You can have your houses of cards, your Jessica Joneses, your wet hot American summers. The Netflix original with its finger firmest on the pulse of our fraught current moment? It comes from Germany, comprises three feature-length “episodes,” and commences its tale more than a quarter-century ago. NSU: Germany History…
Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets…
Seventy-three years ago, Norman Rockwell was inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt to create paintings of the four rights Americans often take for granted. Using simple, everyday scenes, he captured “a world founded upon four essential human freedoms” and embedded these deep into the nation’s social fabric. Since then, these images…
When Gallery Diet announced its current exhibition, “Wrap Your Arms Around Me,” we at New Times had two choices. We could do the usual thing — send one of our responsible adult art critics to have a serious discussion with the gallery owner and curator of the exhibit. The other choice? We…
Alec Baldwin is no Steve Harvey. Unlike Harvey, Baldwin seems diminished on the set of a retro ’70s game show dedicated to getting contestants to say gently dirty nonsense. On ABC’s baggy, boozy Match Game, Baldwin crabs into a skinny last-century microphone about how everything’s stupid: his celebrity panelists, the…
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 Craig…
Dear Stoner: How long have people been getting high off of marijuana? Sean in Lakewood Dear Sean: Recorded cultivation of cannabis for fiber goes back as far as 7,000 years in some parts of the world — that much we know. As for how long humans have been getting stoned,…
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…
With Pokémon running wild in the streets of Miami thanks to the revolution that is Pokémon Go, there has never been a better time to be a fan of the franchise – but there soon will be. On December 3 at 8 p.m., the latest videogame-themed concert will hit the…
Craig Pittman knows a thing or two about weird Florida. A native Floridian, the Tampa Bay Times reporter has spent his career wading through the wacky workings of the Sunshine State. His new book, Oh, Florida! How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country, dives deep into the bizarre…
Harry Potter has returned, and he’s officially adulting. Strange as it sounds, the boy who lived is 36 years old and embarking on a whole new adventure. One that involves a cursed child, apparently. A new play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 & 2, written by Jack…
“A supermarket transforms into a universe about pregnancy when a preoccupied woman dashes in and discovers she’s pregnant with no way out.” To anyone who unfortunate enough to land in this situation, it probably sounds like a nightmare. But in her short film Supermarket, filmmaker Rhonda Mitrani intends to turn unplanned…
Thursday Miami is loud, hot, and colorful. Miami is delicious and boozy. Miami is tropical, ready to party, and full of history. Miami is a lot of things to a lot of people. Some people hate it; some people love it. Like any grand urban center, it’s best seen from…
The ludicrous but amusing teen social-media thriller Nerve is committed to pinning its characters into a world we understand as ours. It opens with Skype, Spotify, Gmail and Chrome, all on the MacBook screen of a mousily beautiful teen, Vee (Emma Roberts), who you just know is one horrific adventure…
Alex Noghaven and Atena Sherry can barely contain their excitement about the outlook of Miami’s writing scene. They talk in caffeinated bursts, speaking for and maneuvering around each other in conversation to fawn about the blooming literary landscape. “Miami is just kind of burgeoning with this stuff,” says Noghaven, 25…
Sarah Oppenheimer is an artist who works at the intersection of fine art, architecture, and engineering. Her mind-boggling installations are meant to disrupt the way we think of interior spaces through the use of mathematically based optical allusions — pieces that are equal parts M.C. Escher sketches and Alice in…
David Holthouse meticulously plotted just how he would approach the man who had raped him as a child. He would shoot him in the crotch before putting two slugs in the back of his head. “I was going to walk up to him,” Holthouse wrote of his plan, “reintroduce myself,…
Don’t let the publicity photos of the ensemble cast clad in ’70s-era tuxes and flower-child dresses, or even the cloying Mumford-mimicking soundtrack on the trailer, fool you: Captain Fantastic ain’t some twee, cutesy Wes Anderson romp or a Little Miss Sunshine knockoff. This dramedy marking the feature debut of longtime…
Café Society is surprisingly ambitious by the standards of late-period Woody Allen — a veritable epic taking in a broad swath of a young man’s life and charting his progress from wide-eyed innocent to cold, confident operator. But that’s also why the film, in some senses, could only have been…
A more appropriate title for Jason Bourne might be Walking: The Motion Picture. This fifth entry in the franchise loosely (very loosely) based on Robert Ludlum’s best-selling novels brings back director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon to continue the tale of the good soldier-turned-amnesiac-assassin-turned-rogue agent doing battle against his…
Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and…
Ever caught yourself watching an episode of So You Think You Can Dance? and wondered, If only I could pop, lock, and, drop it like those guys? Now is your chance — well, sort of — as Miami City Ballet celebrates National Dance Day with a community-wide flash mob in Miami…
