This weekend, you won’t need to curate your health/debauchery tightrope walk, because fate has done it for you. Between Erika Moon’s Burlesque Avant-Garde at the Fillmore and Wanderlust 108 in Virginia Key Beach Park, or the Coconut Grove Seafood Festival at Miami Marine Stadium and Octavia Yearwood’s book-release party at CIC Miami, you have three days of gluttony and repentance all laid out.
Halloween is looming, and setting foot near a chaotic party store can make or break you. As Miami prepares for one of its rowdiest nights of the year, it’s time to get those final Halloween looks in order. When it comes to dressing up for the occasion, the Magic City doesn’t mess around. It’s all fun and games until you lose the costume contest that’s worth $1,000 — or worse, a free bar tab.
My favorite biopics — those that tell any portion of a real person’s story faithfully — are those that borrow from other genres. Pablo Larrain’s Jackie possesses the kinetic punch of a horror film. Mario Van Peebles’ Baadasssss! is a sharp comedy. And Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy is a cutting…
“These walls do talk.” That’s Monica Lynne Herrera, a Hialeah-born, Miami-raised actor who’s performing in Miami Motel Stories, a real-time immersive theater experience opening October 26 at Little Havana’s newly restored 1920 Tower Hotel. The Juggerknot Theater Company production is the first of its kind in Miami, turning hotel rooms into intimate spaces that bring the city’s deep-rooted history to life.
In a roomful of dancers popping, locking, and breaking, famed dancer, spoken-word artist, and director Jonzi D is as eloquent in words as he is in dance. Jonzi founded Breakin’ Convention, the world’s largest festival of hip-hop dance and theater, in London in 2004. This weekend, Breakin’ Convention will travel to the Southeast for the first time for a performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center in downtown Miami.
When the Limon Dance Company returns to Miami-Dade this weekend, it brings with it the powerful vision of founder José Limon. He was a man deeply concerned about and connected to the humanity of his fellow human beings. The company is presenting three of his works, along with pieces by…
It’s almost Halloween, the time of year when we can delight in scary things that cannot literally kill us. For many people, that means haunted houses. And South Florida has some properly sphincter-tightening experiences for even the most macho of macho men and women.
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…
Once upon a time, the proverbial cat lady was maligned in all forms of mainstream media, from novels to sitcoms. But no more. Since the early days of the internet, sites such as LOLcats have given quirky humans with deep affection for kitty culture a sense of community. Suddenly, all the closeted cat lovers of the world realized they were far from alone.
New Yorkers will immediately recognize the opening shots of One of Us, the new documentary from Jesus Camp filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady: ultra-Orthodox Jewish families roaming the big city, the women and girls in skirts and tights, the men and boys in long black coats and hats, looking…
Employing elements of both classical painting and magical realism, Edouard Duval-Carrié explores the culture and history of his home in 37 new paintings and sculptures collected by PhD and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, Anthony Bogues. “Metamorphosis” continues the artist’s scrutiny of Haiti’s contemporary social and political…
Over the phone from his Los Angeles office, David Lynch tells me, “It was all Harry Dean. I’d do anything for Harry Dean.” The visionary director is referring to taking on an acting role in John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, Lucky, which stars Harry Dean Stanton, and is largely based…
A University of Miami faculty exhibit opening next week will include American flags fashioned into Ku Klux Klan hoods on a cart with wheels shaped like like a Nazi swastika.
Twitter is everything right now. Excuse the hyperbole, but it could very well decide the fate of the world. For the last decade, Twitter has brought us breaking news, celebrity gossip, and memes upon memes upon memes. However, with the ascent of Donald Trump to the presidency, it has also…
“This year we hunt big game. This year you get your first kill.” So says seasoned hunter Cal (Matt Bomer) to his teenage son David (Josh Wiggins), who’s arrived in rural Montana for his annual visit, and even those going in unfamiliar with the premise of Alex and Andrew Smith’s…
Have you ever walked into a place and felt that ineffable “spooky feeling”? If you’ve ever felt the hairs on the back of your neck stand, a drop in temperature, or a shift in the electromagnetic charge, congratulations: you may have had contact with a paranormal entity. Horror movies set the expectation that paranormal experiences only happen in abandoned buildings covered in ivy and flanked by naked trees during the dead of winter. But ghosts don’t discriminate, they can also linger in the scorching heat and stifling humidity of Miami. Mysterious and ghastly deaths, suicides, and murders, ever too popular in Miami history, are rife with phantasmagorical potential. Dr. Paul George, resident historian at HistoryMiami, and Marlene Pardo Pellicer, a paranormal researcher, share their collection of stories on the most haunted places in Miami.
At this one-night-only event, watch short films produced by Borscht Corporation, mingle with local filmmakers, and bid on auctioned artworks for less than the price of a movie ticket and popcorn.
Lav Diaz’s penchant for ethical quandaries and psychological angst has earned him comparisons to Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment inspired Diaz’s Norte, the End of History (2013), in which a radicalized youth spirals into despair after committing murder. Now the prolific Filipino filmmaker gives us The Woman Who Left (2016), a…
The Mutiny at Sailboat Bay was a notorious hotel and club in Coconut Grove that became the nerve center for Miami’s drug culture when the venue opened in 1969. It was there that the city’s lawless cocaine cowboys reigned over an era of unbridled excess heralded by a revival of…
In the opening shot of Only the Brave, a flaming bear — not just a bear that happens to be burning but one that looks as if it had been created entirely from fire — lunges at the camera in the middle of a blazing forest. The image returns a…
Something of a prank, a farewell, an art project, a buddy comedy, a vox populi tour of the French countryside, and an inquiry into memory and images and what it means to reveal our eyes to the world, Faces Places is a joyous lulu. It finds the great documentarian and…
Born and raised in Miami, Stryker, now 26, became a viral sensation when he released a series of themed costumes on social media.
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