Savior Designer Josuhe Pagliery on Creating Cuba’s First Indie Videogame
With his game Savior, Josuhe Pagliery hopes to prove that Cuba’s got game.
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The Very British Their Finest Shows It Took a War to Get Women Screenwriting Jobs
The comforting analog clack of typewriter keys is a leitmotif in Their Finest, Lone Scherfig’s slight but appealing adaptation of Lissa Evans’ novel Their Finest Hour and a Half (who knows why the subject of the original title was confusingly cast aside). In this tale of British filmmaking during World…
Free Events This Week in Miami: Full Moon Pop-Up Shops, Puplife, and SlutWalk
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 a full-moon boot camp at the Eden Roc to Puplife and SlutWalk FIU.
The Fate of the Furious Is Like Mario Kart on Speed
Holy motors! How will they top this one? This is perhaps the fastest and, if not, certainly the most furious of the Fast & Furious movies. The beauty of the Fast & Furious movies is that no car stunt is ever too nonsensical.
Days After Pepsi Ad Controversy, Glad Installs Art About Social Unrest in Wynwood
The Glad Wall, located on NW Second Avenue between NW 26th and 24th Streets, features four arm sculptures, painted black, protruding from the mural. Each holds a white trash bag, through which viewers can see the outline of an alphabetic letter. Together, they spell H-A-T-E.
Yutyrannus, a Dinosaur With Feathers, Is Coming to the Frost Museum of Science
The Frost Museum of Science’s new location in downtown Miami will have a Yutyrannus on permanent display in its exhibit “Feathers to the Stars,” which chronicles the history of flight.
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Amid Crisis in Their Homeland, Syrian Refugees Present Their Art in Wynwood
Gary Nader Art Centre in Wynwood — one of the state’s leading galleries — is hosting “Refuge in Paint,” an exhibition of artwork by Syrian refugees.
In Aftermath, Schwarzenegger Moves as a Man of Action Facing True Grief
No matter your opinion of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a person, you can’t deny this: The man is a doer. And in Elliott Lester’s grief drama Aftermath, the ripped Renaissance man does a subtle, absorbing performance of despair so unlike his other work that his lined and laden face at times…
The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
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. Friday…
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As Badly-Behaving-Old-Dude Comedies Go, Going in Style Ain’t Bad
Somebody at Warners must’ve seen Going in Style, the 1979 film about old men robbing a bank, and decided that a happier, peppier version could be profitable. The original has no less than George Burns, Jackie Gleason sidekick Art Carney and method-acting legend Lee Strasberg as old fogies who decide…
Better Call Saul Finds Its Hero Striving to Break Free of Breaking Bad
It’s a good thing Jonathan Banks has such an interesting face. At the beginning of the third season of Better Call Saul, we spend a lot of quiet time with Banks’ surly, crooked-nosed cop-turned-criminal Mike Ehrmantraut of Breaking Bad fame, watching as he dismantles his own car and works out…
Netflix’s Teen-Suicide Drama 13 Reasons Why Offers Many Reasons to Watch It
In Netflix’s new teen-suicide drama series 13 Reasons Why, pretty-boy Marcus (Steven Silver) tells good-guy Clay (Dylan Minnette) that whatever the kids did to Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) to make her kill herself was no different than what happens to any other girl in any other high school everywhere. And…
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CMX’s Dine-In Theater Due to Open at Brickell City Centre This Month
An interview with the director of the new luxury movie theater, CMX, set to open at Brickell City Centre at the end of April.
Retiro, a Meditation on Aging, Lets Older Women Share Their Stories
Endless interviews with women on the red carpet in glittering gowns. Flawless models selling the latest cosmetics in glossy women’s magazines. The new army of celebrity girls morphing into women in front of our very eyes. Young, attractive women are everywhere you look. What’s rarer, at least in entertainment and media, are women openly accepting or coping with the inevitable aging process. Aging is increasingly hidden in real life too, especially in Miami, where it’s masked with white lies, makeup, and cosmetic procedures.
Women Artists Put Their Periods on Display in a Menstrual-Themed Exhibit
Something is flowing in Miami’s Little River District, and it’s not what you’d expect. Just seven months after opening, Rojas + Rubensteen Projects brings fresh blood to the budding arts district north of Wynwood with the new exhibit “Period.,” which focuses on menstruation.
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Javi Carrion Returns to Comedy With an Upcoming Special and Maybe a Secret
Bilingual comic Javi Carrion has had an interesting life, to say the least. The Puerto Rican-born Miamian is a veteran of the South Florida comedy scene, fitting gigs in between working for an electronics company and raising his 9-year-old daughter. He’s set to tape a half-hour special, Miami Made Me, April 8 at the Open Stage Club.
Every Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson Movie Ranked From Worst to Best
Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is the busiest man in Hollywood. He churns out movies faster than DJ Khaled can say, “Another one.” He’s the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, and he looks like he could line up for the Dolphins tomorrow at inside linebacker. He’s so awesome that in lieu of calling him by his awesome nickname, people now call him by the name his mother gave him at birth, just because he asked nicely.
The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
Thursday Anthropological studies need not be reserved for remote tribes and dead civilizations. The unique and diverse milieu of Miami citizens is rife with opportunity for the study of exotic plumage and strange customs. “Tropical Wildlife” will put these studies on display with portraits of our city’s fair populace taken…
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Eyes on Miami, Music Week Edition: Paris Hilton, Marshmello, and Nicki Minaj
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…
Vizcaya Plans to Demolish Former Science Museum Building to Install an Urban Garden
With its palatial bearing and labyrinthine landscaping, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens is one of Miami-Dade’s most popular tourist spots. More than 200,000 people visit the county-owned villa each year. That number is poised to grow after a renovation of the property.
Cuban Skateboard Company Toda Fuerza Blends Athletics and Art
In 2016, the International Olympic Committee approved skateboarding for the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo — a big leap for a sport that came out of California’s surf culture in the ’50s and whose first skate parks appeared in the ’70s. Today skateboarding is a global, multimillion-dollar lifestyle industry that…
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Julie Dash’s Epochal Feature, Daughters of the Dust, Embraces Realities and Reveries
“Do you feel that what you have to say in your films will continue to be different from other filmmakers?” Barbara McCullough asked Julie Dash around 1979 on The View, a student cable program at UCLA, home of the L.A. Rebellion movement — a constellation of black auteurs, like two…