Comedian Josh Johnson Is “Your Favorite Sad Funny Man”
The standup comic is set to open for The Daily Show host Trevor Noah at Hard Rock Live Saturday, January 18.
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Director Yaron Zilberman’s Film Incitement Chronicles the Politics of Hate
The gripping feature, which will screen twice at the Miami Jewish Film Festival, follows Yigal Amir in the months before he assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Miami Sports Story Lines to Follow in the 2020s
With all of the reflecting and reminiscing for the 2010s over and done with, now’s as good an opportunity as any to look ahead to the next 10 years, specifically, the upcoming decade in Miami sports. While it’s impossible to predict whether or not the Miami Heat’s Bam Adebayo will…
Miami City Ballet Tours Old Fashioned Choreography Throughout South Florida
Miami City Ballet will show the wonders that dancers can weave in pairs when it presents Program Two: I’m Old Fashioned this month at three South Florida venues.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Awakens With a New Live Score
South Florida visual and sound artist Richard Vergez is set to perform an original soundtrack for the influential 1920 German horror film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” during a special screening this Saturday, January 11. The special screening is celebrating the movie’s 100th anniversary.
The 15 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
Thursday, January 9 Forget eight nights of presents: Try two weeks of cinema. Taking place at theaters, synagogues, and community centers across greater town, the Miami Jewish Film Festival will show dozens of new films and documentaries on the Jewish experience alongside classics such as Casablanca, Amadeus, and The Cabinet…
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Kreyòl Essence Shares Castor Oil Beauty Product With Miami and ABC’s Shark Tank
Five years ago, Yve-Car Momperousse and Stéphane Jean-Baptiste moved to South Florida to build Kreyòl Essence, a line of health and beauty products developed in their ancestral Haiti. Their business is growing as fast as the hair on their clients’ heads.
Five Reasons Miami Rocks in January
January doesn’t get enough credit in the Magic City. The month between New Year’s and Valentine’s Day usually catches a lot of flak for being long, uninteresting, and devoid of things to do. It’s also smack in the middle of tourist season, meaning the city becomes flooded with out-of-towners clogging…
Director Tod Lending Premieres the Resilient Saul & Ruby, to Life! at Miami Jewish Film Festival
Nearly a century onward from the Holocaust, filmmaker Tod Lending figured every story about the atrocity that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews had already been told. That was until he heard about Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz. The two, who reside in South Florida, survived the religious persecution of the Nazi regime and went on to form a klezmer act the Holocaust Survivor Band 70 years later.
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I Went to an Oprah and Lady Gaga Wellness Seminar While the World Burned
A little more than 24 hours after I rang in the new decade by sipping a glass of champagne with friends, “World War III” was trending on Twitter. Iranian general Qassim Suleimani had been killed in a drone strike carried out by the United States the second day of the year, and the national conversation…
Teenage Artists Wrestle With Identity During National YoungArts Week 2020
Nearly 150 YoungArts finalists will perform and share their work in Miami this week, including 14 who call South Florida home.
The Seven Best Free Things to Do in Miami This Week
Yoga, bingo, and a full-moon ceremony await this week.
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The Seven Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
Oprah hits Sunrise, a Heavy Metal Beach Party takes over Virginia Key, and there’ll be heaps of beer at Marlins Park this weekend in South Florida.
Eyes on Miami: New Year’s Eve With DaBaby, the Jonas Brothers, Snoop Dogg, and Others
It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…
Peek Into Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Moundverse at Locust Projects
Trenton Doyle Hancock has dramatically transformed Locust Projects in Miami. The entryway into the alternative art space now resembles a fully stocked toy store, offering Hancock’s branded “Moundverse Infants” action figures, meticulously displayed. A brightly colored quatrefoil pattern animates the packaging and provides a floor pattern that leads back to the main gallery…
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The Best Films of 2019
Making a list of the year’s best films is an overwhelming endeavor for a film critic. Having seen more than 150 cinematic works this year, I found it tough to limit the stellar ones to 20. The list lost exciting films as ambitious and messy as the Matthew McConaughey-starring Serenity, as provocative and intriguing as Holiday, and as gorgeously animated and tender as Weathering With You.
Florida Shakespeare Theater’s Macbeth Carves a Murderous Path Across Miami-Dade
Actor Seth Trucks has been living with Macbeth and Macbeth – one of William Shakespeare’s great roles in one of his great tragedies – for much of the current theater season. In August, Trucks played the ruthlessly pragmatic Scottish king in an intimate New City Players production at The Vanguard…
The 15 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
Thursday, January 2 Start your year off in an artistic fashion at Pérez Art Museum Miami, which offers free admission every first Thursday of the month. If you haven’t visited PAMM in a while, check out the exhibition “Teresita Fernández: Elemental,” where the Miami artist explores colonialism through the lens…
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The Ten Best Gyms in Miami
Whether you’re searching for a weekend adventure, something poolside, or more routine workouts, there are myriad fitness options to choose from in the Magic City.
Miami Film Awards 2019: Local Experts Pick Their Favorites of the Year
For the past half-decade, local film experts — including critics, programmers, professors, and filmmakers — have picked their favorite flicks of the year for the Miami Film Awards. The results were published on the website Dim the House Lights in 2015 and 2016 before moving to New Times in 2017 and 2018. Now they’re back to close out the decade.
With Bananas, Peaches, and Lots of Nuts, the King Mango Strut Continues Its Fruity Reign Over Coconut Grove
The King Mango Strut — a cultural institution in Coconut Grove for nearly 40 years — is a lighthearted way of mocking some of the year’s most upsetting and eye-catching news stories. The 38th-annual edition, which traversed Main Highway and Grand Avenue Sunday, December 29, was no different.
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The Seven Best Free Things to Do in Miami This Week
Ring in 2020, celebrate New Year’s Day, rock out, and catch a film this week, all without spending a dime.