October On Your Feet! October 5 through 15 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org. It’s rare to see a semblance of everyday Miami life in books or movies. Popular depictions cast the Magic City as a sea of drug cartels and…
It can feel like hardly anyone really lives in Miami. There are people here for six or eight months at a time, people coming from other countries with aspirations to start the next Uber or Facebook, promoters and DJs and restaurateurs flitting in and out. They all contribute to the…
When the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) opens its new permanent location in the Design District, you might be struck by the beautiful, geometric south façade or the sculpture garden out back. But the biggest surprise comes at the museum door: Admission is free. “We’ve made a commitment and a…
When he was younger, artist Magnus Sodamin used to try to find ways to sneak into Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. The sprawling bayside grounds in Coral Gables are a magical 83 acres of rare plants. Trekking through the back forests of Matheson Hammock Park, which borders the historic gardens to the north, he and his companions found an old boat that was washed up by Hurricane Andrew. The image stuck with him.
One of the largest public artworks in the world is on display at Miami International Airport. Titled A Walk on the Beach, the piece comprises about a mile of bronze sculptures embedded in a terrazzo walkway inside one of the terminals. The artist behind it, Michele Oka Doner, has…
At installation artist Veronica Gessa’s home, the living room is empty, save for a couple of potted palms, some old leather chairs, and ten old-school TV sets stacked atop one another. Their screens flicker silently rotating images of Gorillaz, large block text reading “MEET ME IN THE PALE MOONLIGHT,” a melting Jake the Dog from Adventure Time, and the familiar III Points triangle logo.
Walking into Amy Falcon’s inspired design store, Relative, you’d be forgiven for doing a double-take. The airy, warmly inviting space sits in the heart of downtown Miami — an area known more for, say, unpleasant smells than smart, bespoke home furnishings — and if you’re not paying attention to the signage outside, you might miss this diamond in the rough.
America may be crumbling, but here’s at least one truth that might be cheering: They’ve finally figured out biopics. Ever since Walk Hard kicked its ass, that hokiest, flabbiest, most hilariously reductive of movies genres has become, like horror, the rare genre where the studios allow filmmakers to take risks,…
Miamians don’t have as many arthouses as those spoiled cineastes in New York City, but movie fans in the 305 have plenty to look forward to when it comes to film festivals. Though local celebrations of cinema don’t garner the same glamour as Sundance or Tribeca, they’re very good at inclusivity.
Adam Sandler’s core as a performer has always been his self-loathing. In his best comedies, he weaponizes it with humiliating ruthlessness. (In his worst ones, it wafts pathetically off him like the day-after stink of a drunkard.) Now, he’s given the performance of his life in Noah Baumbach’s free-spirited and…
Thanks to a robust schedule, visitors to this year’s Miami Book Fair will experience enough readings, panels, and other activities to fill a thousand volumes. There will be plenty of literary goodies to go around, but the organizers are most excited about what’s happening beyond the page at the Porch, an outdoor popup lounge that will host food, music, games, and other diversions.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so the saying goes. It’s also the philosophy of most dating apps and websites. For the app BlindLove, however, any such beauty won’t be accessible until a deeper connection between two possible partners is created first.
Writer/director Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is achingly normal, in a good way. Robinson has proven herself capable of melding her sincere and often endearingly campy sensibilities to any cinematic style — spy spoofs (D.E.B.S.), Disney family flicks (Herbie: Fully Loaded), comic-dramas (The L Word), sexy vampire…
It’s time to get in your last pool party of the season, ’cause fall is officially here. That doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t be pool weather, but swimming will probably go out of style until all the Art Basel celebrities get here, so squeeze in South Beach Brewing’s Pop Up…
Often populated with voluptuaries, the films of Bertrand Bonello unerringly distill mood and milieu. In his heady, sinuous biopic Saint Laurent (2014), for example, Bonello ditched the traditional, usually tedious birth-to-death arc that most films in that genre follow to focus instead on the years 1967 to 1977, the great…
New Frost Science exhibition highlights the shapeshifting power of the human brain.
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…
Do you feel it? The air growing ever so slightly cooler? Yeah, not really. But that doesn’t mean this weekend can’t be a snapshot of what fall has in store. You’ve got beer at the Sam Adams Octoberfest in Wynwood, and you’ve got costumes at Animate South Florida and the Miami Broward Carnival…
If you were hoping Donald Trump’s visit to Puerto Rico would elicit an outpouring of compassion and urgency from the tweeter-in-chief, you were probably disappointed by Tuesday’s reports. From bragging about how much money the United States has spent on Puerto Rico to insinuating the tragedy unfolding there isn’t a “real catastrophe,” the president seemed oddly content to witness the widespread damage.
Christie Prades plays Gloria Estefan in the US touring production of On Your Feet!
Spielberg premieres Oct. 7 on HBO. While the studios accuse critics and Rotten Tomatoes of killing the movie business, Steven Spielberg is happy to look right into the camera and say that Pauline Kael had his number. “She was right,” says the world’s most profitable director deep into Spielberg, Susan…
Thursday It’s rare to see a semblance of everyday Miami life in books or movies. Popular depictions cast the Magic City as a sea of drug cartels and corrupt businessmen. On Your Feet! hits closer to home as a tale of Cuban immigrants integrating into U.S. culture and as a…
