Millions of fans grew up watching West Side Story, longing for the day they could snap their fingers alongside those effortlessly suave Sharks and Jets. Well, thanks to 20th Century Fox, those childhood dreams could turn into a reality. Prepare your best show tune, break out those jazz shoes and head…
“Women, y’all make me mad, man. I hate the fact that women can’t control your anger. Like, women, y’all need to learn how to put a cap in your anger… Men, we have a cap.” An excerpt from Kevin Hart’s Seriously Funny tour says it all. Popular sets from all four of his standup tours, one of which will hit the American Airlines Arena this Saturday, feature the acclaimed comedian labeling women “bitches” and “crazy.” Hart’s routines from past to present include jokes that normalize derogatory language about women and mock the gender roles in relationships.
Let’s play a game of word association. When you hear “boy band,” what’s a natural link? Many would instantly jump to “adolescence.” The ’90s? ‘NSync. Jessica Simpson? Nick Lachey. Mix them together and what do you get? 98 Degrees.
As a child, Kelly Link would excitedly await South Florida’s hurricane season. The sense of trepidation an oncoming storm would bring is what the 2018 MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow used for later writing inspiration. “That sense you have when you’re a kid, living in Florida — that feeling during the hurricane season, something big might be on the horizon.” Now an author, she says, “It’s great preparation for imaging worst-case scenarios and then imaging the extraordinary coming into a landscape and changing everything.”
Iration is a reggae, dub, and rock band formed in Central California that has been playing the stages of festivals like Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, and Hangouts for the past 14 years. Just last week, the six bandmates embarked on a national spotlight adventure, the Press Play Fall 2018 Tour, where they perform songs off their self-titled sixth album, Iration.
Mexican DJ Lao lives for a challenge. Asked to define himself, he responds with words such as “stubborn,” “enthusiastic,” and “identity-seeking.” Oh, and the man behind a sick alternative mix that he says “challenges” the hell out of electronic dance music also goes by the label “cultural engineer.”
It’s 10 in the morning, and Daniel Chimowitz already simmers with energy. He speaks with an impassioned flair that accentuates a hint of a twangy West Coast accent. (The London-born international artist and fashion designer grew up in San Francisco.) Mere minutes in conversation with Chimowitz pass before a moment…
Hailed a “documentary of fantasy,” My Trip to Miami runs 13 minutes, during which Dylan Redford straps on five GoPro cameras and attempts to visit TripAdvisor’s “Top 315 Attractions in Miami” in five days.
Close your eyes and imagine a place familiar to you. Almost as if you’re painting a canvas, fill the scene with lucid color, detail upon detail forming in your mind. Picture a walkway assembling itself on the ground ahead, puzzle pieces of a passage whirling through the air before settling on the path below. Now stroll along this visual trail as you take in all of the memories stored amid the dreamscape scenery.
People of Miami, put away your Drake merch. The much-anticipated performance by the superstar rapper today and tomorrow has been postponed. No, this is not a drill. Drake was supposed to appear at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami with Migos for concerts scheduled for tonight…
The swoon-worthy tween heartthrobs who once made up Britain’s One Direction in some ways define the word “millennial.” Five teenage boys grew into young men sitting on a gilded pop throne, their names forever associated with the group’s enormous success. Nowadays, more than two years after One Direction shook its…
Two middle-aged guys in loud Hawaiian shirts and captain’s hats puff away on pipes in front of a painted backdrop of an ocean. The scene sounds like it could be plucked from a slapstick comedy, right? Throw in a DJ booth on a casino club floor and mixes of ’70s and ’80s soft rock featuring occasional screeching seagulls, and it becomes almost hard to believe.
A bundle of nerves and anticipation, a young, fresh-faced New Yorker steps off of a plane onto a ground ripe with rich cultural heritage. It’s 1961, and the student has arrived in Bogotá, Colombia, for the first time. In a time before cell phones, the girl’s parents wring their hands…
It’s no secret that a prevailing Cuban influence thrives on in Miami. But over the years, the metropolitan area long celebrated for its diverse identity has welcomed a growing expansion of multicultural films, music, and art from more than solely Cuba, now including many of its Caribbean neighbors. This steady,…
Twisting and turning, a delicately crafted mangrove constructed of rope and steel snakes through the air, impossibly knotted but still unmistakably distinct in its path forward. A red line runs boldly along a gnarled makeshift branch, connecting it with another sapling looming ahead.
