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Five Reasons to Enter the Silly, Sad World of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman

BoJack Horseman lurched out of the gate last year with a whole lotta animal puns and one uncomplicated thesis: Old sitcoms suck. An aggressively stupid and mawkish show from the late Eighties called Horsin’ Around, about an equine-human hybrid in Cosby sweaters who adopts three adorable orphans, made its star,...
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Miami’s Monique Hopes to Inspire a New Generation to Shine Bright

Selena. Gloria Estefan. Jennifer Lopez. The past is full of strong, sensual, and talented Latina superstars who continue to shine in our hearts and on our screens, but look to the budding young faces of the present, and there’s a certain vacancy. That’s what Miami’s Monique hopes to change. Talking...
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Miami Memoirs: Revisiting Mary Ellen Mark’s Miami Photographs

In the fall of 1986, Tropic Magazine of the Miami Herald hired Mary Ellen Mark to come to Miami. For editor Gene Weingarten and art director Phillip Brooker, it seemed only natural for an up-and-coming city quickly forming a national image to call in one of the era's leading photographs...
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Miami Gardens Is Florida’s Most Liberal City

Florida isn't a red state or a blue state. You could call it a purple state, but really it's more a gradient state. With a few notable exceptions, the deep red of the north fades into the deep blue of the south. So it's really no surprise that Miami Gardens...
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The 12 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday, September 3  As locals, we tend to take Miami's innovative structures for granted. Traveling from Point A to Point B, not noticing all the unique elements that make this city so special, is usually what most occupies our day-to-day thoughts. Knowing we could all use a little shock to...
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The Twelve Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Friday, September 11 Dwntwn Art Days is like a three-day treasure hunt, with the treasure being so much art that your head spins. This year marks the fourth-annual Art Days weekend, a collaboration between the Miami Downtown Development Authority and the cultural spaces and artists residing in downtown Miami. Beginning...
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Emerson Dorsch

The recently renamed Emerson Dorsch has the honor of being the first gallery to put down roots in Wynwood way back in 2000. Husband and wife team Brook Dorsch and Tyler Emerson-Dorsch revamped their spot in 2013 to match their shared vision, and the result is an upgraded take on one of the best galleries […]
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Date Aqui Pana

Native to Venezuela and Colombia, the arepa is a corn pone split in half and then stuffed with goodness, resulting in a stomach-expanding cornmeal sandwich. At this small Venezuelan deli, which might appear as just another Latin-American snack shop complete with tradional favorites listed on a chalkboard, every variety of arepa is available, each less […]
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Tiësto Weighs in on EDM’s Complicated Relationship With Women

In the 2002 song "Without Me," Eminem told Moby: "You're too old, let go, it's over/Nobody listens to techno!" He was wrong, of course. And in a cruel twist of fate, techno ended up outlasting Slim Shady himself. The Detroit native wasn't oblivious to techno (a genre his hometown played...
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Kratom Bill Now Proposes Research, Not Ban

Kratom, a plant in the coffee family from Southeast Asia, is the latest craze for those looking to get a little high legally. It's been used for thousands of years for both medicinal and recreational purposes, but its exact effects are not well studied nor understood. Thanks to the internet...
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Miami Chefs Flock to Green Strawberries

Green strawberries appeared on Miami restaurant menus in force this season, and you can thank Palm Beach for it.  Last year Daniel Boulud's Cafe Boulud requested some of the tart, unripe fruit from Jodi Swank's Loxahatchee farm. When the season closed in June she and her husband Darrin sent a...
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Ironside Pizza

Ironside Pizza is a straightforward place that takes its pizza seriously. So much so that they hired a pizzaiolo certified by Italy’s so-called pizza police to oversee pie production. The key is how the dough is stretched: never in the air, and from the center out. What results are pies with supremely thin centers requiring […]
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Tira D. Toss

Tira D. Toss embodies the blending of cuisines reflected in the name, an odd spelling for “tiraditos” (raw fish in a spicy sauce). What resulted is a humble gem with a lengthy list of treats that, like the restaurant itself, hides in plain sight. The Peruvian sushi rolls are the menu’s biggest attention-grabbers. The Rolls-Royce […]
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Ultra 2015: 76 Arrests Reported at This Year’s Festival

Ultra Music Festival promised to up security and safety this year after a number of troubling incidents increased calls to boot the EDM-fest from Downtown last year. They brought in former Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez as head of security, and changed policy to no longer admit minors to...
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MGLFF 2015: Kristen Wiig Shines in Nasty Baby

Making and/or having a child seems like such a struggle, or at least film has injected that mentality to someone like myself: someone who will eventually resort to adoption or in vitro fertilization (IVF) because of my queerness. With that said, a film like Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby doesn’t make...
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Culoe de Song on African Dance, Innervisions, and New Album in Progress

The South African electronic dance music scene may not be as prominent as those of North America and Europe, but house music has certainly found a more than worthy representative in native son Culolethu Zulu. Back in 2008, the then-18-year-old production wunderkind would attend the Red Bull Music Academy held...