Back in December, we sat with local filmmaker and writer Joshua Jean Baptiste to talk about his project, #Josh, making it to the final round for Project Greenlight’s Digital Series contest. The HBO-backed company put out a call to young filmmakers all across the States offering a $25,000 grant (plus…
Artist-run gallery Dimensions Variable has gotten quite used to being in a state of flux. From opening in a donated space in the Design District in 2009 to then functioning as a pop-up gallery before settling in its former downtown Miami location, the gallery has finally found a more permanent…
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…
While the rest of the country is trudging through the rest of a ho-hum January, Miami’s penchant for the weird and wild rarely dips below 100. Thankfully, between the viral sorority videos and overturned shoe trucks, this city keeps us focused on the important stuff — like nonstop entertainment. This…
If you’ve seen a solid amount of independent films in the last two decades, chances are you’ve seen at least one of the films produced by Killer Films. The company, which has brought us everything from Larry Clark’s Kids to Todd Haynes’ latest Carol, was co-founded by producer Christine Vachon,…
It’s hard to imagine a more unsettling setting for a horror movie than Aokigahara, the famed “suicide forest” of Japan to which scores of pilgrims travel every year to end their lives. At the edge of the woods — which, per Japanese mythology, are rife with demons — is a…
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 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…
Becoming a viral sensation after marrying America’s royal couple, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, on May 24, 2014, Rich Wilkerson Jr. quickly rose to stardom. Dubbed “the Hipster pastor,” Wilkerson made headlines. “The Pastor That Married Kim and Kanye Is Super Hot,” said Buzzfeed, while TMZ claimed, “A Star Rises…
The seventh episode of Transparent’s second season, now available on Amazon, takes place on Yom Kippur. The holiest day of the year in the Hebrew calendar, it’s a holiday on which Jews fast to symbolically atone for their sins. It’s also a significant occasion for Transparent, which, like the Pfefferman…
Tony Yazbeck received quite the surprise when YoungArts came calling a few years ago. “They called saying that since I’m an alumni, maybe I’d consider teaching a master class,” the Broadway star says. “I had won an honorable mention in high school, but I didn’t realize until later that this…
Miami choreographer and dancer Pioneer Winter knows a thing or two about producing a live performance piece that integrates its surroundings in order for the piece to become fully realized. His Ebb/Flow performance took place aboard a floating canoe in Biscayne Bay for the SoBay Festival of the Arts in 2012,…
The Perez Art Museum Miami is so much more than just paintings on the walls. One example of their multi-disciplinary reach is the the Scholl Lecture Series, which includes talks by artists, scholars, and curators. The first offering of the year will be a conversation between authors Roxane Gay and…
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…
Ever woken up, looked in the mirror and thought, Dammit, I’m so handsome, this face should be on TV, or felt that you were destined for more than just your 9 to 5? Well, my friends, the time has come for your (potential) 15 minutes of silent, background fame. We’re talking…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
