I grew up going to art walk in the mid 2000s when Gallery Diet and David Castillo Gallery had just opened in Wynwood. Elite art aficionados and kids looking for free wine lurked inside while the local community remained outside. It was a quiet gentrification at first. Since then, neither the…
Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union live an intensely public life that is about to get even more public. The Miami power couple will host and star in a new HGTV series centered around their love of flipping houses. While air dates have yet to be released, what we do know…
After 34 years of creating modern dance in Miami, Momentum Dance Company’s artistic director and founder, Delma Iles, shows no sign of slowing. The company celebrates its anniversary this week at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre with two performances featuring three new dance works from Iles herself. Leading Momentum Dance has…
When author Edwidge Danticat was two years old, her father, André, left Duvalier’s Haiti and moved to New York City. Danticat remained in Bel Air with her uncle Joseph. Ten years later, she joined her father in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Danticat eventually became a writer and moved to Miami’s Little Haiti…
To say that the local organization Comic Cure cares is an understatement. Over the last year or so, the group has made important progress across South Florida, supporting both local comics and the community at large. Founded by brothers Benjamin and Richy Leis, Comic Cure organizes events year round, with…
Louis Salgar was murdered two years ago by a stranger in his own home. He was beloved throughout Miami as a punk musician, bartender, brother, and son. Unbeknownst to most, Salgar was also a photographer. This week, his lesser-known craft will be exhibited at Miami Dade College’s 24th Annual Arts…
Thursday, March 31 We are faced with more and more garbage piling up around us by the minute. Future generations will be tasked with figuring out what to do with all the soda bottles, broken iPhone chargers, and Keurig pods their predecessors once found so necessary. Luckily, places like Florida…
The classic earworm jingle “The Fair, be there! It’s all there! The Fair!” is back. It buzzes on the radio during our daily commute and seeps into your subconscious until you wake up Saturday morning with an urge to go to the Youth Fair. This year, the event organized by…
Death is inextricably linked with fear — fear of the unknown, fear of loss, the question of when and how. It can’t be said for certain what will happen, but death is inevitable. In Flowers for Spring, a new work performed by Alma Dance Theater director, Marissa Alma Nick offers…
In a poetry class, Liberty City third-grader Jane wrote this seemingly simple haiku: I am walking and my hair swinging. “You can tell she’s thinking all the time,” her poetry teacher and creator of the poetry project Sunroom, Laurel Nakanishi, says of her student. “I got this whole view into…
Drone warfare is a moral grey area, and this movie is on it. Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky stands alongside Drones and Good Kill as the cinematic equivalent of online commenters shouting “First!” on on a hot topic but not bothering to say anything new or insightful about it…
Willful ignorance as a character trait typically evokes annoyance in those who witness it – at least in real life. In many French films, however, a character who’s willfully ignorant is portrayed in the twee manner, encouraging us to believe it is their blissful view of the world we should…
In Arnaud Desplechin’s My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument, intimate relations with Marion Cotillard lead one character to a spiritual awakening. Later, protagonist Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) declaims on what he considers “the one pleasure” that will never go away in life: “the surprise when I…
Have you ever considered the fact that, in 1951, Hank Williams actually wrote “Hey Good Lookin'”? That, for the first 175 years years of American history, those words and that melody weren’t already part of our shared heritage? Williams didn’t just pluck it out of the air, of course. Cole…
A day at the beach is all fun and games until all of your stuff gets stolen. That’s what happened to college friends Avin Samtani, Jonathan Kinas, and Rob Peck during a vacation in South Beach three years ago. “We won’t name the hotel where it happened, but let’s just say they…
A mid-life career shift can prove daunting to most people. Yet, for Chicago-based artist Paula Crown, the move from Wall Street tycoon to art world denizen was a snap. After serving as VP of finance for Salomon Brothers and transferring to a smaller firm in Chicago, Crown decided to indulge…
Happy Monday, Miami. Now that all the Easter warm fuzzies and family time are behind us, it’s time to get back to the daily grind. Luckily we’ve got a week full of free music, movies, karaoke, and more to tide you over until the weekend returns. Monday Silvia Betti at…
Aventura Mall has everything: An Apple store, a massive H&M, a Tiffany & Co. — the list goes on. And now, the luxury shopping destination is getting something even more impressive. Just in time for the Miami Open happening this week and next, Lacoste is bringing a nearly full-scale tennis…
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…
This weekend, protest organization Occupy Miami (a branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York) will host the inaugural Radical Film Festival. The two-day cinematic celebration of resistance aims to inform and inspire. Screening will be six topical films selected by local organizations, including Black Lives Matter Miami, Dream…
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. End the weekend with an Easter brunch at one of many Miami eateries offering eggs, pastries, and other delectables…
Brazil’s Companhia Urbana de Dança returns to Miami this weekend with their critically acclaimed fusion of hip hop, capoeira, and contemporary dance. Presented by FUNDarte and the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, the performance will feature two of the company’s signature dance works, NÊGO (I. You. We. All Black) and Chapa Quente…
