When a quiet film is set outside of the big cities, it’s often called a “slice of life.” But that’s ultimately a condescending designation; to the millions of people residing on the prairies and in the small towns dotting the throughways, it is simply life, with a capital “L.” In…
As rush hour hits Friday afternoon, many of us brave the infamous Miami traffic to make our way to the rental communities and not-so-moderately priced homes of Kendall. Away from the bustle of Brickell and Miami Beach, this suburb has evolved over the past few years, nurturing a growing culinary…
The wooden troll figures that Thomas Dam began carving and selling in the ‘50s had a great deal of folklore behind them but no cast of fixed characters. Though the Trolls have since been in TV specials, video games and a short-lived series, none of those have established what we…
Water and humor are central themes in Bhakti Baxter’s “First Light,” the artist’s third solo exhibition, opening today at the contemporary art space Nina Johnson. The show features a new series of Baxter’s water-based drawings, handcrafted surfboards, and bug-eyed and eyeless “coco locos” — character sculptures created with detritus gathered during canoe trips on Biscayne Bay.
If you drive past the New Florida Majority building at 8330 Biscayne Blvd. tomorrow, expect to be greeted by an eerily familiar porcine face. Local artists Rei Rodriguez and Ivan Roque have covered one side of the building with a giant mural titled When Pigs Fly, depicting Donald Trump as…
It’s too much to ask that a studio money-maker/sequel-generator like Doctor Strange actually be strange, much less flaunt doctoral levels of weirdness. Instead, it’s Strange 101 in super HD, its lavish pop-art psychedelia in service of 1963 comic-book story beats. The attractions this time are Benedict Cumberbatch, haughtily Randian as…
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge is a film at war with itself. Which makes perfect sense, because it’s about a man at war with himself, and I’m pretty sure it was also made by a man at war with himself. The true-life story of Desmond Doss — a Seventh Day Adventist…
Agustina Woodgate sits in the corner of a worn, old futon in her Little River studio, twirling a black glob of myrrh on a toothpick. She sparks the blob occasionally with a lighter, releasing fragrant spirals of smoke. Occasionally, when the incense heats up, she lays it on tiny gray…
“Are we really in our generation going to allow the biggest mammal on earth to disappear?” asks a conservationist late in Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson’s propulsive ivory-trade doc. That simple question cuts to the heart in ways that much of this showy, desperately dramatic pseudo-thriller doesn’t. The title is…
Netflix’s The Crown, a drama series about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, is the kind of sumptuous but tasteful British royals porn you’d expect from Ye Olde Masterpiece Theatre, not from the streaming giant that gave us BoJack Horseman and Stranger Things. A $130 million joint American/British…
In honor of our “People” issue, which will hit newsstands November 17, New Times proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes. Have suggestions for future profiles? Let us know in the comments. Working at the intersections of art and design, Emmett Moore has carved a name for…
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they all cost less than $10. Celebrate Halloween at Wynwood’s HalloWyn, bringing music, food, drinks, and fun for all monsters, creeps, ghouls, and phantoms. This Friday, don’t miss the Pancakes & Booze Art Show at the Bar at 1306, featuring paintings, photography…
Artist David “Lebo” Le Batard, 43, opens the door to his studio on the tenth floor of a high-rise in Miami Beach. He towers more than six feet tall, wearing a pair of worn John Varvatos pants, a Basquiat shirt from Uniqlo, and a trucker hat designed by his own studio.
I’m not afraid to admit that I get a kick out of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers. Yes, they’re indifferently plotted and predictably written. But I’m a sucker for ludicrous, centuries-spanning conspiracies and indulgent faux-gnosticism. The books serve, if nothing else, as gripping tours through art-world apocrypha, and Brown’s know-it-all…
Jessy Nite is, in a word, fun. The Miami-based contemporary artist leaves in her wake a stream of playful, color-driven, and interactive works strewn across Miami’s densest public places.
Right now, Disney XD is probably best known for its increasingly relevant Star Wars Rebels series, as well as for being the only cable channel with an emoticon in its name — at least until the inevitable debut of the Trump 🙁 Channel. Disney XD is also on probation with…
A wall of white and black hats. Terrifying darkness. A woman staggering through a medical facility with her guts ripped open. And always, in the background: the player piano ticking along according to its programming, playing modern-day ballads to the denizens of a future world. Welcome to Westworld, a slick…
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.
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with 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 morning.
Maximo Caminero sits in his North Miami studio under a wall-engulfing abstract canvas titled Everything Vibrates. On the stereo next to him, the devotional music of the Sufis and the plaintive lament of reed flutes raise the room’s energy to a hypnotic pitch. Leaning forward in his battered leather recliner…
The smell of greasepaint hovers over Liberty City’s new Audrey Edmonson Transit Village — and the crowds are already gathering in anticipation of the new Sandrell Rivers Theater’s official grand opening November 19. Two of Florida’s top professional theater companies are nearly finished moving into the space.
When it comes to Halloween in Miami, flashbacks of booze-filled, scantily clad partygoers flood the mind. Ah, memories. But as fond as these memories are, those of us in the diapers-and-car-pool stage of life now face the challenge of trading this scene for one where free candy takes the place of free drinks.
