Beginning December 1, Jim Drain of Bas Fisher Invitational, British artist Graham Hudson, and I are co-curating a project inside Design Miami (where my wife works) called The Brief Happy Life of Workshop Workshop. Here’s the press release, which I wrote, so I guess it’s a press release in the…
Tarell Alvin McCraney returns to Miami at the Borscht Film Festival
Where does our affinity for mustaches begin and end? The answer rhymes with infinity, for what male mug is not instantly improved by a paint-brush of testosterone? And what if that mug, by growing and maintaining that hair-bonzai, is also raising money to fight testicular cancer? Then you have an…
Instructions for not gaining ten pounds this Thursday: First, easy on the dark meat, dude. Second, stop drinking gravy straight out of the porcelain boat. Third, choose apple pie, pumpkin pie, or ice cream — your indecision does not justify combining all three into a sadness pile. Last, and most…
Rock star, star artist — what’s the difference now? If you’re former Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler, probably not much. The man who gave John Hughes the title song to his seminal film Pretty in Pink is still touring and writing new material with an updated version of the Furs,…
Quick, name the best Miami mascot. Sebastian the Ibis? Billy the Marlin? Bernie, the Miami Heat’s fuzzy acid-rain victim? All wrong answers. It’s I.C. Snowden, the ever-melting snowman who will lead the festivities at the 35th annual Winternational Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the tradition of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,…
If the Borscht Film Festival were a character in a Hollywood film, it would be John Matrix from Commando. The film scene in Miami has been kidnapped by the twin dictatorship of New York and L.A., and Borscht (insert closeups of café con leche residue in mustache) has only a…
The key to impressing that special someone lies not in etiquette, fancy clothes, physical fitness, intelligent conversation, Hummerzines, intimate knowledge of the kama sutra, or an assistant calendar editor’s position at New Times. It’s all about skills in the kitchen. And what says, “I chop down mountains with the edge…
Every now and then you just have to let the press release speak for itself, as is the case with this year’s ART BURN fair in Wynwood (123 NW 23rd Street). Setting off this Thursday, December 3, ART BURN bills itself as an “International Contemporary Art Expo and Immolation” and…
Often you have to look past the white tents and convention centers for the best work being shown during Basel week. Case in point, Invasion 68 Prague, a little show at the Miami Freedom Tower (600 Biscayne Boulevard) that’s easy to overlook.Put together by Miami-Dade College and the Aperture Foundation…
I remember the first time I saw a fixed gear bicycle. It was 2003 in Berlin, and the kid had had it for a week and had already been in like six accidents. No brakes? I thought he was nuts.But now the movement’s pretty much universal, and here in Miami…
Two very unique (and different) cinematic experiences for you today, both of which take place in places that get the Culture Blog’s “Two Pipes Up” of approval.One is courtesy of the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives: a screening of historic footage of the Civil Rights movement…
I remember the first time I saw a fixed gear bicycle. It was 2003 in Berlin, and the kid had had it for a week and had already been in like six accidents. No brakes? I thought he was nuts. But now the movement’s pretty much universal, and here in…
After God warmed up by making man and woman, he set his sights on creating a truly perfect creature — the pig. What part of the Great and Holy Pig is not tasty? Hoofs? Tasty. Tail? Tasty. Nose? Tasty. If the finger-wagging vegan right wing is correct and humans were…
Get thee to a nunnery, said William Shakespeare in Hamlet. As a scholar would point out, what Will really meant was, “You belong in a whorehouse.” Hardly tame material, yet sometimes it takes a modern twist to breathe life back into the Ol’ English. Enter writer Vanessa Garcia and her…
For sure, Miami street fighting is the shit, but even the most biased 305-homer has to concede that a lot of these bare-knuckle matches are unfairly one-sided, pairing a legitimate fighter such as Rene “Level” Martinez against some chump who just sobered up. That’s why it’s nice to see Martinez…
It might have taken a whole year for pundit Glenn Beck to start hating the families of 9/11 victims, but it took the rest of us about two minutes to start hating Glenn Beck. Who cares if he flip-flops on the issue of health care, hits on attractive female visitors…
It’s baffling to us that, in a city drowning in natural water features, we rarely end up at events that take place on the water. This weekend will be different, though, thanks to the second annual Downtown Miami Riverwalk Festival. Held at the confluence of Biscayne Bay and the Miami…
Back when we were in college — imagine dinosaurs roaming the campus — joining the rugby team was just an excuse to drink more beer. The matches didn’t last very long, and as soon as the whistle blew, both teams huddled around a keg and sang naughty songs while seeing…
Why is Jonathan Safron Foer, young novelist and lit celebrity, appearing in Miami two days after the Miami Book Fair International? Kind of weird, but also pretty awesome for those of us who missed some of our favorite authors–Tao Lin, Jonathan Lethem–to the inevitable choices one has to make between…
It took awhile, but the Marlins finally beat the Philadelphia Phillies this season.Fish rookie outfielder Chris Coghlan won the National League Rookie of the Year Award today, narrowly beating out Phillies pitcher J.A. Happ, according to ABC News.In 128 games this season, Cogs hit .321 with nine home runs and…
Born in Central Connecticut, poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi now lives in Los Angeles and teaches. Her accolades are numerous–Stegner Fellowship, Jones Lecturer, Rona Jaffe Women Writer’s Award, Bernard F. Conners Prize, Connecticut Book Award–but even they don’t prepare a reader for the richness inside her debut The Last Time I Saw…
