In the land of eternal summer, winter weight gain isn’t an option. Miamians are expected to keep their fit physiques year round — hence why this city is the perfect place for Wodapalooza. The three-day Miami fitness festival draws some of the world’s top athletes, and it’s coming to town this…
The Miami Jewish Film Festival is back in town everybody and with it comes a solid selection and variety of movies to explore. But with so many films and so many places to see ‘em, it’s tough to choose exactly which ones to hit up. And that’s why we’ve made…
The Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival is summoning the fantastic to the Magic City this weekend. The festival is only in its third year, but it has doubled in size, adding workshops and lectures to the already packed onslaught of short and feature film screenings. Over 30 independent films…
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…
The embargo the United States placed on Cuba for more than half a century comes with a cultural caveat. For years, the Communist island banned all propaganda that emanated from the West. On the other coast, the U.S. shunned artists who supported the regime and propped up the work of…
MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles is gorgeous and lunkheaded, gory and hilarious, sometimes awful and sometimes full of awe. It’s also quite welcome: Just as Terry Brooks tore the pompousness out of Tolkien with his pulpy, brick-thick Shannara novels, the series – executive produced by Jon Favreau – shows your Game…
The other night I was watching the sometimes painfully bad 1998 horror film, The Faculty. I remember really liking that movie in high school and I’m not sure why. It is basically a modern version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, both plot-wise and if a boring, poorly written alien…
When we were kids, we all loved to draw, but somewhere along the way, most of us decided we weren’t artists anymore. Mariana Rego of business consulting group Design Think Miami says that’s all hogwash. “I’m not an artist by any means,” she says. “I’m a trained engineer, but for…
Last Saturday, the Beehive Collective, a Maine-based nonprofit that uses art to communicate stories of resistance against corporate globalization, traveled to Miami for the Pollinating Rios Vivos Tour. The tour is a joint project with Movimiento Rios Vivos, a national movement in Colombia that brings together regional and local organizations from…
Seated in the center of a long couch in a meeting room at the Mandarin Oriental, Olivia Munn leans back and lets her body fall into the plush cushion. She looks relaxed and comfortable — two things actors rarely appear after a long day of press. Wearing a formfitting blood-orange…
Thursday, January 14 Known for creating immersive, living picture installations, Israeli-based Dina Shenhav uses soft materials such as ash and foam to sculpt powerful scenes of domestic and urban life and destruction. Exploring the complex origins of traditional markers of masculinity, Shenhav’s exhibit “D.O.A. (Dead on Arrival),” whose title is…
A show of hands, how many of you have resolved to be healthier or lose weight in 2016? According to Nielsen reports, most of you are sheepishly raising a finger behind your desk right now. In 2015, the survey found “staying fit and healthy” to be the top resolution at…
The conversation about female filmmakers rarely being highlighted in the festival scene isn’t ending anytime soon. Slowly but surely, organizers are trying to widen the lens and include more women. The Miami International Film Festival is joining the conversation and announced today their new partnership with Google on a seminar…
Calling all local artists, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, and wordsmiths! Have you submitted to the New Times’ annual Mastermind Awards yet? Deadline is fast approaching with only one week left to submit. Every year, we offer monetary grants (of $1,000) to three winners and well-deserved exposure to creatives across Miami. Last year, New Times…
In one of the most hilarious gallery shifts of the new year, recently relocated Guccivuitton has changed their name to Versace Versace Versace. Besides the obvious play on Migos’ 2013 trap club banger, the new name marks a new era for one of the most inscrutable galleries on the local…
Michel Hausmann and Moises Kaufman could have inaugurated their new theater company with a humble play — a two-character piece with a single set, for instance. But The Golem of Havana, opening this weekend at the area’s newest theater company, Miami New Drama, is decidedly not humble. It’s an ambitious,…
“It is no longer enough for us to just give access to Jewish-interest films. What is at stake for us now is to present the best of world cinema that has a cultural insight and value,” Igor Shteyrenberg, director of the Miami Jewish Film Festival, says boldly. Leading the festival…
A dry-rubbed lark from the often harrowing ultra-realist territories of the Romanian New Wave, The Treasure is about almost nothing — a shaggy-dog daydream as flyaway as its protagonists’ thoughts of instant wealth. Director Corneliu Porumboiu, whose 2006 12:08 East of Bucharest may still…
If you buy into reductive ideas about generations, The Benefactor — Andrew Renzi’s creepy, stately drama of guilt and charity — gains much suggestive resonance. Here’s Richard Gere, that silvery ur-boomer, the American Gigolo now adrift as the depressive who owns the world but prefers not to be out in…
“Tab was a good movie star,” says John Waters near the beginning of the sprightly new documentary Tab Hunter Confidential. When I ask Hunter himself, on the phone from California, if he thinks he was a good movie star, he’s reluctant to share his friend’s enthusiasm. “I don’t know,” he…
Charlie Kaufman is a cartographer of the soul. You can picture him hunched over parchment accurately inking each dark river and, off to the side, cautioning that there be dragons. What makes Kaufman cinema’s best psychoanalyst is a contradiction. He sees people for who we are — hurtful, hopeful, lovely,…
A sure-bet time-waster with a clutch of big laughs? A 100-minute brief on Hollywood’s lack of imagination? Grist for future essays about how quickly the idea of Ice “Fuck tha Police” Cube playing a gun-happy hero cop became routine? Whatever you make of Ride Along 2 beforehand is certain to…
