“He was one of those rare examples of trickle down economics having a positive and lasting impact.” That’s Galen Bradley, a barista at Wynwood’s Panther Coffee speaking after Tuesday’s passing of Tony Goldman, who was as much a visionary as he was a developer and entrepreneur. Like the rest of the Wynwood neighborhood, the young [...]
Miami’s Own Cleaveland Jones Takes Over the America’s Loudest Institution Anybody who’s seen Richard Linklater’s School of Rock is awesomely familiar with how inspiring music can be for kids — not to mention those who teach them. The 2003 Jack Black vehicle, which pitted a gangly group of 5th graders against an onslaught of adults [...]
A Pair of Bests from This Year’s Edgar Awards A few weeks back the esteemable Edgar Awards announced the winners for 2012, which of course also included a list of the nominees. As always, the books cited had been published the previous year, but that doesn’t mean for a moment that any of the titles [...]
How The Wrecking Crew Changed the Way We Grooved Open any page of Kent Hartman’s hit-soaked history The Wrecking Crew [wreckingcrewbook.com] (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s $25.99) and you’ll find some kinda sound nugget: The Byrds’ David Crosby introducing The Beatles’ George Harrison to the sitar (which he then used on Rubber Soul’s “Norwegian Wood”) despite just [...]
And George V. Higgins Wrote ‘em Harder Than Anyone “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” So says an astute gun-runner in George V. Higgins’ kickass classic The Friends of Eddie Coyle, unequivocally one of the best crime stories of the 20th century. Close readers of Bound may recall me plugging [sunpost story] [...]
Hailing the Miami Beach Women’s Conference The world’s seen the rise of some powerful women. There’s German Chancellor Angela Merkel, IMF president Christine Lagarde, and India President Pratibha Patil, all of whom have altered our course in various and vivifying ways. Closer to home we’ve got Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, State Senator Gwen Margolis, Miami Commissioner [...]
Basking in the Aftermath of Basel To even simply list the events associated with Art Basel would require a horde of scribes and a good many worked-through nights, not to mention multiple gigabytes of bandwidth. But of course Baselites have better things to do with their days and their nights than making lists, let alone [...]
Miami’s Mean Streets are Now the Most Muralled in the World Whether the paint appeared on the warehouses before the warehouses showed painters is by now besides the point. The fact is Wynwood’s warehouses now feature — inside and out — more renowned artists than perhaps any one place on earth. And even if the [...]
Stunning New Slabs of Gaga, Weiwei and Rauch If ever there was a more photographed (or photographical) figure than Lady Gaga, you sure couldn’t prove it by me (or her). Neither Mae West (to whom the Lady owes plenty) or Jayne Mansfield (who had Hearst at her disposal) or Madonna (whose triumphs pretty much ended [...]
Two Monumental Looks at Our Storied Past Miami Book Fair may be over, but books of course will endure, as will history, whether or not we’re doomed to repeat it. To ensure we swing with those who know (and know better) though, here’s the lowdown on two (relatively) recent historical offerings, each of which will [...]
Putting Down the Most Wanted Man in the World As even those living under rocks now know, on May Day 2011, U.S. forces snuck into Pakistan and took out Osama Bin Laden, questionably the most wanted man in the world. It was an exemplary moment for America’s armed forces, as well as for America’s President, [...]
On Halloween They Even Bring Their Freaky Friends Miami has long been known as the kinda place freaks are not only welcome to fly their flag, they’re encouraged to let it run up the tallest pole imaginable. In fact, in this Magic City a freak of nature isn’t very freaky at all — it’s simply [...]
