Octomom’s headed back to South Florida to settle a score. And yes, it involves overexposure. Nadya Suleman, the mother of 14 who got famous when she gave birth to octuplets in 2009, has reportedly settled her ongoing lawsuit with T’s Lounge in West Palm Beach by agreeing to return to…
When I heard Kim Kardashian was pregnant, I cringed. Not because I thought Kim would be a bad mother, or because I thought it was a publicity stunt, or because I was one of the aluminum foil-wearing Twitterers who believed it was all an Illuminati conspiracy. I don’t know that…
In the fall of 2012, for Coconut Grove activists, everything seemed to be going according to plan. The scenario they backed, in which the state of Florida makes good on its promise to reclaim the decrepit and shuttered Coconut Grove Playhouse because it’s not meeting its requirement to show live…
Selena Gomez is making all kinds of news lately. First, she announced her recovery from Bieber Fever by splitting with America’s favorite Canadian. Then she celebrated her singlehood by slipping on a damned fine-looking golden dress and maybe getting kind of drunk at a Golden Globes after-party. Then again, maybe…
Last chance, artists. When the clock strikes midnight tonight, it’ll be too late to add your name to the list of New Times’ Mastermind Award hopefuls, snagging $1,000 and exposure in print and online. Look, you can’t say we didn’t warn you. But even if your master procrastinating skills have…
To most modern Miamians, Haulover Park is just another place to barbecue, walk the dog, and sunbathe — ideally while avoiding the sight of pasty, middle-aged tourists taking advantage of its nude beach. But there’s more to Haulover than the chance to get your all-over. Though it’s now flanked by…
Nearly everyone who’s rented an apartment in Miami knows that Magic City landlords can be a little shady. And unless you’re best friends with a lawyer willing to write threatening official letters on your behalf, you’re pretty much at your landlord’s mercy. Until now. Seattle Solidarity, or SeaSol for short,…
The Miami International Film Festival’s acquisition of Dark Blood, River Phoenix’s final film, for the 2013 festival is a huge accomplishment — one that’s sure to draw even more attention to the ever-expanding annual event. But it’s not exactly a shock. After all, MIFF has been introducing Miami audiences to…
Cuban author and reporter Mirta Ojito once said that “a deadline … was the only way you could get anything done.” Well, if you’re a Mastermind award hopeful, yours is quickly approaching. The deadline to submit to New Times’ annual awards that honor the city’s best creatives is this Thursday,…
By Biblical standards, Kim Kardashian’s sins are many. She rose to fame performing unholy acts on tape with Ray J. She’s pridefully overexposed her life for years on E! reality shows. And she’s carrying a baby out of wedlock, while still technically married to another man. But that’s all cool…
Be warned, blog readers: If you hate having a song stuck in your head, you should avoid watching the video after the jump. If, on the other hand, you’re a fan of Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva, the filmmaking team behind last year’s Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke,…
Look, it’s not like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s plans to spoil their child are surprising. They’re rich. They’re going to be parents. Creating entitled offspring is what rich parents do. But if you think you know the level of opulence that’s waiting for the Kimyetus on the other side…
Since President Obama’s announcement that he was chosen as the 2013 inaugural poet, Richard Blanco has become poetry’s most talked about name. But though he’s scheduled to read on one of the biggest stages for poets in the nation — the upcoming presidential inauguration — he hasn’t forgotten his roots…
One week. Seven Days. One hundred sixty eight hours. Ten thousand eighty minutes… you get the idea. Time is running out for you to submit to this year’s New Times Mastermind Awards, earning you a shot at winning one of the three $1,000 grants we’re giving away to local artists,…
Avant-garde painter and experimental film producer Hans Richter had a complicated relationship with art. His first exhibition took place in 1916 in Munich, but less than three years later, he began experimenting with film and eventually spent most of artistic career working with that medium. “The cinema can fulfill certain…
Where does Cirque du Soleil keep finding these people? The company’s highly stylized circus shows employ dozens of performers with talents ranging from the merely impressive to the seemingly impossible, and right now no fewer than 19 of these spectacles are being staged in cities around the world. How can…
When acclaimed choreographer Liam Scarlett teamed up with Miami City Ballet last year, the results were dazzling. The young prodigy, then just 25 years old and choreographing for Britain’s Royal Ballet, brought his original work Viscera to the Arsht Center (1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami), where it was spectacularly performed by…
Richard Blanco is living the dream. The American dream, that is. An immigrant from Spain and son of Cuban exiles, Blanco began his career as a poet in Miami, the city where he was raised. Now, President Barack Obama has chosen him as the poet for his inauguration this month,…
If you’re like most of us here at New Times, your bank account could really use a boost. The ever-tightening purse strings of the publishing industry has left plenty of our journalists and bloggers with just about the same quality of life as your average starving artist in Wynwood. Those…
“Miami, the Kardashians are here!” It’s a warning, a threat, a declaration of citywide takeover, another step in the reality tv family’s march to worldwide domination. But it’s also the line that opens E!’s new preview of Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, shouted by chipmunk-voiced new baby mama Kim Kardashian…
“In Miami’s Wynwood district, the party has overtaken the art,” complains the headline to Rene Rodriguez’s story in Saturday’s Miami Herald. The piece reports that drunken partiers have “hijacked” the arts scene on Second Saturday Art Walks, with boozed-up kids stumbling into art spaces, damaging the works on display, and…
It’s been seven long months since we last saw Ike Evans and Ben Diamond battle it out over the business of high-end hotels and mob dealings on Magic City on TV. But if you were in South Beach or downtown during December, there’s a good chance you got to see…
