In April 2013, Jeremy Schnall rode his bike from where he lived on Coral Way to a bar in Wynwood. He met his friend Christian Deese, who was there with several mutual friends, and struck up a conversation with one of them. This is the unremarkable way he would start…
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Enjoy what’s new in town, from the kick-off of the Miami International Jazz Festival to the Renegade Craft Fair at Mana Wynwood and the Japanese Spring Festival.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation is one of the best films I’ve ever seen about corruption. That’s true despite the fact that Mungiu underplays the typical elements found in tales about this subject: You won’t find many fast-talking crooks, sinister cops or elaborate sting operations here. Or a looming sense…
Maybe you remember 2016 — or maybe you’re desperately trying to block it like the rest of us. In January, we tried to remain brave in the face of David Bowie’s and Alan Rickman’s deaths.
New York-based choreographer Reggie Wilson’s Citizen asks loaded questions about belonging and not belonging. Tigertail presents Citizen this weekend at Miami-Dade County Auditorium, and Wilson will offer a full program, including a panel discussion and multiple dance workshops.
Everyone has, at some point, fantasized about being someone else. In Julia Ducournau’s Raw, we see that longing literalized in an unusual way: not just by dressing up like other people or copying their actions, but by eating them.
Count Kathryn Bigelow among Barry Jenkins’ many fans. Bigelow, the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker, penned the short but heartfelt praise for Jenkins, who directed the film Moonlight, in Time magazine’s 2017 issue “The 100 Most Influential People,” in which Jenkins appears alongside icons such as Margaret Atwood, LeBron James, and Pope Francis.
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, parties, and boozy beverages galore. From Coral Gables to Little Havana to South Beach, these are the best places to be until the sun comes up Monday morning.
A ’90s-inspired sing-along van ride with the “Fringy Mime Queen.” A one-man show about the complete history of drag. An epic battle among giants in a town called Normal. These are just some of the plays that will be showcased at the third-annual Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festival from April 20 to 23.
Dozens of local cosplayers will gather at Tropical Park this Saturday for this year’s Fantastical Tea Party.
If you want to show your appreciation for this big blue marble we live on, here are seven ways to celebrate Earth Day in Miami.
Clad in his trademark all-white garb, with a matching bandanna and Panama hat, Alan Faena is the namesake of the city’s most upscale hotel, Faena Hotel Miami Beach. With his wife and close collaborator Ximena Caminos, he launched the Faena District to house the North American operations of Faena Art during Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2016.
Six years after Time magazine claimed Miami was a paradise lost to drugs, crime, and corruption, Bayside Marketplace opened its doors in the hopes of revitalizing downtown Miami. The two-story, open-air mall turns 30 this year and remains the city’s waterfront darling. An obligatory pit stop for tourists, the easy-breezy destination offers plenty of retail shops, alfresco dining, pleasant strolls, and free live music.
David Sedaris doesn’t want you to call him funny. “I feel like when someone introduces me onstage and they say, ‘Get ready to laugh!’ I’m backstage thinking ‘You’re killing me here,'” the humorist and author says. “If you say to people: ‘Get ready, this is really funny, he’s gonna slay you with laughter,’ you’re going to cross your arms across your chest and say, ‘OK, show me how funny you are, funnyman.'”
Thursday Whether he’s making light of death — describing captions for medical examiners’ photos as “really great poem titles, my favorite being: extensive mildew on the face of a recluse” — or deftly crafting accounts of family life and personal reflection, David Sedaris, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day…
The latest edition of the MiFo LGBT Film Festival will screen a variety of queer films April 21 through 30. For ten days, you can catch movies that offer something different from the straight white nonsense you endure daily. But given dozens of films, which should you prioritize? We’re here to help.
Over four features and countless shorts, Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo has cemented his status as a director who mixes genre elements with surprisingly personal stories and playful narrative trickery. His mind-bending first feature Timecrimes (2007) starts off as a horror movie, then turns into a time-travel tale and finally the…
Janet Jones wants you to shake things up — and not just your booty. The founder of Vixen Workout, a hip-hop-inspired dance-fitness program, is opening a new studio May 1 in Wynwood after a five-year journey of rediscovering herself.
“Rob has this ridiculous beard and it’s such great, self-effacing, wonderful work he’s doing,” James Gray says about his film recounting the life of a British explorer who disappeared while pursuing his lifelong obsession with a mythical city in the Amazon.
Supercon Retro launched this weekend, attracting thousands of local geeks to the Miami Airport Convention Center.
Terry George’s The Promise has the rare good fortune of turning up in theaters just weeks after another film showed how necessary a movie like this is. The second star-driven war-adventure film of 2017 to set a cross-cultural love triangle against the horror of the Armenian Genocide, The Promise would…
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 brings you a solid recap of all the recent experiences you might have missed around Miami. It’s impossible to be everywhere, but hey, we can try to keep our Eyes on Miami.
