Thursday Good timing or mere coincidence? Either way, with the recent conclusion of the Summer Olympics in Rio, it makes sense to continue to shine the spotlight on Brazil's vibrant culture. Consequently, the celebration continues with ArtBrazil 2016, the fourth-annual monthlong event that will, for the first time, be expanded...
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Haiti is in the midst of a serious presidential succession crisis, and current president Michel Martelly decided to make things even odder by dropping a sexist song targeting a female journalist, which, translated from Creole, is dubbed, "Give Themr The Banana." Martelly, by the way, is required to leave office on...
Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as "Farruquito," was born into one of the grand families of flamenco. His father was the late cantaor Juan Fernández Flores, "El Moreno." His mother, the dancer Rosario Montoya, was referred to as "La Farruca." And his grandfather, the founder of a flamenco school of...
As Florida Power and Light finalized plans to expand its nuclear reactors at Turkey Point three years ago, critics were aghast. The nuclear plant already sits at a environmentally fragile spot and upping the power production would seriously threaten the ecosystem, they argued. Turns out they were right. This morning,...
Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six months later, the film has hit theaters nationwide and fallen flat, thanks to intensely negative reviews from critics upset by its unceasing violence. It didn’t...
At the end of a semester-long study abroad program in Genoa, Italy in December 2014, a group of architecture students from Florida International University went out to a celebratory dinner. After the restaurant, many students and a handful of faculty members grabbed drinks at a local bar. At 2 a.m., three...
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Last week, the film The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal (El Sol Como un Gran Animal Oscuro) - directed by Miami-based filmmakers Christina Felisgrau and Ronnie Rivera (together known as Bleeding Palm) - made its online debut. Produced by the Miami-based Borscht Corp., the short had its world premiere at the 2015...
Here’s a fact: The Miami Heat have not won a playoff game since Prince died. Think about it. Here’s another fact: The officiating in the Heat’s first round series against the Charlotte Hornets has been decisively skewed towards the Hornets in a series that is now tied at 2-2. Coincidence?...
After continued efforts to increase safety and security at Ultra Music Festival, Miami police report a decrease in arrests from last year. Felony arrests, however, were up almost 50 percent. For the second year in a row, former Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez served as the festival's head of...
Using a single handheld camera, Israeli director Ido Haar spent several months in New Orleans with singer Princess Shaw. He claimed he was making a documentary about YouTube singers. In truth, he was documenting the raw beginnings of a viral video. It turns out a YouTube artist from Israel named...
Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump’s microbudget black-and-white English Civil War mushroom-trip movie A Field in England (2013) squeezed a tense and bizarre story from just a few dudes wandering around in a field. The married couple and filmmaking team — Wheatley as director and Jump as writer — previously made...
As hundreds of hip-hop heads turnt up with Robb Bank$ and crew last Friday at Rolling Loud’s Dab Stage, a more subdued affair was unfolding only a few yards away at the festival’s Citrus Stage. The Citrus Stage, touted as a showcase for up-and-coming indie acts and unsigned artists, offered...
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The most glaring missing option in Miami's public transit arsenal: an easy and effective mass public transit system that connects Miami Beach to the mainland. Plans have been discussed for decades with no results. Well, now Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine says his city will take immediate steps towards starting...
Once again, this year's Rum Renaissance Festival was filled with pirates, tiki aficionados, and rum. The spirit, which conjures up visions of white sand beaches and swaying palm trees, is distilled anywhere sugar is grown, which makes it the most universally loved liquid in the world. This year's festival set...
Matthew Kenney has called Wynwood's Plant Food + Wine: "the most beautiful restaurant I've ever worked on." After visiting, it's easy to see why the celebrity chef gushes about the locale. Guests are greeted by a sprawling, indoor-outdoor space complete with towering palms, a tranquil reflecting pool, and minimalist-style seating...
Drone warfare is a moral grey area, and this movie is on it. Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky stands alongside Drones and Good Kill as the cinematic equivalent of online commenters shouting “First!” on on a hot topic but not bothering to say anything new or insightful about it...
Local election season in Miami-Dade is now officially over with voters heading to the polls today in two commission runoffs in both Miami and Miami Beach. In Miami, Ken Russell has now officially been declared victor in the "election that didn't matter." Meanwhile in Miami Beach, two weeks after voters...
Last April, locals Modernage broke a hiatus with their first show in almost two-and-a-half years . The thrill of the single moment was enough to inspire the group — consisting of guitarist Xavier Vazquez, guitarist/keyboardist Garcia Freundt, bassist Izzy Silva, and drummer Alex de Renzis — to create again, which...
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For Mexican artist Carla Morrison, a decade’s worth of blood, sweat, tears (especially tears) and hard work as an independent artist brought her to Coachella, where she played an early Friday afternoon set both weekends at the Outdoor Theatre. It was a literal dream come true for the Latin Grammy...
The Miami Heat's season is on the brink. And it got there thanks to an inexplicable no-call at the end of Game Five from the referees on a blatant foul against Dwyane Wade. With 4.5 seconds remaining in the game and Miami down by two, Goran Dragic saw his three-point...
The call came in to police at 1:16 a.m. November 22, 2009: a burglary in progress at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, a former yacht club that had become a resort hotel perched on the Intracoastal Waterway just off the 17th Street Causeway. Kenneth Post, the burglar, was a 46-year-old,...
International music icons and lifelong friends and collaborators, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil will make their first concert appearances as a duo in Miami and Miami Beach this weekend. The pioneering Brazilian singer-songwriters, both 73, share a musical chemistry that’s by turns complementary and telepathic. They’ve obliterated stylistic barriers, nimbly...