Put on your fanciest heels, your hottest tops, your messiest bottoms, and, most important, your most extravagant wigs. The queer festival Wigwood will return in 2018, stretching the previously one-day festival into a two-day extravaganza its second year.
Locos por Juana, a beloved Miami-based Grammy- and Latin Grammy-nominated bilingual Latin alternative fusion band, has teamed up with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Milcho to develop the #WeDreamAmerica campaign, which recently released a Latinized interpretation of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Based on the best-selling book by Martha Raddatz, National Geographic’s newest miniseries chronicles the events of April 4, 2004, when eight soldiers from the First Cavalry Division from Fort Hood, Texas, tasked with reconstruction, were killed in a two-day siege in Sadr City, Baghdad, during the Iraq War. Jorge Diaz, who plays Army Specialist Israel Garza, seeks to give the “military show” a new face by doing what he does best: bringing joy to even the most painful Latino stories.
Any thinking person watching Downsizing is 10 steps ahead of Damon’s blinkered schlub, and watching him piece together the bare facts about how this future America works — and how our America works today — makes for a frustrating sit
The new one is bigger and dumber than the previous, a feat considering the relentless clatter of the 1995 iteration …
Welcome to the holidays in Miami, where coquito reigns over eggnog, kids build sandcastles instead of snowmen, and “the only thing roasting on an open fire is a pig, not chestnuts,” joke Michelle Sicars and Giancarlo Sabogal, creators of Sh*t Miami Girls Say.
Guadagnino adeptly captures not just physicality of a burning love but also the emotional and intellectual components, and the film is all the more salient for that careful, realistic interpretation
The original series is coming back to life at the Arsht Center in May 2018 as the stage adaptation ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? Today… 40 Years Later, produced by Nelson Albareda, CEO of Loud and Live. The Cuban-American Grammy- and Latin Grammy-winning producer has been working on the revival for four years.
If you’ve ever lived anywhere but Miami, you know that the weather this past week is what makes this little tropical metropolis such an amazing place to call home. Of course, you could also be shivering in your slippers under 12 blankets on your couch like the cold-blooded jungle lizard you really are.
If a bunch of jolly, tipsy Santas roaming around doesn’t get you in the holiday spirit, nothing will. Regardless of what the jingles have been telling you since Thanksgiving, the most wonderful time of the year is actually this weekend. SantaCon and all of its drunken cheer will take place Saturday, December 1
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…
As you might have noticed during the annual mayhem of Art Basel, Miami has become increasingly cultural. The year 2017 continued that trend with the opening of venues for arts and entertainment, creative responses to a scary storm, and the anniversary of one very special tattoo session. These are New Times’ most popular arts and culture stories of the past year.
Here’s a trivia question: Name the 1892 box office flop panned by critics for lack of seriousness and for casting too many kids, one that is now a force of nature timed to occur yearly around the winter solstice. The answer, of course, is The Nutcracker…
Between shopping, eating and your Trump-loving uncle, the holiday season is enough to make even the most Zen among us feel crazy. There’s never been a better time to pause to take some deep breaths. On Saturday, the Miami meditation group Blue Ocean Sangha is holding a meditation flash mob…
Earlier this year, baseball fan Abel Sanchez approached New Times about his fundraiser for a historical marker to commemorate the glory days of Miami Stadium, an architecturally significant structure built in 1949 that was razed in 2001 to make way for Miami Stadium Apartments in Allapattah.
The first few months of the year are notorious for being a period of drought at the movies, but the January–March 2018 release calendar offers a surprising deluge of highly anticipated films
World champion baton twirler Jennifer Marcus has returned to Miami this winter, but not because she’s spending the holiday season at her childhood home in Kendall. Instead, Marcus is back in South Florida to dazzle audiences as a baton twirler with the Cirque du Soleil show Volta. Marcus began baton…
Gardens Speak aims to bring the voices of ten people killed in the Syrian Civil War back from beyond the grave.
Some of them gave me hope for America, others invited me into foreign-to-me cultures and one even made me delightfully nauseous
Thursday Break out your favorite ugly holiday sweater and get creative with themed props in the photo booth at New Times’ Sips and Sweets. Rock out to your favorite songs spun by DJs inside the Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection after it’s been transformed into a winter wonderland…
Writer-director Rian Johnson has certainly made the busiest Star Wars film of them all, but he keeps it from becoming a slog by infusing it with humor, verve and visual charm
Maybe you’re feeling frustrated by politics. Maybe issues like police violence, racial discrimination, and poverty in communities of color feel unsolvable. Maybe you read the news each morning and wonder, How in hell did this country get so screwed up? In January, Ta-Nehisi Coates is coming to Miami to help answer that question.
