Critics often categorize the multifaceted work of performance artist Nora Chipaumire as contemporary dance. But Chipaumire, based in Brooklyn, New York, but born and raised in Mutare, Zimbabwe, says her upcoming work, Portrait of Myself as My Father, isn’t just a performance. It’s also a manifesto. “What is so terrifying…
Christopher Guest’s films mostly deal with passionate but ordinary people who aspire to positions of status within strange little subcultures: mid-century folk music, dog shows, community theater or, in the case of his new mockumentary, Mascots, the world of sports-mascot competitions. In the alternate universe of Guest’s first film in…
So much for your weekend plans. Miami filmmaking collective Borscht Corp. has announced the dates of its next film festival — and it starts Wednesday. The “mini film fest,” as Borscht’s announcement describes it, runs through Saturday with a series of screenings and afterparties by some of Miami’s best-known filmmakers:…
The future home of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is beginning to fill out, with the roof topped off last month and three stories of wall-to-wall glass closing in the gallery spaces. The interior is still in rough shape, but it’s easy to imagine the possibilities for the rooms…
“As it always happens in the Chris Guest movies, we really don’t talk to each other before we get to set,” Jane Lynch says, explaining how she creates her menagerie of characters, specifically Gabby Monkhouse from Guest’s newest mockumentary, Mascots. “A couple months before, I got a call from Chris,…
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Miami Jazz Jam at Churchill’s: Dance away the Monday blues at Churchill’s weekly jazz jam. Tour at the Adrienne Arsht Center: Walk through the performing arts center, from lobbies to stages — including…
As has been widely noted, Woody Allen’s Crisis in Six Scenes isn’t really a television series; its six episodes are not particularly self-contained, and plot developments crest and climax willy-nilly regardless of where each segment ends. It’s a two-and-a-half-hour movie, the longest one Allen’s ever made, and with the option…
With the looming November 2 vote on Amendment 2, which would expand medical marijuana in Florida for specific diseases and conditions, one thing is clear: weed is a polarizing topic. As New Times reported in August, according to one of the most respected marijuana-usage surveys in America, roughly half the…
Remember when you were six years old and flounced around the playground playing tag with your friends? Improv Everywhere, based in New York City, is making it possible to embrace your inner child with its touring show, the MP3 Experiment. The MP3 Experiment has traveled all over the world, but…
“South Florida wants to survive #HurricaneMatthew. But we’d rather die than eat clam chowder.” If you were on social media during the lead-up to Hurricane Matthew, you probably read those words more than once. Accompanied by a photo of a grocery aisle bereft of anything but cans of Progresso’s New…
Ten years ago, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County opened its doors for the first time. This weekend, the venue will host a massive party to celebrate. To commemorate its tenth anniversary, the Arsht plans to show off why its has become a major home for…
The historic Colony Theatre will now be operated by Miami New Drama, the City of Miami Beach announced this week. Miami Beach, which owns the historic theater, says that the company assumed operations at the resident theater company on October 1. Miami New Drama Artistic Director Michel Hausmann and Managing…
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. Due to…
Fred Armisen and Bill Hader are a rarity in the comedy world: funny people with hearts of gold. It was obvious all those years when they were cast members on Saturday Night Live. They handled their characters — whether living, dead or purely fictional — with a visible sweetness. Think…
OCTOBER “Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism” October 9 through January 8, 2017, at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, FIU, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami; 305-348-2890; thefrost.fiu.edu. From creating Michelle Obama’s 2008 election-night victory duds to conquering the runway with his signature style, Cuban-American fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez…
South Florida has no shortage of film festivals: Borscht, Filmgate, Brazilian, Key West, American Black, Miami Jewish, Miami Short, Popcorn Frights, and others. But the most prestigious of them all are the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Miami Film Festival, which together bring hundreds of new films to…
It’s been 11 years since a serious hurricane touched Miami. But for locals who have lived through the mega-storms, hurricane memories don’t fade. As Hurricane Matthew edges closer to Florida, New Times asked its arts writers to tell us their most ridiculous, most terrifying, most authentically Miami storm stories. Share…
Still not sure who to vote for next month? Artists of the Bushwick Collective are eager to share their thoughts with you in the form of a Batman-themed mural. Hint: Trump is not your superhero. The Bushwick Collective is an organization of graffiti artists, conceived in Brooklyn, New York, in…
Programming a lineup of performances to appeal to Miami’s eclectic locals can be a challenge. We’re a town of die-hard South Floridians, immigrants, transients, cougars, silver foxes, and snowbirds. But that’s part of what the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts’ senior director of programming, Erica Lynn Schwartz, admires…
Thursday In astronomy, syzygy describes a lining-up of stars, planets, or moons. In Jungian psychology, it refers to a pairing — the female and male, the conscious and unconscious. At the Museum of Contemporary Art (770 NE 125th St., North Miami), the two meanings find unity in a show that…
Some locals flee during Miami Art Week. Can you blame them? The normally just-bearable highway traffic becomes impossible gridlock. A neurotic mass of migratory New Yorkers, here just for Basel, baby, just for Basel, takes up every available restaurant reservation. Favorite bars are suddenly full of good-looking tourists seeking local…
As Hurricane Matthew makes its way north, Miami’s living in a state of limbo: Will schools be cancelled? Will you have to go to work on Thursday? Should we all just pack ourselves into our cars and start driving to Georgia? The same goes for most events scheduled for later…
