Calling all Doctor Who fans: The TARDIS is about to touch down in South Florida. Florida Supercon announced yesterday that Peter Capaldi, who plays the 12th titular doctor in the long-running series, will make an appearance at this year’s convention.
New Times’ annual Best of Miami issue is here, guiding you through the peak experiences in the Magic City. So who’s leading Miami’s cultural movement in 2017? Check out these arts winners below, and see more creative picks in the full issue.
It was two weeks before Salma Hayek’s 49th birthday when Mike White told her he was finally going to write that script about the dinner party, the one he’d promised her almost a year earlier. The screenplay would be loosely inspired by a real-life dinner the two had attended, but…
Flower crowns, cotton candy, and fresh R&B tunes for your slow-grind pleasure. No, it’s not a new Coachella-inspired Beyoncé track. It’s RnBae, a monthly showcase of underground R&B thrown by local artists, curators, and DJs. If you’re looking for a sweet spot to spend some romantic time with your…
For Jeff Friday, the Oscar-winning success of Moonlight, a film shot in Miami by a black director and starring an all-black cast, hardly means anything has changed for African-Americans in the movie business. “I don’t really see Moonlight’s success as being an indication of Hollywood’s appetite for black cinema, because…
For families, summers in Miami can mean lots of things. They can mean trips with your kids to the beach, splash pad, or park, and weekday barbecues in the back yard. But they can also mean erratic, stormy weather, insufferable heat, and the ever-dreaded mosquitos — all of which results…
Since President Obama announced a rapprochement with Cuba in 2014, a renewed interest in the island nation has emerged: What was once off-limits to scores of curious American travelers was suddenly available, and cruise lines, airlines, and hoteliers leaped at the chance to grab a piece of Cuba’s assured tourism fortune.
Lucia Aniello’s ensemble comedy Rough Night might look, from its marketing, like a gender-flipped Very Bad Things. Both comedies feature a pre-wedding party that goes off the rails when a stripper accidentally gets killed by the rowdiest member of the crew. But Aniello’s film — which stars Scarlett Johansson, Zoë…
Here’s something I never guessed I would say: It might be worth going into the new Cars movie spoiler-free. Without giving anything away, I can tell you that, at its climax, this latest installment in a springtime of sequels the world doesn’t need eases into a surprising new gear and…
A film often smartly attuned to language, Beatriz at Dinner — a sober comedy about class clash and soft-to-hard racism directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Mike White — operates in several different idioms. English and Spanish (sometimes unsubtitled) are spoken, as are the lexicons of healing and affluence…
The horror! The horror! It’s back! And it’s pulling Miami into the depths of terror. The Popcorn Frights Film Festival, taking place August 11 to 17 at O Cinema Wynwood, has announced the first wave of programming for its third edition.
Last year, Cuban-born Miami resident Yusnier Viera represented the 305 on Fox’s Superhuman, a contest show that lets ordinary people with extraordinary skills test their abilities against one another for the chance to win a massive cash prize. This year, Miami resident Nelson Dellis will take the Superhuman stage to compete against a new crop of supertalented contestants. There must be something in the South Florida water.
Katy Bea and Jason D’Aquino pool their efforts and capital to create a safe art haven in Miami for artists restrained by lack of space and money.
You know that effortlessly fashionable friend who’s somehow always too broke to pick up the bar tab but looks like a Free People model with unlimited access to salon-quality hair products? Yeah, we can’t figure that out either. But if you’re trying to hit that sweet spot of boho-chic and bootylicious culture-crusader without sacrificing your groceries, we’re here to help. Below you’ll find events this week that will keep you seeing, eating, and grooving, even without designer funds.
What makes Floridians so perfect for reality TV? Out of the initial 31 suitors vying to win over Rachel Lindsay’s heart on the current season of The Bachelorette, a lucky number seven have connections to the Sunshine State. And they’re not all whackjobs, either. All of them made it past…
Every once in a while you have to have a weekend of keeping things classy, even if it’s just to confirm for yourself that, yes, you do still crave jello shots and the occasional make-out session with a stranger. That being said, the next three days will find you being literary in Coral Gables, classical in Miami Beach, or farm-fresh all the way down in the Redlands. So lift a glass of rosé to true class, Miami – there’s always time for tequila next weekend.
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…
After 17 years as a principal dancer with the esteemed San Francisco Ballet, performing every major role and style possible, Lorena Feijóo is retiring from that company. She’ll embark on a new journey of dance possibilities and, maybe her biggest role yet, of single-parenting her 5-year-old daughter, Luciana. It is an unexpected life change for the Cuban-born Feijóo, who has been ensconced in the order and security of SFB.
Since last November, we’ve been asked to understand, if not necessarily sympathize with, the furious resentments of the racists, misogynists, homophobes and plutocrats who have brought us to this point of political calamity. The fifth season of Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) appears to be its own kind of…
In an effort to formally remember the first anniversary of the Pulse nightclub attack, Latinos Salud is teaming up with Equality Florida, the state’s largest LGBT advocacy group, to bring the Equality Rally for Unity and Pride to Fort Lauderdale this Sunday. It will pay tribute to the lives of those killed in Orlando…
Over the years, Tom Cruise has been many things, but he’s almost never been marginalized — not in one of his own movies. Oh, he’s played supporting parts and done cameos here and there, but even in those smaller roles (in films like Tropic Thunder or Rock of Ages), he…
“A sunny place for shady people.” Narratives about Miami have often borrowed the late British novelist Somerset Maugham’s line from his 1941 book, Strictly Personal, to describe the Magic City. Although the phrase originally referred to the French Riviera, Miami adopted it as a motto to characterize its own seedy…
