If catching up with normal life after Hurricane Irma has felt like its own cyclone of impervious chaos and dissolution, then perhaps this weekend can bring you some respite. Whether you like boobs and barbecue in Fort Lauderdale, beer in Wynwood, or death metal bands in both North Beach and…
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…
In 1992, Carson Kievman was hard at work on an opera based on the life of a little-known inventor. He and co-writer Thomas Babe were putting the finishing touches on the libretto of the script. Then Hurricane Andrew hit. Twenty-five years later, earlier this month, Kievman’s production, Tesla, was at last…
The Olympia Theater welcomes guests into its lobby for a delightful experience the third Wednesday of every month. In the Lobby Lounge combines a little burlesque, a little vaudeville, a little improv, and plenty of other fun.
Power is a loaded word, and Miami is ready to blow its top. Nine days into the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, thousands of residents across Miami-Dade and Broward remain without power. Many locals feel powerless in the face of the brute force of nature and also Florida Power & Light, the state’s regulated electricity monopoly, as evidence mounts that the company wasn’t ready to handle Irma when it knocked out power to roughly 90 percent of customers.
From a Hurricane Irma benefit at Filling Station Lofts to Foster the People at the Fillmore, here are the best events happening in Miami this week.
If it’s been too long since you’ve had a dose of the Miami Film Festival, there’s good news: GEMS is returning to satiate your filmgoing desires. Now in its third year, the 2017 edition of the fest will take place October 12 through 15 at Miami Dade College’s Tower Theater. And the full lineup has plenty to get you excited.
Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is so much movie that critics April Wolfe and Alan Scherstuhl have elected to sync up Pacific Rim-style to take it on. Warning: The discussion below delves right into what we might call spoilers if a movie like Mother! could be spoiled. Now let’s drift. April: Each…
The sequel to 2015’s hit Kingsman: The Secret Service won’t make you feel the urgent need to take a shower and/or throw up, like the original probably did. Believe it or not, that’s not always a good thing. Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Matthew Vaughn’s follow-up to his brutal, joyfully degenerate…
Hurricanes swirling the trees and seas into a frenzy, earthquakes shaking buildings into rubble, the government restricting the rights of Americans as the country becomes more dangerous for its own citizens — it’s not hard to imagine that perhaps this is the end of days. Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning,…
Among the many ways Irma blew South Florida’s cover as being unprepared for a major hurricane is the infuriatingly slow return of cell and internet service, a situation that has resulted in tens of thousands of people being unable to reach family, friends, and loved ones, let alone go online, for days.
In many ways, Cuban author Alejo Capentier’s 1957 epic on the repercussions of slavery in Haiti, The Kingdom of This World, is a fantasy-fueled parallel of 21st-century America’s present tensions surrounding race and immigration. So it’s no surprise the book helped inspire the latest exhibit by Edouard Duval-Carrié, the Haitian-born,…
We did it, Miami. We’ve got another hurricane under our belt, which has brought strife for some and pride for others. But we can all attest to the incredible amount of money we spent on price-gouged gas and bottled water, not to mention the materials you might have gathered to survive what forecasters promised would be the end of Florida.
There’s no delicate way to say this, so I’ll just spit it out. I spent the first 10 minutes of Stronger, David Gordon Green’s eventually potent drama of trauma and recovery, trying to work out whether star Jake Gyllenhaal was intending to suggest that the real-life Bostonian at the story’s…
The documentary section of TIFF has a reputation for programming the types of films that can easily compete for audience attention with the narrative juggernauts, and this year is no different. From Agnes Varda’s wacky travelogue Faces Places to Frederick Wiseman’s ode to the New York Public Library Ex Libris,…
Writer-director Dee Rees is breaking all the rules with her third feature, Mudbound. In film school, they tell you, “No voiceovers,” yet this film about two WWII and post-war Mississippi families — one black, one white — is filthy with them. They tell you, “Play it safe until you’re more…
Like much of South Florida after Hurricane Irma, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens suffered damage to its property and is trying its best to recover. Like most of your neighbors, Vizcaya could also really use your help. Unlike your neighbors, however, the museum is offering more in return than a grateful hug and some bottled water.
Filmmaking is not a poor man’s game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a festival-worthy film still requires dough to get off the ground, which means the folks who tell stories through cinema tend to come from backgrounds of privilege. That breeds movies aimed at middle- to upper-class people,…
Due to Hurricane Irma, some of these events may be canceled or rescheduled. We will update this post as changes are announced. Friday Want to use Citi Bike free for a year? All you have to do is scarf down chicken wings, as many chicken wings as you can, more…
In Columbus, architecture takes the place of emotions, to sometimes startling effect. An outwardly chilly, resolutely static film that nevertheless finds poignancy in the most surprising places, Kogonada’s directorial debut does a couple of important things so well that I can’t help but forgive the things it doesn’t. (Kogonada, by…
I’d gone into the theater knowing nothing of the Chloe Zhao’s The Rider except that my colleague Bilge Ebiri adored it — and that I’d get to to witness some breathtaking cinematography capturing the dusky pastels streaking the American West. (I did.) For the first 20 minutes, I was transfixed…
Dictators are a certain kind of selfish, insecure insanity made manifest, and if you’re going to study them, Joseph Stalin is a good place to start. “Stalin” wasn’t even his real name. When he was 30, he changed it, so it would be “man of steel” in Russian — imagine…
