Miami’s gridlock roadways are so bemoaned by locals and visitors alike that it has become a cliche — albeit, an accurate one. Thanks to lots of dedicated public transit activists, wheels are turning (so to speak), but maybe not as quickly as most would like. Enter Wheels, a new conference…
When artist Magnus Sodamin was young, his grandfather would take him fishing in Norway before sunrise. His grandmother would accompany him into the forest to hunt for mushrooms and into the mountains with a spike and hammer to look for cool rocks. Before flying home to Connecticut, he would fill…
Because women are particularly beguiling when viewed from behind, the camera loves to follow them: Anyone who’s watched James Stewart’s lovesick detective trailing Kim Novak, a platinum dream poured into a pale-gray flannel hourglass, understands the voyeurism at the heart of Vertigo. With Spectre — the 24th James Bond picture…
Political drama has long been shaped by what we can call the conversion narrative. In a play such as 1938’s One Third of a Nation, an everyman Joe you just gotta root for tries to live life honestly, outside of politics, only to find such living impossible: The system is…
Yes, it’s 3D computer animation, and yes, it shows us more of the face of Charlie Brown’s Little Red-Haired Girl than you ever thought you would see. But the news, for the most part, is good: The Peanuts Movie is much closer in spirit to Charles Schulz’s half-century comic-strip masterpiece…
Toni Collette rages through Catherine Hardwicke’s cancer weepie Miss You Already like a fire in a chain restaurant. The film around her is good, welcoming fare, the kind that snobs always underestimate. But then Collette, playing a vain patient bereft at losing her hair and her ability to wear seven-inch…
Comedy isn’t the champagne of bottled beers; it’s champagne, period, a delicate and perfect achievement in itself when it works. That’s why it’s frustrating when great comic performers feel compelled to prove themselves in what we so solemnly call dramatic roles. The late, scarily brilliant Robin Williams stumbled into love-me…
Through the ornate fonts, tints, intertitles, scores, acting techniques, and camera tricks that have made his “directed by” credit the ultimate redundancy, Guy Maddin demonstrates in The Forbidden Room that he has forgotten more about silent movies and early talkies than almost anyone else will ever know. And it’s the…
Ahh, Halloween. A time where sugary substances reign supreme and when the sun goes down, adults like to like their freak hang out underneath the blanket of night. Lincoln Road is always the place to be to see incredible costumes, and this year, HalloWYN took over Wynwood with an equally amazing…
In celebration of Halloween, the Secret Celluloid Society planned an evening full of movies picked with the plan to keep you up all night. Starting at 11:30 p.m. at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, The Thing was up first, followed by Night of the Demons, Eraserhead, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre —…
Back in 2011, a small film made with a group of Miami talent premiered at the 28th annual Miami International Film Festival, and now, years later, Magic City Memoirs is making its debut on Netflix. Due to some legal issues, director and writer Aaron Salgado couldn’t go into details on the…
This week means the end of all the costumed revelry that is October. The one silver lining is you get to cut down on dress up costs and put that money back to its usual use at the bar or buying meme shirts or whatever you do with your cash…
There are several reasons why an individual or company would want to become a member of a shared workspace concept such as WeWork. For starters, you get to work in a hip office environment where all the decorating has been taken care of for you. Secondly, you get to choose…
Stefano Lemon spends most nights on the streets. His day starts at about 7 p.m., and if he’s lucky, he gets to bed just before the sun rises. He’s not a DJ or a club promoter; Lemon is a street photographer working on a series titled “All the Animals Come Out…
In many ways, Scope was the original satellite art fair. Founded by a Lower East Side artist looking to bring recognition to the work he and his fellow art-world ruffians were making, the fair has gradually taken its place as an Art Basel Miami Beach fixture. Last year, Scope Miami…
The best time of the week is finally here: the weekend. Miami offers just about every activity this Hallo-weekend. On the music front, you can catch Calvin Harris at Miami International Mall, Ben Folds at Gusman Concert Hall, Gesaffelstein at Heart Nightclub, and Cedric Gervais at LIV. Start Halloween early at…
When you read about all the impressive things comedian and actress Margaret Cho does in the span of a year — both the volume of activity, level of impact, and quality of its humanity — it’s hard to think of her as anything other than a role model. It seems…
Collaborations are what Basel is all about. This year the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is celebrating its second year as a Miami institution with something special: a performance by artist and choreographer Ryan McNamara, and new-age R&B musician Blood Orange (aka Devonte Hynes). While both are Miami outsiders, the…
The Miami Book Fair International (MBFI) looms large with its literary prestige, but the week-long bibliophile fest isn’t all about the written word. Last year, the famous festival launched The Swamp, a Miami-inspired event space designed to showcase the city’s unique culture. This year, The Swamp is back, and it has…
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…
Marissa Alma Nick, the director of Miami’s ALMA Dance Theater, stands in the middle of her dimly lit studio among her company of dancers. “You have two choices here,” she says. “You’re either the murderer, or you’re the victim. But both characters require you to lose total control of your…
Dirty work and high society don’t always go hand in hand, but for the 350 American women who lent a hand to Anne Morgan in post-WWI France, getting their hands dirty was a necessary – and courageous – step towards women’s liberation. Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, now…
