Get your bikini top and sparkly spanks ready, Miami – it’s the weekend. Whether you feel like watching Elvis become a fabulous drag goddess, consuming your weight in mini burgers, or relaxing through a weekend of reggae, it’s all here in this brilliant and short window we call the weekend.
Baywatch kinda baffled me. This R-rated comedy adaptation of the cheesy but sincere beach-set action series — which somehow became a worldwide phenomenon in the 1990s — is a movie that should be as enjoyably ridiculous as its source material. In some instances, it is. Director Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses)…
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…
Female-lead film production team the 1310 Bandits has seen its fair share of hiccups and triumphs in creating short and feature-length films in South Florida.
You could say Bistoury’s 305 & Havana International Improv Fest, which debuts this Saturday at Miami Theater Center, has been in the works for almost 20 years. In 1999, Cuban-born choreographer Alexey Taran created the first improvisation festival in Caracas, Venezuela. Taran had already been working with improvisation techniques…
After a year of construction delays, the Bass is set to reopen October 7 with a major retrospective of artist Ugo Rondinone. Miami Beach’s only major art institution temporarily shuttered in 2016 for a major renovation that would almost double its programmable space without altering the historic building’s footprint.
John Dunkley is an icon for self-taught Jamaican artists. But before now, it has not been possible to see a major collection of his work in the United States. Thanks in part to Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and the museum’s associate curator, Diana Nawi, a substantial selection of works by Dunkley will be on display in PAMM’s latest exhibition, “John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night,” which will open Friday, May 26.
Yes, dead men tell no tales — but neither, really, do the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Rather than stories, the series, of which this 2017 entry is the fifth, offers an unpalatable mix of mincing slapstick, rote derring-do, ponderous CGI, whiskery sea-chanty mysticism, and dutiful action sequences whose only…
Thursday John Dunkley was largely unknown as a painter during his lifetime, but the artist’s small collection of visual and sculptural work is dark and compelling. Whether he was painting dense, tropical landscapes or responding to significant cultural events in his native Jamaica, Dunkley, who died in 1947 in Kingston,…
Yes, there’s spoilers below for this unspoilable show. “Don’t let yourself be hurt this time,” sings Julee Cruise on “Falling,” the plushly minimalist 1989 synth ballad that, a year later, stripped of its vocal and lyrics, would become the opening theme for Twin Peaks. David Lynch himself wrote that lyric,…
Faena Art has stepped up to the plate with a free, monthly roller-skating event at the Faena Forum.
Miami isn’t exactly a fashion capital. Though the city has emerged as a resort destination for the world’s wealthiest, and a slew of luxury retail centers such as the Design District and Brickell City Centre court big spenders, fashionistas still turn up their noses at Miami’s nascent clothing design industry…
A comedy, and also a tragedy, of remarriage — without couples counseling or divorce — writer-director Azazel Jacobs’ The Lovers revitalizes its genre with a piquant premise: What happens when long-wedded spouses, each with a romantic partner outside their dormant dyad, find the spark reignited — a combustion that results…
In Robin Swicord’s Wakefield, an adaptation of the late E.L. Doctorow’s short story of the same name, disillusioned lawyer Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) chases a raccoon from his decrepit backhouse and … never returns. The story’s not science fiction; Howard doesn’t get swallowed by a black hole. He’s still among…
In sports, as in life, not everyone plays fair. The World OUTGames IV aims to change that. The games’ fourth edition launches in Miami May 26 through June 4, bringing 10 days of events featuring LGBTQI athletes, participants, spectators, and thought leaders from around the globe — including countries where homosexuality…
Although the Israeli pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale is covered in mold and rust, time seems like its true medium. The exhibition “Sun Stand Still,” by Gal Weinstein, curated by Israeli-born and Miami-based curator Tami Katz-Freiman, is one of the more poetic and political statements at this year’s biennale.
Where are the goddamned roles for Diane Lane? Since her career launched, with a starring role as a precocious 13-year-old American girl in Paris in 1979’s A Little Romance, Lane seems to have confounded casting directors: Is she the button-nosed embodiment of joie de vivre or the anarchist post-punk tempest…
In a world where many people would rather binge-watch 13 Reasons Why on Netflix, two men from Miami are changing the game. Their series, Flaming Classics, educates audiences about classic films that are feminine, queer, campy, and everything in between — and includes live performances by drag queens. It’s 2017, Donald Trump is president, and we need this.
The film is highly self-aware, and Juliette Binoche’s performance as Aude Van Peteghem is delightfully redolent of the snooty dames so memorably captured by Margaret Dumont in the Marx Brothers’ films.
It’s the beginning of a new week, Miami, and if you threw down mad ducats over the weekend, your wallet might be hurting. We’ve got you. Here’s a list of the best free events in the city, from readings and book signings to gallery premieres, so you can save up for next weekend.
A young man enters a building with a gun in his hand. Already, he has shot the man at the door, and before he is finished, lying in a pool of his own blood, he will have wasted two more. This sounds like a news item from yesterday or today,…
For a century, the mermaids at Vizcaya have gazed at their refined reflections on the surface of the water, but over the years, the statues have changed.
