When I first saw Brett Morgen’s 2002 documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, I was shocked that the film somehow matched the rollicking, mercurial energy of its subject, producer Robert Evans. Morgen reimagined the use of archival footage and voiceover, and the style he pioneered has now been mimicked…
Whether you have the kind of refined tastes better suited to Shakespeare at Trickster’s Treat at Gablestage and fine art at the South Miami Art Festival, or you prefer to get down and dirty at HalloWyn and the Grateful Dead Invitational at B-Side, you’re bound to find something satisfying without squandering those hard earned dollars
This piece has spoilers for the first six episodes of the second season of Stranger Things. Look, I like the show, but the title is a lie. Seemingly inspired by that one line from Hamlet that I kept hearing in presentations the time I reported on a UFO convention, the…
If you’re from Miami, born and raised, the series of parody videos Shit Miami Girls Say might seem like just a funny meme. But if you’re a sheltered white girl from Broward with no Spanish-language skills, the world of chongas and chancletas is the stuff of nightmares.
The Miami Beach building that was home to the legendary nightclub Mansion and performances by Rick Ross and Deadmau5 was once a vaudeville theater known for its Yiddish entertainment. The Walgreens located in the Ritz-Carlton South Beach hotel was previously the site of the famed Jewish deli Wolfie’s. And the upscale Faena Hotel Miami Beach was a Kosher hotel called the Saxony.
This weekend is pretty freaky, with HistoryMiami’s Miami City Cemetery tour and SAVE’s Halloween Ball, as well as kid-friendly scares such as the Frost Science Museum’s Spooky Science Monster Mash and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Cars in the Garden: Halloween Edition. If Halloween isn’t your thing (what’s wrong with you?), you can head to the Bass’ grand reopening or the Pop Cats convention. Just try not to be too responsible, OK?
Instead of mourning the passing of loved ones, the Mexican holiday Día de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebrates them with huge bashes and colorful festivals. As South Florida gears up for next week’s holiday, New Times has rounded up some of the region’s best happenings. You can even win two round-trip tickets to Mexico. From block parties to workshops and exhibitions, the best Day of the Dead events in South Florida are here at your fingertips.
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…
Hurricanes bring wind, rain, and a massive cavalry of windblown reporters and meteorologists who park themselves in front of cameras. But hurricanes move through and then move away and generally take the media attention with them. Inhabitants are left to clean up and rebuild in an echoing silence, grieving and…
From a documentary about Native American rock stars to a Churchill biopic, these are the films you won’t want to miss at FLIFF.
Last year, just days after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone told a reporter that the next season of their show wouldn’t take aim at Trump, because “satire has become reality.” After 20 years of skewering public figures from Steve Jobs…
Joan Didion has set an impossible standard for any documentarian who would want to cover her life. She’s essentially already done it herself, brilliantly, in her essays, novels and films. Still, Didion’s nephew, actor/director Griffin Dunne, takes a shot with his new Netflix film Joan Didion: The Center Will Not…
Thursday If you’re a Halloween pro, you know you should get at least three runs out of your costume in one year. You also know that you don’t make your freshest run Halloween night, when your getup will get crushed in the sea of street revelers. No, you go to…
Maybe it’s encouraging, in a way, that an America in crisis struggles so mightily to make crowd-pleasing war movies. Whatever their politics, no studio exec today would let a wide-release desert-war drama come right out and say what even the GOP increasingly admits: that Iraq was a mistake, that Afghanistan has…
After over two years and $12 million worth of renovations, The Bass —Miami Beach’s only contemporary art institution—finally opens its doors to the public. The construction completely transformed the museum’s interior without altering the building’s footprint, nearly doubling the programmable space and adding a new cafe and Creativity Center for…
The day you first hear Chavela Vargas is the best day you’ll have that year. A majestic and inimitable performer, and a lesbian trailblazer of gender nonconformity, the Mexican chanteuse stripped ranchera music to its wounded heart, singing lovesick, masculine cowboy songs with a voice that holds hurting like liquor…
The Miami Jewish Film Festival and Miami Beach Cinematheque are bringing back the series Masters of Jewish Cinema with a bang this year by celebrating Streisand the whole month. The retrospective, titled Simply Streisand, will provide a glimpse into the film career of the immensely talented artist.
This fall, mainstream films are subverting expectations all over the place. Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! proved too much for some audiences looking for a moody drama who were then shocked by gory, allegorical narrative. Blade Runner 2049 sloughed off most of its predecessor’s lower-brow populist action for a somber tone and…
Few artists have had the impact on their disciplines that guitarist Paco de Lucía had in flamenco. He expanded the harmonic vocabulary, incorporated instruments from outside the tradition, and had a curiosity that led him to collaborations with artists as disparate as jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, pianist Chick Corea, and Brazilian pop star Djavan. He opened new vistas to flamenco artists.
This past January, the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated Little Havana as a National Treasure, only two years after the trust included the neighborhood in its list “11 Most Endangered Places.” The National Trust, along with Partners in Preservation and Main Street America, implemented a “Vote Your Main Street” campaign that lets the public decide which historic sites in 25 cities should receive part of $2 million in preservation funding from sponsor American Express.
Find plenty of events to get you in the spirit, such as Downtown Fright Night, the Paranormal Zine Tour with Exile Books at the duPont Building, and Ball & Chain’s Monster Ball. If you need to save your spooky energy for the true night of fright, chill at Corona’s Electric Beach in Fort Lauderdale, or relax by the pool at the Hotel Colonnade. Just be sure to put your savings where it really counts.
The last few months have seen some welcome innovation in the cry-along subgenre of dramas about finding the will to keep living after bodily catastrophe. First, in the notably sincere and unsensational Stronger, director David Gordon Green and his crew strove to strip away as much of such films’ usual…
