South Florida’s community of local artists, collectors, gallery owners, and art fans goes into a state of hibernation during the summer, quietly awaiting the upcoming season. While they lie in wait, many begin plotting and predicting the next big trends. Last year saw big moves in figurative painting; a renewed…
Every year, New Times spends countless hours treading through all sorts of paths to find the best our city has to offer. We’ve narrowed down Miami’s most noteworthy places, people, and things, from hidden gems in strip malls to glowing establishments in plain sight. The 29th edition of our annual…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Turn of the Century Concert at Coral Gables Museum: Enjoy an evening of music as the 1900’s come to life inside at the Coral Gables Museum. Free Tour at Adrienne Arsht Center: Walk…
The advice we get when we are particularly disgusted by a politician is to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. But wouldn’t it be nice if instead of having to choose between a billionaire narcissist or a two-faced phony, there could be a candidate who…
In 1942, jeweler Emiliano Suarez founded a shop in Bilbao, Spain, that would be the first of many. The Suarez name went on to become one of the biggest fashion houses in Europe. More than 60 years later — and plenty of generations down the line — Emiliano’s family created…
If you haven’t gotten around to checking out Jenny Holzer’s Inflammatory Essays at the Pérez Art Museum, you’ll want to pencil that in before the installation comes down on Friday, June 17. First wheat-pasted onto buildings in Manhattan between 1979 and 1982, Holzer’s essays made their way from the streets…
Every year, New Times spends countless hours and countless months treading through all sorts of paths in order to find the best our city has to offer. From hidden gems in strip malls to glowing establishments in plain sight, we’ve narrowed down the most noteworthy places, people, and things in Miami. …
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. It’s three days of a festive cacophony of music, art, and frosty libations. This Saturday, Wynwood’s monthly art walk is back, bringing together galleries, food trucks, and live entertainment through…
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…
Chances are, if you look out your window while reading this, the sky is gray and ugly. Clouds are gathering and your drive home tonight might be made more exciting with some rain droplets falling on your windshield. It’s hurricane season in Miami, and with that comes plenty of unwanted rain,…
Everyone from Kim Kardashian to DJ Khaled and probably your own abuelita has used the Miami geo filter on Snapchat. The letters drawn in the form of a vintage postcard individually represent the Magic City in all of its glory. Each letter is colored in pink and white, and within…
A Coral Gables church’s annual summer treat for music lovers begins with a performance by one of America’s favorite TV musicians. Doc Severinsen, who led The Tonight Show band for 25 years when Johnny Carson hosted the program, stars Thursday at the Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ. The…
With not one, but two festival showcases on the horizon, Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival is announcing their call for entries this month. Submissions are officially open for filmmakers to send in their work for Official Selection in its 34th annual season. Works will be considered for both the…
Thursday, June 9 Drink for a cause at the National Alopecia Areata Foundation’s Art Uncorked, where guests can enjoy a philanthropic evening of vino and art. At Bottle & Bottega (2765 SW 27th Ave., Miami), sommelier Jacqueline Coleman will lead a winetasting, followed by a painting session guided by a…
Orenthal James Simpson always seemed a singular figure. Hardly anybody got where he got or did what he did. Certainly nobody got away with it. But of course it isn’t just the man who fascinates: It’s the image. This he shares in common with every super-grandee and megastar, every tabloid…
It must have been a grand celebration when the Coconut Grove Theater first opened. In 1927, most buildings in the area didn’t have electricity, let alone air conditioning. The three-story baby-blue building, with its Mediterranean columns and lush proscenium archway, was a shining example of architect Richard Kiehnel’s celebrated designs…
In the 1960s, Tiffany Madera’s parents fled Cuba during the revolution. Like many other refugees, they landed in Miami and started a family. Madera and her bother were born in Miami and grew up in Coconut Grove. But when she was a young child, her family returned to Cuba to…
Asif Farooq leans over the after-burning turbine engine inside the Cold War-era combat jet he’s building in his Doral studio and gives the roller-bearing assemblage a spin. “There’s roughly about a hundred synchronized moving parts,” Farooq says as the assembly spools up in a whispering whir. “The parts include hubs,…
With the perfect timing of a deadpan comic and the keen observational skills of a zoologist, Athina Rachel Tsangari highlights just how bizarre the most banal of human activities can be. In Attenberg (2010), the filmmaker’s previous feature, walking itself is presented as a deranged means by which to move…
Back in 2013, James Wan’s The Conjuring represented the high point of a wave of mainstream horror that showed there was still value in old-school scares — that there was life beyond torture porn and slick slasher reboots. It was a ghost story-turned-possession thriller that mined terror out of the…
In 2001 a friend, a grown-up, saw The Fellowship of the Ring more than a dozen time in the theater. Sometimes she’d leave with a half hour left. “I just needed to get to Galadriel and Lothlorien,” she told me. She didn’t need all the climactic fighting. In 2012 I…
Fashionistas, designers, models, and everyone in the biz came out to the Magic City this weekend while Miami Fashion Week (MFW) was in full swing. The star-studded extravaganza featured a red-carpet entrance, a new ambassador, and a new owner. Antonio Banderas took over as the honorary president this year, and it turns…
