Get ready, South Florida, for some fuel for your nightmares. Popcorn Frights Film Festival, the Southeast’s largest horror-film festival, has announced its first wave of programming for the 2018 edition. The lineup includes world premieres, live performances, and special guests.
There’s something genuinely exciting about seeing part of your hometown or even your home state on the big screen, especially when you’re from South Florida. Most movies wind up set in New York City or Los Angeles, and more and more of them are being filmed in Atlanta or Vancouver, but there are plenty of films where you’ll find perfectly recognizable stretches of Miami’s beaches or familiar streets in Coconut Grove.
Like the shows she’s considering, Bolin soon expands out from comely corpses to survey a wider world, in this case many of her pop obsessions …
The show’s production designers and costumers clearly revel in Claws’ setting; everything is slightly overdone, Florida-style, right down to the elaborately detailed designs that Desna’s salon specializes in
Thursday You read about the best things to do each week right here. Well, what about the best things to do, eat, and experience all the time? At New Times’ Best of Miami Party, get a taste of the people, businesses, and institutions that make Miami shine. Mix and mingle…
Like Nanette, Rape Jokes is in part a deconstruction of comedy itself, particularly the debates in recent years over what should, or shouldn’t, be acceptable in a stand-up set
As Art Basel has grown into the biggest art fair in the world, Miami has become known as an international hub of the visual arts, on par with cultural nerve centers around the globe. In recent years, the Magic City has also begun to earn its due recognition for being home to a rich and burgeoning performing arts scene.
For all its jittery heist drama, American Animals is, above all else, an accidental study in just how much white kids can get away with and still be welcomed back into society
On June 21st, yogis worldwide will gather at local studios and special events for International Yoga Day. This year, the famed celebration just so happens to also fall on the Summer Solstice, and there isn’t a shortage of combo celebrations. This Thursday, find your zen and treat the mind, body, and soul to a special yoga class in honor of every yogi’s favorite holiday. From free yoga classes to poolside practices, here are the five best ways to celebrate International Yoga Day around town.
Through archival footage of Rogers both on and off the set of his iconic show, as well as interviews with his family, friends and former crew members, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? draws a flattering yet complex portrait of its subject, who died of cancer in 2003
Last Tuesday, Jerry Beck, a South Florida native and the founder and artistic director of the Revolving Museum, attempted to fly what is believed to be the world’s largest paper plane at Fitchburg Municipal Airport in Massachusetts. But years of conceptualizing, community organizing, and crowdsourcing artworks to plaster on the exterior of the 64-foot paper plane weren’t enough to override the relentless physics required for flight.
The calamities come with accelerating speed, and everything happens so quickly that you don’t even have time to wonder if you’re having fun or not
This week’s roundup includes free screenings of two modern-day film classics: Catch Black Panther at Coconut Grove’s Barnacle Historic State Park and Moonlight at Bill Cosford Cinema, courtesy of the queer film series Flaming Classics. New York’s Latin Grammy-winning femme mariachi band, Flor de Toloache, returns to South Florida for a Saturday-night show in Miami Beach, and the Abbey Brewing Company inches closer to a quarter-century as a Miami Beach staple.
Right from the opening scene, where Priest shakes down/humiliates a drug-dealing rapper and his crew, SuperFly establishes that no one can ever be as cunning and crafty as him
In Trump’s America, events that showcases a marginalized group’s work are sometimes called divisive or whiny. The American Black Film Festival, which kicked off in Miami Beach this past Wednesday, is such an event. It spotlights both the problem with the President’s borderline fascist thinking and the blatantly problematic reality…
Several grown men have been playing the same game of tag for the last three decades, spending one month each year doing everything they can to avoid one another, while also doing everything they can to secretly find and touch one another
Father’s Day is approaching, Miami. Have you thought about how you’re going to treat that special man in your life who helped combat a lifetime of temper tantrums? Instead of the easy buy dad a gift card from Home Depot and a case a beer and call it a day route, spend some quality time with him. Tell him how much you appreciate the lifetime of love he’s given you, because we know raising a kid ain’t easy. From go-karting to yoga with beer, here are the ten best Father’s Day activities.
Maroon 5, Brit Floyd, a Stranger Things laser show; and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend.
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…
Some people use New Times’ annual Best of Miami issue as a dining guide. Others look up the hottest nightlife options in the city. But for Miami’s creative-minded citizens, the issue is a yearbook of sorts — a look at the artists and institutions that are doing the most to…
Thursday The holiday Juneteenth is celebrated Tuesday the 19th to commemorate the 1865 emancipation of slaves in the former Confederacy. To remember this momentous day, Pérez Art Museum Miami, in conjunction with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will host special screenings of Papa Machete and H-2…
“The Dante Chamber” author, Matthew Pearl, will host an intimate chat with readers at Books & Books in Coral Gables at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
