Borscht Is Back: 2019 Festival Lineup Announced
Miami film fans, rejoice: the Borscht Film Festival has announced its return in spring of 2019.
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Ten Arts and Cultural Organizations to Support on Give Miami Day
A roundup of ten cultural organizations you can support on Give Miami Day from Coral Gables Art Cinema to Locust Projects and Viernes Culturales.
Hulu’s The Bisexual Stands as the First First-Rate TV Series About Queer Women
Akhavan created and cowrote The Bisexual (with her Miseducation cowriter Cecilia Frugiuele) and stars (she also directed four out of its six episodes) in this comedy about an American immigrant in London
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Brings Celebrity Soccer Match to South Beach
Olivia Culpo, Genie Bouchard and more will hit the sand in Miami Beach for a charity game benefitting Best Buddies.
With Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers Fully Commit to Cheery Meaninglessness
In typical Coen fashion, most people in the movie meet ironic or wry deaths, but this time the Coens seem to be actively eschewing any deeper emotional connection between the audience and the characters
The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
Thursday The “Seinfeld of France” is making his way to Miami. Global comedy phenom Gad Elmaleh is kind of a big deal abroad, having sold out Paris’ iconic Olympia Theater Hall for seven straight weeks, as well as other big-time tours. Here in the States, his deadpan awesomeness has equated…
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Obsolete Media Miami Stages Eight-Hour “Friendathon” Fundraiser
A younger generation of Miami artists owes a debt to Kevin Arrow and Barron Sherer, the catalysts behind Obsolete Media Miami (OMM). Their joint art project is part hoarder, part enabler, all brilliant. The two collect, educate the public, and advise fellow artists on media and equipment considered useless by…
Aimee Carrero on Voicing She-Ra: “A Smart, Powerful Woman Fighting Evil”
As political tensions in America continue to rise, Princess Adora is here to help save the day. The cult favorite from the late 1980s, She-Ra: Princess of Power, is getting a reboot on Netflix. Leading the cast of newly dubbed She-Ra and the Princesses of Power characters is Miami native Aimee…
Artist Ebony G. Patterson Asks Viewers to “Go Between the Layers” of Her PAMM Exhibit
When looking at Ebony G. Patterson’s work, it might be best to think of an optical illusion. What’s obvious in “Ebony G. Patterson… while the dew is still on the roses…,” Patterson’s exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami, is that her work often holds difficult contradictions.
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Vivid Argentine Crime Drama El Angel Studies the Killer Behind a Baby Face
“El Angel” is a crime spree as improvised reverie, one with a subject who is as quick to give away his loot as the director is to make the subtext explicit
Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Still Has Hope for America
Want some context to today’s wild political swings? Look to presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Goodwin’s award-winning book Team of Rivals inspired the Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis award-winning film, Lincoln. Her history of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II, No Ordinary Time, earned her a Pulitzer…
The Front Runner Exposes the Hart of a Political Sex Scandal
… This is less a film about Gary Hart — who, as played by Jackman, remains something of an enigma — than one about the operatives and volunteers and journalists swirling around his candidacy
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In 1969, Stan Lee Told Angry Readers That Comics Must Stand Up for Civil Rights
From Lee to Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita, and many others came the great flowering of ‘60s superheroes, the ones who seemed like human beings in ways that Superman or Batman didn’t.
Explosive Widows Dares to Be So Much More Than a Heist Flick
This thoughtful, textured story — though brutal at times — stands as one of the clearest depictions of turmoil, racism and nepotism in local politics that’s ever been drawn onscreen
The Best Free Events in Miami This Week
New World Symphony Wallcast concert, Miami Book Fair and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, November 12 through 18.
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Boy Erased Exposes the Cruel Stupidity of “Gay Conversion Therapy”
It documents with an incisive drabness the group sessions, garbled sermons and general shoddiness of Love in Action, the program that 19-year-old Jared (Lucas Hedges) gets enrolled in by his parents, played by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe
Broad City Star Abbi Jacobson Gets Personal in Her First Book, I Might Regret This
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff is a look into actor and writer Abbi Jacobson’s life that might surprise Broad City fans. It seems Jacobson, who shares a name with her brash onscreen Broad City character, in reality is often a private, guarded person.
How Darius Hickman’s Rocky Florida Childhood Made Him a Star
Piano chords thrum as a sole spotlight illuminates a male staring defiantly into a camera, adorned in makeup and a flowing, ethereal white gown. Under two minutes of flawlessly executed contemporary dance follows, the male-female duo onstage narrating a story through their movements. It’s a tale of a man grappling with an intrinsic desire to be himself and the expectations society has thrust upon him.
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
The Miami Book Fair, Miami Folk & Indie Fest, Doral Food & Wine Festival and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, November 9 through 11.
Wildlife DP Diego Garcia Gets Into “the Soul” of Actor-Director Paul Dano
Much of what makes Wildlife, the feature directorial debut by actor Paul Dano, so distinctive is its look. Capturing suburban Montana in 1960 and the disintegration of a small family through the eyes of the parents’ only son, Wildlife needed a crew with a delicate touch to capture the characters…
Ill-Abilities Hip Hop Dance Crew Will Move Your Body
In the hip-hop world, attitude is everything. And no one has more swagger than Ill-Abilities, a mixed-ability b-boy crew. This all-star team with members from all over the world is ready to tear Miami stages apart in A New Definition of Dance: Featuring Ill-Abilities, which consists of a…
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Eyes on Miami: Lenny Kravitz, Trevor Noah, Miguel, 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 WorldRedEye, New Times…