O, Miami. Borscht Film Festival. Nu Deco Ensemble. Organizations such as those have embedded themselves so deeply into Miami life they seem like they’ve always been a part of this city. But a decade ago, those projects — and many others like them that have expanded and evolved the cultural landscape of South Florida…
Here’s what you didn’t see if you aren’t from there. Here are the voices you didn’t hear if you didn’t go there. Here’s the pain you can’t fully comprehend if you’re white, as I am, if you’re just watching on TV, if life has taught you that just saying sir…
The phenomenon of lucid dreaming, if experienced correctly, allows you to control your dreams and exist without limits in a fantasy world. Though it sounds like high-concept science fiction, lucid dreaming is real and backed by science. And now there’s a headband that allows lucid dreaming on a regular basis, the Aurora Dreamband.
In Steven Soderbergh’s hillbilly heist comedy Logan Lucky, the West Virginia prison where vault specialist Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) resides is pristine and peaceful. This is a high-security facility in a seemingly alternate world, a jail without racial tensions where the prisoners feast on edible food. While only a small…
Neo-Nazis are marching in the streets, Mercury is in retrograde, and the sun will disappear from the daytime sky in a week. It’s OK to be a little overwhelmed, but you don’t have to escape with a therapeutic shopping spree or a night of expensive diversions. See a free movie Tuesday in South Miami and free music Saturday in Coral Gables and Wynwood, or head to Miami Beach for National Rum Day this Wednesday or a pool party over the weekend. You’ve got options, so don’t despair.
Taylor Sheridan isn’t afraid to embrace genre. His Wind River plays more like an unusually well-made episode of CSI: Wyoming than the highly anticipated directorial effort from the screenwriter of Hell or High Water (which may well have been last year’s best-written film). Set in the desolate, snow-covered Wind River…
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown,” reads the H.P. Lovecraft quote that opens Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s The Endless, playing at Popcorn Frights Film Festival this weekend. Their former works, Resolution and…
The tail end of summer is a mixed bag – on the one hand, endless diaper rash on parts of your body you didn’t think could sweat; on the other, the final vestiges of the kind of reckless abandon that only college kids on their off-time could imbue into the air. If you’re trying to get all you can out of these last precious weeks, here are the concerts, festivals, and tours that will make venturing into the heat totally worth it.
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...
Miami hopefuls will get the chance to participate in open auditions when the Idol bus pulls into Miami Marine Flex Park in Key Biscayne on August 19.
Director Rodney Ascher has made a career of exploring fascinating concepts via documentaries. His first feature, Room 237, was all about a variety of interpretations that obsessed fans found in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The second, The Nightmare, was more horror based, interviewing people who suffer sleep paralysis and…
Here are our top five suggested places where the big guy could be retired.
Thursday A life of controversy and drama can seem like good press for a young artist. But Kodak Black’s trips in and out of jail on charges ranging from drug possession to sexual assault have hampered his stardom as opposed to helping it. Still, South Floridians can’t help but feel…
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles began issuing a new design of the driver’s license last week. The updated cards will be rolled out from county to county this month.
Blood in the streets, animals running loose, people being stabbed in the back — it’s just another day in Miami, at least during Popcorn Frights. Now in its third year, the film festival devoted to horror in all its forms is bigger than ever. Spanning a full week, with anywhere…
What will become of Zion? No, not the loosely defined term for a Jewish homeland in the Middle East, but a mild-mannered and fundamentally righteous shopkeeper living in Jerusalem and pulled between conservative religious forces and modernity. (Oh, so maybe I do mean the Jewish homeland in the Middle East.)…
On the surface, it seems like a clever move: getting rich developers to cover the costs of public art. But scratch the veneer, opponents say, and a new phase of the City of Miami’s Art in Public Places plan is at best a mess of unnecessary red tape — and…
When New Times covered the Miami chapter of the Bearded Villains almost two years ago, they were a group of 16 men who had raised money to help homeless men with beards, as well as to send Matthew Mirabel, a boy with leukemia, on a Disney cruise through the Make-A-Wish Foundation…
A portion of the Curious Vaults contents have been moved to the Frost Science’s new facility in downtown Miami. Rather than collecting dust on storage shelves, the treasured specimens are finally on public display.
The dictates of Hollywood screenwriting can’t quite constrain the wildness of Jeannette Walls’ family and her best-selling memoir. Despite a tidy resolution, too many scenes whose shapes are immediately familiar from other movies, and an absurd climax that dramatizes the conflict between a daughter and her father through the wheezy…
Don’t bust your budget getting busy in Miami this week. Go to these free events instead.
In the 1980s, four-quadrant studio comedies (i.e. for the whole family) peddled in relentlessly dark premises that directors then brightened up with wholesomeness: Three Men and a Baby features an orphaned infant who is mistakenly given away to drug dealers; Ghostbusters boasts multiple fatalities at the hands of an accountant…
