Boo! A Madea Halloween was the number-one movie over this past weekend, baffling Hollywood once again and making the Hotep crowd pissed that a movie starring a black guy in a dress made more money than alleged rapist Nate Parker’s still-struggling The Birth of a Nation. (Meanwhile, these woke brothas…
At what point do we stop looking at a show like Black Mirror as a sign of things to come and start acknowledging it as a reflection of where we already are? All the Terminators and 2001s in the world couldn’t prevent us from lusting after self-driving cars, asking Siri…
“He was a beloved friend.” That’s what Marcos Cherlo, proprietor of MAC’s Frame Shop and a well-known handler and preparer in the art community, remembers about Raymond Brown. “He was always excited to help people with their art and was open to playing music in new ways. He was always…
With Halloween landing on a Monday this year, most spooky soirees are taking place over the weekend. But the party doesn’t stop just because the week is about to start. Get your tricks and treats at these Halloween events, all taking place Monday, October 31.
In 2008, Patrick Glemaud, the director and curator of Macaya Gallery, attended a climate change conference in Uganda. There, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame spoke of the catastrophic war between the Tutsi and the Hutu. Their war erupted over a politician who incited violence over the radio — not dissimilar…
The Handmaiden, Korean director Park Chan-wook’s Gothic lesbian tale of romance, revenge and (light) bondage, is the kind of electrifying indulgence only he can make. The film is a loose adaptation of Welsh novelist Sarah Waters’ 2002 thriller Fingersmith, about a female pickpocket who poses as a maid for a…
For most of us, mornings mean waking up to ten alarms, checking for social media notifications, and downing a cup of cafecito for that early boost. But Liza Pitsirilos wants to change the way Miami wakes up. Specifically, she wants you to dance. In April, Pitsirilos attended a retreat concentrating on…
When Sarah Waters published her gothic lesbian suspense novel Fingersmith in early 2002, the U.S. was beginning a relatively speedy transformation on the LGBT front, building to today’s legalized same-sex marriage and a presidential candidate’s full-throated support for expanded LGBT rights. Buoyed by that shift, Waters’ story of clandestine female lovers…
Coming out wasn’t easy for Tarell Alvin McCraney. The playwright, born and raised in Liberty City, has earned a MacArthur Fellowship with plays about Hurricane Katrina, the projects of Louisiana, and adaptations of Hamlet. But he’d never found a way to tell his own tale of coming to terms with…
A question is posed to the main character of Barry Jenkins’ wondrous, superbly acted new film, Moonlight: “Who is you, man?” The beauty of Jenkins’ second feature, which follows his San Francisco–set black-boho romance Medicine for Melancholy (2008), radiates from the way that query is explored and answered: with specifics…
Like all of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, The Cask of Amontillado is dark and psychological. The motive behind the murder central to its plot is never revealed. The author only describes the final deadly encounter between the narrator Montresor and his victim Fortunato. It’s death by immurement: being trapped inside…
Capitalism and art have always had a contentious relationship. Artists struggle to find ways to produce sustainable work. In Miami, where the juxtaposition of luxury and poverty is so pronounced, artists feel pulled to produce work that reflects the state of society but also pays their bills. Common Field Convening,…
America never understood Oasis’ hugeness. By that I don’t just mean the band’s epochal mid-’90s global popularity or the nationalistic fervor it stirred in the U.K. I mean, simply, its hugeness of sound. In the States, only the ballads connected, the glorious/meaningless Beatle raptures “Wonderwall,” “Live Forever” and “Champagne Supernova”…
In 2008, Macaya Gallery director and curator Patrick Glemaud attended a climate-change conference in Uganda. There, Rwandan President Paul Kagame spoke of the catastrophic war between the Tutsi and the Hutu. Their war erupted over a politician who incited violence over the radio — not dissimilar, Glemaud notes, to Donald Trump’s hostile temperament.
An archeologist, a North Korean dictator, a Norse god, two photographers, the people of Indonesia and a tribal chief who believes Jesus is actually black American WWII soldier John Frum all look into a volcano and see their fates. That’s not the beginning of a joke; it’s the premise of…
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all under $10. From an early-voting taco rally at Jackson Memorial Hospital to a skating rink at Bayfront Park and Ball & Chain’s Monster Ball, grab a few bucks and enjoy Miami.
Writer/director Osgood Perkins has been peeking at my Shirley Jackson book collection, and he’s already read through my favorites: The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Jackson, who penned chilling ghost stories and moral tales in the ‘40s, ’50s and ’60s — like her…
Before we get into the matter of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, we must first address the issue of the man actually playing Jack Reacher. Resolved: Tom Cruise has absolutely nothing in common physically with author Lee Child’s crime-solving ex-military drifter.
Building upon a busy summer that included shows at Soho House, Armani Casa, and Poltrona Frau, virtual gallerist Jose “Pepe” Frances is back for fall with his latest +598 Gallery pop-up, featuring New Orleans native Edward Granger. Typically focused on up-and-coming photographers and printmakers, this latest show marks a departure…
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 is revving up for the artsiest time of year, and the Miami Art Dealer Association (MADA) is giving the city something new to gawk at. The non-profit will toast Miami’s cultural season this week with the first edition of MADA Art Nox. On Saturday from 6 p.m. to 10…
It’s rare for a franchise, especially in the horror genre, to actually get better as it progresses — doubly so if the final part of said progression is a TV series. Yet in six-part miniseries form, currently airing on the you-didn’t-know-you-had-it Pop network following a broadcast in Australia earlier this…
