Growing up in Ramat Gan, Israel, was pretty safe, musician Tamar Dart explains. Even so, she remembers as a child being evacuated from her home when scud missiles fell during the Gulf War. “Growing up [there] is tense; people are severely affected by the politics,” she says. But listening to Western music…
Thursday The “Seinfeld of France” is making his way to Miami. Global comedy phenom Gad Elmaleh is kind of a big deal abroad, having sold out Paris’ iconic Olympia Theater Hall for seven straight weeks, as well as other big-time tours. Here in the States, his deadpan awesomeness has equated…
They are teaming up with other musicians to perform as a supergroup, the Unknown Legends, to play each musician’s songs and covers of Lucinda Williams, Harry Nilsson, and others. The show is called the First Waltz, a title inspired by the Band’s live collaborative Thanksgiving performance, the Last Waltz.
A younger generation of Miami artists owes a debt to Kevin Arrow and Barron Sherer, the catalysts behind Obsolete Media Miami (OMM). Their joint art project is part hoarder, part enabler, all brilliant. The two collect, educate the public, and advise fellow artists on media and equipment considered useless by…
“My dad would always yell, ‘Tebby’s home!’ because I was always singing everywhere,” Bahamian-bred singer-songwriter Tebby recalls from when she was young. The now-20-something Tebby adds that even now she “can’t go very long without singing throughout the day.”
Thursday In what might be the best name of a Florida-themed photography exhibition ever, “A Peculiar Paradise” opens at HistoryMiami this Thursday. The exhibit includes more than 100 pics from guest photographer Nathan Benn, who was on assignment for National Geographic in Florida in 1981. It was an interesting time…
Thursday Art and politics will come together when the Creative Time Summit hits Miami for the first time. The summit, now in its 11th year, is typically chock full of meaningful workshops, discussions, roundtables, performances, and other diversions designed to inspire people to take meaningful, artsy action. The theme of…
In the gloriously positive and progressive Disney series featuring the company’s only Latinx princess, Elena of Avalor, the noble namesake sings a song about the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos. She calls this holiday dedicated to the dearly departed “The Festival of Love.” And, indeed, the story goes that…
Thursday Santa Barbara, California-based artist John Millei believes “it is not by what one chooses to paint, but how one paints it that brings about its meaning in a work.” Dude, that is some deep stuff. It’s hard not to gawk at Millei’s work, which often walks a captivating thin…
It was the early ’90s, and a couple of effortlessly cool juniors at Sunset Senior High decided they wanted to start a band. Confident, brash Luis Garcia and stylish, shy Ben Carillo ran through a couple of failed cohorts before Carillo suggested his friend, musician Justin Gracer. The group later added…
Thursday Sometimes you want a movie. Sometimes you want a concert. But rarely do you have the opportunity to enjoy both at once. Right in the Eye, highlighting the fantasy world of famed French director/illusionist Georges Méliés, boasts a live concert and films such as The Four Troublesome Heads and…
Thursday You don’t have to wait until March to see some of the competition flicks hitting the 36th Miami Film Festival. Gems boasts an intimate selection of movies, all of which you will absolutely be talking about next year. At MDC’s Tower Theater, see titles such as Diamantino, directed by…
In 1984, the crime-fighting duo of Crockett and Tubbs went face-to-face with dangerous drug lords and other unsavory characters, making Miami famous for cocaine, synths, and violence. While Miami Vice was lighting up every living room in America in pastel shades, Miami Dade College was launching the Miami Book Fair,…
Just like you, New Times likes to party. So we’re throwing a big fiesta with food, drinks, and all kinds of fun at Iron Fork. It’s a chef competition and a grand tasting event. And by tasting, we mean you get unlimited samples from nearly 40 restaurants, including Pink Pie, Bagatelle, Ra, and Brain Freeze…
Thursday You don’t need to travel to Orlando for a magical Mickey Mouse experience. This Thursday through Sunday, American Airlines Arena will be home to Disney on Ice’s Mickey’s Search Party. The multisensory experience boasts skating, acrobats, and stunts as a crew of Disney characters tries to track down Tinkerbell…
Los Angeles-based dancer Jay Jackson says that when she was a child, her parents placed her in soccer. It was quickly clear sports weren’t the right fit for the future RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 contestant. She ultimately found her niche in a dance class where the girls accepted her femininity and where she discovered herself as she watched her movements in the mirror.
Thursday Unlimited wine and prosecco? That’ll get your attention. Add painting with a beloved Miami artist and you’ve got a fun night out. Corks & Canvases is a new fall shindig, happening the third Thursday of each month at Atton Brickell Miami. It kicks off with the owner of Paint…
Like many first-generation Americans of Cuban descent, married couple Christina “Cuci” Amador and Tony Smurphio — also known as the musical duo Afrobeta — were taught that Cuba was not on their travel agenda. After being exiled from their homeland in the ’50s, their parents, like many others, never returned. It was a sort of fuck-you to Fidel Castro and his crew.
On a Thursday night in 1997, the underground stronghold for gritty electronic music, Beat Camp, launched at the South Beach club Zanzibar. It was the year glamorous fashion designer Gianni Versace was fatally shot on his Ocean Drive doorstep just blocks away. Rainbow flags dominated storefronts, venues were 18-and-over, and drag queens, wannabe models, and Kendall kids spilled into the street from the mouths of megaclubs.
More and more of Arthur Jafab’s work is popping up around the 305 — and that’s a very good thing. The Mississippi-bred director and cinematographer knows how to master a timely and thought-provoking flick, such as Crooklyn and Seven Songs for Malcolm X. His latest piece, Dreams Are Colder Than Death…
After high school, Javier Hernandez ran away from Miami with the circus. The future founder of Placeholder Gallery first got a job with El Circo de Arte in Spain. He spent the summer with the circus before attending art school in New York; relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico; and finally came full circle during a 2012 trip to his hometown.
Two years ago, during the Zika virus outbreak, Danielle Bender was worked up about the practice of spraying the insecticide Naled overhead to kill infected mosquitoes. “There was a period where I didn’t see any birds, lizards, bugs, nada,” she recalls of that time in her neighborhood. It made her think about…
