Courtesy of wallpeople.org

Wallpeople participating in Barcelona

On Saturday, June 1st, artists in 40 cities across the world will simultaneously turn the walls of their city streets into outdoor pop-up galleries. And yes, that includes Miami.

via wdwnews.com

The first thing I did was run to the deep end and jump in, toes pointed, trying to touch the bottom. The pool wasn't as deep as I'd hoped, and I crushed my foot against the rough concrete. I came up, choking and wailing; hours later, my big toe was more swollen than I'd ever seen on anybody. I couldn't walk on it at all. I was certain it was broken.

So the next day, we marched ourselves up to the guest services desk at Magic Kingdom, and requested a wheelchair for me. That was when I learned the tantalizing truth about Disney World's special disabled lines: Anybody can use them. And anybody -- not just "rich Manhattan moms" who can afford disabled guides -- can scam the system.

Briana Saati

Jillian Mayer

"'PostModem' started last summer as a musical project. PostModem is a meta-pop band that only sings about the Internet and Internet related conspiracy theories," Mayer said. The exhibit builds on the concept, which became a 13-minute, experimental short film #PostModem made up of 10 mini videos. It was a collaboration between Mayer and Lucas Leyva, founder of the Borscht Film Festival, that went on to premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2013. The exhibit playfully tackles issues of human dependence on technology.

"We constantly turn to our screens to help us understand things and our hard-drives to store our information. I suppose this relationship will only intensify with time," Mayer said.

Wright Way Photography / Flickr CC

Just not while the Bulls are trying (and failing) to knock the Heat out of the playoffs.

Under any other circumstances, Chicago, we'd tell you how much we respect your Wrigley Field and your Oprah and your giant metal blob at Millennium Park. But not today. People in the Windy City are real, but in honor of tonight's game four and the pending end of the Bulls' season -- and quite frankly, because we truly believe Miami is a better city, in so many ways -- here are seven reasons why.

Also, it's a pretty great day for judging celebrities.

So as you and your mother struggle awkwardly though yet another Mother's Day brunch -- you do have reservations, don't you? -- try this topic on for size: the best mothers in pop culture this year. Here are our picks to get you started.

Liliana Mora

They look pretty happy, no?

Don't take our word for it. Just ask science.

A University of Canterbury psychology study has ranked the top ten activities that give human beings happiness. And guess what's at the top? Drinkin' and doin' it. That pretty much means that Miami -- long established as one of the world's party capitals -- is the happiest place on earth.

These flipper-footed swimmers will make an appearance as part of Sea World's Epic Voyage campaign, promoting its newest attraction: Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin.

It seemed from the readings that O, Miami's finale last night at the New World Symphony focused on two things: family and Miami. The dedications made this big city feel small and tight, like we all understand each other, like we all have the same tattoos, eat the same food, share the same cousins.

The very short Julian Yuri Rodriguez film that screened told a complete visual and emotional tale, in what felt like seconds, of a what-might-actually-be gang, inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool." We, (real cool) Miami, are a gang. Hating, loving, protecting, daring, and growing together. A community, a family. And, in a romantic way, O, Miami has proven to be a month-long poem, with events as the words, dedicated to this weird, hot place.

See also:
- Parks and Recreation 's Megan Amram on O, Miami and "Classic Butterface" Emily Dickinson
- Richard Blanco on Beyonce, Gloria Estefan, and Life After the Inauguration

Courtesy Dewitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Robert Gallo

"Yes, they still talk about San Francisco, but we've got a problem on the east coast," says Dr. Robert Gallo, founder of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore. "The I-95 corridor is like the roads in Africa for truck drivers and heterosexual sex."

Gallo co-discovered HIV as the cause of AIDS and will be Grand Marshal of this Sunday's 25th Anniversary AIDS Walk Miami. He is careful to stress that "this is not a gay man's disease. That wasn't the problem in Africa. If there were no gay sex on Earth, we would still be talking about HIV."