Eyes on Miami: Pusha T, Kygo, Steve Aoki, and Others

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…

Miami Muralist Trek6 Opens His First Gallery Show

After nearly a lifetime of painting graffiti murals, Miami native Trek6 will debut his first gallery show in the Magic City. Best known for using spray paint in the streets to pay homage to his Puerto Rican heritage, the artist explores similar themes in the exhibit “La Mancha de Plátano.”

The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday Don’t let the stately new museums of mainstream musical artists food you. Miami culture is weird. It’s always been weird. And weirdness will stay at the core of this town’s ambiance as long as the International Noise Conference continues raging. Each year, Churchill’s Pub hosts entire days full of…

Peter Rabbit Sparks With Reinvention, but Not to the Original Tale’s Detriment

As you might have guessed and/or feared, Will Gluck’s screen adaptation of Peter Rabbit departs fairly significantly from Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s tales. But though the film insists on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset — it opens with a group of birds inspirationally singing, “You’re only as small as your dreams,” before they get abruptly knocked out of the sky — it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down, and wisely keeps the pandering to a minimum.

Battleground Everglades Activist Charles J. Kropke: “The Glades Make Life Possible Here”

Charles J. Kropke is an author, entrepreneur, and environmental activist who has owned the tour company Dragonfly Expeditions for the past 27 years. Kropke also served as a first lieutenant for more than a decade in the volunteer efforts of the Everglades Restoration Movement. He has created a number of PBS films, The Unseen Everglades: Stories of a Legendary Wilderness, which won an Emmy. Now he’s releasing a project with PBS titled Battleground: Everglades, a six-part series dedicated to looking at both the wonders of the Everglades and the dangers that face them.

Classic Films in Miami This February

The season for cinema has begun. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and you need something to talk to your date about, so why not catch a film and discuss it over drinks and dinner? With nothing but Oscar contenders and a slate of not-so-interesting releases populating theaters, it’s best to turn to a bona fide classic.

Lizz Winstead on Florida and Feminism After #MeToo

We live in the Zone now. The Zone — a widespread allusion to the 1979 film Stalker popularized by leftist comedy podcast Chapo Trap House and further propagated by the Weird Twitter hive mind — is a useful, catch-all reference to the United States’ current state of moral confusion…

Reservoir Dolls, an All-Woman Reservoir Dogs Reboot, Flips the Script

As Hollywood continues to unpack more casualties from the #MeToo movement, women are fighting back by creating the kind of work they want to see and the roles they want to play. Erika Soerensen’s Reservoir Dolls, presented by the Outré Theatre Company at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, flips the script in an all-female stage adaption of Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 testosterone-driven heist film, Reservoir Dogs.

The Best Free Events in Miami This Week

Are you still recovering from Super Bowl Sunday? Depending upon your bets, you might have either celebrated too hard or needed to drink your sorrows away. If you’re in the latter category, you’re probably not in the mood to spend boatloads of money on booze or expensive outings. Luckily, there are plenty of free events to attend in town as you watch the sting of defeat fade in the rearview mirror.

Mahogany L. Browne Brings Black Girl Magic to Wynwood

According to the irreproachable authority of the internet, the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic has been around for about five years. It caught fire after CaShawn Thompson started tweeting the phrase and making merchandise donned by celebrities like Willow Smith and Amandla Stenberg. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Thompson noted…