Japanese video artist Meiro Koizumi is obsessed with memories of wartime strife. Whether documenting Japanese WWII kamikaze pilots or American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Koizumi trains his lens on vivid and harsh battlefield recollections. Those memories are the subject of a newly commissioned piece on view…
Parkland Schools substitute teacher and Marjory Stoneman Douglas alum Joey Weisler wrote “Valentine’s Day Massacre” about his experience on the days before, during, and after the Stoneman Douglas shooting.
Last year, when José Atencio, owner of Milly’s Empanada Factory; Bryan Herrero, director of operations at Secret Celluloid Society; and Andre Alvarez started organizing the inaugural West Kendall Zine Fest (affectionately known as WKZF), the trio had just met for the first time after a casual encounter at Milly’s. Instantly hitting…
Thursday Oh, Marlins. We have so many questions for you. First and foremost, can we kick off the season with a W? The Miami Marlins will open their 2018 campaign at home Thursday against the Chicago Cubs. Regardless of the pessimists out there (Vegas has the Marlins at 500:1 to…
… the film is dedicated to “all who have been persecuted for their faith,” which means that in today’s world, it’s pretty much dedicated to everybody
As the collective fog of air horns, strobe lights, and hazy tourists made the trek out of the Magic City after Winter Music Conference and Ultra, locals were left to clean up the mess and reflect on the week’s events. Out of the dozens of concerts, parties, and after-parties, one…
There’s a comment book at the entrance of “Show and Tell,” the career retrospective of Mexican-American artist Laura Aguilar on view at the Frost Art Museum FIU. According to Jordana Pomeroy, the Frost Art Museum’s Director, the book works as a sort of community response barometer when it’s not host…
Besides telling the story of two rappers who eventually became casualties in the ‘90s ridiculous East Coast/West Coast rap beef, Unsolved is also a double-stacked, occasionally trite, police procedural
You probably know Kristen Hewitt from her sideline reporting and television work for the Miami Heat and Fox Sports Sun, but for the purpose of this article, think of her as just a mom. A concerned mom. Like the rest of us, Kristen couldn’t believe what she was…
Legendary percussionist and Prince collaborator Sheila E. plays a free show at the Design District’s ongoing Emilio Estefan-produced Palm Court Performance Series on Friday, Afrobeta plays a Miami Girls Rock fundraiser at Wynwood Yard, and in the wake of Saturday’s March for Our Lives, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School alum and Parkland Schools substitute teacher Joseph Weisler will read his reflections on the days leading up to and following the Parkland shooting at FilmGate Miami’s “Tuesdays at 9” series. Here’s a look at the best free events happening in Miami this week.
This Terror, developed by David Kajganich and certainly the best of AMC’s prestige-TV horror series, is always suspenseful, superbly acted, shrewdly paced and committed to the summoning up what the experience of Arctic isolation might actually have been like
Less than 6 weeks after the shooting in Parkland, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led more than 20,000 people through the streets of their community in Saturday’s March For Our Lives. And while the most visible of the MSD survivors made their way to Washington D.C. for the main march, those that stayed behind continued the fight on their home turf.
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…
In 2015, Katiana Urbina was was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After the surgery that saved her life, Urbina found motivation and inspiration in the work of Kanye West. Two years ago, she bought a VIP ticket to his concert in Miami to try and meet her hero. Now, she’s premiering a short film about him that aims portray West in a positive light that Urbina says people have forgotten.
For better or worse, this weekend belongs to Ultra. For many, having the top DJs in the world play in town for the next three days is a dream come true. For everyone else, it’s just a weekend-long traffic nightmare. Either way, if you’re searching for music in Miami this weekend, you won’t have to look far to find it, and it’s not exclusively behind the DJ booth.
Think of Flower as a little like Sofia Coppola’s teen-thief satire The Bling Ring with the realism and consequences to bad behavior of Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen
Author and journalist Steve Almond found himself struggling to wrap his head around the election-night results of 2016. The result of that journey is his latest book, Bad Stories: What The Hell Just Happened to Our Country. He’ll discuss it Monday, March 26, with Books & Books owner Mitchell Kaplan.
Miami has provided the setting for truly epic crime tales turned into movies, such as War Dogs and Blow. The upcoming film The Corporation tells the story of Cuban crime lord Jose Miguel Battle’s rise to power in the underworld. The project stars Benicio del Toro, is based on a history penned by best-selling author T.J. English, and will be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
The film chronicles Roxanne’s teenage years — her brief time in the limelight — when she became one of the greatest in the game
“The robots were the good guys, because humans drove them. So maybe they weren’t technically robots. Well, some of them were.”
The suffering is every day, bro.
… Everything about the series, from plotting to character development to tone, feels contrived, with every speck of subtext hauled up and nailed down to the show’s slick surface
