To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters airs March 26, PBS Some of us can never have too much of the Brontës. But I understand if your response to another dose of costume drama on the moors is “Shoot me now.” Reader, be strong! If you were dead, you’d be deprived…
Miami’s A-list fashionistas won’t have to fret if their iPhones break while taking Instagram selfies at Brickell City Centre. A shiny new Apple Store is set to open Saturday, March 25, at Miami’s newest luxury retail destination, saving Mac lovers a trip to Aventura, Lincoln Road, Dadeland, or, heaven forbid, the area’s first mecca for MacHeads, the Apple Store that opened in 2001 at the Falls in the suburbs of Kendall.
Dr. Michael Salzhauer, one of the most famous and successful plastic surgeons in Miami, is also one of the camera-friendliest. He’s built his business in large part through viral videos and social media stunts. Now he’s taking the next logical step: starring in his own reality TV show. This Friday,…
Miami might be known for glitz and glam, but beneath the South Beach sheen, the Magic City has a bit of a seedy underbelly. A variety of outré experiences lurks around town for oddity hunters with a keen eye, but it takes a special kind of recklessness to trespass into, say, a spooky, decrepit missile silo deep in the Everglades.
The antagonistic atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair relished it when Life magazine called her “The Most Hated Woman in America” in the 1964 profile that only heightened her notoriety. That designation followed the 1963 Supreme Court ruling on Murray v. Curlett (and another lawsuit) that ended Bible-reading in public schools. Director…
If our future robot overlords eradicate humanity, will a robot philosophy take the place of our humanoid musings? Luciana Parisi, a scholar of technology in culture, art, and politics, is researching the consequences of techno-logic, or the organic development of reasoning in machines. Her lecture, part of the Art…
Gina Prince-Bythewood has directed two of the most devastatingly romantic films of this millennium — Love & Basketball (2000) and Beyond the Lights (2014) — so it might seem odd at first to see her at the helm of a TV show about police violence, unsolved murders, and race relations…
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…
This year’s fest will feature a poetry-by-prisoners project, a Metrorail poetry partnership, a comedy night, and array of other irreverent events and projects. Festival founder P. Scott Cunningham, a former New Times staffer, gives the scoop on some highlights.
The beginning marks the beginning of the end: A middle-aged man rouses from sleep, about to face another day of accosting and insulting strangers. He hates people but needs them, too. His voice-over kicks in, a peroration that opens with a bid for camaraderie (“Remember when we were kids and…
Shirley MacLaine has been described by press and co-stars over the years as “rude,” “nasty,” “difficult” and “selfish.” Hell, she’s called herself impatient, caustic and much worse. None of that has stopped her from being a fiery mainstay in American screwball comedies and dramas. Her signature pixie cut came to…
The world of high finance is equal parts confounding, infuriating, and downright terrifying. Most Americans look at Wall Street’s slick, greedy players and are resigned to the fact that it’s filled with money-hungry vultures, the kind of people who won’t settle for just one yacht. They’re sucking the economy dry,…
The spring equinox marks the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness. It’s also a day after Miami ended the first homegrown World Happiness Summit (AKA WoHaSu), a three-day event that has the ambitious goal of making the Magic City the capital of happiness. Today also heralds the release of the World Happiness Report, which ranks 155 countries.
“What’s going on in the world? A lack of compassion. I wish we had a little bit more of that and less Trump.” That’s how Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, set the tone for his March 16 talk during the H20 government track at the World Happiness Summit — the first global gathering of government leaders, economists, academics, and researchers who met at Miami Dade College to explore the science and economic impact of happiness on civic well-being.
Almost no one ever asks young women what they desire — in movies or reality. Feminine cravings are still seen as a dire threat, a grand disturbance to the power structure, and the few movie men who dare speak the words “What do you want?” — like Noah in The…
Miami is a city that is brimming with talent. From local designers and makers to artisans and illustrators, there’s no shortage of creatives trying to make it in the Magic City. But because rent prices for retail spaces are exorbitantly high, many locals lack the resources to host their brands in a brick-and-mortar.
In 1976’s The Devil Finds Work, James Baldwin makes a crucial verb distinction when discussing the screen legends, like Bette Davis, with whom he was transfixed (sometimes uneasily so) in his youth: “One does not go to see them act: one goes to watch them be.” When one goes to…
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they all cost less than $10. Grab a few bucks and enjoy what’s new in town, from a movie in the street in Downtown Dadeland to a block party in Little Haiti.
In 2016, Philadelphia-based Koresh Dance Company crossed its 25-year mark. To celebrate, the company is returning to Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts with a 25th-anniversary program featuring choice selections from its repertoire. It’s a retrospective of the development of artistic director Ronen Koresh’s style and creative voice.
There’s something funny about bringing art and comedy together. At least that’s what Yuval Ofir from Yo Space Gallery thinks. The art curator has been hosting comedy events around Miami for five years, uniting the creative community through laughs. This weekend, he plans to put on his usual comedy show, but with a street-art twist.
To understand how Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending might disappoint you if you’ve read the suspenseful, tear-jerking Julian Barnes novel on which it’s based, you should think back to Batra’s much-lauded debut feature The Lunchbox (2013). In that humanistic film, a young woman trapped in her marriage falls…
“There’s been a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won.” Those eight words uttered by La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz sent the internet — and much of the media-consuming world — into a tizzy. A nation watched in disbelief as the Moonlight team cautiously took the stage at the Academy Awards. But Patrick Decile, the 20-year-old Miami native who played Terrel, the film’s brutal antagonist, was not among them.
