Wheels Bringing Five Days of Events Focused on Green Mobility

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…

Magnus Sodamin at Wynwood Walls for Miami Art Week

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…

Spectre Grinds Through Its Plot, but It and Craig Look Great

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…

The Peanuts Movie Holds True to Its Inspiration(s)

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…

Cancer Drama Miss You Already Boasts One of the Year’s Top Scripts

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…

In I Smile Back, Sarah Silverman Succeeds Beyond Comedy

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…

Get Wonderfully Lost in Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room

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…

The Ten Best Halloween 2015 Costumes Around Miami

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…

Margaret Cho Gets PsyCHO Advocating for Change

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…

PAMM Plans Major Basel Blow-Out With Blood Orange and Ryan McNamara

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…

Eye on Miami: Jessica Alba, Austin Mahone, 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…