For the past quarter-century, when Martyn Jacques and his band, the Tiger Lillies, have passed through airports, onlookers have reacted with some variation of “I hope you don’t mind, but are you part of a religious cult?” “I usually manage to look away and leave it to the drummer, who…
“Martha, I hear such such nice things about your son, Superman. But did you hear that my Nathan is just a year away from becoming a podiatrist? I don’t know how you manage with sewing all those buttons back on each time your Clark rips open one of his shirts…
Every October, pink ribbons pinned to chests remind us of the ongoing battle against breast cancer. Meanwhile, the sheen of oil and sweat on jiggling pecs squished into a cage reminds us that once again, WWE’s Hell in a Cell is here at last. This year is different, however, and…
At the annual Locust Projects Smash and Grab Fundraiser, everyone is a winner. Even you. Fifteen years into championing innovation on the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is once again putting together some scratch to produce its shows and public events. Here’s the way it works: You buy a raffle…
Tonight at O Cinema Wynwood, the director and star of Cannon Fodder, Israel’s first zombie movie, will be hosting a one-off screening of their film weeks before it opens in their home country. “We’ve shown it at a few festivals in Israel and there were some people who did not…
Every October, pink ribbons pinned to chests remind us of the ongoing battle against breast cancer. Meanwhile, the sheen of oil and sweat on jiggling pecs squished into a cage reminds us that once again, WWE’s Hell in a Cell is here at last. This year is different, however, and…
In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea to use gravy as shampoo beforehand, but we did manage to make it through the second annual South Florida Zombie Crawl with our braaaaains mostly intact. This weekend, the reanimated corpses of many of your friends and neighbors shambled through the Shops…
Blow out the match and put off lighting that tire fire until next week, because the third annual Miami and the Beaches Environmental Film Festival is screening eco-friendly films all weekend long. The aim of the festival is to inspire attendees through films that address local and global environmental issues…
Tonight’s opening show at Wynwood’s newest art venue, Mindy Solomon Gallery, brings Matt Vis and Tony Campbell to Miami following their major photography show at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. “It’s a really strong statement to make,” Solomon says. “Their work is hysterical, in a way that…
Spoiler alert: Yep, probably. Arcade Fire’s new album Reflektor is nearly here and while a formal tour has yet to be announced, rumors suggest a series of secret shows around the country in the next few weeks. Well, we suck at keeping secrets, so you might want to keep October…
You’d think that the same strategies you use against the Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Bowl would serve you well when negotiating the abundance of foreign film festivals that come to Miami. But stitching breadstick-shaped pockets inside your coat won’t help you this week when the 2013 Miami Italian Film…
After last month’s test run, this week brings the first official Preview Thursday to Wynwood’s galleries. As outlined in New Times this week, Preview Thursday is an effort by the galleries to make their art available to people who want to experience it without the attendant hoopla of Second Saturdays…
You’d think the same strategies you use against the Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Bowl would serve you well when negotiating the abundance of foreign film festivals that come to Miami. But stitching breadstick-shaped pockets inside your coat won’t help you this week when the 2013 Miami Italian Film Festival…
Gregg Shienbaum points a thumb toward the rear of his Wynwood gallery, over the tumbleweeds of packing materials and past the still-unhung canvas that had occupied his entire wingspan only moments earlier. “Late, after last Second Saturday,” he recalls, “I locked these doors and went around to shut the roll-down…
Gregg Shienbaum points a thumb toward the rear of his Wynwood gallery, over the tumbleweeds of packing materials and past the still-unhung canvas that had occupied his entire wingspan only moments earlier. “Late, after last Second Saturday,” he recalls, “I locked these doors and went around to shut the roll-down…
We’ve always felt a certain bond with Elizabeth Gilbert. Hey, like everyone else, we kicked back with Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love. And what do you know? Gilbert gets all that eating, praying, and loving stuff. But here’s the thing: Even though that book spent about four years on the New…
Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses being published in England. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence on Rushdie as punishment for the supposed blasmphemy in the novel, leading Rushdie and his family going into hiding for nearly a decade, constantly accompanied by an armed…
If your biggest complaint about the Miami art scene is that there are never any panda bears at the openings you attend, your best bet to change that situation is the opening of “Nueva Fundaciones” this Saturday at Miami Art Space (244 NW 35th St., Miami). Oh, you’ve never been?…
Salman Rushdie’s life story would make for a cracking read even if he, a man knighted for his services to literature, hadn’t been the one to pen it. This is a life that has included writing some of the English language’s finest novels, dating models, being sentenced to death by…
Salman Rushdie’s life story would make for a cracking read even if he, a man knighted for his services to literature, hadn’t been the one to pen it. This is a life that has included writing some of the English language’s finest novels, dating models, and being sentenced to death…
DWNTWN Art Days transformed downtown Miami this weekend with more than 130 public art events ranging from sidewalk dance performances to Reed van Brunschot’s giant inflatable Godzilla swiping at the passing Metromover from the Christ Fellowship Church balcony. It also featured a series of four unique walking tours led by…
Last year’s Miami World Music Festival featured music from Germany, Cuba, Spain, Argentina, and Russia. This year’s festival once again selects Earth as the world to be its focus, going with performances from France, Cuba, Spain, Venezuela, North India, and nations across Africa. Better luck next year, Neptunians. Somewhere beyond…
