The Bachelor stands erect as the vanguard of heterosexual romance competitions. Bachelor in Paradise (BIP), whose third season concludes this week, is the sunburnt, daydrunk cousin of the ABC franchise. Set in the Ewok Village on the Planet Endor (the perfect place to fall in love), the summertime distraction stars…
Nicknamed the City Beautiful, Coral Gables is one of South Florida’s oldest and most historic neighborhoods. Designed with Mediterranean influence, Coral Gables features lush, tree-lined avenues, mighty, opulent buildings, winding roadways, and lots of green spaces. Incorporated in 1925, George Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, set out to create one of…
In her career as a journalist and author, Geraldine Brooks has traveled the world. Born in Australia, Brooks became a U.S. citizen in 2002 and has ventured to the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, and Yugoslavia in search of her next story. And in November, she’ll head to Miami to…
Since 2001 Art Basel has slowly transformed Miami Beach from a vacation spot for well-to-do snow birds into an art world mecca. The fair has also driven the local art scene, inspiring the community to rally around artists, gallery owners, and museums. Though Art Basel 2016 will make Miami the…
Twenty years ago, Antonia Wright was walking on a frozen reservoir in Massachusetts when she fell through the ice. The teenager clawed her way out of the water — and kept the ordeal a secret. “It was actually illegal to walk on it because it was the water source for…
The most destructive villain in this year’s summer movies isn’t some super-powered fiend. It’s us, the consumers of North America, whose desires shape the world. The U.S. looms over Jayro Bustamante’s patient, observant, exquisitely painful debut feature Ixcanul, just as it looms over the Guatemalan coffee plantation in which Bustamante’s…
Eight minutes into the pilot episode of Cinemax’s new crime show Quarry — an uneven but largely rewarding translation of Max Allan Collins’ crime books into emotionally challenging, character-driven television — Marine Lloyd “Mac” Conway, Jr. (Logan Marshall-Green) returns home a day early from his second tour in Vietnam. By…
New York Times best-selling author Brad Meltzer remembers living in his grandmother’s one-bedroom, six-person apartment in North Miami Beach as a teenager. The first in his family to attend a four-year college, he is now the author of more than ten historical thrillers and the creator of Decoded, a show on the…
Like American Sniper (2014), Clint Eastwood’s Sully is a movie of nightmares. In Sniper, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sits rigidly in the living room, imagining the gunfire, roaring helicopters and wailing bystanders of Fallujah playing out on a turned-off television as his children race through the house. In Sully, Chesley…
Remember staring at the classroom clock in high school, waiting for the bell to ring? Sometimes, those final minutes felt as though they dragged on for hours, and you could have sworn the minute hand sluggishly dragging across the clock face ticked backward for a brief second. It’s entirely possible…
Before The Eric Andre Show came along, I always thought acting like a complete lunatic on television was mostly a white-people thing. As a culture, African-Americans generally frown upon the idea of being unabashedly clownish for the masses — black folks call it “showing your ass.” All those years of…
Barbara Kopple’s Miss Sharon Jones! tells the kind of true story that makes you want to kick creation itself square in the crotch. Here’s that firecracker soul singer, nearing her 60s, her boogie still majestic, her band still a tight retro marvel, her wail still the southern end of a northbound…
In contemporary film, it’s typical for an African-American character to be the sole person of color in the story, only existing to reveal hidden racism or make white people uncomfortable with themselves. Black characters rarely get to talk to other black characters. Last year, Manohla Dargis suggested a new Bechdel-type…
Where were you when you learned that you’d be making your DJ debut at the biggest rave of the year? And that said rave was only eight hours away? Ethan, the sheepish main character of Netflix’s straight-to-streaming EDM movie XOXO, gets the news in his kitchen, where his mom is cooking breakfast…
Three years after her father’s death, Annette Libeskind Berkovits could still barely surmount the grief. She kept avoiding the inevitable task of going through his clothes and belongings, instead keeping them out of sight, if never out of mind. When she finally decided to venture into his old room and navigate…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Improv Class at Thalatta Estate: Practice your comedy beginning at 7 p.m. with Cutler Bay Community Theater actors. Free Tour at the Adrienne Arsht Center: Walk through the theater, from lobbies to…
The Bass Museum, Miami Beach’s only major art museum, has been under renovation for over a year in a remodel that plans to drastically expand the building’s programmable space without altering its footprint. Recently, the museum announced a massive reopening for Art Basel 2016, with three new shows from contemporary…
You’ve probably already heard about the headliners planned for the 2016 edition of the Miami Book Fair International: Daily Show host Trevor Noah, actor Alan Cumming, food star Padma Lakshmi and more. These are the subjects of the fair’s “Evenings With” series, its most popular events featuring talks and readings…
When Pablo Escobar’s beachfront Miami mansion was torn down earlier this year, some felt it closed the books on a bloody chapter of history that tied the city to the reportedly richest drug lord ever. The tale of the infamous narco king spanned two continents, claiming the lives of thousands…
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 Goo…
Were we wrong to root for Kevin Smith? When he burst onto the scene in 1994, it was the most improbable of rags-to-riches movie narratives: bankrolling Clerks by selling his comic book collection and running up thousands of dollars in credit card debt. Almost overnight, he joined the likes of…
Aspen, Sundance, and Tribeca may be the best-known U.S. film festivals, but none of them have the commitment to South Florida exhibited by the Miami International Film Festival. The homegrown event has expanded into a year-round programmer of films designed to resonate with Miami audiences, and this October’s GEMS Film…
