At it’s 6 month mark, the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in downtown Miami has exceeded 5 million visitors. Talking to Miami Today, Rebecca Dorfman, Public Relations Manager at the science museum, said: “We’ve had an extremely strong response and warm welcome from the community. Our visitor numbers from opening through Oct. 31 […]
Bye Bye Birdie: “Creepy Bird” Sculpture Removed from MDC Wolfson Campus
According to The Reporter MDC student newspaper, the “giant creepy bird” statue has been removed from Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus in Downtown Miami, where it had roosted for more than eleven years. Known as Violata Pax Dove or the Wounded Peace Dove, the statue was on loan to the College courtesy of Alabama artist […]
Frost Museum of Science Hopes to Open in Spring 2017
Frank Steslow, President of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, told the Miami Herald in an interview Wednesday that construction on the downtown Miami museum is almost completed, and they are on track for a spring opening. The science museum will feature a three-level martini glass shaped tropical aquarium to spotlight “South Florida’s crucial aquatic […]
Happy Birthday to the Mother of Miami
Tomorrow is the birthday of the woman affectionately known as the “Mother of Miami”. Julia Tuttle was born on January 22 in 1849 and by 1891 she was living along the Biscayne Bay in what was to become the City of Miami. After trying for several years to convince one of the railroad magnates to […]
A Miami Minute: “Three Muses” Unveiling in Wynwood for Miami Book Fair 2015
One of my favorite local artists – Diana “Didi” Contreras – was invited to create an “urban poster” at NW 2 Avenue and 25 Street in Wynwood for this year’s Miami Book Fair International. As Michael Kaplan, founder of Books & Books, explains, “It’s a beautiful mural done by a graduate of Miami Dade College” […]
Blue Starlite: A Mini Urban Drive-In Movie Experience
Did you know that the City of Miami had one of the nation’s earliest drive-in movie theaters? On February 25, 1938, the Miami Drive-In Theater opened at NW 7th Avenue and NW 81st Street, charging 35 cents per person admission. Forest Whitaker once said, “When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies […]