The Coconut Grove Arts Festival (CGAF) announced today their partnership with New Times for the second year in a row. We will once again take over the main stage to curate live entertainment for the three-day long fest. Monty Trainer, president of the arts festival and owner of Monty’s Raw Bar in…
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 Matador at Heart Nightclub, Zedd at Story, The Weeknd at American Airlines Arena, Jo Mersa Marley & Danay Suarez at Hialeah Park Race Track, and…
The Village of Biscayne Park is seeking artists from across Florida to participate in its “Art is in Our Nature” outdoor sculpture competition. Situated between North Miami and Miami Shores, the park is no stranger to public art with three different sculptures scattered throughout its grounds, and a mural of birds…
Note the image above. The 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo depicts a firing squad aimed and ready in Iran. After the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, former members of the Shah’s regime — and also people like homosexuals, drug offenders, and ethnic Kurds — were executed after speedy “trials” by…
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…
It can be an interesting test to ask someone how they know Paul Rodriguez. The Mexican stand-up comedian or the 4-time X Game winning skateboarder? Not everyone knows about the father and son duo, though that may change soon. Talent runs in the family but Paul Sr. won’t be overshadowed…
SPOILER ALERT: Skip the fifth paragraph if you don’t want to know before you see the film. George Lucas is the L. Ron Hubbard of Hollywood. Both men were sci-fi dreamers turned mega-millionaires who spun their pulp adventures into a religion. Tap the power within yourself, they urged. The faithful…
An ice rink propped in the middle of Downtown Miami is a bizarre — but very real — sight at the InterContinental with the return of its holiday ice rink. As the only outdoor and bay-front one in South Florida, it brings a true feeling of wintertime to the Magic…
Thursday, December 17 There’s something magical about combining board games and booze. The spark of childhood nostalgia blended with a nice buzz takes average get-togethers to the next level. Cashing in on that deep need to be kids again, the local beer masters of Concrete Beach Brewery present a Miami-flavored…
Here’s a true story about a St. Louis murder that changed America. In 1837, a black freeman named Francis McIntosh stepped off a Mississippi riverboat and blundered into two white cops chasing a drunk sailor who’d called them names. They ordered McIntosh to stop the perp; when he refused, they…
Here’s the statistical quirk that sums up Mad Max: Fury Road’s sensational greatness: 73 of the 127 critics voting in our annual poll picked George Miller’s apocalyptic Busytown Racers classic as one of the year’s best films. Only one of those critics voted for it in the Best Screenplay category…
On the edge of Wynwood on 36th street, a group of world-famous graffiti artists can be seen painting from dawn to dusk to create Miami’s largest mural. Funded by local, affordable, and market-rate housing developer, Pinnacle Housing Group, the mural will cover four stories of Los Suenos, one of its affordable housing…
In the highly anticipated sequel, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, my brother Oscar Isaac plays the new Han Solo, a Resistance ace pilot named Poe Dameron who is both skillful and reckless. That’s on the mark. When he was a kid attending Westminster Christian Middle School back in 1991, he…
Opa-locka, circa 1979. There’s a rowdy crowd of mostly black young men standing in anticipation of an illegal drag race. They’re like live wires — lines of dudes on motorcycles raring to take off down an unused airstrip. Photographer Charles Hashim isn’t concerned about being mauled by the wound-up spectators;…
A while back, a friend expressed concern that her son, a 10-year-old, was watching too much My Little Pony. “It’s sweet,” she said, “but not what I’d choose.” I asked what she would prefer that he watch. “Well, his dad started him on that new Star Wars cartoon.” That cartoon…
This year turned out to be a challenging one for couch potatoes. In 2015, the “more programming, more problems” state of television held just as true for viewers as it did for network executives; there was simply too much to watch. But this annum of Peak TV has delivered some…
How good was 2015 for movies? My first draft of a top ten was a staggering top 30. I had to make some agonizing cuts. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: Watch every one by New Year’s Eve. OK, OK, at least by New Year’s Eve next year…
As we approach the end of another year in moviegoing — and as the industry prepares for its annual spasm of awards and accolades — it seems an apt time to look ahead. Here are ten films you won’t want to miss in 2016. 1. The Invitation (Dir. Karyn Kusama)…
No sentence distills the essence of one strain of cinephilia — mine especially — better than this one: “Motion pictures are for people who like to watch women.” Bracing in its profound simplicity, this line was written in 1983 by Boyd McDonald (1925–1993), author of the essential collection Cruising the…
What’s quietly revolutionary about Sisters is that it’s a dumb party movie like a million others. The hosts score booze, invite over dozens of friends and frenemies and then watch in horror – and a touch of self-congratulatory awe – as their house gets trashed. With the sunrise come lessons,…
The drawback was they had one Elvis,” an ex-girlfriend of Jimmy Ellis deadpans in Jeanie Finlay’s tragicomic doc Orion: The Man Who Would Be King. Ellis, an Alabama-born singer whose voice shared much of Elvis Presley’s timbre and husky power, had tried for years to hit the big time, touring…
You know how the old saying goes; If you can’t beat em’, have lots of sex with strangers to numb the pain. Well, that’s not actually how the saying goes, but according to a study done by the dating site OkCupid, Miami Dolphins fans may be under the impression that this…
