Thursday In a city as self-conscious as Miami, a guide to the best restaurants, party ideas, and travel destinations can feel like a necessity. The Cocktailz & Coconutz series is here to provide just that with the help of Jean-Désir Fils, AKA the Lifestyle Connoisseur. You can be introduced to…
But then there is the MatzoBall. This holiday bash has been bringing together party Hebrews for 31 long years.
Thursday Whether you like him best in his scene-stealing sidekick roles or as a standup comedian, Kevin Hart has no doubt made you laugh even if you didn’t want to. His latest projects include his autobiography, I Can’t Make This Up, which came out in June, and the film Jumanji:…
Thursday Break out your favorite ugly holiday sweater and get creative with themed props in the photo booth at New Times’ Sips and Sweets. Rock out to your favorite songs spun by DJs inside the Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection after it’s been transformed into a winter wonderland…
With wild performances, a tumultuous relationship, drugs, and genuine style, Royal Trux’s Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty offered an authentic alternative to ’90s alt rock. From 1987 to 2001, the then couple made beloved albums like Twin Infinitives and Pound for Pound and performed memorable antics that placed them in dictionary under “Fuck…
Thursday Remember when a stabbing was mistaken for performance art during Art Basel last year? Whether that’s what makes Miami Art Week fantastic or terrible is up for debate, but what’s certain is that Basel and its innumerable satellite fairs — such as Art Miami, Design Miami, and Superfine! —…
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…
The people in charge of Miami don’t value permanence. Local history is like the shifting sands and lapping waves of Miami Beach. Just as the ocean swallows the beautiful and unique patterns on the shore, the city’s nightlife leaders end the party places and nights we love. We’re always saying goodbye to spots, like Fox’s or PS14, where we made our Stand by Me-like best friends and danced the night away Van Halen-style.
Thursday If retailers get to start their Black Friday sales early, you should be allowed to start your post-Thanksgiving blackout early, right? Fend off the urge to nap after dinner and head to the holiday edition of Wynwood Nights: All Black Thanksgiving to dance to hip-hop, soca, and dancehall while…
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…
Miami, in all of its weirdness and smallness, is a great incubator for creativity. But opportunities for growth can be limited. Sometimes the only way to reach one’s full potential is to leave and learn more elsewhere. But though local creatives might leave in body, their spirits and connections remain tethered to the Magic City. One such artist is Puerto Rican-born, South Florida-raised Misael Soto.
There was a moment when I knew I’d have to tell my parents that a video I’d been in went viral. Not only was I in it, but also I had interviewed the star of the YouTube hit, Maria, the “Butthole Tattoo Girl.” A friend sent a text that the video had been featured as a “New Rule” on Real Time With Bill Maher, a show my mom and dad watch regularly.
Thursday The nude has been a subject of fine art for centuries. Its current significance might seem limited to learning tools and antiquated still lifes, but Nude Nite is breathing new life into nakedness by filling 25,000 square feet of warehouse space with contemporary takes on the unclothed human form…
A few months back, I almost read an entire article. But then my newborn ripped up the magazine, putting an end to that. As a freelance writer and new mom, the New Yorker’s “Is The Gig Economy Working?” was a relevant source of work-related information and helped me feel connected to…
Thursday Borders, outlines, constraints, connections — all of these words help define not only the word “boundaries” but also the exhibit “Boundaries,” presenting photography by Jacob Hessler and poetry by Richard Blanco. The show will debut this Thursday, but Blanco will sign copies of his book in the museum at…
You might call being an artist Dara Friedman’s fated vocation. At the age of 20, she happened into the company of Austrian experimental filmmaker Peter Kubelka and honed her vision and craft while working under him. On a visit to Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts — which she…
Thursday If you’re a Halloween pro, you know you should get at least three runs out of your costume in one year. You also know that you don’t make your freshest run Halloween night, when your getup will get crushed in the sea of street revelers. No, you go to…
Employing elements of both classical painting and magical realism, Edouard Duval-Carrié explores the culture and history of his home in 37 new paintings and sculptures collected by PhD and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, Anthony Bogues. “Metamorphosis” continues the artist’s scrutiny of Haiti’s contemporary social and political…
There are people who float in and out of the music scene. You kind of remember their backstory and you have an impression of their face, the sound of their voice, or their sound. Then there are those who take the scene and, with wet hands, grab it, slap it…
When he was younger, artist Magnus Sodamin used to try to find ways to sneak into Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. The sprawling bayside grounds in Coral Gables are a magical 83 acres of rare plants. Trekking through the back forests of Matheson Hammock Park, which borders the historic gardens to the north, he and his companions found an old boat that was washed up by Hurricane Andrew. The image stuck with him.
One of the largest public artworks in the world is on display at Miami International Airport. Titled A Walk on the Beach, the piece comprises about a mile of bronze sculptures embedded in a terrazzo walkway inside one of the terminals. The artist behind it, Michele Oka Doner, has…
Portland, Oregon, rocker Jerry Joseph remembers the first song he wrote as a six-year-old. It was inspired by a graphic version of the Fab Four. “The Beatles had a Saturday morning cartoon show,” he recalls, “I remember watching, and I already had a guitar, and I wrote a song. That’s…
