For a play set in the 19th century, George Bernard Shaw’s Candida is frighteningly still relevant. Throughout his life, the Irish playwright and critic harbored allegiances to Marxism, gradualism, and eventually, Fabien Socialism. And in his writing career, Shaw often wrote versions of himself or interpretations of his ideals into…
Avant-garde filmmaker, writer, and poet Jonas Mekas has seen many things. He was at the wake of fellow poet Allen Ginsberg, he attended John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “bed-in,” and he was even at the Velvet Underground’s first public performance. But he has never been properly been introduced to Miami…
Anyone who knew Adam Levine, the University of Miami student not the celebrity, can tell you how infectious his smile and personality were. Although he passed away Friday night at Jackson Memorial Hospital after attending day one of Ultra Music Festival, his spirit lives on. Levine was a member of…
Miami is no stranger to high-priced luxuries. From fancy clubs to indulgent restaurants, many things in the Magic City require magic money. Thankfully, not everything comes with a price tag. There are plenty of budget-friendly things to do on any given day, like free movies, yoga classes, museums, jazz concerts,…
Ask weary WWE viewers to identify why the professional-wrestling titan’s creative direction has gone so stagnant and you’ll hear one answer time and again: lack of competition. It’s no coincidence that the company’s late-‘90s heyday ran concurrent with the rise of Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling, which at one point…
Street artist Joaquin Lamar Hailey, better known as Chor Boogie, has another personality: Love Man. The idea came to the San Diego-born artist two years ago while on a spiritual, medicinal journey in Gabon, Africa. He had been “back on the lesson,” he says, doing drugs and living a toxic…
Hialeah’s Palm Avenue is a busy, noisy street. But the roaring of Harley-Davidson motorcycles is a sound not normally heard outside a nursing home a few blocks away. This past February 2, something unusual shook up the people there. Six sleek motorbikes blazed through the city behind four police officers,…
Thunderous, ponderous and occasionally exciting, Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens with one of those grim proclamations that the creators of modern superhero movies are so fond of: “There was a time above, a time before,” intones the voice of Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), over a by-now…
Thursday, March 24 Few living creatives have a resumé rivaling that of Michele Oka Doner. With four decades’ worth of solo and group exhibitions, public commissions, awards and grants, lectures, and publications, the Miami-born artist has a long history of celebrating the beauty of different cities. From Radiant Site at…
The joke was on me when I first saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding back in 2002: I watched the film at a press screening that also happened to be attended by a large group of older female tourists. While I grimaced through the movie’s obvious gags and not-ready-for-prime-time direction,…
Located in a warehouse space at 2066 NE 155th St., Fit Shop looks more like an auto shop than a gym. But inside, an industrial space is filled with heavy weights, strong women, and really good music. Instead of fixing up cars, owners Adriane Abraham and Kaisa Kerwin focus on tuning up…
Easter isn’t your standard Cuban holiday. There’s no pig involved (gasp). Also, the bearded dude is a good guy (double-gasp). This second point is particularly confusing if you’re a child del Exilio. See, Jesus and Fidel both rock serious facial hair, and it was hard to tell the difference as a kid…
One of Miami’s longest running open mic nights has found a new home in Made at the Citadel. Some may remember the event as Stone Groove, which ran every Tuesday night for six years in downtown’s now defunct Vagabond. Since then, the event, hosted by local artist Marcus Blake, has…
When everything’s a game, it’s easier to forget the wrongdoing perpetrated during play. We see this in sports, but we also see it in war, young men and women coping with stress by envisioning their targets as the bad guys in a first-person shooter. In Pablo Trapero’s bleak but occasionally…
Miami is ruled by color. Coral-stained hibiscus flowers sprinkle the city’s pavement. Fuchsia sunsets fade over turquoise-hued homes. It’s like a rainbow melted across South Florida. But when Michele Oka Doner emerges from her sister’s Miami Beach glass-paneled home in a white silk tunic, her dove-gray hair pulled back into…
Because 2015’s When Marnie Was There looks to be Studio Ghibli’s final new film for the foreseeable future, it makes sense that the studio would circle back around to its beginnings. Isao Takahata’s 1991 Only Yesterday was not Ghibli’s first feature, however; it was preceded by Hayao Miyazaki’s 1986 Castle…
Here’s a minor miracle. From tiny Lighthouse Pictures, which specializes in Hallmark Channel originals with Christmas in the title, comes Bob Nelson’s The Confirmation, a bittersweet comedy about family, faith and a young boy saving up all his minor sins so he’ll have something to dish at confession. The surprise?…
Like the Juggernaut or St. Patrick’s Day drunks, nothing can stop the hundreds of hours of filmed superhero junk that hits our faceholes each year. But rest easy, true believer! Once in a while, the onslaught can still offer surprise and pleasure. A shiver of both hit me minutes into…
Take heart, Newsroom fans. If you were hankering for more scenes of Jeff Daniels standing around talking, you’ll find an unlikely ally in the new young-adult sci-fi sequel Allegiant, the third entry in the Divergent series based on Veronica Roth’s hit novels. Too bad the stuff he’s saying is so…
Prestige cable flatters us about the past. It lets us vacation in the backwardness of previous generations, usually while throwing some empathetic side-eye. Gape at Mad Men’s blithe white dudes, each convinced he earned every bit of authority he commands over women and minorities. Or thank Jezebel that we’ve evolved…
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, before the tourists arrived en masse, South Beach was a forgotten haven for artists, writers, and washed-up local characters. Poet Richard Blanco and artist Carlos Betancourt were two young Cuban-American gay men who met in that creative bustle. Their decades-long friendship and professional…
March has been a busy month, and last week proved the most eventful — from Ultra weekend and Winter Music Conference to March Madness to St. Patrick’s Day, there was something for everyone. Though, Miami’s chicest would not be found anywhere near a muddy outdoor stage in Bayfront Park, but…
