For most Americans, sex ed was an awkward, boredom-inducing experience. Instead of encouraging and explaining healthy sexuality, it was more likely to send youths into giggling fits or shame spirals. But it’s never too late to broaden those bedroom horizons. Next month, the first-ever Sexposé at the World Erotic Art…
Thursday, September 24 Vanessa Garcia is a journalist, essayist, and feature writer best known for her theatrical works The Cuban Spring and The Crocodile’s Bite, the former a Carbonell Award nominee and the latter a Samuel French Selection. As a first-generation Cuban-American, Garcia is a Miami native who has traveled…
Marc Ribot’s musical career spans multiple decades, and even more sounds. His lush guitar riffs have played with everyone from Tom Waits and John Zorn to Elvis Costello and Norah Jones. This week, for the first time in his storied career, Tigertail Productions brings Marc Ribot to Miami for a…
“You may not believe it, but there are people who go through life with very little friction or distress.” This is how Charles Bukowski opens “The Aliens,” a poem that succinctly captures the mindset of the world’s tortured, anxious, depressed throngs. The renegade poet seems to suggest that these men…
Before the confetti and the metallic streamers, two final contestants were left on the stage standing hand in hand, barely breathing. “After traveling across America, and auditioning thousands of dancers, America’s favorite dancer is: Gaby!” announced So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley. The Fox variety show aired…
The title The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution might seem tragic. Stanley Nelson’s welcome doc banners the Black Panthers as the “vanguard” of the revolution, a claim that’s true according to the Panthers’ own terms. The leather-jacketed crew carrying rifles onto the floor of the California state assembly in…
Some veteran filmmakers try to capture the younger generation and fail to get it right, coming up with characters and faux with-it dialogue that invite lots of “Oh, Mom!” eye-rolling. That’s not the problem with writer/director Nancy Meyers’ The Intern, in which retiree Robert De Niro finds meaning in life…
It can’t end like that, can it? Yury Bykov’s impressively bleak drama of bureaucracy, expedience, and the expendability of the poor seems to surge toward a finale that is both inevitable and impossible. The story, gutsy and wrenching, concerns a Russian plumber who susses out that a housing project in…
With found footage having long ago supplanted torture porn as the horror subgenre du jour, the prospect of a new Eli Roth movie might seem even more dubious than it was during the director’s heyday. The Green Inferno arrives in theaters two years after making the festival rounds and a…
Miami Vice is undoubtedly a show that has proven pretty influential over the years. It brought a fascinating and new aesthetic to cop procedural shows during the 1980s. Not only was it essential in the world of television, but it helped boost South Beach into the tourist spot it is…
Nothing brings folks together like the lure of free fun. If that fun includes free booze and food, all the better. In honor of International Peace Day today, why not grab some friends and make new ones at one of the several kick ass events Miami has in store this…
Feminism in Hollywood is the newest case du jour. Everyone’s talking about it and young actresses are taking stands against the lack of representation and treatment of women in Hollywood. Just look at Emma Watson with her successful He for She campaign, and even teenager, and Girl Meets World star, Rowan…
Miami’s cultural renaissance is taking on physical manifestations. The city’s museum boom is in full force and last year ICA established itself a s one of the city’s cultural leaders. Today the museum announced that Ellen Salpeter, the current deputy director of external affairs at the Jewish Museum in New…
Miami New Times is looking for a writer and editor to oversee coverage of all things related to art, theater, and other cultural happenings in America’s hottest city. The job entails working closely with a pool of freelancers to produce Night+Day, our weekly print guide to the city, while editing,…
With ferry service between Miami and Havana scheduled to begin early next year, America prepares to reacquaint itself with Cuba, the shunned island nation. The over-50 year freeze of relations between the two countries brought about an estrangement. For Americans, the communist country is shrouded in a mysterious, tropical allure…
It’s been some time now since David Oyelowo was nominated for a number of awards for his performance as Martin Luther King Jr.–- and snubbed at the Oscars — but the actor shows no signs of stopping. Last year, alongside Selma, he was featured in films like A Most Violent…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. Miami offers just about every activity this weekend. Catch Salmon Rushdie at Miami Dade College Wolfs Campus Friday or Brad Meltzer and Judd Winick at Books and Books on Saturday. On the music front, you can catch Arty…
For the past several years Miami has tried to claim a piece of the tech bubble. Flooded with developers, programers, and entrepreneurs the city is looking to create the initial foundation on which to launch the east coast’s take on Silicon Valley. While some institutions have lauded the move, others…
Not to like talk trash about anyone, but that 19-story tall chick dancing on the side of the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Miami needs to calm the hell down. Sure, she’s just a bunch of LED lights urging Ultra ravers to PLUR-out and luring in horny tourists — but many…
Havana Habibi, a film by local dancer Tiffany “Hanan” Madera, has been in the works for more than a decade. Havana Habibi documents Madera’s experience teaching belly dance in Cuba to a small group of women from the University of Havana’s History Department. This artistic exchange led to the formation…
Practically everyone in the world knows actress Mélanie Laurent at this point, either for her performance alongside Ewan McGregor in Beginners, her jaw-dropping work in Inglourious Basterds, or any of the other roles she’s played. Few may know, however, that she’s also a filmmaker with two features now under her belt…
There are children today entering their teenage years who will never understand what it was like to be an American on the morning of September 11, 2001. Personally, I’ll never forget a coworker who told me, eyes burnt from crying when I arrived at work that morning, oblivious of the…
