Thursday From gas at the pump to plastics and paint, the scope of petroleum’s influence on modern life is easy to underestimate. If you need a reminder, head to the Museum of Contemporary Art (770 NE 125th St., North Miami), where Rolando Peña has constructed shining monuments to dirty crude…
Starting with 1985’s No End, composer Zbigniew Preisner served as one of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s closest collaborators — he worked on all of the director’s films until Kieslowski’s death in 1996, with several of their collaborations actually revolving around the world of music. (The duo even created a fake Dutch composer, Van den Budenmayer,…
Looking back at this dismal summer of superhero adaptations, I am reminded of something Chris Rock said during the 77th Academy Awards: “There are only four real stars, and the rest are just popular people.” This was February 2005, mind you — a few months before Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins…
If you watched Matt Damon’s 2015 film The Martian and thought, “Hey, that looks like a fun time,” then you won’t want to miss this year’s III Points festival. This October, III Points attendees will be able to explore Mars like a NASA astronaut – in virtual reality, of course. Mars 2030,…
From the Midwest to the Plains to Canada to the Northeast, people hold the fantasy of moving to Miami close to their heart — a warm and shiny talisman to get them through the misery of winter. When you tell your Northern kin that you’re actually going for it, they…
The Knight Foundation today released its list of finalists for the annual Knight Arts Challenge, which offers grants to cultural projects dreamed up by Miami community members. Now in its ninth year, the challenge has recognized 68 ideas, ranging from a Native American film festival to an audio engineering training…
The Hollars tells the familiar tale of a dysfunctional family pulled together by unfortunate circumstances. John Hollar (John Krasinski, who also directed) is a frustrated graphic novelist with a pregnant girlfriend, Rebecca (Anna Kendrick). When he gets the news that his mother, Sally (Margo Martindale), has a brain tumor, he…
“Hi! My name is Harold. I’m 31 years young, just a normal American guy.” Harold wears a striped polo shirt buttoned to the top and his hair in a long, John Oliver-esque shag. Speaking with the mild-mannered lilt of a suburban dad, he describes his hobbies: gardening, hula-hooping, eating pizza…
Bridget Jones mines the riches of embarrassment. Her gaffes, blunders, stumbles and pratfalls provide the laughs in the atypical romcoms built around her, films that rely heavily on the comedy of idiosyncrasy. Bridget is no outsider: She’s a straight, white, middle class, university-educated woman with a London apartment, a media…
“I don’t have any answers,” Krzysztof Kieslowski once said, “but [I] do know how to pose questions.” Not an uncommon stance for an artist, certainly, but perhaps surprising for one who made a massive, 10-part miniseries based on the Ten Commandments. Later, trying to explain why he and screenwriter Krzysztof…
There are a million-and-one nonprofits in the world, but few of them give 100 percent of profits to their given cause. Indego Africa is one such social enterprise, and the highly rated group just set up a regional board in Miami. The board is designed to raise local support for the…
Since III Points launched in 2013, its mission has been bringing the most innovative talent in three industries—music, technology, and art—to Wynwood. This year, the festival is expanding its definition of art with the addition of Vanguard Film Week, a four-day series of films from prestigious festivals like Sundance and…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Spanish Class at Miami Beach Regional Library: Brush up on beginner-level Spanish at the library’s free classes, thanks to Barry University’s Department of English and Foreign Languages. Call 305-535-4219. Creativity in the…
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth airs Sundays on Showtime In filmmaking, an assembly cut is when recent dailies are strung together in rough narrative order to create the first, very raw draft of the movie. Though it by no means lacks polish or editorial intent, Showtime’s…
“It’s interesting that when we’re young, we do everything in our power to avoid becoming like our parents,” says John Sevigny. “It’s a natural part of becoming independent, and I’m a little suspicious of young people who aren’t rebellious in that respect.” A photographer and Miami native, Sevigny has always been…
Art is rarely made with the intention of throwing it away. But that’s the mission of Trash Detectives, a project co-presented by the Frost Science Museum and Miami Science Barge that will launch during DWNTWN Art Days this Saturday and Sunday. DWNTWN Art Days, a three-day-long civic project aimed at…
Florida Supercon, the largest geek gathering in South Florida, announced this week that it plans to hold its 2017 event in Fort Lauderdale, rather than at its former venue, the Miami Beach Convention Center. Some Dade County superfans may have been disappointed by the news. But Irving Santiago is taking…
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. Friday DWNTWN…
As Wynwood, Miami’s burgeoning arts district, battles the Zika outbreak discovered in July, the neighborhood remains at a loss. “The name Wynwood is on people’s minds on a national scale,” says Diego Orlandini, founder of the Wynwood Coloring Book. “They associate it with Zika. It’s time we show people what Wynwood…
If you can finagle a day off so soon after Labor Day, you might want to do so — DWNTWN Art Days kicks off Friday, bringing a three-day schedule of more than 70 events to Downtown Miami’s museums, studios, theaters, streets, and waterfront. With exhibitions, live performances, outsize installations, social-issues…
Attention, Miami fans of Florida Supercon: If you want to go to next year’s convention, you’re going to have to plan a road trip. The four-day event for all things comics, cosplaying, anime and beyond, will be held next year in Fort Lauderdale, after eight years of hosting the festivities…
Thursday History is not etched in stone. The events of the past are subject to interpretation by the minds of the present, and museums often create and designate historical artifacts and truths. New York City-based Titus Kaphar is an artist interested in exploring the relationship among truth, history, and art…
