In 1992, “Weird Al” Yankovic released the single “You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” a song about a homicidal ex-girlfriend and a dope who isn’t sure if the relationship is over despite her repeated attempts to kill him, at one point cutting his brakes and later pushing him down an elevator…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Miami Jazz Jam at Churchill’s: Dance away the Monday blues at Churchill’s weekly jazz jam. Yoga at Bayfront Park: Grab a mat and namaste your way through another start of the…
Miami New Times has an immediate opening for a full-time arts and culture editor. We’re looking for an experienced arts journalist with exceptional writing, editing, and management skills who can meet the daily challenges of our rapidly expanding online content while supporting high-quality print work. The ideal candidate will be…
Actors Stephen Amell and Megan Fox are no strangers to the spotlight. One plays a superhero behind a mask on the CW’s Arrow, and another got her start being the go-to hot girl for director Michael Bay. The crime-fighter and the hot chic pair up for this summer’s Teenage Mutant…
There’s something satisfying about hearing Tyler Perry, as mad scientist Baxter Stockman, say the words “Eliminate those turtles,” but it’s not quite novel enough to bring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows up to street level and out of the sewers. Early on, giant squid-like brain Krang (Brad…
Cabaret may have reached its height in popularity in the early 20th century, but it’s making a comeback. The Faena Theater in Miami Beach opens C’est Rouge!, a new fantastical late-night show, this weekend. With the subtle decline of nightclubs in SoBe (Mansion nightclub went under just last year), locals are heading…
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, Trick Daddy will return home for a show at a venue that has become as…
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…
June is an exciting time for people who love movies because it’s Miami Film Month. All throughout the next four weeks, the art cinema scene will be offering $8 tickets (so you’ve got a good excuse to check out both moderns and classics). This includes all of O Cinema’s locations,…
June is Miami Film Month, highlighting the city’s growing place in the world of cinema. The festival, now i n its third year, gives both visitors and locals a good reason try something new. Many organizations will be hosting special events including discounted or free film screenings. The Pérez Art…
If mid-century pulp and noir gave us the cynical, quippy hardboiled detective, then Peak TV has given birth to its successor: the charbroiled cop, a bitter, corrupt, philandering, violent, addicted, nihilistic or just psychotic contemporary crime fighter. The supposed irony of this figure is that he (almost always a he)…
Facades in Wynwood are typically covered in so much color, it’s hard to discern what the original foundation was. Yet, on the corner of Northwest Fifth Avenue and 26 Street, there sits a white storefront with only large, black letters indicating what’s inside. Books + Books + Bikes + Lebo,…
Thursday, June 2 Talking about food is big business — just ask anyone at Food Network. Listening to superstar chefs discuss their newest dishes is a popular pastime for the world’s foodies. But there’s just one problem with watching food on TV: You don’t get to eat any of it…
Film died and nobody cared. It was a deliberate, efficient, cancerous sort of death. George Lucas planted the first tumor in 2002 when he shot Star Wars: Episode II digitally, but the disease didn’t begin to infect the more than 39,000 cinemas in the United States until 2010. The digital…
Art is synonymous with Wynwood. As you walk the neighborhood streets and gaze at the walls, color explodes everywhere. International and local artists use building façades as their canvas. But while you’re busy focusing on what’s at eye level, you might miss a whole other world of public art: what’s…
Can anyone remember the days before ride-sharing was a thing and the word “Uber” went from being a proper noun to a verb? Yeah, neither can we. It has been two years since the alternative to taxis was introduced in the Magic City. This Friday, the company will celebrate both…
“Did I want to shoot comedies?” asks Brandon Trost, director of photography on two of this summer’s funniest films, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. “It’s funny — not at all.” But then came MacGruber, Jorma Taccone’s 2010 SNL film.“The director wanted me because I wasn’t…
It’s a feat to out-idiot TMZ culture. In achieving that, the fake-doc white-rapper satire Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a breakthrough for studio comedies, which here at last catch up to the metabolism and meaninglessness of the internet age. In its generous, frenetic first hour, Popstar’s jokes and parodies…
Everyone has an opinion about the current state of American politics and the upcoming presidential election. Candidates and party leaders almost seem like caricatures of themselves, so it’s no wonder so many observers sit stunned. In the midst of this circus, some of us have given up and others are…
Hialeah is coming up in the world. That much has been obvious for a while. The neighborhood’s cultural and artistic gains have led to increased attention and respect. Tired, cliched stereotypes about the South Florida city are on the way out. In honor of the one year anniversary launch of…
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos came to national attention for his 2009 film Dogtooth, a dark family drama whose odd tendencies are hardly explained until the film’s end. It earned him a foreign language Oscar nomination. Normally, Hollywood comes calling to such directors, but Lanthimos has more interest in creative freedom…
Not much has been heard from Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan since it won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, beating out pictures like Todd Haynes’ Carol, László Nemes’ Son of Saul and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin. But going into this understated film cold isn’t a bad way to…
