It’s festival season in the Grove — O, Miami poetry sparks the creative mind, the Miami Film Festival is picking up speed, and the Coconut Grove Theatre Festival is busy giving birth to new works and… rabbits?  Inspiration seems to hop in from all directions to the minds of the[Read More…]

April is National Poetry Month, and local poets and their fans are taking full advantage, with a crowded calendar of events in the weeks ahead. Local filmmakers, playwrights and actors get a chance to shine this month as well, with the return of the Miami Film Festival (43rd edition) and[Read More…]

The week finds a kind of shared ground between the creative frontier of A.I. and the quiet clarity of meditation. One asks what it means to make something at all — who holds the authorship, where the boundaries sit — while the other steps back from all of it, if[Read More…]

Last week everyone stayed out of the rain, but this weekend the sidewalks have dried off and it’s time to get out. Wolverines set an appropriately leisurely pace in Kennedy Park, and the rest of the week follows that cue with music, conversations, and a few reasons to leave the[Read More…]

Don’t make a scene when you elbow your partner and whisper, that’s the Grove! Ethan Bloom, directed by local filmmaker Herschel Faber, follows a 13-year-old who is supposed to be preparing for his bar mitzvah but instead finds himself drawn toward the Catholic church. Along the way appear a patient[Read More…]

Wait — what? A real golden ticket? And not the Willy Wonka kind. Miami-Dade County created something that feels almost too good to be true: a Golden Ticket Arts Guide that opens the doors to a huge lineup of cultural venues — museums, concerts, theater performances, galleries, even the zoo[Read More…]

New to town? You should know that the annual art stroll down Gifford Lane is definitely a participatory event. No snobbery here. Baby buggies bump billionaires.  Flip-flops flirt with Ferragamos.  James has his barbecue smoking near the tennis courts.  Dance (or at least sway) to Mike’s group halfway up the[Read More…]

The art festivals aren’t over after all. South Miami Art Fest keeps the paint flowing just a few Metro stops south with canvases lining the streets and the Lowe Art Museum just a short walk away. Meanwhile, Gifford Lane is already prepping for its own homegrown takeover, where porches double[Read More…]

Art has always been the Grove’s favorite love language. With Valentine’s Day and the art festivals aligning, even Cupid is besotted. You’ll find him emptying his quiver into galleries, onto stages, beneath banyan trees, toward a piano bench or a darkened theater. There’ll be no escape, so dress the part[Read More…]

Super Bowls can fade fast. Around the Grove, attention is already shifting to next weekend’s quiet pull of romance, shared time, music, and moments that don’t rush down the field. This week’s calendar reads less like a spectacle and more like an invitation to slow down and notice who’s standing[Read More…]