Most people would kill to host a show that lasts 23 years. Foulmouthed South Beach drag babe Shelley Novak, on the other hand, ain’t most people. “I’m excited to be doing it, but like any homosexual, when something gets around 23, 24, we start to lose interest in it,” Novak…
If there’s one animal that rules the internet, it’s the almighty cat. Felines are the undisputed champions of cyberspace — just ask Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub, or Hamilton the Hipster Cat. Their bank accounts prove the power of the purr. Now, South Florida felines can claim the catnip in the…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. On the music front, you can catch Fall Out Boy at Hard Rock Live, Cocodrills at Space, The Beach Boys at Hard Rock Live, and Michael Brun at LIV. On…
If you’ve wondered just why Hollywood now so aggressively courts Chinese viewers, look no further than The Mermaid. In just two weeks of release, Stephen Chow’s fantastical comedy has already brought in $430 million in its home country, making it China’s highest-grossing release ever. (It’s doing well here, too, having…
Dick Tracy is coming to town, and with him arrives one helluva party. This Saturday, the Olympia Theater will celebrate its 90th birthday with a 35mm showing of Warren Beatty’s classic 1990 film. “Dick Tracy is a film that borrows and blends lots of wonderful elements in telling its story:…
Jeff Quintana, co-founder of Miami’s Villain Theatre, woke up on a Central Park bench every morning for two weeks in the dead of New York City’s winter. It was 2009 and Quintana had just left Miami to pursue his love of comedy — a passion not readily supported in Miami. He…
The popular car service, Lyft, which launched in Miami in May 2014, announced today a new in-app shared ride option. Lyft Line allows users to split a ride with strangers going the same way for a discounted fare. The service acts much like Uber’s carpooling concept, UberPool. “Lyft Line matches passengers…
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…
Eighty-three years ago in 1933, a small horror movie about a large ape came into the world and stole our hearts. A poor, abnormally large ape named Kong falls in love with a teeny, tiny human woman and the whole film is his quest to posses her. King Kong was…
This year’s Melton Mustafa Jazz Festival is the most ambitious ever, with events spread out over four days beginning Thursday. The festival marks its 19th year with a move to Overtown’s historic Lyric Theater. In addition to the student workshops, competitions, and master classes it offers ever year, it now…
Artist John Miller is a slender man with long hair and stylish thick-framed glasses. He is very thorough and detaile d as he explains the artwork he’s created over the past 35 years on display as “I Stand, I Fall” at ICA Miami. This is the first solo museum exhibition…
Cody and Marcus Johns always knew they’d be entertainers. The South Florida natives were writing, filming, and acting in their own mini movies before the eldest brother was even 10. They would shoot the scenes sequentially on their dad’s Hi8 camera, and though they’d move on to higher production roles…
The evolution of 35mm showings in Miami has been fascinating and no one has brought it all out to the population better than Secret Celluloid Society. Nearly two years after Nayib Estefan launched the midnight movie revival with Shirley’s at Gramps, and a year after he made the move to…
This Thursday, Danilo Maldonado Machado, a Cuban visual and performance artist known as ‘El Sexto,’ will premiere “PORK”, a new exhibition at the Market Gallery on Alton Road in Miami Beach. He calls it a “raucous carnival for the mind, body and soul.” There will be new paintings, a surprise…
Thursday, February 25 You look stressed. You’ve been working too hard. You deserve a massage and a facial and a foot rub and some wine. What’s that? You don’t have the money for a spa day? That’s not true. Haven’t you heard about the Viceroy Hotel’s monthly Beauty and Besties…
For Italian photographer Tina Modotti, her place of artistic inspiration was Mexico. As an immigrant living in an unknown city, Modotti was struck my the cultural roots alive within the country in the first-half of the 20th century. She was so enthralled, the photographer continued to work in Mexico City…
Esti Chazanow is a busy woman. Based out of Miami, Chazanow is the co-founder and brand manager for LIV, a Swiss watch company. Though the brand has no problem selling their watches, their most recent accomplishment is pretty impressive. In order to raise funds for a new design, Chazanow turned to…
Bad cop movies — whether bad movies about cops or movies about bad cops — can be like those Arctic core samples from which scientists determine long-gone CO2 levels, though in this case they’re measuring American anxiety about police authority. Pop on John Hillcoat’s agonized pulp thriller Triple 9 in…
In the Winter Olympics, ski jumping is one of those sports — bobsledding and luging are others — where Joe and Jane Satellite Dish cannot tell the difference between a great performance and a terrible one unless the athlete is carried away on a stretcher. No doubt there are crucial…
When your favorite television show calls it quits, the struggle is real. That particular night of the week that was once filled with joy, now feels empty without it. It’s akin to someone breaking up with you. You lost the love of your life, and you wish you could just…
Out of all the tributes to David Bowie after his passing on January 10, lead singer Ian Astbury of The Cult probably said it best, “The sky fell.” After all, the musician even had a constellation named after him. However, Markus Klinko, the photographer who shot the sessions that illustrate Bowie’s 2003…
The annual Model Beach Volleyball Tournament went down on Miami Beach this past weekend, February 20 through 21. For the seventh year in a row, beautiful people donned bathing suits and battled competing talent agencies. We’re not sure who won, and really, we don’t know who would care. The real…
