Art Basel’s Parent Company Is Bringing a Giant Collectible Auto Fair to Miami Beach
Grand Basel will celebrate cars as works of art at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Grand Basel will celebrate cars as works of art at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Imagine you’re a struggling actor, and your friend, who is an even more struggling actor, asks you to be in a movie he’s writing, directing, and starring in. The script makes no sense. Your buddy can’t act to save his life. The shooting is catastrophic, mostly thanks to your friend’s erratic behavior on-set. When the movie is finally done, it’s a complete piece of crap, and your face is all over it.
A highlight of the best events happening in Miami and South Florida from May 17 through 23.
When the awful news broke today that the legendary writer Tom Wolfe had died at 88 years old, all sorts of pockets of America jumped to lay claim to a man who was arguably the most influential nonfiction writer of the past 50 years.
Prepare to enter the Upside Down. The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science will open an interdimensional wormhole in its planetarium June 1 to bring visitors into the bizarre, endearing world of Stranger Things.
Here’s what you need to know: This is less Deadpool 2 than Deadpool Squared, a studio and its star (Reynolds is credited as co-writer) committing to hyper-violent self-referential comic-book buffoonery
The radio host wants to bring people together in a different way.
Boom makes Basquiat out to be an on-the-fringe, Zelig-like character, attempting to get his foot into a bustling arts scene where the inner-city people were beginning to mingle with the downtown folk
Surfside is about to host a weekend of persuading people to ride its gentle waves. It’s appropriate given the name of the seaside town. OK, folks won’t be surfing monster waves on shortboards, but the inaugural Paddletopia is ready to set sail. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20, Surfside…
Life in Miami ain’t always easy. Sometimes locals need a staycation in their own tropical city to reset. ResortPass, a tech startup based on the West Coast, is offering Miamians a way to get away for the day by letting them book a day pass to the pool, gym, or spa in various local luxury hotels.
Before summer temperatures arrive in full force, head outdoors this week to get some exercise, catch some rays, and enjoy live music. Locos por Juana will ease your hump-day blues with a free concert in Brickell, the newly opened GeckoParX and Paddletopia will host creative ways to get active, and the Key Largo Original Music Fest will offer four days of some of the nation’s finest independent songwriters.
Jeannette succeeds in its earnestness, adapting its words from Charles Peguy’s works, but countering it with the pure, joyous silliness of its presentation.
Starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, Disobedience is an adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same name, about a tightly knit Orthodox Jewish community and the prodigal daughter who returns to poke holes in its way of life
As part of the ICA’s inaugural spring programming, the young museum is mounting the first posthumous survey of Terry Adkins’ long career. The artist, who passed away of heart failure in 2014 at the age of 60, amassed a highly varied body of work, from installation to sculpture and drawing…
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…
Simply put, there’s not much suspense here, and Fly’s occasional efforts at thriller-style confrontations and killings prove less fascinating than Pasha’s justifications
Rolling Loud, Mother’s Day events, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend.
This Saturday, Miami will get its Period. Nicky Dawkins of HypeGirls — the femme health website and South Florida’s first chapter leader of the Period menstrual movement in Miami — will host a packing party and charity drive at the Wynwood Yard.
On a chilly day last fall, Miami-born artist Yara Travieso sat in a beach chair in her Brooklyn backyard while she talked about a performance she was planning for Miami’s YoungArts Plaza. “It’s very weird,” she said of her current location, “because it’s cold.” Though she no longer lives in Miami, Travieso said she feels like she still has an umbilical cord attached to the city. Hurricane Irma had just blown through, leaving downed trees and twisted street signs. She felt it from afar.
Moms rule. It takes a special kind of woman to put up with everything from diaper blowouts to teenage angst, all while preparing you to take on the world. These special ladies deserve thanks every day for all of their courage and hard work, especially on Mother’s Day. So spend time with mom this weekend and tell her how much you appreciate her. Make the amazing women in your life feel special with these unique Mother’s Day activities.
Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife has a pungent scent all its own — a combination of baby head, breast milk, sex fluids and that acrid, vinegary extreme perspiration that either comes from bodily trauma or not sleeping for three days straight
His standup material usually steers clear of politics, outside a sly jab or two, and focuses on personal stories told with real emotion and self-depreciating humor.