Drinking and Drawing Proves Drunks Are Better Animators

Tonight at the News Lounge, ladies and gents will hunch over light boxes and scribble on note cards while a rowdy bunch behind them waits its turn. It’s Drinking and Drawing, a sort of animated jam session where the artistically inclined come together over pints and highballs to create a…

Miami Woman to Star in iPhone Reality Series

Hold the phone! No, seriously. Don’t chuck your smart phone into Biscayne Bay just yet. It may be dropping your calls, but there’s a new app in development that we think you might want to check out. Real Weather Girls, set to launch in mid-to-late September, is the first to…

Independent Movie Theater Opens in Wynwood

If you want to see an independent film in Miami, you have to venture to Miami Beach for the Cinemathque, Tower Theater in Little Havana, or South Miami for Cosford Cinema on the University of Miami campus. For most of us, that means jumping on I-95, which can lower your…

Christo’s Latest Fabric Art Stymied by Protesters

If there’s one silver lining to this whole BP oil spill, it’s that the world’s attention has been focused on the health and well being of our oceans. But remember when Frenchie artist Christo insisted on wrapping our Biscayne Bay islands in Pepto-pink, polypropylene fabric? Titled, “Surrounded  Islands,” this 1983…

Naked Linemen and Mall Brawls: A Peek at Deleted Scenes from Rakontur’s The U

If you weren’t totally rabid with adrenaline — T-stepping through the end zone, starting fistfights at the cineplex, throwing coke-powered countdown parties, hiring strippers like Tipdrill and Spyda for lunchtime lapdances, running naked across campus — in the run-up to ESPN’s December premiere of Rakontur’s documentary The U, then you…

Animiami Kicks Off Thursday With Live Animation at Cafeina

We really shouldn’t be telling you this, but heads up, tens of readers. Tomorrow night, you could star in your very own animation. Miami World Cinema Center’s Spencer Morin will conduct a covert, live animation at the hipster lounge Cafeina.Morin will sneakily capture images of the bar crowd, which he…

Experimental Filmmaker Takes Over Miami’s Legion Park

We don’t know what will surprise you more — the dancing, flickering images bouncing off the oak trees at Legion Park or the fact that there are actually people in a Miami-Dade park. This Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m., experimental film lovers and curious passersby will swarm the park…

Biologist/Artist Finds Beauty in Gulf Oil Spill, Too Soon?

A graduate of University of Miami’s Marine Biology program, Aki Shiroza is now a researcher who works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But he’s also an artist. So when he recently ventured to the Gulf to document the onboard activities of NOAA’s Gordon Gunter, which was in…

Old Film Footage Reveals Larry King’s Miami Roots

Last week, Larry King announced that he’ll end Larry King Live at the ripe age of 178. Nah, just kidding. He’s only 134. Anyway, we’ve only just come out of our shocked stupor and stumbled across this TV clip from the 1960s starring King, which reminds us that the suspender-wearing…