Hole in the Ground Sells for $5 Million at Art Basel

Hole in the Ground Sells for $5 Million at Art Basel

Wynwood’s high-end Eponymous art gallery set a new purchase record when it sold Jeffrey Edelman’s “Ungrounded” for $5 million. The multimedia piece is composed of soil, rock, and air, as it is a two-foot-deep hole the artist dug in his backyard. “It signifies the deep...
Miami Will Run Buses On Time as Art Basel Performance Piece

Miami Will Run Buses On Time as Art Basel Performance Piece

I sat down with Alice Bravo, Miami-Dade County’s Transit Director, to ask why her organization chose to take the unprecedented step of running its buses on time as an Art Basel performance piece. “We wanted to think big! Bold! Do something that’s never been done in...
Broward County Declares a State of Overreaction

Broward County Declares a State of Overreaction

Mayor Mark D. Bogen psyched himself up to address a conference room of reporters about an impending Broward County cold front. He wore a full suit of plate armor, three bandoliers of bullets, five grenades, a Bowie knife, and a backpack holding 20 days of...
Black Friday to Be Followed by Latino Saturday

Black Friday to Be Followed by Latino Saturday

The National Hispanic Caucus (NLC) announced that the second day after Thanksgiving would henceforth be known as Latino Saturday. Rather than joining in Black Friday’s manic shopping free-for-all, participants will enact the traditional Latino customs of talking over...
Miamians Hospitalized as Temperature Plunges Below 70

Miamians Hospitalized as Temperature Plunges Below 70

Pandemonium reigned in Mercy Hospital’s Emergency Room where doctors and nurses worked frantically to treat a mob of Miamians suffering from slight chilliness in the wake of an unprecedented Miami cold front. “My arms! I can’t feel my arms!” cried a woman in her 40s....