Eyes on Miami: Mark Ronson, Bella Thorne, Snoop Dogg, and Others

It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…

Dachshund Rescuers Take Their Wieners Out for Wienerfest 2019

Pamela Weiner, president of Dachshund Rescue South Florida, makes it clear that her last name is merely a coincidence. “It’s Weiner,” she says unbothered, like she’s had to clarify this a hundred times already and she’s ready to do it a hundred more times. “It’s kind of funny cause it…

Eyes on Miami: Steve Aoki, Marlon Wayans, Kaskade, and Others

It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…

Eyes on Miami: Dwyane Wade, Marlon Wayans, Rick Ross, and Others

It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…

Gina Rodriguez Launches Carmen Sandiego With a Miami Game Show

Today’s middle schoolers were years from being born when the ’90s TV game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? wrapped its five-year run in 1995. But judging from their deafening screams at the Arsht Center yesterday, they were ready for its reboot. Or maybe that’s just because Gina…

Eyes on Miami: Kanye West, Paris Hilton, Pharrell, and Others

It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…

Mike Tyson Art Show Pays Tribute to the Champ

The fighter once known as the baddest man on the planet has become a staple of the American pop culture landscape — and what better proof of that than an Art Basel event made up of pieces inspired by the man himself? That was the scene last night at the Hyde Beach in the backyard of the SLS Hotel.

Exhibit Sets Out to Prove Sharks Are “Misunderstood”

Does Hollywood have sharks all wrong? Photographer Aysegul Dinçkök and free-diver Sahika Ercümen went swimming with these sea creatures to prove they’re not dangerous and are sharing photos and videos from their experience in their Art Basel exhibit, Misunderstood.

Eyes on Miami: Jamie Foxx, Gigi Hadid, Cedric Gervais, and Others

It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…

Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill Is a Friend to Fauna

He became the face of Zoo Miami entirely by accident. A passionate, lifelong animal lover, Ron Magill was the assistant curator of reptiles the day in 1986 when the zoo was hosting a news conference about endangered crocodiles born in captivity. It was an extremely rare, exciting moment, but you…

Esther Park-Clemetson Puts the Cool in Culture

Esther Park-Clemetson never thought she’d stay in Miami. When she came to town in 2003, she was on assignment for a New York City magazine that had hired her to write about Miami’s then-nascent hip-hop scene. “I met Pitbull — Armando, before he was Mr. Worldwide,” she recalls. “I met…

Colin Foord and Jared McKay Make Coral Cool

Eleven years after forming Coral Morphologic, marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay still don’t exactly have the words to describe it. Sitting inside their home/laboratory in Miami, Foord calls the group an “art/science hybrid endeavor” or “an experiment” of what 21st-century science could look like. McKay begins saying…

Janet Jones Makes Women Top Dancers

All her life, dance has been a way of escape for Janet Jones. “When I danced,” she says, “everything would just flow out of me.” But when she was nearing the age of 30, the Miami native and former Heat dancer, believing it was time to grow up and get…

MeduSirena: Fort Lauderdale’s Underwater Beauty

South Florida’s most famous mermaid has never had a problem using her voice. In 2006, Marina Anderson — an aquatic performer known as MeduSirena — was turned down by the hotel manager after auditioning for an underwater show she hoped to start at the Sheraton, a historic resort in Fort…

Octavia Yearwood Instills Confidence in Kids

Octavia Yearwood is beautiful. But in January 2018, while speaking at a fundraiser for a group that helps at-risk teen girls, c, she said she used to hate looking in the mirror. “I used to avoid taking photos with my friends, from junior high school all the way into my…

Eyes on Miami: Travis Scott, Tiësto, Anitta, and Others

It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with WorldRedEye, New Times…