Masterminds 2012 Honorable Mention: Bannavis Andrew Sribyatta

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Crazy Cheap Tickets to Artopia, Get ‘Em While You Can

Admit it: You’ve grown weary of the typical club night. $20 drinks this, untz-untz that. What’s a party-ready Miami kid gotta do to change it up?The answer: Get tickets to Artopia, Miami New Times’ annual arts soiree. We’ll be dining, drinking, and toasting the city’s top cultural talent, including the…

Masterminds 2012 Honorable Mention: Sarah Kontoff Baker

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Masterminds 2012 Honorable Mention: Jason Snyder

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Mastermind 2012 Honorable Mention: Valeria Yamamoto

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Mastermind 2012 Honorable Mention: Jayme Gershen

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Ten Couples We’re Sad to See Split (But Not Really)

When you heard the news about Heidi Klum and Seal’s separation this weekend, you probably felt kinda sad. But admit it: the twisted, schadenfreude-loving part of you was a teeny bit thrilled. They were just too perfect, weren’t they? With their beautiful bodies and accents and adorable babies?And they’re not…

Today’s Your Last Chance to Submit to the MasterMind Awards

It’s almost over, Cultist readers. After today, we’ll no longer inundate you with reminders about our MasterMind Awards, and how great they are, and how you should submit to them right this second because honestly, and we’re not just saying this, but you are, like, talented and stuff, and you…

Get A Free “Lukey Cushion,” Just Like At Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, and if you’re sitting in your office reading this right now, it probably means you won’t be in attendance. And that’s a bummer, because you’ll miss out on rubbing elbows with celebrities and seeing some of the world’s most buzz-worthy films.But there’s one…

Submit to MasterMind Today — There’s No Time to Lose!

​Psst. Artists. Filmmakers. Choreographers, music-makers, creative types of all sorts. Are you listening? Good, because we have important news — the kind of news that could earn you some sweet cash.For weeks, we’ve been telling you about the MasterMind awards. And for weeks, you’ve probably been telling yourself, “Sure, I’ll…

Submit to MasterMinds — Before It’s Too Late

​For weeks now, we’ve been telling you about the upcoming MasterMind Awards, which gives grants to the best artists in Miami. And over those weeks, we’ve received some exciting, promising submissions. But you know us. We’re never satisfied. We want more.If you think you have what it takes to win…

Are You A MasterMind?

​”Miami’s arts scene is really developing these days.” It’s a sentiment we’ve been hearing for so long that it’s damn near a cliche. But that doesn’t make it any less true. The creative types who call South Florida home have been transforming our city into a unique and fascinating community…

New York Jets: Respected Rivals or Worst Team Ever?

Miami’s had a tough football year, and that’s putting it nicely. But it’s about to get even worse, when the city’s droves of New York and New Jersey transplants take to the streets, the bars, and Sun Life Stadium clad in green to support the Jets in the last game…

MasterMind Awards Gives Free Money to Artists — No, Really

Art Basel is over, and the 1% have all gone back to The Hamptons or Dubai or their secret “rich people only” underground compounds where they’ll wait out the apocalypse. But don’t worry, Miami artists — New Times still loves you. We’re handing out our annual MasterMind awards again this…

Miami New Times Now Accepting Submissions for MasterMind Awards

For the past two years, we’ve supported the city’s quickly evolving art scene with the MasterMind Awards, modest grants that honor the people and projects in the community that are making the biggest impact on visual arts, music, film, and beyond. This week, the submission period for the 2012 MasterMind…

Win Four Free Tickets to Santa’s Enchanted Forest

South Florida’s equivalent to the North Pole is a little patch of land seasonally stacked with games, food, shows, and nativity right off el Palmetto. For 29 years, Santa’s Enchanted Forrest has represented Christmas in Miami. Not to mention it also help launch the career of Hialeah hottie GiGi Diaz…

Photographer Scott Pasfield Talks Gay in America Series

With “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” officially over for the U.S. military, many more Americans are discovering that old stereotypes about homosexuality simply don’t pass muster. Nowhere is that sentiment clearer than in Scott Pasfield’s Gay in America, a book chronicling the cross-country journey the photographer took to interview gay men…