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…
Calling all artists and performers looking to drop some culture in the laps of unsuspecting Miamians: Cultra — the first-ever roving open-mike event — takes place tonight, January 19, from 7:30 to 9:30 at Tina Hills Pavillion in downtown Miami. Organizers are looking for performers who have what it takes to entertain a crowd.
For months, the building on the northeast corner of Lincoln Road and Lenox Avenue has undergone a transformation into Miami Beach’s newest fitness capital. Today the Nike Miami store opens its doors for the first time, giving fitness fanatics a first look at the brand’s limited-edition swag and state-of-the-art shopping perks.
Calling all artists, filmmakers, choreographers, musicians, and other creatives: New Times wants to give you some sweet cash just for making work you love. The annual MasterMind Awards are returning next year, rewarding the best talent in the city with cash grants and citywide recognition.
Tigertail’s ScreenDance Miami festival is now in its fourth year. One of the few festivals in the nation dedicated solely to movement for film and video, ScreenDance aims high. The goal: to present top-caliber dance films showcasing makers locally and from around the world.
Say this for Sleepless: It gives Michelle Monaghan more to do than almost anything else you’ve seen her in lately, whether it beTrue Detective or Patriots Day, and confirms once again that she should be in the lead far more often than Hollywood would have you believe. The positives don’t…
Last October, it was announced that Miami New Drama (MiND) would take over the historic Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road. And now, as part of that take-over, MiND is set to put on a play that requires full audience immersion. Terror is a courtroom drama unlike most others in that the folks sitting in the seats play a pivotal role themselves — as the jury. And the case they’re presented is an all-too-familiar one in our post-911 world.
Last June, after the death of Muhammad Ali, Michael Mann’s Will Smith–starring 2001 film Ali was briefly re-released in theaters. This allowed many of us to see it with fresh eyes. What felt like an ambitious but underwhelming biopic 15 years ago now seems more and more like a masterpiece…
The human body is always changing, always in motion, always doing things that have the potential to inspire. Live dance can tell stories and elicit emotions in viewers, and often in a fleeting moment of artistic connection that lives on only in memory — unless a filmmaker is there…
M. Night Shyamalan appears again to be having a moment. His last film, 2015’s grandparents-gone-wrong horror flick The Visit, proved a small hit with critics and audiences alike, and his latest, this week’s multiple-personality abduction thriller Split, seems poised to do likewise. And why not? Both films are effective chillers…
Despite his reputation, M. Night Shyamalan has never lived and died by the twist. His best films, such as Unbreakable or even last year’s cheerily nasty wicked-grandparents thriller The Visit, work first as accomplished, emotionally engaging suspense. What’s most memorable about them isn’t the final-act revelations or even the quietly…
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…
Walking out of Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson last May at Cannes, I felt like it was the closest the director had come to making an artistic manifesto. Having seen it again, I’m even more convinced. Jarmusch first arrived in New York back in the 1970s with dreams of becoming a poet,…
Anna Betbeze wants you to see her sweat. Her pieces — burnt and distressed pieces of fabric, canvas, and even carpets — are riddled with the evidence of her often harsh and violent technique. The result is more than just the sum of their resultant parts; Betbeze’s work is a…
Like its subject, the man who took McDonald’s from a single burger shop to a globe-straddling child-fattener, John Lee Hancock’s The Founder can’t stop selling. The first fast-food kitchen, set up in 1953 by the solemn McDonald brothers in San Bernardino, gets celebrated here as rousingly as John Glenn’s first…
One of the quasi-bohemians in Mike Mills’ gauzy 20th Century Women loves to document ephemera, taking photos of everything she owns. A similar instinct — archiving as art — guides Mills’ movie itself, a trip back in time in which era-specific talismans substitute for genuine thought. Though big feels glut…
GableStage’s Joseph Adler has made a career of producing shows about the multilayered complexities of the human experience. And no playwright portrays the dark, flawed mosaic of what makes people tick quite like Stephen Adly Guirgis. His 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning Between Riverside and Crazy, which opens at GableStage at the…
This February, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will launch the second edition of its Inside|Out program.
