Bookstores are my weakness—one of my weaknesses, anyway, along with pinot gris, “Fleabag” reruns and coconut cream pie. Leaving aside the credit card balance, which grows ever more dangerously with the inevitable purchase of more novels, more memoirs, more histories and more poetry, bookstores are way better for you than most vices—and not at all […]
When you are in Florida bear country, you can see the signs. My friend, bear biologist Joseph Guthrie, taught me what to look for. Sometimes you can spot wide prints in sand or mud—if you are lucky enough to see them before a rainstorm erases the story. You can also learn to spot head-high claw […]
About 30 minutes into a conversation that began with one-liner jokes, introspective reveals and little-known stories from his childhood, DuVäl Reynolds tells me that he’s an introvert. Malarkey, I say. “It’s true,” the interior designer replies. “As an introvert, it takes a lot out of me to do something that involves so many people, like […]
Filmmaker Monica Sorelle was walking through Wynwood in 2018, looking at the gentrification in the Miami district, when she came up with the idea for “Mountains.” “It was this Puerto Rican enclave, full of working class warehouses. But over the course of 10 years it turned into an arts district. I’d see houses get demolished every day,” […]
Ask Tony Mendoza if he spoke English or Spanish last night, and chances are, he doesn’t remember. That’s because for this Miami-based visual artist, the American and Cuban cultures coexist in the same space, together, harmoniously and vividly. The son of Cuban immigrants who left after its tumultuous revolution, Mendoza is the byproduct of a […]
“There wasn’t a day in high school where I didn’t wear a hat,” says Kasey Faver, founder of Southern streetwear brand LaFavre. So, it only tracks that his company’s hero product is just that: a classic ball cap. Whether it’s a corduroy number with an orange blossom emblem or one adorned with a Southeastern Conference […]
After a near decade-long break between records, JJ Grey and Mofro are back with a soulful new album “Olustee” that is full of all the Florida-fide sounds and storylines that have become a signature of the band and that fans obsess over. Flamingo was lucky enough to sit down with Grey, who was on a […]
The sea and I met before I could walk. She’s in every memory. As a kid, I didn’t think twice about spending hours swimming in the frigid Atlantic Ocean that turned my lips blue. Summer in northern Massachusetts meant no school but certainly not warm water. We didn’t care. The seaweed I now know as […]
