YoungArts Finalists Reimagine Your Favorite Songs Into Classical Music

Initially, the classical music concert held at New World Center on Thursday during YoungArts Week felt a little bit like the most elegant high school recital ever conceived. However, very quickly it became clear that this was no ordinary performance and these were, in fact, extraordinary teenagers. Every year, thousands…

Classic Films Showing in Miami in January

Welcome to 2016, everybody! And with the beginning of any New Year comes two things: a bunch of awards movies flooding theaters, and just as many awful early-year releases polluting the multiplexes. Instead, why not go the safe (and likely, a whole lot more entertaining) route? You know it: classic…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

The best time of the week is finally here: the weekend. Miami offers just about every activity this weekend. On the music front, you can catch John Digweed at Heart Nightclub, Electric Piquete at Ball & Chain, Savoy at Culture Room, Danny Krivit at Electric Pickle, and 1349 at Churchill’s…

Eye on Miami: Pam Anderson, NYE 2016, and More

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…

Natalie Dormer Steps Out of The Forest and Emerges a Leading Lady

Natalie Dormer sits near the window in a hotel room at the Mandarin Oriental, with Miami’s skyline and clear-blue bay her natural backdrop. She wears a red-and-white floral-print blazer that aesthetically complements the topic at hand: her latest film, The Forest. The 33-year-old actress is in town to promote the…

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday, January 7 Despite what thespian haters would have you believe, the world of theater is a constantly evolving art form. While some companies pay homage to musicals, dramas, and comedies of the past, organizations like the Basement Project present both classical and contemporary projects perfect for regular theatergoers and…

Wynwood Walls Garden Survives Basel and Looks Ahead

Wynwood has its walls and its doors. It has its kitchen and bar and its brewing company, too. And now, ready or not, the Wynwood Walls Garden is ready for neighborhood usage. Having officially opened last month in time for Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Week, the Wynwood Walls…

Boom at MOCA: A Comedy About the World’s End

Nestled in the back corner of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s asymmetrical open space is a door that for one month will lead to Miami’s apocalypse. Beginning this Thursday, audiences can dip into a play that wrestles with the question: What am I leaving behind when I die? Peter Sinn…

Wynwood Art Walk at Mitrani Warehouse Features Old and New

Inside Wynwood’s Mitrani Warehouse, a mound of stones lies on the floor. Suspended above it is an identical mass of rocks. They reference the cairns typically used to mark paths. Projected onto the pile plays a video filmed in Florida, Virginia, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, and Canada depicting soaring gulls and…

My Friend Victoria Is an Empathic Study of Race and Class

A passive protagonist. Very little conflict. The need for heavy narration to carry meaning. On the checklist of reasons not to adapt a literary source to the screen, Doris Lessing’s short story “Victoria and the Staveneys” ticks nearly every box short of “Is about people who get off on car…

Kent Jones’ Hitchcock/Truffaut Is Best When It’s Practical

They could have called it Hitchcock/Truffaut/Scorsese/Fincher. Less an adaptation of one of the great books about film than a feature-length recommendation, Kent Jones’ documentary take on François Truffaut’s exhaustive career-survey 1966 interview with Alfred Hitchcock — Hitchcock/Truffaut — is an arresting précis, sharply edited and generous with its film clips…