Concerts and parties will take place from South Beach to downtown Miami and turn the city into an absolute madhouse. Maybe you’re here for the unbridled revelry. But if you’re not, take heart: It’s possible to avoid the bright lights and uhntz-uhntz. From pop-up cat cafés to food festivals, these are the ten best ways to avoid Miami Music Week.
If you’ve ever wondered what it might look like to crossbreed an edgy cable comedy with a jovial network sitcom, A.P. Bio, created by former SNL writer Mike O’Brien, suggests just that sort of Frankenfood
Pioneer Winter dances to the beat of his own drum. The local performer and activist is a third-generation South Floridian, with roots in New York, who became a choreographer after earning a master’s in public health from Florida International University. As a kid, he took dance classes at Miami City Ballet…
Making it rain has long been mainstream, but the FX show presents a more novel sight: average Atlanta residents, reckoning with what often gets treated as a national rite of passage
God bless Sweden. The Scandinavian country has given us IKEA, Ace of Base, and delicious meatballs. It’s also given us the electro-pop group Little Dragon, which will soon play Revolution Live. The South Florida date is one of only four East Coast stops the band is making on its…
Venezuelan filmmaker Claudio Marcotulli’s short film turns mundanity into magic.
The ancient Japanese art of taiko drumming is coming to Miami with the group Tao: Drum Heart, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has gone on to tour internationally while getting an extra boost with an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Sponsored by Culture Shock Miami…
On March 16, Miami Film Festival will honor one of the most talented actresses in modern cinema. The night will reflect on an extensive career that spans more than a hundred films, highlight one of her latest leading roles, and finish with a birthday celebration on the stage of the Olympia Theater. This performer is Isabelle Huppert.
… it’s worth reconsidering The X-Files’ feminism today, especially when so much of the series’ fan goodwill is based on the quietly political leaps it made in the last century
If you’re a diehard Olympics fan, you know Aly Raisman was the captain of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women’s gymnastics teams. But even if you’re not into the sport, there’s a good chance Raisman has been on your radar lately. She has become a leading activist for the #MeToo movement and a champion for mental health…
If Miami were a canvas, Nick Mahshie would be its painter. The locally born artist has always been inspired by his lush surroundings. As a teenager growing up in Westchester, his paintings were a reflection of his surroundings, and they were always filled with brilliant color. “Bird Road tire shops, palm trees, lizards, cleavage — it was always about Miami,” Mahshie says.
It’s Monday again, and with it comes yet another long workweek. But there’s plenty of green beer at the end of the tunnel: St. Patrick’s Day is Saturday. There is no shortage of parties and drink specials on the horizon for the holiday this year, but there are also many alternative events for those who’ve outgrown the debauchery or want to avoid the crowds.
Here is a movie made for and about the people who believe they are the essence of American normalcy, a movie that dutifully flatters and celebrates them even as it works to expand who that normalcy actually includes
It has impenetrable technobabble jutting up against awkward football metaphors and a reverie on peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches sandwiched between a monologue on climate change and the triumphant revelation of a character’s hidden home arsenal.
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 brings you a solid recap of all the recent experiences you might have missed around Miami. It’s impossible to be everywhere, but hey, we can try to keep our Eyes on Miami.
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
