With only a pair of gloves, bug spray, a GoPro camera, and industrial-strength garbage bags, 31-year-old Andrew Otazo has picked up more than 2,000 pounds of trash from the mangroves of Bear Cut Preserve in Crandon Park. And with his videos garnering more than 10,000 views on YouTube, he might have just started an environmental movement in Miami.
Here are the fun-filled places where the attractions and shows are worth the long lines and overpriced nachos.
What’s hidden past Miami’s sunny, slice-of-paradise shores is a city full of emotionally strained people. This place has been ranked the fifth-most stressful city in America. Locals spend their days on the lookout for face-eating zombies and battling terrorizing traffic for hours on end, so what do you expect? Being stressed blows. Here are ten ways to chill the hell out in Miami.
The Miami International Jazz Fest is back for another year, boasting concerts galore over three days. On the roster are Luis Bofill, O Som do Jazz, Linda Briceño, Yvette Norwood-Tiger, and the Curtis Bros. featuring Ralph Peterson. The shows will go down at Ocho Live Night Club & Lounge,…
This epic, the first of two final Avengers films, finds the Class of ‘12 — the core Avengers — getting together for one last rager, joined by select newbies and spazzes from the ranks of sophomores and freshmen
The House of Tomorrow sticks to a time-tested coming-of-age template that’s as common in the indie world as the superhero origin story is in the studio world
In a series of untitled photographs produced in 1972, Ana Mendieta presses her body against a plate of glass. The clear plane flattens her nose, stomach, thighs, breasts, lips, and tongue in sometimes grotesque and sometimes comical ways. But whether they’re awkward or graceful distortions, all the photographs produce the unsettling desire to see what we simply can’t — a portrait of the artist.
Eighty-seven-year-old French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard stands as one of the most respected living figures of French cinema. The legend began his career as a film critic and helped define the French New Wave movement in 1960 with Breathless. Many of his colleagues, including François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, have passed…
Recognized as an icon of 20th-century photography for her ability to transform seemingly average subjects into compelling art, Lisette Model continues to resonate with new audiences long after her death in 1983. An exhibition opening today at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, in partnership with the National Gallery of…
When the Tribeca Film Festival announced it would host a screening of the 1983 cult classic Scarface, followed by a panel discussion including the entire cast, I could not have called Ticketmaster any faster.
{Lucrecia Martel) transforms Benedetto’s epic into a dizzying, sensory head trip about a man’s gradual psychological decay, allowing larger historical and political themes to emerge organically from her meticulous formal compositions
O, Miami seeks to put “silence into language” with its #MeToo workshop this Sunday. Poet Yaddyra Peralta will conduct the event as part of the planned programming of O, Miami Poetry Festival.
O Miami’s monthlong poetry festival comes to a close this week with readings at the Betsy and the North Dade Regional Library. As you gear up for May, commemorate National Jazz Appreciation Month with a performance by Aaron Lebos Reality, or take in the mind-bending visual and sound installations of Laure Prouvost’s exhibit “They Are Waiting for You” at the recently remodeled Bass.
Working from a novel by Willy Vlautin, Haigh has committed himself to making a boy-and-his-horse movie that’s scraped free of everything false or sentimental about the genre
The new season finds Maeve (Thandie Newton), the host who played madam to Westworld’s bevy of robot whores, scouring the park for the daughter she was given in a previous “narrative” … and who continues to haunt her dreams
Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami has been on a meteoric trajectory. In its first 18 months, the troupe was a 2017 Knight Challenge Grant recipient, and in June, it will debut at New York’s Joyce Theater, followed by its first appearance at the storied Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. During that same…
Some sat on tile floors, markers in hand, butts half covering big white poster boards, gossiping while making campaign posters that would ensure their friend became the ninth grade class president. Others spray-painted protest messages on discarded cardboard, inspired by their parents’ stories of marching against the war. Still others…
Record Store Day, III Joints, Wynwood Life, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, April 20 through April 22.
Men, step aside. It’s time for women to rule. And we’re not just talking about Game of Thrones. At Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament, the themed dinner theater show in Orlando, the 34-year reign by a king is over. Beginning today at the Orlando flagship, which was founded in 1983, Queen Doña Maria Isabella will ascend the throne.
The Miami Design District is quickly becoming an area known for its cutting-edge fashion, art, design, and culture. Popular luxury brands such as Gucci, Tom Ford, and Louis Vuitton have recently set up shop in the continually growing neighborhood, bustling with foot traffic buzzing in and out of everything from art galleries to upscale jewelry stores to celebrity-chef restaurants. It’s a hot place to be and an area that’s nearly outgrowing itself in terms of people trying to visit such a newly desirable location.
The problem with I Feel Pretty isn’t that it’s offensive but that it’s often plodding and unfunny, almost as if its creators are afraid to have too much fun with such a loaded premise
Aventura Mall’s new art project kicks off with a spring-inspired mural by inaugural artist Luis Valle.
