Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don’t forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 issue June 14 in newsstands.New Times staff debated for months…
Here’s some news that could make South Florida lawmakers rethink their wavering commitment to cultural events like Sleepless Night: During 2010, arts spending in Miami-Dade County topped $1 billion, according to Arts and Economic Prosperity IV, a report released Friday by the arts advocacy organization Americans for the Arts.The report,…
Britto haters have struck again. And they’re still, well, kind of lame.Someone blasted a Britto mural in Wynwood with white paint over the weekend. Scrawled in squiggly letters across the black background spotted with flowers in Britto’s characteristically colorful patterns are the words “C DOG,” which we’re assuming is the…
Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, turned 100 years old this baseball season. The ballpark is essentially a giant cathedral of sports geekery, with its Babe Ruth history, its famous broken curse, and its towering outfield wall nicknamed the Green Monster. The city has been condescendingly applauding itself…
You know who wants to be outside in Miami these days? No, seriously, we’re asking, because we sure as hell don’t. Now that hurricane season is in full effect, South Florida feels more like the dank, humid armpit of America than, um, another part of its anatomy. Even nighttime offers…
Bad news for artsy insomniacs: Sleepless Night Miami Beach, the all-night arts bacchanal that’s taken place concurrently with similar celebrations in cities around the world, has been called off for this year. And there’s a chance that the 2011 edition could be the city’s last. The city of Miami Beach…
Years from now, your great-grandchildren will look up at you from their mini-hoverpods and ask, “Who was Michael Bay, you crazy old crone?” And you will be able to tell them that not only was he a successful movie director with about a bajillion dollars (which will not sound very…
Tony Stark belongs in Miami. There’s just no argument — what better place for a stupidly rich playboy from New York? He’d be among his peers. He’d be surrounded by beautiful women. That pasty Pepper Potts might even get herself a tan.It’s only a matter of time before Stark Industries…
If you like your movies with stunted dialogue, big hair, plenty of fight scenes, and a Florida setting, we have good news for you. Austin, Texas-based film distribution company Drafthouse Films has acquired the rights to Miami Connection, a so-bad-it’s-good movie first released in 1987.Directed by “black belt philosopher/author/inspirational speaker”…
It’s hard out there for a Miami Dolphins cheerleader. You’ve gotta work out all the time and diet to stay thin and attractive. You’ve gotta put up with the pervy stares of beer-swilling football fans. And you’ve gotta put on a good show of excitement and optimism about, well, the…
Screw big-budget superhero movies. Forget bland rom-coms. Fairy tale remakes and vampire epics? Yawn.If you want truly original film this summer, it looks like you’re going to have to make it yourself.The Museum of Contemporary Art is once again giving you the perfect excuse to dive into that freaky experimental…
Shorts: They’re not just for old guys in tube socks and sandals anymore. This Friday, City Theatre’s Summer Shorts festival returns to the Adrienne Arsht Center (1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) for its 17th time, bringing with it ten short plays designed to zest up the typical theater scene with laughs…
Just over a year ago, we told you about a film in the works from Precious director Lee Daniels. Sophia Vergara of Modern Family fame was set to star in the story of a Miami Times reporter who gets wrapped up in a homicide case.That film, titled The Paperboy, debuted…
Here, for your perusal, are 18 surprising things we learned this afternoon, courtesy of a press release sent to us from FilmOn.TV:1. FilmOn.TV is a website that exists.2. Andy Dick is still alive.3. Andy Dick has his own weekly, live TV show on the Internet. 4. Pauly Shore is still…
In the mid-’60s, the phrase embedded journalist had likely never been uttered, let alone ignited a controversy over newspaper ethics. But that’s exactly what Jim Nickless was back then: a freelance cameraman for NBC News who lived among Cuban revolutionaries plotting to overthrow Fidel Castro. He documented their daily activities,…
What do Euro Disneyland, the film The Cutting Edge, and Jeffrey Dahmer’s life sentence have in common? (Besides the tragedy of their existence, of course.) Each of them turned 20 years old this year. Yup, it was 1992 when Disney poured a fortune into an ill-conceived Paris theme park, we…
Miami is the most fashionable city in the world. Hands down. No question. If you’re judging by its number of fashion events, anyway. In addition to runway shows and boutique events that sashay through town throughout the year, the Magic City also hosts several epic “fashion weeks,” including one for…
Here in Miami, perhaps more than in most other cities, buildings are a pretty big deal.Some represent history, like South Beach’s historic Art Deco towers. Others represent industry, or lack thereof, like the half-finished and barely occupied condo buildings that crowded the downtown skyline just a few years ago. They…
Miami may not be doing a great job of supporting its local artists financially. But when it comes to supporting the arts in general, this town seems to be doing just fine.Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium owner Stephen M. Ross, who also happens to be chairman, chief executive officer…
When last night’s Lion King audience returned to their seats after the show’s intermission, they probably expected some more tribal music, some more freaky human-animal costuming, and a nice tidy Disney ending to their night at the theater.What they got was a downpour all over the imagined Pride Lands.The ceiling…
In the mid-’60s, the phrase embedded journalist had likely never been uttered, let alone ignited a controversy over newspaper ethics. But that’s exactly what Jim Nickless was back then: a freelance cameraman for NBC News who lived among members of the Movement for Revolutionary Recovery (MRR), Cuban revolutionaries plotting to…
Magic City’s having a tough first season. It debuted to low ratings, though those numbers may have been affected by the availability of its series premiere at the Miami International Film Festival, OnDemand, and online in the weeks leading up to its official debut. Critics have not been nice about…
