Leave it to Miami to invent architecture fashion. The hottest new accessory for downtown buildings is LED lighting, and the Miami Tower and the InterContinental Miami are among the first to model the latest trend.See also:-Famed Miami Tower Sells for $105.5 Million…
It sounded too good to be true: South Florida hottest women, clad only in sports bras and short-shorts, playing the game that gave our city a championship title this year. When Bikini Basketball’s Miami Spice franchise announced tryouts last month, fans of sports, skin, and supportive yet sexy workout gear…
When Bacardi moved its headquarters to Coral Gables in 2009, it left behind two ornately tiled buildings at 2100 Biscayne Blvd. Preserved by historic status, but too pricey for most buyers in a down economy, the structures have sat unused for the better part of the last three years.See also:-…
In 2011, Design Miami attendees who tired of wandering around Fendi’s cloth furniture and scoping out the Audi on the light-up flooring congregated outside the fair’s entrance inside a giant wooden structure, sort of an open-air cave for artsy hipsters.In 2012, we predict, they’ll mostly just stand around outside and…
As South Florida’s film industry continues to develop, locals have more and more chances to see a slice of Miami on their tv screens each night. Two made-in-Miami projects debut tonight, in fact: Rakontur’s 30 for 30 documentary Broke, and Travel Channel’s reality series Airport 24/7: Miami.See also:- Billy Corben…
Oh, Gallery Girls. We hardly knew ye. In just eight episodes, you wowed us with your hipsterness, entertained us with your twisty mouths and your bird couture, and annoyed us with your French press coffee and your senses of entitlement.See also:- Angela Pham on “Blonde Drama”- Last week’s Gallery Girls…
For fans of bloodthirsty murderers, noirish narration, and vigilante justice, last night was a long-awaited holiday. Dexter, Showtime’s drama about a serial killer who kills serial killers, returned with a season seven premiere that might foreshadow one of the best seasons yet.Past seasons of the show have dragged a bit…
The Knight Foundation’s never needed much help determining the best arts initiatives to fund in South Florida. Its grants have touched almost every influential cultural project in Miami, from the massive new Miami Art Museum under construction downtown to the O, Miami poetry festival to the small series of flash…
Here in Miami, the city-wide nightmare that was Rock of Ages, the movie, is over. The film crews long ago packed up and left the facsimile of the Sunset Strip they built downtown. The movie opened with a South Beach premiere, and pretty much tanked. Critics — including our own…
When Mariachi Gringo made its world premiere at the Miami International Film Festival earlier this year, it did more than introduce Miami audiences to another lineup of exciting cinema from around the world. It may have also helped to forge a new partnership between MIFF and the Guadalajara Film Festival…
After months of finance- and leadership-related distress on the part of Miami City Ballet’s board, staff, and supporters, it’s nice to have some good news. And the combination of increased donations to MCB and the hiring of Daniel Hagerty, a former fundraiser for Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, as the company’s…
Our recap of last week’s Gallery Girls started out by calling hometown girl Amy Poliakoff “off-putting.” That was maybe a little harsh. The girl’s one of our own, after all. In fact, after she read that post, she called our offices to firmly but very politely defend herself. And she…
Miami’s December Art Week, during which Art Basel and several other art fairs set up around the city, is one of the biggest art events in the world.Banksy, the English street artist whose film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, was nominated for an Oscar last year, is one of street…
It’s mere hours after the 2012 Emmy Awards ended last night, and the whole world has already rehashed the fashion, debated the credibility of the award winners and lamented the poor luck of the shmucks who got all gussied up and excited, only to watch someone else take home the…
It was only a matter of time.”Gangnam Style,” the Korean pop single that everyone’s either been imitating or groaning about lately, has appeared everywhere from Ellen to So You Think You Can Dance. Today, E! Online pronounced the viral video “officially over.”So it looks like YouTube user aggressivecomix came in…
Nina Johnson-Milewski is known locally as one of Miami’s most active creatives. She’s the owner of Wynwood’s Gallery Diet, New Times’ pick for Best Art Gallery in 2009. She’s one of the founders of the Miami Rail, a sister publication to New York City’s Brooklyn Rail. And as one of…
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s….Well, it’s a plane. But it’s also a work of art.That’s the idea behind “Plane Text,” an art project headed to Miami Beach during Art Basel this year, in which the planes that usually fly banners promoting cheap drinks…
Wynwood has art galleries. It has trendy restaurants. It has a craft coffeehouse and a bar where you can buy indie magazines and boutiques stocking clothing made by local designers. And yes, it has droves of young, creative people, some of which wear thick-rimmed glasses or mustaches or both.Miamians have…
Pain & Gain, the Michael Bay pet project starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson based on a Miami New Times story, released its first promo this afternoon. And it’s, uh, beefy.See also:- Michael Bay’s next film will be about New Times’ cover story- Mark Wahlberg “insanely buff” for Pain &…
In June, we told you about Miami Connection, an “awful yet awesome” 1987 movie that Austin, Texas-based Drafthouse Films was resurrecting for theatrical release at the end of this year.See also:- Miami Connection Headed Back to TheatersToday, we discovered the trailer for the film via EW.com. And it does not…
Issues of race in America are rarely, well, black and white. So it falls to writers like Touré, author of Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness, to help unpack and understand the seemingly infinite sides to the racial issues that continue to affect life in this country. In his book, Touré, a…
Picture this: You’re out enjoying yourself in the Design District, sipping some finely crafted cocktails, browsing through records on sale, and jamming to the sounds of an R&B DJ when your mother calls. You answer the phone, and she asks what you’re doing. “Not much,” you reply. “I’m just in…
