Miami doesn’t even know it, but it desperately needs a Baba Yaga. Luckily, Miami has a Baba Yaga Mama. We know this is a lot to process, but don’t worry — we’ll explain. Local artist and Knights Arts grant winner Shira Lee Abergel is looking for the community’s support in…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Art Workshop at Vizcaya: Participants will collaborate to build large-scale pieces, which will then be featured in a performance on July 30. Registration is mandatory. Murk Mondays at Coyo: Head to the Wynwood…
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…
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a dramatic radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. Legend has it that the radio play was so realistic it caused mass panic among listeners who were convinced a real alien invasion was happening on Earth. The extent of the hysteria has…
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 The…
It’s perhaps the most exotic dance music to hit Miami in recent memory: contradance. It’s Americana, the real thing, a far more sophisticated version of the square-dancing you may remember from gym dances in elementary school. A band called Cornbread and just as tasty is in the house each Thursday…
Among the canon of misquotes, “Write drunk, edit sober” is something of a masterpiece. Most often attributed to Daiquiri namesake Ernest Hemingway, the louche imperative is actually a corruption of a fairly instructive Peter De Vries remark. While it may not be responsible for any Nobels, the advice has resonated…
Craving culture? Look no further than our incisive roundup of the most interesting activities in South Florida’s visual and performing arts scene. Visual & Performing Arts “Zena Posever’s Studio: A Passion for People” is on view at Miami-Dade Public Library’s main branch through Sunday, Aug. 28. The exhibition is a…
A while back I cracked a dumb joke about all our presidential candidates being corrupt. My wife hit back with this: “You’re a JibJab!” She referred, of course, to the animated viral sensations of America circa 2005 or 2008, the once wildly popular political-parody videos that, in the interest of…
Wynwood may get most of the attention, but the Miami-Dade’s outdoor art renaissance has made its way into neighborhoods from North Beach to Pinecrest. Now South Miami is the latest to adorn its edifices. The Shops at Sunset Place boasts new, nature-inspired artwork. The open-air shopping center — home to…
Born to Haitian parents and raised in Miami’s melting pot, 18-year-old artist Nadia Wolff has come of age in a cultural milieu. Her unique experience and identity has informed her powerful, personal work, which focuses on self-portraiture through embroidery, painting, and poetry. “I try to make work that examines the…
Twenty-five years ago, Annie Leibovitz stunned America with her infamous portrait of Demi Moore — nude, bronzed, seven months pregnant — on the cover of Vanity Fair. The image of Moore’s proud, bare body, heavy with child and unmistakably erotic, meant that in some states the magazine had to be…
Thursday All-you-can-drink beer is appealing in theory, but in practice it usually involves watery swill only a coed could love. At Ace Props this Thursday, however, it’s all the craft beer you can consume, thanks to Tripping Animals Brewery, the newest addition to Miami’s suds scene. The Tripping Animals Beer…
Like the real 1980s, Stranger Things gets more unsettling as it goes. The opening episode of the Netflix show, created by the Duffer Brothers, gives us swear-y, scruffy kids playing D&D and then, beneath a lavish suburban starscape, encountering the unknown — which one of the boys promptly hides in…
Artist Elizabeth Montealegre began crafting her seemingly macabre Happy Ever After coffin project after a trip to her homeland, Mexico. But, she explains, it wasn’t inspired only by the Día de los Muertos imagery she saw there; it was also prompted by tales of 16th-century Hungarian serial killer Countess Elizabeth…
Miami is a city known for its luxury — especially for luxuries that are usually accessible only to the one percent. So for locals on a budget, Miami Spa Month is one of the most exciting times of the year. The annual promotion offers discounts at many of the city’s…
The futuristic dystopia of the arty sci-fi romance Equals will be familiar to anyone who’s seen the likes of Gattaca, The Island or THX 1138. It’s a cool, rational, lifeless world, blanketed in whites and grays and blues, and peopled with unfeeling faces — a world whose citizens will express…
Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abrams-ified Trek era. That is to say, it’s the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode of the original series, and has at least some of that classic spirit of exploration and derring-do. That’s not…
To understand what Absolutely Fabulous (first a TV show and now a movie) means to Brits, you’d have to go back to the TV premiere in 1992. Margaret Thatcher had their economy in a stranglehold until her departure as Prime Minister two years earlier, and when every sensible citizen was…
Does it matter that Freddy Krueger was a pedophilic middle-school janitor who died in a blazing fire when parents sought revenge? No. And unless you’re a horror-film obsessive, you probably don’t even know how he morphed into a pizza-faced Where’s Waldo with knife fingers — what matters is he lives…
While most Miami commuters wrestle with traffic to claim a space on the road, local musician Juraj Kojs steps onto Metrorail, which runs a skeletal route along one of the county’s primary transportation corridors. Like his fellow passengers, the 40-year-old Kojs uses the train to get from place to place…
Miami Swim Week is known for heating up South Florida’s already steaming summer. Between the eclectic fashion, hot models in bikinis, and chic parties at South Beach’s stylish boutique hotels, it’s the fashion highlight of the year for the Magic City. But between the poolside parties and pop-up shops, there’s…
