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 the Miccosukee Indian Arts & Crafts Festival to bingo with Miss Toto and jazz at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Miccosukee Indian…
After announcing its nominees last Wednesday, the Florida Film Critics Circle revealed its winners yesterday. Though the Miami-made film Moonlight earned 10 nominations from the critics this year, it ended up with just one win in its nominated categories: The Pauline Kael Breakout Award for director Barry Jenkins. Moonlight and its cast…
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…
Like craft beers or your news feed, Netflix’s niche-viewing categories are forever growing more micro-specific. Its new drama series, an eight-part bafflement called The OA, could only be categorized as a Sexually Frank Spiritual Locked-Room Suburban Afterlife Mad Scientist Communitarian Interpretive-Dance Ripped-From-the-Headlines Horror Puzzle Mystery. Its flavors never unite into…
The best time of the year is finally here — Christmas and Hanukkah weekend. The next three days are filled with holiday-inspired music, art, 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…
How easily we forget Miami’s literary scene. Given the homegrown talent, area colleges/universities boasting some of the best writing faculties in the nation, and the Miami Book Fair bringing the best of the best to the 305, it truly is amazing how the Magic City’s writers gets overshadowed by other creatives.
Nochebuena: a time for family, food, and festivities. It’s the big party we Latinos enjoy on Christmas Eve. If you’ve been in Miami long enough, you’ve probably already attended a few. Too many of us, especially those from other countries and first-generation kids, it means not only the arrival of Christmas but also the sharing of traditions.
With awards season at its peak and every critics association handing out prizes, the Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) announced its nominations for 2016 yesterday. The official winners will be revealed Friday, but Moonlight came out on top of the nominee list with ten well-deserved nods.
“What time is it? Showtime,” I whisper to myself as I begin my audition for Hamilton: A Musical at the Florida International University School of Music. “But I just might rewind.” A woman throws her head back and squeezes a honey-bear bottle until a dollop drops into her mouth.
According to Love Actually, Serendipity, and every Hallmark Channel Christmas movie ever, nothing is more romantic than the holidays. Glittering lights, goodwill toward men, bourbon-laced eggnog – these seasonal ingredients create the perfect storm for fluttering hearts. So if you’re attached (versus forever alone), now is the time to up your romance efforts and show bae your soft side. Here’s a list of ten things to do with your honey this holiday season in Miami. (And be sure to stock up on mistletoe.)
In the past decade and a half, the Miami Heat has established itself as a premier championship pro sports franchise, run by a savvy front office headed by the legendary Pat Riley. But history could’ve been very different for the three-time NBA champions if it weren’t for Shaquille O’Neal…
Director Ava DuVernay’s breakthrough 2014 film, Selma, earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director, the first for a female African-American auteur. The Compton-raised filmmaker is now helming television shows like Queen Sugar and the upcoming big budget fantasy film, A Wrinkle in Time .
Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven has dedicated his career to sifting through trash to extract ugly truths. He’s a former math and physics student who decided movies make more sense, but it’s hard to picture him crunching numbers and plugging in formulas and dealing with absolute answers, as his proudly pugnacious…
In a city where artists struggle to find authenticity, Solange Sarria is a beacon of light. A singer, hairstylist, and visual artist who’s as adept at sculpting an image as she is at solving your latest existential dilemma, Sarria uncovers the artificiality inherent in the modern beauty industry and turns it on its head.
Accepting the Welt Literature Prize in Berlin on November 10 of this year, the novelist Zadie Smith said, “Time travel is a discretionary art: a pleasure trip for some and a horror story for others.” She was speaking, of course, of the conviction among so many white people that there’s…
Many Americans woke up November 9, the morning after Election Day, feeling like someone had just died, and spent the day staring into their coffee mugs or crying in the office bathroom. Theresa, a spunky Hawaiian grandmother, decided she would do differently. She called on 40 of her friends to march on Washington with her the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, to show the man being sworn in as president that the women he disrespected throughout his campaign would not back down.
I shouldn’t have to explain why Fences, the August Wilson play set in the 1950s and now adapted for the screen, is important. If you’ve stepped anywhere near the theater — and I mean the playhouse here — you’ve read, seen, or heard about it. Wilson, who didn’t study theater…
LIV on Sunday Art Basel edition was out of control as DJ Khaled celebrated his birthday with friends including Future, Fat Joe, Meek Mill, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Carnage, Skrillex, Tyson Beckford, Jim Jones, A$AP Rocky, and Jonathan Cheban.
The Assassin’s Creed video games are about skipping through tedious cut scenes set in the present so that you can vault into the past, through and over gorgeous recreations of the roofs and streets of medieval and Renaissance cities. Sometimes you chase floating feathers through Florence. Often, you’ll sneak behind…
Winter may not be coming for Miami, but that doesn’t mean this town has no holiday spirit. We just do things a bit differently. We trade eggnog for coquito, a major upgrade. Our most festive tunes are nontraditional carols such as “El Burrito Sabanero” and “12 Ratchet Days of Christmas” with Otto von Schirach and Juleisy y Karla.
If you’re queer or in the know, you’ve likely spent the third Sunday of any month in the past two years at the Corner in downtown Miami, having a kiki with every king and queen during Counter Corner. Behind the bar, you’ve found Sleeper, pouring drinks and chatting with everyone who passes by at the event that he and Juleisy y Karla founded. What you might not know is just how interesting he is.
Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home examines, in its uncertain prose, one of the signal concerns of our age: How do those of us who have grown up in relative comfort square our good luck with the lot of the rest of the world? That question gets feinted at…
