Last night, Regal South Beach Cinemas hosted the world premiere of Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and Mark Wahlberg’s Pain & Gain, director Michael Bay’s most elaborate contribution yet to National Poetry Month. It’s not every day that big stars come to Miami for something other than stealing people’s cell phones…
The Miami Marlins’ home opener for the 2013 season finds the Fish up against one of the toughest opponents in the National League East. No, not the Atlanta Braves, who will be in town for the first of a three-game series, but Marlins team owner and bipedal wart Jeffrey Loria…
If there’s one thing sushi lovers can agree upon, it’s that the best way to enjoy the stuff is by cramming as much of it in your mouth hole during a frenzied five-minute battle against decency. Usually, the most dedicated cod gobblers toil without recognition, in basements lit by a…
How Evil Dead Director Fede Alvarez Reimagined the Classic Splatterfest
For a guy who has spent a lot of time planning how to brutally murder people in the woods, the most shocking thing about Fede Alvarez is his well-adjusted nature. As the co-writer and director of Evil Dead (in theaters Friday, April 5), the new remake of the 1981 gore…
Parts of unincorporated Dade can feel like something of a time warp. But for three weekends a year, it actually is just that. That’s right, the Florida Renaissance Festival has returned to Cauley Square Historical Village in Goulds. This past weekend and this coming weekend, the usual scatterings of people…
The Art Directors Club is not a pioneer in turning 92 and then moving from New York down to Miami Beach, but they are doing it with a touch more style than your bubbe did in her fuchsia tracksuit. The ADC, which champions forward-thinking design and visual arts, is bringing…
Games Miamians love: jai alai, sidewalk driving, sketchy-butt-implant roulette, and — particularly in April — golf. Once again, April is Miami Golf Month, a celebration of all things golf during which refusal to participate is punishable by mandatory presence at all Marlins home games. Fortunately, you’ll have plenty of opportunities…
If there was one standout moment during the 30th installment of the Miami International Film Festival, it was Darlene Love’s performance of “Lean on Me” that followed the opening-night screening of Twenty Feet From Stardom, the documentary about back-up singers in which she is featured. (We’ve already written about how…
When Miami rapper Young Scrilla was shot in Overtown while making a music video a couple of weeks ago, details trickled out like a weekend baller trying to make it rain with Wingstop coupons. Now, in a Crossfade exclusive, Dave and LT of TruStory Entertainment — the bosses who threw…
The Perfect Storm author Sebastian Junger was in town last week for his Miami International Film Festival screening of Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?, his documentary about his fellow war reporter and Restrepo codirector, Tim Hetherington, who died in combat in Libya almost two years ago. Though…
Even though Judith Shekoni appears in only its final film, Breaking Dawn — Part 2, she is now officially part of the immortal Twilight firmament, having been recently threatened by the hormone-addled Twihards. “We did this family photo in London, where it was me, Myanna [Buring], Jamie [Campbell], the director…
For almost half a century, Frederick Wiseman has been directing some of the finest documentaries ever made. In more than 40 films, he’s taken his camera everywhere, from slaughterhouses to a school for the blind, a ballet company, abusive relationships, and into zero gravity. Tonight at the Coral Gables Art…
Five years ago, In the Heights opened on Broadway. It was nominated for 14 Tony Awards in 2008, won four including Best Musical, and in 2009 won a Pulitzer. But what, In the Heights, have you done for us lately? Five years ago, the economy was booming, Sherman Hemsley was…
MIFF 2013 Closes Out Its 30th Year With Stories of Fame, Fear, and Family
What’s that you say, Mildly Xenophobic Film Fan? If you wanted to read while people make incomprehensible noises for two hours, you’d plop down on the least sticky Metromover seat and take a couple of laps with the latest Life & Style? Well, get off at the Omni Terminal and…
The Olympia Theater hosted the world premiere of The Boy Who Smells Like Fish at the Miami International Film Festival Saturday. The comedy is about, well, a boy who smells like fish. The boy in question, played by Big Love’s Douglas Smith, isn’t doing anything untoward with your ceviche while…
MIFF 2013: Murder, Marriage, and Madness in This Week’s Biggest Movies
Justin Torres earned his way onto a ton of year-end best-book lists with his 2011 novel, We the Animals. This Thursday at 8 p.m., Torres will read at Books & Books (265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables) during a free event sponsored by the University of Miami’s creative writing department. It’s…
The Progressive Insurance Miami International Boat Show features 3,000 boats and 2,000 exhibitors. Some of those boats will be given away in a raffle. So what will you do with your free boat? Hit the high seas? About 70 percent of Earth is covered by water, after all. And about…
At the Model Beach Volleyball Tournament, there’s something for everyone, not just for those wanting an excuse to stare at nearly nude models getting sweaty. There is that, though, so determined creeps will want to have duct-taped the wrists of their “We’re Number One” foam fingers, lest their urges to…
One day, we may learn that all those years of getting batted around by Homey D. Clown caused Tommy Davidson lasting neurological damage, the kind that should lead to congressional commissions on sketch comedy safety. By then, our children, in the back seats of submarines headed up Biscayne Boulevard, will…
