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Master Printer, episode 1 from Missing by Luis Garcia, (Audio)

Byjitneydriver |May 16, 2018May 15, 2018

Listen to Luis Garcia read his short story “Master Printer” from his collection of short stories “Missing.” The 33-minute episode is produced with sound effects […]

HistoryMiami Debuts Miami Rocks Exhibition

Byjitneydriver |May 15, 2018May 15, 2018

HistoryMiami rocks — again. First with Bob Marley, then with the Beatles, now HistoryMiami is tackling music festivals. While Miami isn’t exactly Memphis or Liverpool […]

Miami Book Fair’s First Draft Monthly Is Good Vibes — Q & A with Host Fabienne Josaphat

Byjitneydriver |May 12, 2018May 14, 2018

First draft? Like a first draft of a story? Yes. Or a first draft at happy hour? Exactly. Huh? It’s both. Ok? It’s a Miami […]

Miami Plastic Ban Is Not Impossible. Nothing Lasts Forever. Wait! Plastic Lasts Forever

Byjitneydriver |May 11, 2018May 11, 2018

A Miami plastic ban is in order. Miami’s plasticity factor isn’t merely phony people and silicone implants. It’s a giant chemical dioxin dump of garbage […]

Hari Kunzru discusses his novel White Tears with David Rolland at Books & Books

Byjitneydriver |May 9, 2018May 11, 2018

The blurb on the cover of Hari Kunzru’s novel White Tears reads, “as challenging as it is terrifying,” but the first 200 pages read like […]

Rolling Loud Showcases the Third Generation of Hip-Hop

Byjitneydriver |May 8, 2018May 8, 2018

After just four years Rolling Loud has become the world’s largest hip-hop festival. It had an inauspicious start as a one night show at Soho […]

Home Project Is A Fitting Tribute To a Dying Neighborhood Reborn

Byjitneydriver |April 13, 2018

THE HOME PROJECT Miami born artist Alejandro Dorda aka Axel Void created a body of work to be exhibited in a residential house on 25th […]

Hassan Whiteside Should Not Be Traded

Byjitneydriver |April 4, 2018April 8, 2018

Hassan Whiteside is a beast. But he’s not very brainy. He should not be traded, but maybe he should enroll in a Communication Class at Barry […]

The Comedy Inn Presents Miami’s Ultimate Comedians, Bitches

Byjitneydriver |March 1, 2018April 6, 2018

The best comedy inn Miami takes place in a hotel in South Miami? It does? Ya, huh. The Comedy Inn. The Comedy Inn? Ya, The […]

DJ Immortal: the Jitney Deejay of the Month

Byjitneydriver |February 20, 2018April 6, 2018

Miami is known for music. We are a city that celebrates music. We dance. Fuck that: we get down. On the good foot. It’s music […]

Luis Garcia Talks Miami Like A Motherfucking Freak (Audio)

Byjitneydriver |February 20, 2018

I know a guy who got stabbed in the heart by a swordfish. He’s a friend of mine. He’s alive. The swordfish didn’t stab him […]

Drake’s “God’s Plan” Miami Video Is Human AF (Video)

Byjitneydriver |February 17, 2018February 19, 2018

Thank you, Drake for “God’s Plan.” You took the conventional come to Miami and make a rap video trope and flipped the script. There is […]

Jan Becker on “The Sunshine Chronicles”—in the Author’s Own Words

Byjitneydriver |February 17, 2018

Jan Becker: Sometimes, when I thumb through The Sunshine Chronicles I’m left in a state of disbelief that I wrote it. It came too easily. […]

Miami Beach Pop Festival is a Great Idea

Byjitneydriver |February 10, 2018February 14, 2018

The founders of the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival want to launch the Miami Beach Pop Festival, this time not on a farm in the […]

Luis Garcia on “Missing” — In the Author’s Own Words

Byjitneydriver |June 10, 2017June 26, 2017

When I got to prison in 2007, I didn’t have much to do but read and write. I wrote to friends to send me books. […]

Little Haiti Book Festival Looms Large

Byjitneydriver |May 23, 2017April 6, 2018

In the midst of all the Memorial Day hoopla, quietly in one of our most beautiful neighborhoods, one of Miami’s more intimate and beautiful events […]

Decò, ep.1– Chichi and the Stupendously Luxurious

Byjitneydriver |May 16, 2017May 23, 2017

In a condo off of West Ave., in the County of Miami-Dade, lived Decò, a young homegrown writer with an intense work ethic and—what was […]

Decò, ep.2 – – Wyn-or-lose-wood, Moustache Rides, and DuPont

Byjitneydriver |May 14, 2017May 23, 2017

Living in Wynwood was not easy for Decò. He resided on the ground floor for the first time since living in Miami, renting a small […]

Decò, ep. 3–The Earl Society and a Critical Mass

Byjitneydriver |May 9, 2017May 23, 2017

It wasn’t long before Decò took on the lifestyle of the hipsters. He soon drank PBR instead of mojitos. He reluctantly traded his designer clothes […]

Decò, ep. 4 –The Sad Tale of the Queen of Allapattah

Byjitneydriver |May 5, 2017May 23, 2017

Lying in a pool of his own blood, shirtless and alone, achy and sweaty, Decò obviously did not feel so hot. He could barely […]

Decò, ep. 5— Decò’s Rejection and an Immaculate Conception

Byjitneydriver |May 3, 2017May 23, 2017

Decò stayed with the Queen of Allapattah for a period. Her mother nursed him back to health, slowly, feeding him plenty of ropa vieja and […]

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