Archive for July, 2010

Born Again Blvd

Can MiMo Save Miami’s First Main Street? Blink three times and you might miss it. A 27-block stretch of cityscape that’s as vivid as it is historic. But if you pull around a corner, get outta the car, blink three times and make a wish, you might just see it for what it is – and for what it can be: the next great piece of Miami’s magic puzzle.

Yes, we mean the MiMo District along Biscayne Boulevard, otherwise known as Miami’s first main street, where dreams have come to be born again, and some of our town’s most fervent visionaries are hard at working to recreate a legend.

Marine Networks

How many times have you been stuck with an open drawbridge in Miami when you’re in a hurry?  Our perspective from a car is so different than when actually using the canal infrastructure (from the water side). You get to appreciate complexity of each one of these bridges and gain a new found respect for [...]

Politics: The Commissar’s In Town

Unions have served well during good-faith collective bargaining with business and industry, but less so when taking a stonewalling or avaricious approach. And while we appreciate city administrators cashing in outrageously at taxpayer expense when leaving office or retiring not at all, we’d like union apparatchiks overseeing City hall even less. Case in point. The [...]

Galleries: Mystic Visage

Last few days to take in the outstanding exhibit at World Class Boxing, the Miami-based exhibition space of the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection. Mystic Visage is an exhibition of masks and the faces behind them.  Curated by Desiree Cronk. Includes work from the Scholl Collection, including photography, sculpture, and drawing; with works by Fergus [...]

A Stained Glass Radiance

Last week I had the great good pleasure of slipping into The Big Easy for a couple days courtesy of Cointreau, who’d flown me up to that storied city in order to interview Dita Von Teese. While I was there I made a point of strolling the French Quarter at daybreak so that I might [...]

Broken Boundaries

What are the rules for breaking up? Do you stay buddies on facebook?  Do you keep in touch with your ex’s friends?  Do you go to places or parties where they might be?  Do you show up alone or with a date?  Do you have sex with them until you find someone new?  Do you [...]

Dave Matthews Band – Rediscovering Their Chemistry

Dave Matthews’ recent announcement that his hugely popular group would take all of 2011 off probably seemed like an ominous sign to some of his fans. But Matthews says the fact that he and his bandmates – drummer Carter Beauford, violin player Boyd Tinsley and bassist Stefan Lessard – will go their separate ways next [...]

Robert Plant – Very Much in the Present

Any Robert Plant interview these days almost has to include an inquiry about his interest in a Led Zeppelin reunion. But one really doesn’t need his words to know Plant’s thinking about the issue. His musical projects over the past three years – the period since Led Zeppelin reunited for a one-off concert as part [...]