Though the themes in “/peh-LO-tah/” touch upon the issues America is reckoning with at a heightened state at the moment, Joseph wrote the play during the waning period of the Obama era, and it premiered just ten days after Trump was elected.
This Changes Everything. This year, Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival takes a big risk with its opening night film. Generally a place for celebratory, uplifting cinema, the first movie to screen at the festival’s centerpiece venue, the storied Olympia Theater, is a documentary that wags its finger at the…
As millions of young people across the country became transfixed by Elvis Presley’s hip shaking, a subculture of young, Jewish, New York-to-Miami Beach transplants looked past the blues and country-tinged sounds coming out of the American South, leaning instead toward the tropical beat of pre-revolution Cuba. This is the story pf the Mamboniks.
Monica Lewinsky, Speedy Ortiz, HUMP! Film Festival, and more can’t-miss events this week.
Unlike this year’s live-action Oscar shorts, which mostly centered on white boyhood, the Miami Film Festival’s shorts lineup has upped its own ante by bringing a host of diverse voices to the screen for its 36th annual event. The fest lineup balances established talents like Patricia Clarkson with rising local filmmakers.
Miami-based documentary filmmaker Billy Corben speaks in the same style his movies unfold: fast and peppered with plenty of self-effacing jokes. You don’t want to laugh for fear of missing what he might say next. On a tight schedule to finish one of the two films he’s slated to premiere…
Last night’s Green Book’s Best Picture win spoiled the 2019 Academy Awards for many viewers. But before that film, which has been widely criticized for its “white savior” story line, took home the night’s biggest prize, the Oscars seemed to be making improvements in acknowledging both diverse nominees and fan favorites.
Shelley Novak Awards, John Williams at New World Center, MiamiPhotoFest, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, February 25 through March 3.
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,…
On Wednesday afternoon, “One Day at a Time” showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett tweeted that she had just left a meeting with Netflix and had learned some troubling news about her original series: it was once again in danger of being canceled. Why? Low viewership. Kellett’s full tweet read: “NEWS: Met…
Fuego Music Festival, Oscars watch parties, Judy Chicago at ICA Miami, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, February 22 through 24.
Arctic. The feature film debut by writer-director Joe Penna is a rather grim and grueling survivalist action movie peppered by a handful of startling OMG moments. Underneath all that, however, lies powerful subtext about how purpose adds meaning to life. Arctic follows Overgård (Mads Mikkelsen), the only survivor of a…
When I tell you I moved down to Miami for the weather, I really mean I moved to South Florida to escape my depression. I’m not alone. Many people believe the Magic City, with its brilliant sunsets and never-ending attractions, will redeem them from darkness. The…
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…
Thursday The Grammys have come and gone. Now it’s time for an equally awesome musical spectacle in our backyard. The 31st Premio Lo Nuestro, presented by Univision, is set to happen at the Triple-A. Alejandra Espinoza will host the star-studded event, and Latin artists galore are slated to perform and…
Get red carpet ready and head to one of these five South Florida spots on Sunday, February 24, to watch the Oscars with fellow cinephiles.
Feminist artist Judy Chicago is known for her mixed-media installations. This week, she’s taking it to another level with an extension of her current exhibition on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Chicago will debut a new, site-specific smoke piece titled A Purple Poem for Miami in Jungle Plaza…
When writer and artist Eurydice Kamvyselli was just 8 years old in late-1970s Greece, her schoolteacher informed her she was a Lesbian. But the teacher didn’t mean a homosexual woman — she meant a person from Lesbos, the tiny island off the coast of Greece where Kamvyselli was born and to which she traces her…
Ankara Miami, Pride Fort Lauderdale, Black History Month events, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, February 18 through 24.
Globally, kid’s entertainment is a booming, ever-expanding industry with hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue each year. In the U.S., children account for 23 percent of the population (74 million people). It’s little wonder why a who’s who of kids’ media giants and attendees from over fifty countries make it a priority to descend upon Miami each February, hunting for the next big hit.
First there was ice cream. Then there was a talking tree in a garden of light. And now there shall be unicorns, because Miami is getting the Unicorn Factory this spring. The brainchild of Michelle Kulikov and Julia Stein, this concept promises to be a sensory experience with only the most coveted backdrops for your next Instagram post.
Overtown has long been a mecca for culture. The deeply rooted community in the historic heart of Miami was a center of entertainment in the 1940s and ‘50s, comparable to Miami Beach. Some of most iconic black artists of the time performed in the neighborhood. But Overtown’s cultural significance is…
