons with guns — although there were a few great examples of those. (Here’s looking at you, Sean Penn.) We also hissed at slave-owners, inventors, seducers, producers, and a couple amazing women who left an impression…
NADA Art Fair’s Fade to Mind Takeover With Kingdom, Nguzunguzu, and Total Freedom Sandbar, Miami Beach Saturday, December 7, 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach, when art walk goes to SoBe and takes steroids, is rife with the kind of surrealism that’d only make sense if Riff Raff narrated it. Celeb…
The convention center has closed. The fairs are breaking down. This morning, Wynwood is a lot more colorful — and a lot quieter. Art Basel 2013 is officially over. And now it’s time for the rehash. This year’s mega arts fest was arguably the biggest in Miami history, with the…
Photo by Hilary Bronwyn Gayle – © 2012 – OB Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.Download this week’s Voice Film Club podcast before you get on the plane or maybe listen to it on your way to a restaurant where you’ll eat turkey and get a little drunk on red wine.”I…
Beekeepers in More Than Honey.This year saw its share of incredible documentaries, but in 2013 the stand-outs are films that help flesh out the way we see the world. Below are fifteen docs we suggest seeing, from the grisly to uplifting. Click on the name of the film to read…
American Apparel isn’t the only big name selling artist-designed t-shirts during Art Basel this year. Life Is Art, a nonprofit dedicated to support the arts in South Florida, will announce the winner of its t-shirt design contest at an event kicking off Miami Art Week on Dec. 2 at Cafe…
The breadth of director Shaul Schwarz’s documentary Narco Cultura is staggering. A hybrid of hard investigative journalism and incisive cultural criticism, the film at its core is about definitions of success and power, and how today those terms are shaped by the shared forces of poverty and celebrity culture…
March: Book One isn’t just a graphic novel. It’s an autobiography, a coming-of-age story, and a call to action all rolled up into one. The book’s co-author, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, uses the graphic novel to reflect on how his childhood experiences set him on the path of non-violence and…
A non-Rastafarian reggae musician who grew up a practicing Muslim, Tiken Jah Fakoly is a native of Africa’s Ivory Coast who draws most of his material and inspiration from his home continent. His concern for the well being of his people has gotten him in trouble and even exiled for…
Dan Brown can see the future. Check it out: Back before he was the bagillionaire writer of The Da Vinci Code, luring legions of fans to events like the Miami Book Fair International, which he opens this Sunday, Brown was an English teacher at a tony New England prep school…
AirwolfberlinJonathan Brandis hanged himself 10 years ago this week at Sixth and Detroit in Los Angeles, in the second-floor hallway of an apartment building south of Hollywood near a decent doughnut shop and a cat groomer. He was 27 years old. And he was my first big crush. If you’re…
When it comes to connecting with others, one piece of advice not written in Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People is to give manicures. But Wassaic, NY-based artist Breanne Trammell shows how manicures can, in fact, turn strangers into new friends with her traveling project, Nails Across…
Stephen Marley is a man of few words. When asked what it’s like to follow in the footsteps of his famous father, Bob Marley, a man who comes as close to deification as our popular culture will allow, Stephen replies with only a sentence fragment: “Rastaman vibration positive.” See also:…
As Art Basel and the Miami Book Fair are poised to return, here’s some news that bridges the gap between modern art and literature: In February, artist Tim Youd embarked on a five-year project in which he plans to retype 100 novels in locations related to the novel and author…
On Saturday, Mother Nature was no friend to the inaugural Friends of Nature Music & Arts Festival as an almost Biblical downpour forced the cancelation of all acts — including headliner Matisyahu — scheduled to go on stage after 7 p.m., by order of the fire department. On Sunday, though,…
Birth of the Living Dead.The zombification of America got its start in 1968, when George A. Romero and a bunch of his friends and colleagues released Night of the Living Dead, the scrappy little horror movie that not only served as patient zero in the ongoing pop-cultural zombie apocalypse, it…
Photo by Jay Maidment – © 2012 MVLFFLLC. TM &2012 Marvel. All Rights Reserved. Thor: The Dark World just doesn’t compare to the 2011 original, in spite of its few redeeming qualities. That’s the consensus among this paper’s film critics on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, available now. Listen…
Gwar With Band of Orcs, Iron Reagan, and Whitechapel Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale Monday, November 4, 2013 Better Than: Any Halloween party that we’ve ever attended. “So, the human race goes bald, gets ugly, and wears a stupid skirt.” — Oderus Urungus On a drizzly Monday night, Fort Lauderdale was…
Wynwood is once again catering to all you freaks and fanatics. Its propagandic method of choice? Gory, strange films to lure the outcasts to the cinema. Guess Last Vegas is too “mainstream” for you people. Guess the new Tom Hanks flick won’t cut it. There’s just no pleasing you. Maybe…
screen grab from Grey’s Anatomy Thriler episodeGrey’s Anatomy’s take on the Miami’s face-eating zombie.Shonda Rhimes is hitting the bottom of the barrel when it comes to story ideas for the tenth season of her medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. Rhimes, the creator, writer, and executive producer of the show, brought Miami’s…
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club.On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss the upcoming Dallas Buyers Club, the late Lou Reed, 1983’s Get Crazy, 1979’s The Visitor, and 2008’s In Bruges. Matthew McConaughey extends his streak of taking on challenging roles in Dallas Buyers…
The line from Field of Dreams has been quoted so much it’s lost its meaning: “If you build it, they will come.” But this saying is absolutely true for Robbie Weir and his backyard skating ramp. The Florida Hall of Fame skateboarder’s life story has been chronicled both by New…
