Director Alex Gibney’s choice to follow this spring’s Scientology slam Going Clear with the fascinating portrait Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine might seem like an about-face. The first documentary clinically eviscerated a religion that everyone loves to loathe. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, however, is adulated to an incredible…
Last week, Cannonball Artist-in-Residence Christopher Cozier led a public talk titled “Actions Between Territories.” Cozier, an artist, writer, and curator living and working in Trinidad, is part of the Residency Program of Cannonball—a non-profit arts organization in Miami that, “offers dedicated time, space, resources, and technical/administrative support to conduct research, produce…
Young and old gathered this past weekend for a final visit to the Miami Museum of Science. On Sunday, the Museum shuttered its doors in preparation for its highly anticipated move to a sprawling new facility in downtown Miami’s Museum Park, where it will re-open in Summer 2016. The museum…
One of the biggest art projects currently underway in Miami is being steered by the Faena Group. In addition to a highly anticipated cultural space designed by OMA, Rem Koolhaas’s architecture firm, there are also several buildings emerging across several blocks between 32nd and 35th Streets, from the Atlantic Ocean…
Happy August 31st, Miami. Here’s hoping today starts the slowing of 90-degree days and Netflix-filled nights — it’s been too grossly hot to do much else. With a slew of free and creative cultural events to kick off the new month, you’ve got every reason to start September with a…
The future is now – if you’re staying at the Aloft South Beach. The Starwood family hotel has officially opened its trendy doors to the public of Collins Avenue, and in true Aloft fashion, there’s plenty of millennially-driven excitement to be enjoyed. “We can bring high design, style and fashion…
There’s a strain of science fiction writing that evokes a chilly kind of coziness, usually by introducing us to individuals or small groups of people who have found their way to the country in the hope of escaping encroaching doom. John Wyndham’s bleak, beautiful 1951 novel The Day of the…
Tropical Storm Erika is about ready to open a can of whoop-ass on the islands today, and forecast models predict that the storm will intensify, possibly reaching hurricane status with 75 mph sustained winds as it approaches Miami sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. Word on the weather streets…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. And Miami offers just about every activity this weekend. On the music front, you can catch Amtrac at Basement, Maayan Nidam at Electric Pickle, Sahar Z at Do Not Sit on the Furniture, and Seven Lions at Grand…
Miami might be facing its first hurricane in a decade, but that’s not stoping Locust Projects from opening up two new shows this weekend. Jedediah Caesar and Michael Namkung are both California natives fascinated with Miami’s physical and cultural landscapes. Each exhibition tackles a different aspect of the South Florida…
This mean and vigorous men’s adventure pulp throwback has everything going against it. It’s a late-August release whose leads, Owen Wilson and Lake Bell, tend to be the best things in movies you otherwise regret seeing. The trailers, teasing the story of a toothsome American family hunted by peasant-rebels in…
Perez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) willingness to experiment with installations has extended to a new species: avian. The museum’s “Speechless” exhibit includes the vocal stylings of two pairs of bird celebs: two African Grey parrots and two double yellow-headed Amazon parrots. The birds (who usually live in Miami with a…
In the fall of 1986, Tropic Magazine of the Miami Herald hired Mary Ellen Mark to come to Miami. For editor Gene Weingarten and art director Phillip Brooker, it seemed only natural for an up-and-coming city quickly forming a national image to call in one of the era’s leading photographs…
Narcos, Netflix’s new drug-war docudrama, is nearly as ambitious as its central character, Pablo Escobar. Over the course of 10 dense, sprawling episodes, the series tells the 20-year history of the narcotrafficker’s rise and fall in relation to Colombia’s blood-soaked history and the U.S.’s escalating drug war, from Richard Nixon…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with Amy Nicholson of the LA Weekly, run down the worst and best of the movies they saw this summer, which as summers go, wasn’t so terrible! Among the best performances were those by Sam Elliott, wonderful in two movies,…
When the Frost Museum of Science announced that they would finally be closing the doors of their Coconut Grove location, hearts across Miami broke. Sure, their new digs by the Perez Art Museum look like they’re going to be nice, what with the shark tank, and the millions of dollars…
THU 8/27 Books 1980s Manhattan had a lot in common with Miami (at least, the Miami portrayed in gossip rags and reality-TV shows): hedonistic, sexy, dripping with riches. And number-one New York Times bestselling author Robert Goolrick’s latest book, The Fall of Princes, is all about NYC in the era…
What is money, really? You may think you know the answer, and you could probably produce a few bills as proof. But physical currency is on its way out, like the printing presses that produce it. Money today is an ephemeral thing, as invisible as radiation, digits shuffled and wired…
“South Beach? Is that like Palm Beach?” -Diane Wiest as Louise Keeley, in The Birdcage (1996) If you’re from Miami, and you go to college out of state, there’s probably no question you dread more than, “Were are you from?” Florida doesn’t exactly have the best national reputation—especially among ivory…
It’s been over a year since the first time I met Nayib Estefan in the back room of Gramps, just as he was starting up Shirley’s and telling me just how badly he wanted to bring classic films to Miami through Secret Celluloid Society (SCS). To think that over that…
Sometime in the 1980s, Marlon Brando had his face digitized, presumably as a way of leaving just a bit more of himself after his departure from this planet. As we see it in Stevan Riley’s documentary Listen to Me Marlon, that speaking, moving hologram looks like a cross between George…
Remake The Graduate today and an adult might corner Benjamin Braddock and whisper, “Startups.” Debut director Max Joseph gives that a good shot, though the result — the EDM-fueled, drug-laced dream-crusher We Are Your Friends — is so sweaty and silly that people may not notice.
