Most people think of summer in South Florida as the slow season, when arts events cool down as the temperature rises. But not AholSniffsGlue. The 36-year-old Miami artist keeps his “hustle going like an octopus,” he says, right down to his shoes, literally. They’re a pair of Nike Air Force…
Let’s be real: No one needs to see another photo of a girl standing in front of Wynwood Walls. Consider this list your scavenger-hunt guide to finding more awe-inspiring (and Insta-worthy) public artworks. From Little Havana to Overtown, Miami muralists have spread their love for creative expression all over town…
Pink Floyd’s The Wall. The Who’s Tommy. Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city. These are some of the greatest concept albums of all time. They draw us in with music and keep us rapt in attention. They tell a story so painfully human, we can’t help but be moved. Any…
In a summer of disappointing reboots, underperforming sequels and rejected franchise bait, Ben-Hur is something rare: a remake no one asked for but weary moviegoers might accept as a small gift for lack of any better option. Timur Bekmambetov’s reimagining of William Wyler’s 1959 epic, itself preceded by two silent…
Miami during Art Basel is the ultimate material world. So it’s no wonder that the Material Girl plans to stage an appearance during this year’s Miami Art Week. Madonna announced via Twitter yesterday that she’s up for a chill hang with one superfan while she’s visiting the Art Basel madness…
Barcelona-born artist and designer Mary Jane Claverol is making Miami all the more colorful by bringing a unique aesthetic to the newly minted Leah Arts District. Uniting traditionally divergent art forms, her work mixes fashion and taxidermy to give new life to displaced specimens. Designing accessories for brands such as…
Thursday Sure, the political climate seems like an all-consuming firenado right now. But in the wise words of the rock-piano god Billy Joel, “We didn’t start the fire.” Nope. Though many angry, doe-eyed Bernie-or-busters act like this is the first and last U.S. presidential election, the Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave.,…
Once, American comedies concerned underdog heroes who challenged the status quo and seized the territory of the upper-class characters who thought they were in control. Slobs vs. snobs. During the wartime administration of the lesser President Bush, the wealthy thoroughly dominated the culture, occupying America the way the army patrolled…
Cities, like young people, are forever becoming something new. The latest tender charmer from Ira Sachs chronicles the growing pains of teens and Brooklyn with the wry sensitivity and eye for economic reality that distinguished Sachs’ Love Is Strange (2014) and Keep the Lights On (2012), which began a sort…
A few months ago, New Times scouted out the best yoga studios across Miami. We found traditional and intimate spots, as well as spaces that prefer to downward-dog in midair (yes, acrobatic or aerial-style yoga is a real thing). Unfortunately, many of the studios shared one crucial trait: They’re ridiculously…
Anna Gunn actually gets to do things in Meera Menon’s expansive high-finance drama Equity, which is almost reason enough to recommend it right there. The Breaking Bad co-star tears into the role of a rainmaking banker taking a Silicon Valley company public. For once it’s Gunn whose character gets to…
Ever spent an afternoon asking Cuban exiles what they think of President Obama and his Democratic comrades? The responses would probably sound something like this: “That communist has driven this country into ruin,” one gray-haired patron yells as he sips café con leche at the counter of the inimitable Versailles…
Hell or High Water sees a Scottish director making a down-home, West Texas–set movie about cars, guns, brothers, banks and twist-off beers. But this outsider’s perspective is nothing new for David Mackenzie, who has worked with Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche on a Los Angeles romance about a gigolo (2009’s…
From its opening image — of a distraught woman battling massive ocean waves on a moonlit night — to its surprisingly ambiguous final shot — of what, I won’t say — Kubo and the Two Strings sears itself into your brain. The stop-motion animation studio Laika has perfected, over the…
Late in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, his unsurprisingly wry, quizzical documentary survey on life inside and beside the virtual world, Werner Herzog stumps two brain researchers with a lyrical question in that instantly recognizable (and often parodied) German accent: “Does the internet dream of itself?” An ever-adventurous…
Zika is here, and it isn’t going away just yet. The virus is spread by infected mosquitoes and seems to pose the largest threat to pregnant women because it has been known to cause birth defects. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most people infected with…
ESPN is launching their most ambitious storytelling initiative to date, and the story they will be first telling through their new multi-platform plan is a cocaine-trafficking fueled tale with it’s roots right here in Miami. ‘Pin Kings’ tells the story of Alex DeCubas and Kevin Pedersen, co-captains of their high school wrestling…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Music at Government Center: Start your week off with a free concert during your Monday-morning commute. Tuesday Free Film at Miami Jazz Society: Catch a free flick beginning at 6:15…
Hey. Do you guys remember puppet comedian Jeff Dunham, whose downtrodden Mexican “on a steeeek” character José Jalapeño delighted many a middle-class white American in the ’90s? Well, imagine he blazed up a joint with Bill Maher, wrote a manifesto on atheism and then made a multimillion-dollar animated feature film…
“Theres no doubt that women are under-represented in the art gallery world,” says Butter Gallery Director Francisco De La Torre. “I make sure that’s something we don’t do.” In the case of Butter Gallery’s latest exhibit, “Las Ilustres,” De Le Torre happened to gather work not just from female artists,…
Young-adult fiction thrives in the land of fantasy. Boy wizard Harry Potter still rules (as proven by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s 3.3 million-copy North American debut last week), and popular series such as Twilight and The Hunger Games have successfully built upon the foundation laid by classics like A…
What is it about August that strikes a distinct anxiety in us? Maybe it’s because it’s so hard to shake off the magic feeling that the months of summer has always held for us since adolescence. Maybe it’s because fall is around the corner. Either way, if these days have…
