Jim Gaffigan is a rarity in contemporary standup comedy: a clean, family-friendly comic who’s able to sell out venues both stateside and internationally without working blue. He’s also one of the only comedians who won’t take Florida to task for being an godless, politically mismanaged state. “Florida is so special…
The South Florida-born standup comedian is bringing his Legalize Everything Tour to the Olympia Theater this Friday.
This Saturday, November 2, Coral Gables Art Cinema will screen Dolemite, a blaxploitation classic that marked the cinematic debut of nightclub comic Rudy Ray Moore.
When it comes to the supernatural, nothing seems out of the ordinary for the Last Podcast on the Left crew, not even Miami’s dark crime history.
Big Mouth writer Victor Quinaz says Miami’s independent film scene has greatly expanded since his days growing up in the Magic City.
Comedian Nikki Glaser compares standup to weightlifting — and she is very much a bodybuilder. “If I don’t get out there and do it every single night, I will get rusty,” she says. “Just like weightlifting, if you’re a comedian and you take two days off in a row, you lose serious progress.”
The filmmakers behind Respect the Light, the upcoming Miami-based comedy docuseries on Amazon Prime, admit they had issues with previous cinematic efforts at filming funny people. “A lot of these documentaries get into the nitty-gritty of a comedian’s life,” says Respect the Light codirector Gerard Clarke, one-third of the indie…
Fresh off receiving the honor of Miami New Times’ best comedian of 2019, Rudy Wilson will be hosting a special standup showcase at the Improv in Doral. The show, titled “From Atlanta to Miami,” is set to feature performers from Wilson’s hometown of Atlanta as well as his…
Musician Frankie Midnite always looks at the bright side. He grew up in a rough part of Miami Gardens, but good music was always playing throughout his neighborhood. He doesn’t own a car, but waiting for the bus inspired his upcoming one-man concert-theatrical show hybrid, A Fool’s Love Stories. He…
New York-based artist Jake Berman loves maps. If you visit his website, fiftythree.studio, you’ll find the kind of art an Atlas junkie would drool over: colorful public transit maps that range from traditional (Chicago’s L train) to speculative (San Francisco in the year 2050) to pure fantasy (the comic book…
Every country deserves its own Renaissance, a period of time when the arts are championed by its citizens. That’s what American street artists Disem and Dreps are trying to do for their beloved Panama with the upcoming Panama Mural Fest. From May 20th to the 26th, the duo will work…
Behind a million-dollar home on Star Island, a pair of sunbathers does a double take as an unusual vessel whizzes through the waves. Imagine a surfboard, but a lot heavier. In fact, half of the watercraft’s weight comes from the electric battery used to propel it through the water…
A Lorne Michaels impression is kind of like a class ring for Saturday Night Live alumni. Former cast member and University of Miami alumnus Finesse Mitchell uses his own impression to recall some advice given to him by the show’s longtime executive producer.
They say laughter is the best medicine, and comedian Kyle Grooms has generated arena-sized doses of it. Now his fans and fellow stand ups are returning the favor, funding real medical treatment for the local comic. After Grooms was rushed to the hospital due to a severe emergency, doctors made…
When filmmaker Billy Corben was putting together the 2006 crime documentary “Cocaine Cowboys,” he came across an epic document. It was a deposition from Jorge “Rivi” Ayala, a former hitman for Miami drug queen Griselda Blanco. At a whopping 1,300 pages, Ayala’s testimony walked authorities through the bloodshed of…
Donald Trump towers over everyone else in the picture. The year is 1997, and he’s laughing it up with Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, and Shakira. It’s like the Mount Rushmore of Latinas. “The funny thing is, in that picture of everybody interacting, the only one looking in the camera is Shakira,” says Manny Hernandez, the longtime Miami-based photographer…
Jayme Gershen is thinking of the perfect anecdote to describe her friend. After a long pause, she’s got it. “She’s forces me to sing this song with her in Creole, that’s like, one line,” Gershen says about Ajhanou Uneek, a Haitian-American drummer-performer known throughout the Miami music scene for her…
Michael Corleone Blanco, the son of deceased drug lord Griselda Blanco, spent the first 33 years of his life in the drug business. Now, he’s the star of “Cartel Crew,” a VH1 docuseries that follows the sons and daughters of former cartel members. The drug trade isn’t a field that…
Alfredo Garcia, associate executive director of the Miami City Ballet, wants his students to be ready for life after school. “These are young men and women who have dedicated their lives to dance and are trying to obtain gainful employment after they leave our school,” Garcia said about the challenge…
Pamela Weiner, president of Dachshund Rescue South Florida, makes it clear that her last name is merely a coincidence. “It’s Weiner,” she says unbothered, like she’s had to clarify this a hundred times already and she’s ready to do it a hundred more times. “It’s kind of funny cause it…
After premiering in London’s West End, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime tied the record for most Olivier Awards received by a single play. For those unaware, the Oliver Awards are like the Tony Awards of London. For those who are further unaware, the Tony Awards are…
Rapper Karl “Dice Raw” Jenkins, known for his frequent collaborations with the Roots, speaks to an assembly of ninth-graders at the Young Men’s Preparatory Academy in Wynwood. He’s there to talk about his latest project, a stage musical about the life of Henry “Box” Brown, who escaped slavery by sealing himself inside a wooden crate and mailing it from Virginia to Pennsylvania.
