When the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan in March 2011, plenty of people filmed it and posted the footage. It takes a strong constitution to finish watching even one of those YouTube videos, which conjure a surreal apocalypse more horrifying than anything Hollywood has produced. A seemingly endless black…
Art (for the most part) makes a very basic assumption: that people experiencing it have the ability to see. But what about the visually impaired? How can they access traditionally optical mediums? LISTEN TO THIS BUILDING, a new addition at the Miami Center for Architecture and Design (MCAD), offers a…
Comedy Central’s Drunk History—a show that’s the perfect marriage between learning and inebriation—returns for its third season tonight at 10:30 pm. This episode finds itself in Miami where Ponce de Leon searches for the new world, Griselda Blanco (aka “The Black Widow”) takes command of the Magic City’s once-sizable cocaine…
Another month of classic goodies pass and a new one takes its place. Don’t worry, there are plenty of classic films to see this month. It’s a great mix of 35mm and digital screenings as well as a pretty cool series of films and retrospectives. Green Day once sang, “Wake…
Ah Labor Day. A yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to this country, it’s only fitting the majority of them get a day of lazy glory. We’re sure lots of you depleted your funds and energy with last weekend’s pre-holiday parties, so once the lethargy wears off,…
After a six-month search, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has named a new director. The museum announced yesterday that Franklin Sirmans, 46, had been named the new director. Sirmans currently serves as the curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He will replace Thom Collins…
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 Martin Garrix at Story, Cedric Gervais at Space, Afrojack at LIV, and Lady Antebellum at Perfect Vodka Amphitheater. And if by chance you’re…
Knowing full-well that Miami can never get enough films, The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) brings back their Fall film event with a make-over of sorts, and it’s a damn good one. GEMS offers up fourteen feature films exclusively at MDC’s Tower Theater Miami, among other events, to satiate filmgoers…
In Queen of Earth, independent filmmaker Alex Ross Perry tackles big and uncomfortable questions about adult relationships. His films have always grappled with the cognitive dissonance of how people connect and disconnect in profound ways. With his latest film, he seems to say, your best friend can also be your…
In Andalucía, Spain’s southernmost region and the birthplace of flamenco, during the dog days of summer the sun doesn’t go down until after 10:00 p.m., and it’s only then that any self-respecting flamenco festival kicks into gear. The beer and wine flow, kids play in the dirt aisles between sets…
As Miami continues to assert itself as a force in the international art world, a group of locally based up-and-comers are looking to shake things up. Planned as a blend of visual art and music, the Young Artist Initiative (YAI) reckons to subvert traditional art establishments and search for new ways…
Thursday, September 3 As locals, we tend to take Miami’s innovative structures for granted. Traveling from Point A to Point B, not noticing all the unique elements that make this city so special, is usually what most occupies our day-to-day thoughts. Knowing we could all use a little shock to…
For the first USpeak Flash Fiction & Poetry Performance Series of the 2015/16 year, students and the community at large are in for a treat. Local writer and new University of Miami Creative Writing faculty member Chantel Acevedo is back after years away, and will read from her new book,…
It’s human nature to yearn to make a lasting impression on the world. We toil away in cubicles to prove our worth to a corporation, search emphatically for a soul mate, strive to leave a legacy or indelible mark on a generation or a society. We do these things to…
The end of summer is upon us (finally), and even though our beach weather never ends, it’s still an occasion woth celebrating. Instead of the traditional backyard BBQ, however, PAMM is offering an alternative option: a Labor Day picnic. The museum will have live tunes by Magic City Hippies, traditional…
There’s a knot of tough, tender, persuasive scenes near the end of Isabel Coixet’s life-advice drama Learning to Drive. These are muscular enough that, had they come earlier, they might have powered the movie — the filmmakers’ hearts might be in the right place, but the film’s doesn’t kick in…
Sometimes a face is enough to anchor a movie. In writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth, Elisabeth Moss plays Catherine, a young city-dweller who, after recently suffering both her father’s death by suicide and a crushing breakup, treks to the country to spend a week with her best friend,…
A sense of humor will take you far in life, even along a daunting stretch of the Appalachian Trail. In his hugely popular 1998 book A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson chronicled his attempt to hike the full length of the trail, from Georgia to Maine, accompanied by an…
The first famous tennis player was King Louis X of France. Nicknamed Louis the Quarreler for his domestic politics, meaning he was likely a real pain to the ref, King Louis is renowned for two facts in athletic lore: He invented the indoor tennis court, and, after a hard, hot…
There’s a lot to laugh at in Daniel Lee’s faux-historical Silk Road adventure Dragon Blade, not least of which is the sight of Adrien Brody as corrupt Roman consul Tiberius wearing a tumble of raven-colored beauty-queen curls and purring in a phony British thespian’s accent. With his blue crushed-velvet cape…
Even if you’re the sort who believes there can be no such thing as too much political coverage, it can’t hurt to cast a fond glance back to 1968, when only three networks — NBC, CBS, and the perennial laggard ABC — jockeyed for the attention of the American public…
Brooke, Greta Gerwig’s latest Manhattan creation, is a hurricane gobbling up lives. She’s a singer, restaurateur, interior decorator, math coach, spinning instructor, and self-described autodidact. When 18-year-old admirer Tracy (Lola Kirke), Brooke’s sister-to-be following their parents’ Thanksgiving wedding, squeaks that she wants to write short stories, Brooke devours that idea…
