Tim Chapman searches for crabs from a 1981 Boston Whaler he docks outside the home he built himself on Big Torch Key, where he’s been living since he retired from the Miami Herald in 2012. But during a 40-year career as a photojournalist, he pursued stories: The Jonestown massacre, Cocaine…
Here’s about as convincing an argument as I can imagine for the existence of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Disney and Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book reinvigorates an oft-told tale with star power, technology and calculated charm. It’s been billed as a live-action remake (it’s too good to be called a…
This past Monday afternoon, Daily News 11 published an article titled “Jim Carrey Explains Why He’s Moving to Hialeah, Florida.” In it, the website goes on to quote the actor as saying, “I’m just tired of the L.A. lifestyle and the fake people… I’ve been to Hialeah a few times over the years…
A fired that started over the weekend has burned down the Monroe Station by the Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, FL. The outpost was part of the Tamiami Trail, a 275 mile stretch that connects Miami to Tampa. Out of the six original outposts constructed in the 1920s, the…
In the early 2000s, Randy Harrison starred in one of the most addictive, engaging, and subversive comi-dramas on American television. Eleven years after Showtime’s Queer as Folk ended, the actor is back to revealing the lives of complex individuals and complicated ideals. This time, however, he’s onstage. And singing. And wearing very, very…
Born and raised in Miami, actress Suki Lopez, age 26, has only ever known diversity and inclusion. Only hen she first moved away from home around four years ago did she start to experience life outside a sheltered bubble. She lived briefly in Los Angeles before settling in New York…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, including underground music hangouts, poetry celebrations, comedy, movies under the stars, and Big Night in Little Haiti. The best part? It’s all free. Monday Murk Mondays at Coyo: Head to the Wynwood taqueria’s hidden bar for underground house music, tacos, and…
Here’s a question faced by the creators of almost every superhero adaptation: How do do you pull this off without copying Frank Miller’s Batman? Too many modern superhero dramas — including the Dark Knight films, Arrow, Daredevil and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — either ape the dour realism…
Love them or hate them, poetry slams are a thing. These are competitions where writers shout their poems at an audience, and judges determine a winner based on arbitrary criteria. It is a slow death for most admirers of the art form. Mercifully, Piano Slam is nothing like that (despite…
In the 1970s, Lee Smith remembers spending his weekends on the sand. Instead of a smartphone, he carried a film camera, snapping scenes of his friends enjoying life’s most primitive gifts — sunny days and warm waters. “This was before Facebook and everything,” the photographer says. “This is how we talked…
One day in 1994, residents of Little Havana and Downtown Miami heard a loud boom. It wasn’t a hurricane or a riot or anything dangerous. It was Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing some shit up with a big-ass, fake Harrier Jump Jet. True Lies, the action comedy about a secret agent that…
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 check out Ocean Drive this weekend for the annual Miami Beach Gay Pride Festival…
In Jeff Nichols’ gripping domestic thriller Take Shelter, Michael Shannon played a family man convinced that Armageddon was upon us. But even as the character’s visions compelled him to take more and more extreme precautions, the film remained fixed in the world of the real. It was a portrait of…
Clowning, bullet-riddled rom-com Mr. Right is awfully charming in the best and worse sense of the phrase. It’s often kind of awful but also weirdly, effervescently charming, a movie that salves, with its stars’ radiance and charisma, even as it grates. What hurts: lots of vaguely comic hitman drama, with…
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…
As a boy growing up in Havana in the 1960s, Gustavo Acosta loved attending matinees at the neighborhood cinema and rushing home to illustrate what he had just seen. “Back then, the city was dotted with dozens of movie houses — like the Teatro Cervantes and Teatro Actualidad — where…
Summer’s nearing, and that means some epic pool parties are probably already being planned. So what’s trending this year? Well, other than the first-ever champagne machine gun, expect to see luxury pool floats. You know, like the swan rafts seen at Taylor Swift’s Fourth of July party or in Selena…
It’s been almost five months since Uber launched UberPOOL in Miami, the carpool version of their original service that connects riders traveling along the same routes in an effort to save them money. As expected, the results have been interesting. After all, it’s one thing to ride with a group…
Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 high school stoner classic Dazed and Confused, but in some key ways it feels closer to his animated 2001 philosophy bull session Waking Life — a freewheeling grab bag of ideas, ruminations and loose ends…
“In my act, for a long time, I used to say that Copenhagen was considered the nicest place in the world to live and it’s a Socialist country,” says comedian Lewis Black. “It gets a certain kind of backlash with Facebook crap and stuff, I mean nothing major, but just enough…
The term “slut” is loaded with meaning. It’s a word that’s been used for decades to label women in the most demeaning way imaginable. Before the word made its way into the lexicon, other phrases stood in its place: harlot, sinner, jezebel, whore, fornicator — and so on. There’s a long-standing…
In most cities, gay pride parades have a long history tied to decades of activism and celebration. In Miami, locals have been marching on Ocean Drive only since 2009. Although the procession is a recently adopted South Florida tradition, the gay community has always been an active part of the…
