This roundup of local blogs shows that South Florida鈥檚 art scene isn鈥檛 just Art Basel. Locals get the chance to learn about craft beer while politics make a small appearance -- without scandal.
With the burgeoning popularity of craft beer, Fort Lauderdale's Riverside Market owner Julian Siegel created a six-week course that teaches everything from Craft Beer 101 to Home Brewing. At the end of the six weeks, participants receive an official certificate from the academy. A blogger at has details on the course.
A proposed pedestrian overpass has blogger Matthew Toro at worried about the future of pedestrian safety. He sees such infrastructure as a 鈥渟ubmission to the automobile鈥� and plans on discussing the in a future post.
Opens Across South Florida
Film fans, make room in your schedules: The French film is now playing at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, the Cosford Cinema in Coral Gables and Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale.
Blogger Hans Morgenstern reviewed the film on : 鈥淎ssayas offers this film not only as a chronicle of his memories growing up in a key era, but as a cautionary tale that transcends any specific generation.鈥�
With only six months left until election day, politicians yet voters are hardly paying attention (if at all.) Blogger Elaine de Valle, 鈥淟adra,鈥� has the scoop at .
Michael Scott Addis -- who struggled to survive child abuse, drug addiction, car accidents and homelessness -- is now living at the Better Way of Miami treatment center and decorates the city鈥檚 trees with masks he sculpts from a mixture of soap, ash and other materials.
Blogger Rob Goyanes spoke with Addis about his work for : 鈥淎t once ghoulish yet familiar, and naive yet disconcerting, [the masks] sporadically adorn the surroundings along Scotty鈥檚 wayward paths through the city, themselves only evident by the abundance of his work.鈥�
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