The culmination of a yearlong search for the best short films is about to be on display. The Miami Short Film Festival, started in 2002 by filmmaker William Vela, is celebrating its 2019 festival winners on Sunday, January 19 with a screening taking place at the Deering Estate Theatre in…
Trevor Noah, Celine Dion and Art Deco Weekend headline a festive weekend in the 305.
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,…
Like many contemporary plays, Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son is a small-cast drama, one that unfolds in a taut 84 minutes. But those minutes hold a story of uncommon depth, one that is straightforward yet layered, observant, achingly real and ultimately devastating. Demos-Brown’s finest play to date was created in Miami and…
Artisan Kathe Cuervo carries a large brown box in one arm and holds her 6-year-old son’s hand with the other. She excitedly unlocks the door to her store and carefully places the heavy box on an empty countertop. The Colombian jewelry maker is gearing up to open her first brick-and-mortar location — inside Upper Buena Vista — and it’s a moment she’s been anticipating for some time.
There’s only one place in Miami to see the Vince Lombardi Trophy before the Super Bowl-winning team hoists it, smooches it, showers it with champagne, and whatever the hell else one does with it. The sterling silver laurel will be on display…
The Beaux Arts Festival of Art at the Lowe Art Museum has been a cultural mainstay that attracts artists from all around the world to the University of Miami campus for roughly 70 years.
Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show producers are looking to hire about 600 South Floridians to assist in staging this year’s show, starring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.
Despite the occasional cold front that drops temperatures into the frigid 50s and 60s, Miami doesn’t get much of the strange season northerners refer to as winter, where the rain freezes and covers the ground (how bizarre!). If you’d like to get a taste of this weird…
It’s not likely anyone would call Juan Roberto Diago a brilliant colorist. Rather, his palette skews more to the ashy gray and black tones of William Kentridge, who has employed charcoal drawings for years to evoke riveting dramas of injustice, inspired by his lengthy experience with systemic racist policies in…
Does putting a price on art undermine a museum’s mission?
Playwright Michael Leon’s collaboration with director Victoria Collado is set to open at the Colony Theatre January 23 and run through February 16.
Mac and Cheese Fest, Art Deco Weekend, and a Super Bowl history session top Miami’s free happenings this week.
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,…
Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, ScreenDance Miami, and… dinosaurs? This weekend has it all.
The standup comic is set to open for The Daily Show host Trevor Noah at Hard Rock Live Saturday, January 18.
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.
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 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.
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.
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…
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.
