In 2006, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Dave Chappelle told his onetime sketch-comedy target: “I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt like I was deliberately being encouraged, and I was overwhelmed. It’s like you’re being flooded with things and you don’t pay attention to things like your ethics.”
Some things in this world are awesome on their own but transform into a boatload of nope if paired with something equally enjoyable. Pineapple lasagna. Banana wine. Rib-eye ice cream. Greatness doesn’t always pair well with greatness. Thanks to local musicians Otto Von Schirach and Gio Profera, we are about to be confronted by another such pairing: milk and wrestling. The eccentric Miamians have announced they have put together the Valentine’s Day celebration you didn’t know you needed: a night of booze, music, and, yes, milk wrestling.
Emerson Dorsch Gallery was a pioneer on Miami’s burgeoning art scene. Brook Dorsch founded the gallery as a space to show work by local artists, supported by his day job as an engineer. When his wife, Tyler Emerson came along to help curate, they launched one of the first galleries…
In an attempt to spread cinema all over Miami-Dade and move away from the overexposed Wynwood neighborhood — now the go-to location for practically every event in town — the film festival Borscht Diez will hit the beach for the third day of the upcoming fest. After jaunts to the Everglades and Stiltsville, Borscht Diez will host events all day Friday, February 24, in a multitude of Miami Beach locations.
As if Miami’s dress code weren’t revealing enough, once a year, fun runners take to the streets in an epic scanty fashion show of sorts: Cupid’s Undie Run. This is the run’s second year in Miami, and it kicks off Saturday, February 11, at Mana Wynwood — just ahead of Valentine’s Day.
Emilio Sanchez’s precise lines and striking colors are reflections of his career spent drawing from Cuban and other Caribbean landscapes and communities throughout the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Although his work hasn’t been shown in Miami for more than a decade, it is right at home in our abundance…
Borscht Diez, the tenth edition of Borscht Corp.’s biannual film festival, will begin with a funeral, but don’t worry: There is life after death. On the second day of the 2017 fest, Borscht will take to the bay, so get ready to throw on some boat shoes.
For the past few months, Borscht Corp. has been steadily teasing the death of its Borscht Film Festival in anticipation of the fest’s tenth edition, Borscht Diez. Evident in the hashtag #pray4borscht, the ability to light a candle and sign a guestbook to join the filmmaking nonprofit’s mailing list, and the brilliant memorial website on which users can leave a tribute, the dedication to the death of the Borscht Film Festival is wild but no stranger than anything else the collective has done in its decade-long history of filmmaking.
First, the good news: The dog doesn’t die in John Wick: Chapter 2. This will come as a relief to some of us who adored the original, an action masterpiece about a retired hitman taking unholy revenge on the Russian scumbags who killed his pup and stole his car. The…
Given that it’s a sequel/spinoff built around a mostly throwaway gag in The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie is funnier than you might think it has any right to be. But those of us who were expecting something more can’t help but feel a twinge of disappointment. The LEGO…
It’s that time of year again: awards season. The Oscars have announced their nominees. The Grammys will reveal their winners this weekend. And here in Miami, New Times has selected the finalists for its annual MasterMind Awards.
You better get On Your Feet! Miami. Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s autobiographical Broadway musical is finally making its way to the Magic City, kicking off Broadway in Miami’s 2017-2018 season at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this October. After more than a year of calling Broadway home,…
Miami’s beaches are eroding, the coral reefs are dying, and its citizens fear the strike of the next hurricane. The effects of climate change are apparent just about everywhere you look in South Florida, including the arts scene. Miami’s cultural landscape has become the setting for a battle over global…
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman is a tense, visceral drama of wounded masculinity — and therein lies part of its problem. Farhadi, whose About Elly and A Separation are two of the greatest movies of the past decade, can find tension in the most mundane of exchanges, and he…
President Trump’s attempts to “make America great again” by detaining refugees, reinstating laws that threaten the lives of women, and inappropriately tweeting up a storm have been infuriating. It makes you misty-eyed for the good ol’ days of the ’90s, doesn’t it? There were candy-colored Baby-G watches to sport, Furby toys to talk to on lonely days, and hilarious, now-iconic movies to watch.
Valentines Day is just around the corner, and while you’re tirelessly working through ideas to impress your date, here are a few fun staycation ideas around Miami that are sure to point Cupid’s arrow your way.
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 “Faces of Freedom” at the Museum of Contemporary Art to free outdoor music at the Coral Gables Art Museum.
Contemporary American horror’s obsession with morality and psychotherapy can really be a downer. In 2002, Gore Verbinski expertly remade the J-horror hit Ringu with a layered story about a single mother (Naomi Watts) who watches a cursed videotape. To stop the curse, she travels through the warped psyche of the…
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…
Miami Dade College has long been overshadowed by the University of Miami and Florida International University when it comes to the arts. But in recent years, MDC has mounted a concerted effort to emerge as a cultural competitor. Also, showing a scrappy, fighting spirit is Dimensions Variable, the exhibition space and artistic breeding ground founded by Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova in 2009.
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.
How do you sell an international comedy-action superstar to an American audience? Sony Pictures, the distributors of charming Hong Kong action-fantasy Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back, still haven’t figured out how to pitch comedian-turned-filmmaker Stephen Chow outside of Asia, especially since Chow has stopped starring in his…
