Marco Rubio is having a tough month. The senator’s response to one of the worst school shootings in history was widely criticized. He got owned by high-school students, parents, and even himself on live television. His gun-reform plan is garbage. All of this after a career of repeatedly proving he is a spineless creature…
If you’ve been looking forward to the return of SunFest since last year’s edition, the annual music festival has one word for you: dale. Mr. 305-Worldwideoldwide himself, Pitbull, will headline the 2018 edition of SunFest along with Zedd, Logic, and an eclectic mix of artists representing styles from pop…
It’s been a hard week for South Florida. The tragic stories and photos that have emerged after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have left many in tears, grieving, and feeling raw, helpless, and depressed about the world.
After Donald Trump was elected to the presidency, Americans planned and executed one of the largest public demonstrations since the Vietnam War. When the White House tried to enforce a racist travel ban, Americans gathered with signs and chants in airports. When unarmed people of color are murdered by police officers…
Thursday Don’t let the stately new museums of mainstream musical artists food you. Miami culture is weird. It’s always been weird. And weirdness will stay at the core of this town’s ambiance as long as the International Noise Conference continues raging. Each year, Churchill’s Pub hosts entire days full of…
At this time last year, South Florida fans of Hamilton were celebrating. Broadway Across America had announced that a touring production of the Lin-Manuel Miranda phenomenon would land here during its 2018-2019 season. [related stories] Now, those same fans are gearing up for the fight to score a…
In the opening minutes of Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story, an adolescent girl prostitutes herself to a man, murders him with his own gun after he refuses to pay, and walks away wearing a smile.
It’s the last weekend of 2017. You know you wanna do it up right.
Maybe you’re feeling frustrated by politics. Maybe issues like police violence, racial discrimination, and poverty in communities of color feel unsolvable. Maybe you read the news each morning and wonder, How in hell did this country get so screwed up? In January, Ta-Nehisi Coates is coming to Miami to help answer that question.
Neon lights embody Miami’s essence. They’re simultaneously bright and shady, buzzing and beaming above hotel foyers and diner doorways, advertising restaurants, pawnshops, and strip clubs. Live in South Florida long enough, and you get used to their electric glow. You probably don’t even notice them anymore.
The biggest week of the year in Miami, where arts is concerned, started today. Though the biggest events of Art Basel and Miami Art Week won’t get underway until this weekend, some local creatives could look back on tonight as a turning point in their cultural careers. The Knight Foundation…
A beautiful marriage of talent and place is going down at the lush Pinecrest Gardens with artist Patrick Dougherty’s installation Stickwork. The gardens, once home to Parrot Jungle, are a beautiful representation of the area before people encroached on the landscape. Dougherty creates haunting but homey structures from bent…
This morning, the fest announced the lineup for next year’s camp-stravaganza, set for March 1 through 4. Other big names on the ticket are Foster the People, Leon Bridges, the Flaming Lips, and Zeds Dead.
Can DJ Khaled save the world? Of course not, you’re saying to yourself. But you probably didn’t expect the underground DJ from Miami to turn Snapchat into an art form, to become a household name before he ever rapped on a track, or to coast to the top of the…
Zedd, the DJ/producer who landed the December cover of Forbes; “Bank Account” rapper 21 Savage; Frédérik Durand, the Canadian DJ/producer better known as Snails; and hip-hop artist Blackbear top the list of talent whose beats will reverberate through ravers’ skulls as they’re doused with neon paint and try not to lose their minds watching colored smoke float through the fest.
Sway those hips to the crooning of Marc Anthony Friday. Eat your way through delicious Tex-Mex cuisine at Tacolandia Saturday. Brush up your K-pop knowledge at the Fillmore to close out the weekend. And then get ready to do it over and over and over again until the New Year.
Thursday Early film star and cabaret legend Marlene Dietrich is here to lead a seminar on emotional control in a sea of film, DIY stage design, and choral arrangements. At least that’s the concept of the Philadelphia-based performance troupe the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, who will take their audience through a…
Taylor Swift is having a busy month. She released her album Reputation last week, hot off the heels of its lead single, a love letter to Right Said Fred, “Look What You Made Me Do.” She performed on SNL Saturday night. She’s also made the time to sue a blogger who pointed out that Nazis are among her biggest fans.
When LIV reopened last month after an extended renovation, Miami’s party people didn’t quite know what to expect. The nightclub was already a legendary destination, boasting celebrity-packed parties week after week in a space that seemed to operate at the top of the nightlife game. Then it closed for an unprecedented nine weeks. What would a $10 million refurbishment do to the space?
Could Miami have its own Harvey Weinstein? Just kidding — of course it does. Like every other place on Earth where men hold nearly all of the power and money, Miami is surely housing enough sexual harassers to book the world’s one-week outpatient treatment centers into the next century. And according to six women, film director Brett Ratner is one of them.
If you’re from Miami, born and raised, the series of parody videos Shit Miami Girls Say might seem like just a funny meme. But if you’re a sheltered white girl from Broward with no Spanish-language skills, the world of chongas and chancletas is the stuff of nightmares.
Here’s the bad news: No video cameras were allowed inside Insane Clown Posse’s show at the Hangar last week. If you didn’t have a ticket, you’d never know exactly what went down when South Florida’s Juggalo army convened in downtown Miami. But here’s the good news: New Times’ most colorful video…
