Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Fourth of July Fireworks: The best things in life are free — especially lavish fireworks displays scattered around Miami, all without a price tag. Celebrate America’s big day in your flashiest red, white,…
Another scorching month in Miami means it’s time for another trip to the movies. If modern movies aren’t you thing, slide on into a classic film at one of your local art theaters. Think your options are limited on that front? Think again! Check out what Miami has available for…
The 80’s brought us a horde of gruesome and over the top B-movies that eventually became cult classics: Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Re-Animator, and perhaps the greatest of them all, Evil Dead. Three decades later, that gleeful spirit of crafting outlandish, low-budget, horror-comedy movies full of dumb fun is…
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 Ten…
James DeMonaco’s Purge series, about a near future in which all crime is legal for one annual 12-hour period, began as a disturbing setup for basic genre thrills: 2013’s franchise-starter was essentially a home-invasion thriller with a dystopian twist. By the time Purge: Anarchy rolled around a year later, the…
If you have ever dabbled in the business of motion pictures, or have ever taken a college course on film, then you know women are underrepresented in the movie industry. That’s why the Borscht Corporation, a nonprofit organization created by filmmakers, is doing more than simply encouraging female filmmakers to…
Bookleggers, the non-profit community mobile library that has built a cult following in Miami over the past few years, is heading to the big leagues — specifically, Major League Baseball. The organization is partnering with Marlins Park for a burger, beer, and book event July 8th. Budweiser Burger & Beer…
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…
Conventional wisdom says that summer is the worst time to be in Miami. But when has conventional thinking ever applied to this town? If you know where to go and what to do, you can celebrate a summer season to rival any high season arts convention, music conference, or food…
AMC’s Preacher is a surprisingly sedate creation. It moves at such a glacial pace that you have to wonder if the brain trust behind this adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s gonzo ‘90s Vertigo comic — Seth Rogen, Sam Catlin and Evan Goldberg — forgot it only has 10…
Swipe left, swipe left, swipe right, swipe left. Twenty-first century dating is weird. When most couples’ first interactions with each other include a few speculative swipes based on looks alone, it’s no wonder that choosing that first spot to meet — somewhere that’s fun for both parties while minimizing awkwardness,…
The fashion industry is pretty sexist — but perhaps not in the way you’re thinking. Compared to most other trades, women do rule the industry. Many top designers, fashion magazine editors-in-chief, and influencers are women who create, show, and sell clothing to other women. But the business of fashion can…
At last, a Hollywood reimagining with a point. David Yates’ two-fisted pulp-studies spree The Legend of Tarzan doesn’t just update Edgar Rice Burroughs’ white-boy jungle-bro for our age of heightened sensitivities and bit rates. It interrogates the very idea of Tarzan, signing the old sport up for the good fight…
Thursday Wine is the elixir of creativity. It unlocks artistic whimsy and lowers inhibitions. Are you doing this right? Hell, there’s no wrong way to paint a beach at sunset or a cabin in the mountains or a demure cocktail glass like the one in your hand. Painting-and-drinking classes are…
An unlikely buddy comedy-drama about the friendship between a suicidal castaway played by Paul Dano and a flatulent corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe, Swiss Army Man doesn’t seem like the kind of movie you’d watch with your mother. So what was it like to be the mothers of the film’s…
Very few advance screenings preceded Independence Day: Resurgence’s arrival in theaters on the evening of June 23. That’s eight days ahead of the July 4th weekend that in simpler times — like 1996, when Independence Day was the year’s biggest hit — was traditionally reserved for the biggest, ka-blammiest movie of the…
When Franklin Sirmans took the reigns as director of the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) earlier this year, he vowed to rework the young, fledgling institution to serve and represent the local community. Since then, PAMM has highlighted artists from Latin America and the Caribbean, a demographic typically overlooked by…
Art exhibits loosely based on literature are all the rage these days. Last year, Brian Zanisnik’s Phillip Roth Presidential Library show at Locust Projects, caused quite a bit of buzz among local art world aficionados. And the recent Geandy Pavon and Jose Manuel Mesias’ joint exhibit at Mindy Solomon Gallery continues…
Deadpool, Sailor Moon, and the Joker walk into a bar. You know there’s a joke in there, but you can’t find it. You’ve been mesmerized by the sight of Captain America with a mouthful of popcorn and a bulging beer belly. You’re pulled from your reverie when a 23-year-old Ash…
People made a stink about the walkouts during the Sundance premiere of music-video-and-advertising geniuses the Daniels’ first feature film, Swiss Army Man. It stars Daniel Radcliffe (Manny) as a farting, rotting corpse with superpowers and Paul Dano (Hank) as a sad-sack suicidal stalker trying to get home through a forest…
A wiener dog is the perfect mascot for Todd Solondz’s films. Dachshunds are ridiculous, funny without trying, but that zero-dignity waddle belies a much fiercer purpose: to hunt and kill small prey. Solondz’s body of work, stretching from coming-of-age cringefest Welcome to the Dollhouse to his newest, Wiener-Dog, has the…
Can Steven Spielberg do comedy? That seems like a dumb question, since nobody has done more to bring wit to the modern blockbuster; Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jaws boast as many laugh-out-loud moments as they do thrills. But those gags are often incidental, of the tension-breaking kind. When…
