Miami is still on a film high from the spotlight that’s been placed on Moonlight and the city’s many festivals, from the Miami Jewish Film Festival to Borscht, taking place this time of year. But no film event is quite as big as the Magic City’s staple, the Miami Film Festival. The 34th edition will kick off big, with the March 3 opening night featuring actor, producer, and humanitarian Richard Gere in attendance.
When Gulfstream Park owner Frank Stronach conceived the Pegasus World Cup in early 2016, little could he have known that Donald Trump would be sworn in as president of the United States roughly a year later. But here we are, with an ostentatious reality-show realtor in the Oval Office and a track with a 110-foot statue of a winged horse crushing a dragon welcoming spectators to the richest race in thoroughbred history. The confluence is uncanny.
Bernice Steinbaum is back. The legendary gallerist, who opened her eponymous gallery on a semiquiet corner of NW 36th Street in the quasi-industrial and working-class community of Wynwood 15 years ago, helped turn the former warehouse district into a bustling arts haven. Ten years later, she closed her space,…
Mary Tyler Moore, who died Wednesday at 80, was a reluctant feminist. She wouldn’t even call herself one at all. In 1970, when Moore embodied the character of flighty, 30-year-old single TV news producer Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, there was no other such woman portrayed on…
Playing on the words “armor” and “amour,” Miami-based choreographer Lazaro Godoy takes on the complexities of a key human experience: love. Working with a team of collaborators, including creative partner and performer Carlota Pradera, Godoy is extending the range of his creative language. Until now, movement has been his primary artistic mode. With ArMOUR, he incorporates still visual images, space, and movement.
The Miami Marathon returns to the Magic City this weekend for a remarkable 15th year. More than 25,000 spandex-clad participants will sprawl across the city, sprinting in troves up and down the Venetian and MacArthur Causeways, panting, aching, and utterly parched. Sounds fun, right? Well, if you’re like most people…
If art nouveau sounds like something your great-grandmother liked, that’s because it is. But it’s also the art form that preceded the art deco-style buildings of South Beach and inspired a generation of acid-dropping hippies to make innovative and hallucinatory poster art in the ’60s and ’70s. Bet you…
A Dog’s Purpose, based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, combines the philosophical belief that living beings are reborn into a different physical body after biological death with the voiceover narrative technique of Look Who’s Talking. The main character, Dog, dies in multiple wrenching scenes and is subsequently reborn;…
We all know what Miami looks like in the movies. It’s the same scene every time: a plane flies over a nonexistent “Miami” sign and whisks us into a flashy world of clubs, beaches, and salsa music. It’s the city of Miami Vice, or this year’s War Dogs, the based-on-real-events story of two South Beach schmucks who become unlikely arms dealers. It’s the Miami that gets sold to tourists, the one we construct at work in hotels and bars.
Gold’s value lies chiefly in the hearts and minds of those who seek it. The noble metal has driven humans to perpetrate ignoble acts on their quests to unearth it since at least 5000 B.C.E., when slaves divined for golden veins to lavish their Pharaohs with jewelry. The Incas even…
The Oscar buzz for Moonlight began shortly after the film started making the rounds at festivals such as Telluride and Toronto. By the time of its wide release in November, the buzz had grown into near-universal critical acclaim. At the Golden Globes earlier this month, the film won a statue for Best Picture, Drama, making recognition from the Academy Awards pretty much inevitable.
Quick, name an Archie Andrews personality trait. Yes, he’s red-headed and red-blooded, a horndog naïf with hashtag sideburns who is forever battled over by beauties he can’t be bothered to get anywhere with. But beyond that — who is he? Sometimes he’s in a sugar-sweet pop combo. Sometimes he tools…
“Art is a lie that tells a truth,” Pablo Picasso once said. The aphorism animates Pablo Larraín’s canny and vigorous Neruda, a sidelong biopic of the preeminent Chilean poet and politician, featuring a brilliant Luis Gnecco in the title role, that’s equal parts fact and fiction. (Conversely, Larraín’s film also…
Run the Miami Marathon as a slightly pudgy middle-aged man, as I did not long ago, and around mile 23, your brain begins to crackle. The small part of it still functioning can process only the basics: finish line, thirst, what’s just ahead, thirst, wristwatch, thirst, that goddamn aching heel,…
I’m still trying to decide if Sundance’s decision to kick off its 2017 festival with An Inconvenient Sequel, Al Gore’s follow-up to his influential (and terrifying) climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, is an act of political confrontation or a sign of helplessness. (Or both?) What kind of message does…
Late last week, news broke that the Trump administration plans to cut National Endowment of the Arts and National Endowment of the Humanities funding from the federal budget. “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized, while the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely,” the Hill reported Thursday.
Move over, South Beach. Miami has a new tourist destination, and it’s not yet universally despised by locals. Just five years ago, Wynwood was the kind of place you wanted to be too long after dark. Then artists began moving in, opening galleries, and putting up murals. Soon the relatively small area became a much desired locale for real-estate developer Tony Goldman, the same man who helped turn South Beach and New York City’s SoHo into hoppin’, shoppin’ centers of cultural interest.
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 imagining the city’s future with the Miami DDA to pilates at the Wynwood Yard.
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 may have missed around Miami. It’s impossible to be everywhere, but hey, we can try to keep our Eyes on Miami.
This past in October, graffiti artists of the Bushwick Collective collaborated on a massive anti-Donald Trump mural located on a building across the street from Mana Wynwood at the intersection of NW 23rd Street and NW Fifth Avenue in Wynwood. The mural — titled Come On… What the Hell Do You Have to Lose? — depicted Donald Trump as the Batman villain the Joker, holding a knife to the Statue of Liberty.
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.
Back in 1987, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s film The Running Man depicted a 2017 game show in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, many times to the death, in an attempt to obtain freedom. The “runners” were constantly attempting to evade the “stalkers” in an attempt to keep themselves, and the…
