Local artists get the first brushstroke this week, and rightly so. Kit Pancoast Nagamura returns to her childhood home – The Kampong (!) – with family roots, botanical eyes and an artistic trunk sturdy enough to hold several generations. In the Gibson Educational Center’s Pop-Up Gallery 162, you explore the[Read More…]

This weekend starts innocently enough. Maybe a concert. Maybe a quick stop at Fairchild. Maybe a library book club if civilization is to survive at all. Then Pow! You’re riding a free shuttle through the Grove, buying tropical plants you absolutely did not plan to own, cruising aboard moonlight sailboat[Read More…]

This is your reminder. Not the subtle one your sibling sends after they’ve already made brunch reservations. The real one. Mother’s Day is 48 hours away, and “I was going to do something tomorrow” has undermined many a Sunday. So make a plan now. Something elegant at Vizcaya. Something sweet[Read More…]

Just as summer prepares to slow everything down, the fastest guys on four wheels rev up the Grove. This week brings race-week noise, a brand-new neighborhood pool, dogs with social calendars, dancers on the rise, mahjong in the garden, Deadhead moonlight and a street concert for Ronnie. Pace yourself. The[Read More…]

Dive in! Pools are opening, dogs will soak and shake, and there are plenty of rooms where laughter or music will loosen things up. The Grove feels like it’s in mid-splash—loose, social, a little unpredictable. (Can a dog do a cannonball?) So don’t stay dry. Take the plunge somewhere—into a[Read More…]

Pollen is in the air, blossoms are showing off, and the Grove’s lineup leans hard into things in bloom–from Vizcaya garden walks and Kampong plant temptations to free trees, farmers market bounty, and Earth Month programming that suggests you really ought to know the name of at least one fern.[Read More…]

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…]