Seventy years ago, in 1948, Israel was declared an independent state by David Ben-Gurion. Halfway around the globe that year, the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach opened its doors. At first thought, the two events might not seem connected. But this week, the Sagamore celebrates the concurrent anniversaries by launching the art exhibit titled “Peace 70.”
In continued observance of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, this weekend is all about celebrating the power and strength of the distaff. An exhibition of art inspired by Maya Angelou, a meet-and-greet with gold-medal gymnast Aly Raisman, and a Femme Saturdays discussion at the Miami Workers Center are opportunities…
The 2008 horror movie The Strangers, which found Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman being terrorized in a remote country house by three creepily masked young people, was harsh and unnerving and, thanks to affecting work by it stars, memorably sad. The low-budget flick made big money, but somehow — in…
Mexico City-based theater collective Teatro Ojo’s works are constantly evolving. Nothing is ever really finished. That’s because they take direction during every performance. Whatever the audience experiences, observes, feels, and offers in feedback, which the performers highly encourage, is used in the evolution of the same piece or introduced into another work.
Pérez Art Museum Miami’s endowment hasn’t grown much since the museum moved bayside in 2013.
Last year, around this time, Blake Jenner, the actor most people know for playing the dyslexic golden boy Ryder Lynn on Glee, was to make a homecoming at last year’s Miami Film Festival. Jenner, who grew up in Kendall, was traveling from his home in Los Angeles for the world premiere of his first script turned into a movie…
The film sends the simultaneous messages that it’s futile to coddle children but also that it’s OK to feel the icky stuff that you feel, because even your weaknesses can be transformed to strengths
So you think you’re the biggest Miami Heat fan in South Florida. You have season tickets. You have the whole team’s jerseys, the hat, and the Dwyane Wade Fathead on your bedroom wall. Your license plate reads, “HEAT4EVA.” But would you shell out $1,500 to spend a night at American Airlines Arena?
It’s only March and the nation’s collective stress level is already at a record high. Many people could benefit from learning about positive psychology, the scientific study of what makes humans content and how to sustain that feeling of fulfillment. From March 16 through 18 at the second-annual World Happiness Summit, scientists, educators, entrepreneurs, athletes, and artists will present their research and share their experiences in living happy and thriving lives.
A local happy hour is injecting some happiness back into the community. The Kick It for the Youth fundraiser will go down Thursday at Wood Tavern. It’s being put on by the Power U Center for Social Change, which is dedicated to developing local black youth and black women…
Thoroughbreds’ best trick is to convince us, through the aching stillness of its stars’ eyes, that it might not actually be a twisty, twisted thriller inspired by the likes of Strangers on a Train
Kersey is the everyman, and Roth’s movie, whether he likes it or not, is the good-guy-with-a-gun propaganda the NRA is just lapping up straight out of the toilet
Offering everything from pub parties to festivals and bar crawls, Miami delivers a St. Patrick’s Day that’s worth the hangover. The celebration options seem endless. Looking for green beer? Here! Broke yet thirsty? There’s something for you too.
Already the show’s producers have revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Roseanne and Dan Conner (Barr and John Goodman) voted for Trump, which has created a rift between Roseanne and her sister
Since the earliest iteration of the feminist movement, the fight for femme equality and justice has been a push-and-pull of progress and setbacks. Even as activism claimed victories in legislation for suffrage, birth control, and equal pay, issues that affected women of color, immigrant women, and transgender women, among others, have consistently been silenced and ignored.
Here’s your monthly reminder that South Florida has a vibrant and thriving theater scene. From Broadway musicals to comedies to engrossing dramas, there’s never a shortage of great theater to catch at any given playhouse throughout Miami-Dade and Broward. And we’re not just talking about the Arsht Center or the Broward Center.
The Shape of Water took home four statues, including Best Director for Guillermo del Toro.
It’s officially Women’s History Month, and in addition to the mainstay weekly events Miami offers, plenty of panel discussions and exhibits this week shine a light on the accomplishments of the powerful, capable women in our midst and throughout history.
This first English-language feature from Italian director Paolo Virzi (Human Capital, Like Crazy) is at times moving in its sincerity, thanks to stellar casting and the director’s clear-eyed perspective on aging and dementia.
Marco Rubio is having a tough month. The senator’s response to one of the worst school shootings in history was widely criticized. He got owned by high-school students, parents, and even himself on live television. His gun-reform plan is garbage. All of this after a career of repeatedly proving he is a spineless creature…
It’s a big weekend for music in Florida, and not just because of the highly anticipated return of the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival. Music fans around the state are packed up and ready for a weekend of camping and dancing to the sounds of Arcade Fire, Snoop Dogg, Travis Scott, and Bassnectar.
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…
