The Best Free Events in Miami This Week
Happy hour with Haute Tension and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, November 26 through December 2.
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
Record Store Day, Elton John’s farewell shows, Gender Blender, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, November 23 through 25.
Playwright Juan C. Sanchez Tells Miami’s Story, One Motel at a Time
It’s a Saturday afternoon at the Brickell Metrorail station. The usual weekday rush is absent. Instead, bodies lounge under the elevated tracks on the cool concrete as the October sun beams overhead. Among them sits local playwright Juan C. Sanchez.
Lee Chang-dong’s Burning Torches Sex, Obsession and Class
Lee Chang-dong’s dexterity with the telling minutiae of human interactions ensures that Burning makes for an emotionally gripping film
Meet Robert Cortes, Your Neighborhood Furniture Bae
In a warehouse lot in Fort Lauderdale, where each pale pink door looks the same as its neighbor, one space stands out. Its garage door is wide open to expose an intimate studio perfectly arranged for a woodworker. Inside, you’ll find Robert Cortes, the founder, owner, and…
Inaugural Faena Festival Asks, “What Is America?”
Zoe Lukov, curator of the inaugural Faena Festival, uses Alfredo Jaar’s historic work, “A Logo for America,” as a jumping-off point. “If this is not America, what is it? What do we want it to be?” she poses, preferring to open a dialog rather than give direct answers. She addresses “the myths and narratives that separate us, and how to reimagine those in a way that fits our own lives.” The festival seeks to raise this and other questions through the lenses of performance, installation, video, and more.
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Border Lays Bare the Heart of a Troll — a Fantasy Troll, Not the Evil Kind
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
The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
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 Latest Robin Hood Robs From the Past to Give the Present Nothing
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
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Maria by Callas Strips an Opera Great of Her Agency
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)
Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill Is a Friend to Fauna
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 Puts the Cool in Culture
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…
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Colin Foord and Jared McKay Make Coral Cool
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…
Janet Jones Makes Women Top Dancers
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…
MeduSirena: Fort Lauderdale’s Underwater Beauty
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…
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Octavia Yearwood Instills Confidence in Kids
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…
NightGarden Turns Fairchild Garden Into a Fairy Wonderland
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…
Creed II Follows Up a Classic With (Sigh) an OK Rocky Movie
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
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The Creators of the Podcast The Flow Down Want to Destigmatize Your Period
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.”
The Best Free Events in Miami This Week
Record Store Day, Words and Wine Jamsgiving, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, November 19 through 25.
Green Book Marks the Unwelcome Return of the Cute Racism Movie
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
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Eyes on Miami: Travis Scott, Tiësto, Anitta, 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…