The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. It’s three days of festive cacophony of music, art, and frosty tropical libations. Make sure to stop by Wynwood Life this weekend, where more than ten blocks in the heart…
Who knew lawyers could be funny? Especially with a creative sense of humor. Justin Wales, a First Amendment lawyer with the firm Carlton Fields, is one of those local guys who passionately cares about his community. Aside from his main gig (he was part of the team who recently won…
Miami is in desperate need of a wake up call when it comes to climate change. In order to engage the public and educate more people, there’s Climakaze Miami. The weekend-long festival of arts and awareness takes place April 22-24 and is produced by FUNdarte and Miami-Dade County Auditorium. In its…
In 2009 during Art Basel Miami Beach, Natalie Meruelo’s grandmother brought together a handful of rising Latin American artists and dubbed the makers’ fair NOBE67 Art. Three years ago, in 2013, Meruelo herself redesigned the concept, dropping “Art” from the name and making it more fashion-focused. This Friday, the pop-up…
Jonathan Pine, the hero of The Night Manager, might have a syrupy voice and skin tanned to a glowing bronze, but in other respects he’s a classic John le Carré creation. Pine (Tom Hiddleston) makes his living unshowily and in the dark, at a swank hotel, juggling front-desk phone calls,…
Just in time for Earth Day, a buoyant lab is officially on the surface of Biscayne Bay at Museum Park. Everyone is welcome aboard. The Miami Science Barge, which has been in the works since early 2015, is a floating classroom and ecological experience designed to help support a more sustainable…
The time has finally come. Game of Thrones season six premieres this Sunday and we literally can’t even. We are without the ability to deal. We are so delirious it has us fantasizing and contemplating what Westeros would be like in an alternate universe. One where HBO decided to cast a bunch…
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…
Each year, the Knight Foundation accepts applications for their Knight Arts Challenge, which awards thousands of dollars to the best idea that seeks to transform the community through art. Here, a former winner offers insight from her experience and provides tips for those interested in applying this year. Ideas are…
Elvis Presley once watched Dr. Strangelove three times in one night at a Memphis movie theater. After that, he made them play the last reel several more times, marveling at it. It’s fascinating to wonder about: Here’s this country’s biggest musical star, the leading man in movies he knew were…
Don’t hold it against Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram for the King that its best scene is also its first. As Alan Clay (Tom Hanks) strides down a suburban street singing a modified version of Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” (“You may find yourself … without a beautiful house ……
It’s time for every cinephile who wants a heavy dose of queer cinema in their lives to get excited: The MiFo (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) LGBT Film Festival is hitting the city this month. Formerly the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) is now split into two editions — one here…
Hey, yo. It’s 4/20. Know what that means? It means a whole day celebrating the gloriousness that is weed. And part of that celebrating includes three things: smoking, eating, and watching movies. Every year, you’ll see lists that tell you what the best movies to watch while high. Those will…
Thursday, April 21 Last week, I celebrated my friend’s birthday at a gorgeous South Beach hotel pool. We sipped cocktails while wading in the warm water, and everything was perfect — until a pack of wild children seemed to follow us as they played Marco Polo and splashed one another…
Each act in Mountains May Depart, Zhangke Jia’s latest disquisition on China in the 21st Century, takes place in a different time period with a steadily escalating aspect ratio: 1999 in 1.33:1, 2014 in 1.85:1, and 2025 in 2.35:1. As time moves forward, the possibilities expand in kind, with the…
Careful what you wish for. When it was announced that Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt would be joining Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth for the followup to 2012’s humdrum action/fairy tale Snow White and the Huntsman, many filmgoers, myself included, got unduly excited. The original film, while a hit, had…
North Miami-born-and-raised writer/director Kelly Reichardt is a well-respected indie filmmaker. More than 20 years after she debuted her first film at Sundance Film Festival in 1994, River of Grass has been restored and re-released. For three nights only, it will screen at the Miami Beach Cinematheque beginning Wednesday, April 20. The…
Let’s be real — Miami is ridiculously expensive. The city’s median condo rent is the eighth-highest in the nation, ringing in around $1,900 a month. Luxury cars, fancy restaurants and clubs, and high-priced designer shops are frequent sights for a local. But for better or worse, many of us don’t…
The world is filled with long-winded storytellers and boring status updates about babies and dinner. Unless you’re Keith Richards, Ozzy Osbourne, Richard Branson, or some other filthy-rich British person, there’s a good chance your life is pretty mundane. Still, there are the rare few who can take a seemingly unexceptional…
The dingy spot where a Wendy’s restaurant once stood on NE 62nd Street in Little Haiti will soon be transformed into a pearlescent, polychromatic iron mountain range shimmering with warm, tropical chartreuse, indigo, and fuchsia. Across Second Avenue, a $2.5 million cultural arts center with studio and exhibition space, a…
The musician biopic might be stale and stupid as a genre, but it will endure. Each new one offers the possibility of the wondrous thing that made Hollywood into Hollywood: presence. You can guess from the trailers that I Saw the Light might be a botch job as drama, but…
Deep into her earnest, uncertain Nina Simone drama Nina, writer-director Cynthia Mort at last musters up a sequence of gravity and power. The inimitable Miss Simone — imitated here by Zoe Saldana — reads a letter from a woman who has recently lost her mother, a great Simone fan. It’s…
