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Miami Heat Sued After Burnie Allegedly Injures Teacher

Burnie, the Miami Heat's anthropomorphic flame mascot, may be one of the most enduringly popular parts of the franchise, but one local elementary school teacher is taking the team to court after claiming that Burnie injured her during an event. That teacher, Susan Sanchez, claims she volunteered to participate in...
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Kurt Cobain Is Honored in the Stunning Montage of Heck

A post-Wikipedia biographical documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck finds Brett Morgen constructing a feature-length collage of notebook entries, demo tapes, rehearsal footage, home movies, archival photos, and drawings and artwork by the late Nirvana frontman. It's an impressive, comprehensive assemblage, designed to impart not a point-by-point historical account but,...
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Sparky’s Cuban Sandwich: A Happy Accident

In early 2013, Mimi Gross told her husband she wanted Cuban food. That man was Hans Seitz, owner of the downtown barbecue spot Sparky's along with Kevin Kehoe, who was testing ham recipes and fortuitously had Dijon mustard, pickles, Swiss cheese, and some bread on hand. Thus Sparky's Cuban Ex-Patriot...
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Archival Feedback Unveils Miami’s “Complex Nature” Through Sound

A boat sailing to Salamanca, Spain, in 1549 met an unfavorable fate somewhere in the Florida Keys. On the wrecked vessel was thirteen year old Hernando De Escalante Fontaneda who was saved and then enslaved by the indigenous Calusa Indians. He spent 17 years traveling extensively around the state and observing...
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Flowerbox, a New Artist-Run Space, Opens in Lemon City

Art spaces are popping up everywhere these days — downtown, the Upper Eastside, MiMo and, of course, Wynwood. But Lemon City's Flowerbox Projects has a unique vision that sets it apart from the crowd.  The brainchild of  artists David Marsh and Kristen Soller, the space supports emerging artists who have a...
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Dive-Bombing Mockingbirds Terrorize South Florida

One sunny afternoon in June, Denise Weinstein was walking Josie, her shaggy, white, Maltese shih tzu mix, outside Century Village, the 55-and-older South Florida retirement complex where she lives. That's when the birds attacked. "Two birds were swanning down on me like dive-bombers!" she recalls. "They looked like helicopters." The...
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Zaika in North Miami Transcends Tried-and-True Indian Favorites

When the longing for fragrant blends of coriander, cumin, and cardamom woven into rich gravies strikes, Miami's choices are few and far-flung. You could head toward Coconut Grove and grab a table at the now-larger Bombay Darbar. Or you can make the trek to Imlee Indian Bistro in Pinecrest to...
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On the Heels of a Public Dispute, MOCA’s Latest Exhibition Falls Short

One of the Museum of Contemporary Art's first exhibitions since the very public dispute between the City of North Miami and MOCA's former board, "Alternative Contemporaneity: Temporary Autonomous Zones" presents works by more than 50 of Miami's established and emerging artists. The show seeks to create a temporary autonomous zone...
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On Major Label Debut, Bomba Estéreo Never Loses Sight of its Roots

It was a typically dreary evening in the Colombian capital—cold and drizzling. Yet that didn't stop thousands from coming out on May 17 when Colombian sensation Bomba Estéreo gave Bogotá a sneak peak of its new album Amanecer ("Daybreak," in English) at a massive open-air, mountainside dance party on the...
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Lulu’s Nitrogen Ice Cream Is Coming to Edgewater

Like many other businesses, Lulu's Nitrogen Ice Cream was born in a college dorm. The big difference in owner Luisa Santos' case is there was a tank of liquid nitrogen in her Georgetown University dorm that night. The Columbia-born, Miami raised student was determined to make her own ice cream...