Everything you know about Tupac is likely wrong. Casual fans think of him as a loyal left coast soldier in hip-hop’s East Coast/West Coast war, but he actually had tremendous love and admiration for New York, where he was born and largely raised. Others cite his 1994 Manhattan shooting as…
There’s plenty to explore at the Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, which opened last month in downtown Miami. But the centerpiece of the museum is undeniably its aquarium. Small tanks show neon-lit jellyfish and stingrays available for petting. Flowing through three stories of the Frost’s inner building, a…
In response to the lack of progress from city leaders in renaming Forrest Street, a protest is planned for Wednesday, June 21, outside Hollywood City Hall.
If you’re in need of some rest and relaxation, good news: Miami Spa Month returns July 1. The two-month special offers the city’s most exclusive spas at discounted pricing. That 90-minute hot stone massage you’ve been eyeing? It’s time to make a reservation.
Though it’s a phlegmatic, sometimes stumbling thriller, Moka, directed and co-written by Frédéric Mermoud, still has its share of gripping suspense. These tense moments arise not from any plot machinations but from the anticipation of the next exquisitely calibrated response by Emmanuelle Devos, the film’s star, who appears in every…
In its third year at the Standard Spa Miami Beach’s summer residency, Exile Books is planning a five-course dinner that pairs signature dishes, expertly crafted cocktails, and live poetry performances. Concrete Poetry, as organizers have named it, celebrates the eponymous medium that conveys verse (partially or totally) through visual representation.
Construction is nearly complete on one of Miami’s latest cultural landmarks, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), located in the heart of the Design District. As museum staffers ready to move the permanent collection and operations from their temporary home in the Moore Building to the new space, the curators promise to provide programming that engages local audiences and speaks to the global contemporary art Zeitgeist. It’s a tall order for a young museum, especially one fraught with birthing pains.
In Kirill Serebrennikov’s tightly wound symbolic drama, a Russian high schooler starts spouting off biblical verses at the teachers, administrators and teens around him, decrying the hypocrisy of their ways and of a fallen world. You can feel the allegory coming from a mile away, but that doesn’t mean you…
Marina Abramovic. Vito Acconci. Yoko Ono. John Cage. All are performance artists who have caught the world’s attention through their experimental, cutting-edge work. The sixth-annual Miami Performance International Festival aims to continue the history and impact of this art form by presenting local and international performance and sound artists in Miami and Miami Beach.
The stars of one of the best-reviewed shows on TV landed in Miami for the American Black Film Festival this past weekend. Insecure, created by Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl’s star Issa Rae and former “senior black correspondent” on The Daily Show Larry Wilmore, was an instant hit when it debuted in 2016.
You can spend $40 getting into a packed club where you’ll spend $100 on overpriced, watered-down drinks in the hopes you might get invited to a table where you can wait for 40 minutes to maybe get a free sip from a bottle of Grey Goose after it’s been passed around by a dozen models. Or you can go see live music, mingle with local business owners, get a tarot-card reading after a crystal healing, and learn how to pickle beets like a pro, all for free.
It’s only after three encounters, a night on molly, a blow-up argument, an impassioned recitation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “First Fig,” and some tender May-December — late December — sex that Sam Elliott’s The Hero character can be bothered to ask what Laura Prepon’s does for a living. Turns…
In her Netflix documentary The 13th, director Ava DuVernay traces the criminalization of blackness – enacted by a white power structure that ascribed violence and villainy to African-Americans – back to the Emancipation Proclamation. Motivated by political expediency and obvious projection, former slaveowners – with the tacit cooperation of white…
The 2Pac biopic All Eyez on Me completes an unofficial trilogy of what we could call the Bad Boy/Death Row cinematic universe. It began with 2009’s Biggie Smalls bio Notorious and continued with NWA’s Straight Outta Compton in 2015. Too bad that, like a lot of trilogies, the third movie…
You can’t pinpoint the exact moment it began happening. Was it when Run-D.M.C. collaborated with Aerosmith, or when “Baby Got Back” started showing up in karaoke bars? Was it closer to when J.Lo’s ass became the universal standard, or when Kanye married Kim? Either way, we now have Taylor Swift rapping…
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…
The Book of Henry really wants us to believe that its 12-year-old title character (Jaeden Lieberher) is the smartest kid on Earth. Well, in many ways, he is. He’s a rational, logical thinker who knows how to play the stock market. He handles his family’s finances and works on cute,…
How are you feeling this morning, Miami women? Sensual? Sassy? Sexually satisfied? According to a new study, there’s a good chance you are. German adult entertainment company Lazeeva released a list of the world’s 50 most sexual cities for women, and Miami ranks 26th.
We’re set to get another steamy weekend in this tropical paradise we call home, but a little water never kept things from getting lit, right? At least not figuratively. That’s why Miami has birthday parties, pool parties, throwback parties, and Father’s Day parties to keep you on a steady diet of good vibes and alcohol till you’re forced back to normalcy Monday morning.
When Hanah Davenport first conceived of Ars Feminae Miamiae in February, it wasn’t as an explicit political statement. Coming off the heels of a calendar year that saw gender politics writ unavoidably large, it’s only reasonable to expect that a female artist would want to interrogate and pursue expressions of…
At least Rough Night, Lucia Aniello’s dutifully raucous new bachelorette-party comedy, achieves verisimilitude. It’s a rough watch and an evening killer, this film about friends who seem not to love, like or even really know one another. If you enjoy strained fun with people who have grown apart from you,…
Every Miamian has a story of heartbreak, and some preserve that loss in relics: maybe you’ve been hanging on to that old mix tape, t-shirt, or confessional recording on the Power Love Hour. But in holding on to these keepsakes, are you ever really letting go? Does creating a monument…
