Dancers Know No Limits at World Latin Dance Cup

Jessica Trujillo is a world champion salsa dancer. Her team, the Omambo Dance Project, won the professional salsa team division at the World Latin Dance Cup last year. When she called her best friend back home in Los Angeles from the competition at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, the champ…

Eye on Miami: Art Basel Edition

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…

Reviv Wants to Be Your Perfect Basel Hangover Cure

Even though Basel has been over for nearly a week now, our bodies are still recovering. How did your body fare? If you’re anything like me, you’re feeling sluggish, achey, and anything but motivated. You can pump your body full of caffeine and swear to go to bed by 9…

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 Josh Wink at Trade, Dark Side Disco at Electric Pickle, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony at The Hangar, and Nick Warren at Do Not Sit on the Furniture…

Borscht Corp. Alumni Get Into Sundance With Five New Films

When it comes to Miami indie film production, everyone knows Borscht Corp. has been on a roll. Yesterday, the Sundance Film Festival  announced that it has accepted an unprecedented five films from the filmmaking collective to premiere at next month’s festival in Park City, Utah. Four short films and a…

The Best Museum and Gallery Shows Open Post-Basel

In case you haven’t had your requisite fill of art in the last week, it’s not too late to take in some of the most impressive contemporary art on the market. Several museums and local galleries are keeping their December exhibits open post Art Basel and Miami Art Week. Here…

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday, December 10 The Nutcracker is a classic tale filled with drama, heroics, and fanfare. As usual, however, history is written by the victors; the Mouse King is considered evil, and the Nutcracker is the knight in shining armor. That’s just one side of the story. The Mouse King takes…

Free Fitness Flash Mob Coming to Downtown Miami Tomorrow

Sometimes it seems like working out is only for Star Island residents and the Instagram famous. After all, Lululemon gear, a daily personal training sesh, and the hottest fitness trackers don’t come cheap. Fitness admirers, rejoice, because November Project is coming to Miami and is all about getting the masses to sweat. The…

Video: Art Basel 2015 Brings the Penis Sculptures

After a week of art partying during Art Basel Miami Beach 2015, we all looked a little haggard, like someone flogged us hard with the ugly paddle. But at New Times, we don’t let soul crushing exhaustion keep us from joking about some fine art or boobs! No siree! In…

Artopia 2016: Presale Tickets on Sale Now

Every year the New Times offers a Mastermind Award $1,000 cash grant and city-wide exposure to creatives all over Miami. Not only do we give three creatives some cool cash, but we also celebrate their artistic achievements at our annual shindig, Artopia. Artopia gives our Mastermind winners a chance to…

Startups Vying for $50,000 at Techweek Miami

Calling all innovators to the floor. It’s time to celebrate technology in the Magic City. Monday kicked off TechWeek Miami celebrations, a week-long festival of events highlighting the talent and talent-backers of Miami’s burgeoning start-up community while bringing in some of the national communities brightest minds and leading stars. TechWeek…

Beatriz Monteavaro Presents “Nochebuena” at Locust Projects

While dismantling the home where Beatriz Monteavaro and her family spent decades before her parents sold it, the slight brunet artist and her sister found volumes of photos that told the story of their early life: of family gatherings, birthday parties, pets and people who had passed away, couples now…