Stanley Kubrick once sent his friend John le Carré a letter about why he couldn’t adapt one of the author’s books. “Essentially,” he wrote, “how do you tell a story it took the author 165,000 (my guess) good and necessary words to tell, with 12,000 words (about the number of…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Instrumental Magic II Album Release Party at Ball & Chain: Jam out to Instrumental Magic II while benefitting the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind. Jazz Jam at Churchill’s: Get jazzy at Churchill’s…
Leave it to Mitchell Kaplan, the godfather of Miami’s bookselling scene, to keep bringing literary innovation to South Florida more than three decades after opening his first store. Kaplan’s newest venture — a books-meets-bikes-meets-art shop — has popped up in Miami’s most colorfully dressed neighborhood: Wynwood. The concept, which sits…
The best things in life are free — especially lavish fireworks displays scattered around Miami sans a price tag. Celebrate America’s big day in your flashiest red, white, and blue outfits at a free Independence Day soiree around the 305. Have your pick of prime (and perfectly priced) vantage points,…
According to IMDb, Jaume Collet-Serra’s over-before-you-know-it The Shallows runs for one hour and 27 minutes — a number that produces a reaction something like when an NBA roster lists a short-looking player at five-foot-nine and you marvel, Really? Nate Robinson is that tall? The shark thriller has only three or…
Miami and Detroit may not appear to have much in common superficially. Dig a little deeper, though, and the two disparate cities share more than a few characteristics — unique cultures, impressive comebacks, and Shinola. The brand, famous for its American-made watches, bicycles, journals, and other goods, is headquartered in…
Never mind board rooms. Sometimes a backyard barbecue is the best place to think up a business idea. Lubricated by good food and drinks, Alex Fernandez and Maurizio Festa began chatting one day about the rise of virtual reality, an industry projected to rake in its first annual billion dollars…
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 Anime:…
It may still be a stretch to call Miami the artsiest city in the United States (as some news outlets have proclaimed). But the Magic City is no longer that sleepy provincial town, even in the summer. And artist and chief curator of Edge Zones’ Miami Performance International Festival (M/P16),…
When Doug Blush was growing up in Detroit in the late ‘70s, there wasn’t a lot of movie-making going on there. “I was fascinated with films,” he says, naming Star Wars as a particularly inspiring flick. But, he laments, “they seemed so far away and impossible to be a part of.”…
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…
Summer means longer days, shorter nights, and another excuse to get yourself off the couch and into South Florida’s miles of open waters. Because one of the 305’s favorite pastimes is hanging oceanside, an afternoon on the sand is often accompanied by cold beer, floaties, and thumping tunes. WPBT2’s Changing…
Thursday, June 23 It’s one thing to see an artist’s work behind a glass display case, from the other side of the velvet rope, or mounted on a wall. But it’s another to hear that artist talk about that work in person, to hear the mastermind speak about the inspirations…
It’s only been one week since the tragic event that took place last weekend in Orlando at Pulse nightclub. The massacre of 49 individuals at a gay night club is a direct attack on the LGBTQ community, and in response, the community has banded together. While many fundraising events went…
Has Paul Rudd become Hollywood’s idea of the face of economic insecurity? There his handsome mug was, in Ant-Man, beneath a Baskin-Robbins ball cap, his character making do behind an ice-cream counter while Marvel made bank in promotional tie-ins. And now, in The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett’s alternately winning/cloying…
Woodrow Wilson described D.W. Griffith’s notorious Civil War epic Birth of a Nation as “writing history with lightning.” Gary Ross’ Free State of Jones, which covers roughly the same period as Griffith’s film, is more like writing history with index cards. Diligent and informative but also fragmented and inert, it…
Summer kicked off yesterday, June 20, although it feels like the season never really left. Despite scorching temperatures and frequent rainstorms, Miami offers a bevy of summertime activities to look forward to. From art walks in Wynwood and fresh markets in downtown to endless miles of coastline and a smattering…
Miami doesn’t have much of a literary reputation. Despite the town’s rich cultural diversity and ideal setting, few big-name local writers have emerged from South Florida. VONA is an organization looking to change that. Founded in 1999 by Junot Diaz, Elmaz Abinader, and Diem Jones, VONA gives a voice to…
A blue thicket of braided, industrial nylon rope winds through the four-story atrium gallery at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) in the Design District. A foot wide at one end, the rope narrows and wraps around the museum’s white support beams and columns like a giant cobra. By…
Watching first-time feature director Ben Chace’s Sin Alas is like a stroll through the streets of Havana. You weave through crowds in a pedicab, hang out on street corners to hear the latest gossip and meander on the majestic Malecón, the historic esplanade on the city’s coastline. But it’s not…
In cinema, all things move towards acceptance. In time, debates about filmmakers usually settle in favor of the filmmaker — not because detractors change their minds, but because the urgency of the conflict wanes, and stalemates go to the fans. It’s hard to believe that battle lines were once drawn…
In Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, emotion becomes motion and psychology becomes space. It’s a coming-of-age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them. The Fits follows Toni (Royalty Hightower), an 11-year-old tomboy…
