All we know of our protagonist Tina (a very good Eva Melander) at first is that she is a quiet, somber Swedish customs guard working a border crossing and is also, as it happens, quite distinctive-looking
Thursday: Put down the potatoes — you have to earn them first! Turkey Trot Miami is back, providing locals with the perfect opportunity for some exercise before properly gaining ten pounds on Thanksgiving. There’s a 5K, 10K, and kids’ race, all of which weave in and around Tropical Park. So…
The actual 2018 Robin Hood remains a haphazard action thriller taking place sometime during the Crusades, with Taron Egerton basically reprising his breakout Kingsman role as a scrappy normie getting recruited and trained for skilled combat
Volf supports his interpretation of Callas’ personality with sound bites from her understandably guarded televised appearances, all of which devolve into terse discussions about her years-long romance with Onassis (before and after his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
He became the face of Zoo Miami entirely by accident. A passionate, lifelong animal lover, Ron Magill was the assistant curator of reptiles the day in 1986 when the zoo was hosting a news conference about endangered crocodiles born in captivity. It was an extremely rare, exciting moment, but you…
Esther Park-Clemetson never thought she’d stay in Miami. When she came to town in 2003, she was on assignment for a New York City magazine that had hired her to write about Miami’s then-nascent hip-hop scene. “I met Pitbull — Armando, before he was Mr. Worldwide,” she recalls. “I met…
Eleven years after forming Coral Morphologic, marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay still don’t exactly have the words to describe it. Sitting inside their home/laboratory in Miami, Foord calls the group an “art/science hybrid endeavor” or “an experiment” of what 21st-century science could look like. McKay begins saying…
All her life, dance has been a way of escape for Janet Jones. “When I danced,” she says, “everything would just flow out of me.” But when she was nearing the age of 30, the Miami native and former Heat dancer, believing it was time to grow up and get…
South Florida’s most famous mermaid has never had a problem using her voice. In 2006, Marina Anderson — an aquatic performer known as MeduSirena — was turned down by the hotel manager after auditioning for an underwater show she hoped to start at the Sheraton, a historic resort in Fort…
Octavia Yearwood is beautiful. But in January 2018, while speaking at a fundraiser for a group that helps at-risk teen girls, c, she said she used to hate looking in the mirror. “I used to avoid taking photos with my friends, from junior high school all the way into my…
Lights, camera, selfie. A new immersive experience is coming to Miami, and this one is bound to give your photos that sought-after perfect lighting. By day, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is your run-of-the-mill nature escape. There are trees, awe-inspiring views, and some cool plants. But this holiday season, all of that will change when the sun goes down…
The story concerns sort of a play date between the kids fathered by the first generation of Rocky boxers: Creed versus the son of Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago, who in Rocky IV was built up as pretty much the most devastating weapon in the Soviet nuclear arsenal
When Jessica Weiss was laid off from her job earlier this year, the local journalist contemplated the kind of reporting she wanted to do next. Women were coming forward under #MeToo. Politics were dividing the nation. “I knew I wanted to do something intentionally connective,” Weiss tells New Times, “something about women and for women, something that would make us feel more connected to one another.”
Record Store Day, Words and Wine Jamsgiving, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, November 19 through 25.
The film is based on a true story, and its title comes from the guidebook Lip carries, which lists the hotels and motels where black people were welcome back then
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 WorldRedEye, New Times…
Step inside R House, and you’re immediately transported by the elegant and modern ambiance. The many canvases that hang from its walls (all of which are available for purchase) give the space a feel that rivals the art galleries and showrooms in Wynwood. It’s clear that co-owners Rocco…
Tacolandia, Miami Book Fair, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, November 16 through 18.
Pike’s Colvin is haunted by visions of carnage she has seen, sometimes imagining that her London home is a bombed-out shell of itself, that a little girl she once saw die is lying in her own bed
People order take-out food all the time. Why shouldn’t brands and agencies order art and other services the same way? That’s the question that led Swiss artist Cris Cordero and her girlfriend, Venezuelan artist Elisa Sain, to launch Takeout, an endeavor they’re calling the world’s first “experience delivery service.”
Ana Maria Alvarez fights the patriarchy with creativity. The founding artistic director of Los Angeles dance company Contra-Tiempo will premiere her new work, joyUS justUS, at the Arsht on November 16. “We’re an urban Latin dance theater company. Our mission from day one has been about social justice and using…
The story of two girls who are too smart for their circumstances, one of whom will manage to transcend them, the show casts the minutiae of their tiny world as high drama
