Christine Borges

Category: Profiles/Interviews

  • Miami Artist Typoe collaborates with Del Toro Shoes

    Featured on MiamiNewTimes.com Street artist and creative director Typoe has evolved. He’s not just making pieces as a “fuck you” to society anymore. Now he’s creating art that has a lot of personal meaning to him. As one of the co-founders of Primary Flight and a curator of many of the murals…

  • Interview with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins

    Featured on BrowardPalmBeach.com Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a thousand stories to tell. The group’s only remaining original member helped found the Pumpkins in 1988 after relocating to his native Chicago from none other than St. Petersburg, Florida. He’d moved to the Sunshine State briefly in ’85 after graduating…

  • Interview with CocoRosie

    Featured on BrowardPalmBeach.com Sierra and Bianca Casady are hard to pin down. The sisters’ output as CocoRosie — the increasingly electro-styled folk project with nods to European television, Native American chants, Victorian operettas, and Hipstamatic photographs — still gets tagged as freak-folk, and it’s all over the map. Unsurprising, then,…

  • Interview with Jacob Graham of the Drums

    Featured on MiamiNewTimes.com Brooklyn-based indie-poppers The Drums aren’t what you think they are. Sure, they put out their Summertime! EP, filled with beach-themed tracks like “Let’s Go Surfing,” “Down by the Water,” and “Submarine.” But they actually mentioned to us recently that they probably wouldn’t go to the beach if…

  • Behind the Lens: Ian Witlen of the Camera Clicks

    Featured on SocietePerrier.com Ian Witlen knows the ins and outs of South Florida’s music scene, and covers it extensively for the Miami and Broward-Palm Beach New Times. He’s come up with visual accounts that many people that attend said concerts just couldn’t see. Witlen tells a story with his in-the-trenches…

  • Interview with Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional

    Featured on BrowardPalmBeach.com Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba has done his fair share of wooing behind his guitar. Lauded as one of the poster boys of the emo indie-rock movement, he’s challenged other competitors to be just as charming and sincere with their lyrics as he is — and they’ve…

  • The Man Behind 10K Islands: Will Suter

    Featured on MiamiNewTimes.com The man behind Miami-based record label 10K Islands, Will Suter, is a full-time business man. He’s also a part-time jetsetter. “I technically live in Washington, D.C.,” he explains. “But I also stay in New York and Miami.” It seems almost impossible to run a label — organizing…

  • Five Unexpected Fashion Tips From Celeb Stylist Brad Goreski

    Featured on MiamiNewTimes.com Sure, everyone knows Brad Goreski as the bow-tie-wearing, pop-of-color-loving former assistant (and later style director) to Rachel Zoe on The Rachel Zoe Project. He loves prints. He loves anything bold. But now the stylist-cum-editorial columnist has a new job title to add to his resume: book author.…

  • Better Know A Blogger: John Lin of I Am Johnny Boy

    Featured in SocietePerrier.com As the head of Communications for The Webster Miami, the cultural programmer for The Standard Spa, the principal of Lin Projects, and the style editor at Ocean Drive magazine, you could say John Joseph Lin has a lot on his plate. Now add blogger to that long…

  • Behind the Lens: Kerry McLaney

    Featured in SocietePerrier.com If you want to know exactly what artists are up to pre-Basel, you follow Kerry McLaney on Instagram. As the Founder and Creative Director of both 305 Creative Group and Miami’s Independent Thinkers, she has her finger on the pulse of everything Wynwood. Read entire article here:…