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.
All roads lead to water in Miami. We live by it, we swim in it, and we covet it. In “Off the Wall: Three Currents, One Flow,” three artists explore water as a metaphor of fluid identity in the city and in the imagination. The exhibit, opening Thursday, March 9, at Wynwood’s Artium Art Gallery, features mixed-media works on paper and paintings on canvas by Patricio Gonzalez Bezanilla, Antonio Guerrero, and Juan Miranda.
Guitarist, composer, and producer Josemi Carmona embodies the spirit of nuevo flamenco. He has proven a restless, curious artist, ignoring the boundaries of genres and collaborating with musicians as disparate as jazz bassist Dave Holland, British Indian musician Nitin Sawhney, Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, and pop superstar Alejandro Sanz.
In an increasingly turbulent world, two Israeli artists, Rotem Tamir and Omri Zin, are targeting industrial factory processes in the crosshairs of their work. The husband and wife are collaborating for the first time in Larval Acceleration at Locust Projects.
“This is war. Man is the enemy.” These words greet visitors to PopovaWorld.com, the website for a new comic book series released last week, just in time for International Women’s Day. Miami-based creative duo Dre Torres and Alex Valdes self-published the first issue of Popova with impeccable timing, because the city will witness International Women’s Strike Miami: Femmes Day of Resistance today, Wednesday, March 8.
When Wynwood’s rising property values began forcing gallerists out of the neighborhood several years ago, some art spaces fled west to Allapattah. Others moved to Broward or even back to Miami Beach. But the majority of galleries relocated to Little Haiti. Today the neighborhood boasts a thriving art scene reminiscent…
Baseball is considered America’s pastime, but other countries have been beating us at it for a while. Japan won the World Baseball Classic in 2006 and 2009, and the Dominican Republic snatched the crown in 2013. But hey, in Miami, our allegiances don’t always lie with the good old…
In recent months, there have been serious calls for liberal city dwellers to reach beyond their “bubble” to better understand their rural counterparts. What’s rarely brought into the conversation: that large swathes of the so-called liberal elite have roots in rural places. These people, myself included, came of age among…
“Do not wait for permission,” film critic Rebecca Theodore-Vachon urged at this weekend’s Miami Film Festival. The Google Seminar Series on Gender & Racial Gaps in Film & Tech, which featured festival programmer Kiva Reardon moderating conversations with five women in the industry, emphasized that advice.
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…
José María Cabral is a 28-year-old Dominican film director whose fifth movie, Carpinteros (Woodpeckers), will be screened at the Miami Film Festival this Friday, March 10. The feature, set in the Dominican Republic’s infamous Najayo prison, tells the story of two lovers forced by distance and incarceration to use sign language to communicate.
Gentle, humane, embracing a full range from slapstick to tragedy, Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy about the people of the Marseille waterfront has bewitched audiences for decades. Multiple remakes, including a Broadway musical, Hollywood condensations by James Whale in 1938 and Joshua Logan in 1961 and a recent “reboot” from French actor…
Let’s say you had to make up a list of historical moments that might serve as grand backdrops for sweeping, old-fashioned, Hollywood-style romantic dramas. How high would you rank the Armenian Genocide? How high would you rank any genocide? Watching Hotel Rwanda, you probably never hoped that, amid the carnage,…
“It’s been two years since we’ve released anything,” director Billy Corben says of himself and Rakontur producing partner Alfred Spellman. After a brief pause, he laughs and rhetorically asks, “It’s like, what the fuck do these guys do for a living?” Corben is reluctant to share what exactly he’s been…
Sometimes the mezzobrow film-culture deadlands of the 1980s looked like it was populated almost entirely by opal-eyed European children, spying on hayloft sex and weathering the neglect of peasant elders. That tame moment found its homogenizable directors, particularly Scandinavian teddy bears, imported to Hollywood. Such was the fate of Bille…
Not a soul in the world who has seen one of Rossy de Palma’s performances will be surprised to know that every ounce of energy and charisma the Spanish actress brings to her work is a part of her natural being. That fact was proven beautifully at Miami Film Festival’s riveting Saturday-night event, An Evening With Rossy de Palma.
With Borscht Diez having just ended and Miami Film Festival in full swing, Miami audiences have enjoyed a full roster of new films to check out. But what about the classics? March offers many.
With every win on the court, it becomes increasingly likely that the Miami Hurricanes will punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament, better known as March Madness, or “the dance.” It’s exciting no matter how many times your school makes it into the 64-team tournament. For fans, there’s just something about the annual tradition of putting a Sharpie to your bracket in the hopes that your selections will make it seem as if you paid attention to college basketball all season. Sadly, you’re usually exposed as a know-nothing fraud early on as your teams, one by one, let you down. Bracket. Busted. Worthless piece of paper, meet waste basket.
The movies never get the Midwest right. When, onscreen, have you seen white people at the grocery store mouth that shy, apologetic “oop” noise every time someone walks close enough that they feel they must shift out of the way? Or a father lecturing his children about the greatness of…
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 SoundScape screening of Free Willy to HistoryMiami’s Memory Lab opening reception.
For a movie in which a major character’s death is discovered when a giant lizard-monster vomits out his skull, Kong: Skull Island is a surprisingly breezy affair. It’s not so much that the characters or situations are particularly lighthearted. The film offers up plenty of wartime atmosphere and grim backstory,…
The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science is finally set to open to the public Monday, May 8. The 250,000-square-foot Biscayne Boulevard complex, located in Museum Park, will include a planetarium and aquarium.
