The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
It’s the last weekend of 2017. You know you wanna do it up right.
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Author Robert Arellano on Havana Libre and Cuba’s Shrinking Apertura
“I cannot abandon Havana,” Dr. Manolo Rodriguez muses over a cigarette in the opening pages of Robert Arellano’s newest novel, Havana Libre. It is the summer of 1997 — the height of Cuba’s Período Especial, or Special Period of economic crisis after the fall of the Soviet Union. The second installment in Arellano’s Cuba-centric series came out earlier this month just ahead of the third anniversary of President Barack Obama’s December 17, 2014 decision to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than 50 years of stalemate.
Eyes on Miami: Jeezy, Hulk Hogan, Josh Richardson, 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…
Vanity Projects Brings Artisan Nails to Design District
Vanity Projects isn’t your average nail salon. Though it specializes in luxury gel manicures with carefully curated custom nail art from celebrated nail artists, the shop offers a wide range of services at varying price points, such as traditional one-color lacquer manicures and pedicures and a weekly discounted gel art special.
The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
Thursday In a city as self-conscious as Miami, a guide to the best restaurants, party ideas, and travel destinations can feel like a necessity. The Cocktailz & Coconutz series is here to provide just that with the help of Jean-Désir Fils, AKA the Lifestyle Connoisseur. You can be introduced to…
The Best Free Events in Miami This Week
Whether you’re happy to see it go or sad to watch it fade, the year of Trump’s presidency, sexual harassment revelations, and Hurricane Irma is winding down, and you have six days to wave goodbye. End it on the right note with events such as Celebrity Deathmatch at the Hangar and New Year’s Eve at Mana Wynwood, because one thing that will remain true through generations is our love of free stuff.
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Cocaine Cowboys to Be Adapted Into Stage Play by Miami New Drama
Miami New Drama, based out of the Colony Theatre, and film production company Rakontur have teamed up to bring Billy Corben’s seminal 2006 documentary, Cocaine Cowboys, to a live stage. The idea is the result of a collaboration between two of Miami’s most inventive and innovative artists.
Miami Drag Queens Bring Celebrity Deathmatch to Life
Every millennial remembers staying up late watching MTV, but one show stood out from all the music videos and ridiculous dating series. Its violence, ridiculousness, and clay savagery were etched into the minds of America’s teenagers. The show was Celebrity Deathmatch, and it’s returning to Miami in live-action form. Local…
Escape the Feel-Bad Present With the Feel-Worse Future of Black Mirror’s Nightmarish Fourth Season
The show exists in a vaguely defined future time and place — its world’s particulars seem to vary from episode to episode, although fan theories suggest they do all take place in the same universe
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Late Addition Christopher Plummer Is Best Thing in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World
Over the course of the film, we go from seeing the elder Getty as a figure of great power to one of no power at all, and that is perhaps the most fascinating part of the movie …
Eyes on Miami: Gwyneth Paltrow, Romero Britto, Emma Roberts, 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…
The IV Doc Sends a Nurse to Your Home to Treat Your Hangover
Look, it happens to the best of us. A boozefest leaves you feeling and looking like a monster. You can barf it all out, chug some Sprite, or do whatever weird thing Google tells you. Or, if you’re in Miami or Fort Lauderdale, you can just call the IV Doc…
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
However you choose to spend your Noche Buena, Chanukkah, Kwanzaa, or hedonistic holiday party marathon, make it out to the Support Local Market at the Wynwood Yard, Jingle Bell Rock at Churchill’s Pub, and MatzoBall at Story. Go ahead and get all about that holiday spirit.
The Ten Best Things to Do When It’s “Cold” in Miami
Ugg boots on the streets of Miami are a good indicator that the temperature has fallen below 70 degrees. If you’re like us, the recent cold front left you out of sweaters and confused. Because, how else is a Miamian suppose to act when they aren’t unbearably hot and cranky? For those born and raised in the 305, muttering the words “I’m cold” is an extremely rare occurrence.
New Times‘ Ten Most Popular Arts and Culture Slideshows of 2017
With the opening of a new museum, a local film winning at the Oscars, and Miami’s usual debauchery, 2017 was a scenic year in South Florida. Here’s a look back at the slideshows that captivated readers this year. 1. Scenes From Spring Break 2017 on South Beach. As the rest of…
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Babes, Bondage, and Bisexuality: The Best of Queer Cinema in 2017
For all the frustrations that 2017 has brought, the realm of queer cinema has been full of features that have thrilled, chilled, and fulfilled every expectation. Though most conversation this upcoming awards season will turn to the quaint, romantic coming-of-age drama Call Me by Your Name, the year’s other lovely cinematic works deserve recognition too, including films with LGBT characters proudly presented onscreen and mainstream films that read as queer in their content, themes, and subtext.
Suckers May Be Bored Every Minute of the Exhausting The Greatest Showman
Hugh Jackman is charming as ever, and two dance scenes are mildly inventive and well-executed, yet Jackman’s goodwill and a splash of inspired choreography are not enough to earn the “greatest” in the title
The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
Thursday Whether you like him best in his scene-stealing sidekick roles or as a standup comedian, Kevin Hart has no doubt made you laugh even if you didn’t want to. His latest projects include his autobiography, I Can’t Make This Up, which came out in June, and the film Jumanji:…
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Jessica Chastain Takes the Pot in Aaron Sorkin’s Poker Drama Molly’s Game
Chastain seems at times to be both the lead and her own supporting actor in this story, as she oscillates between traditionally feminine and masculine modes of behavior
Chrissie Fit on Pitch Perfect 3 and Telling Authentic Latina Stories in Hollywood
Towering in the center of Times Square in New York City is a billboard promoting Pitch Perfect 3. On it, eight women in black serve serious looks that scream, I’m ready to kick some ass. One of those fierce females is Hialeah native Chrissie Fit. “It was surreal [to see],”…
The Most Interesting Thing in Pitch Perfect 3 Is Anna Kendrick’s Boredom
The Pitch Perfect films have offered an increasingly unpalatable blend of pop-song empowerment, rah-rah women’s friendship and broad gross-out comedy
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Darkest Hour Finds Gary Oldman in Full Roar as Britain’s Last Lion
Wright’s film is fleet but not especially thoughtful, wholly convincing in its production design, and in one crucial sense something rare: Here’s a war movie about rhetoric rather than battle scenes