Photo exhibits and live music, an on-the-spot writing class and a Happy Hour with poems on demand: Welcome to The Porch, Miami Book Fair’s outdoor pop-up lounge. Set on the corner of Northeast Third Street and Second Avenue from Nov. 12 – 19, The Porch is both a multidisciplinary showcase of local artists and an […]

Jan Mapou sounds almost giddy when discussing the Little Haiti Book Festival—and with good reason. The event, which started with a Knight Arts Challenge award, is now in its fifth year. It has grown steadily and is now a partnership between Sosyete Koukouy of Miami, the Society of the Fireflies, the Haitian cultural organization Mapou […]

The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, opening Monday in downtown Miami’s Museum Park, is serious fun. The stunning, 250,000-square-foot facility, divided into four interconnected buildings with nearly 360 degrees of spectacular views, includes an aquarium, a planetarium and a science museum comprised of a North Wing and a West Wing. But numbers can’t […]

Over the years O, Miami, the annual, monthlong poetry festival in South Florida, has used billboards and bus stops, benches and pieces of paper sown into garments in thrift stores, to bring poetry to the residents. This year, O, Miami is putting poetry into a Google search. Through repeated searches using six one-line poems that […]

The 34th edition of Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival, celebrated March 3- 12, was not only a window to the world on film but also a timely showcase for diversity and inclusion, on and off the screen. The top awards had a distinct Latin accent as “Family Life” (“Vida de Familia”), a Chilean film […]

For the past 30 years, seemingly every aspect of the music industry—from creation and presentation to the ways the product may be distributed, acquired and consumed—has been disrupted by technological developments. But for every benefit of the democratization of the creative and dissemination process there’s a real and practical challenge for the artist to get […]