The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. And Miami offers everything from Travis Scott at Grand Central, Lil Jon at LIV, and Wynwood Brewing Company’s second-anniversary block party. Here’s just a glimpse at what our city has to offer this weekend, so get up and…
In a world gone mad for superhero movies, what chance does the light spy caper have? Audiences will put total faith in a guy wearing a red metal suit, but the soft woolen folds of the bespoke kind barely register. When a whole city can be blasted to smithereens thanks…
Less than a generation ago, Yonkers, New York became the face of segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation in my backyard. A federal court order to construct 200 units of low-income residences east of the Saw Mill Parkway, i.e., in the white part of town, led to riots and bombings, death…
Miami poet Richard Blanco announced that he will read a poem in honor the reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. The inaugural poet made the announcement on his Facebook page. “I’ve had to keep this a secret for months, but it’s finally out: the US Department of State…
“Havana vanities come to dust in Miami. On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.” -Miami by Joan Didion Many outsiders…
As eager tourists all over the United States gear up for what is surely an imminent easing of travel restrictions to Cuba, the International Center of Photography is turning its lens towards the island, offering a looking glass for those longing to uncover its enchantment and suspension in time. But…
One of this year’s most poetic documentaries, The Look of Silence, is also one of the most important films of the year. It’s because it asks you to understand: what do you do when there is no justice after your neighbor has picked up a machete to kill your son…
Almost a year ago, Miami homeboy Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson dropped a hint on Instagram that he would star in a movie reboot of classic camp television show Baywatch. “This is my beach bitch!” Rumors are true… we’re making #BAYWATCH the movie. Edgy, raunchy and hopefully, funny as all hell…
Thursday, August 13 People say laughter is the best medicine, and those people are onto something. Though comedy clubs in Miami aren’t as popular as those in other big cities (cough, New York, cough), we still enjoy a good night filled with funnies, no matter the backdrop. For one night…
Halloween may be a ways away, but that doesn’t stop the early preparation for the horror! As stores slowly but surely begin to prepare for an event that’s months away, Miami’s film community is doing the same. And the fun this October launches the very first day of the month,…
AMC’s Mad Men drew to a close this year, putting an end to the 1960s-themed nostalgia-induced advertising craze. Set during Madison Avenue’s reputed heyday, the show captured a particularly American moment when mass advertising was new and its landscape was untamed. Americans bought what Madison Avenue sold without questioning the…
Growing up Cuban in Miami was kind of like growing up Cuban in Cuba – if you were raised in the 1950s. Fidel may have taken their properties, their businesses, and their country, but he would never take their way of life, GODDAMNIT! Our parents did their best to assimilate…
In the holy trinity of N.W.A., each icon had a power: Dr. Dre produced, Ice Cube wrote the words, and Eazy-E was the comic relief. N.W.A.’s biopic, Straight Outta Compton, blurs those roles. Both Dre and Cube produced the film and seem to have edited the script with a red…
In 2012, documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer made a splash with The Act of Killing, in which he sought out members of Indonesian killing squads, individuals who murdered thousands of innocent citizens accused of being communists after a military takeover in 1965, and invited them to reenact their crimes in the…
“This conversation is the best one I ever had,” David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) tells us as The End of the Tour wraps up, and the movie, a pleasantly talky chamber piece, gives us welcome bursts of it. That long chat, with a David Foster Wallace (Segel) abashed by the success…
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, about Indonesia’s 1965 genocide of more than half a million alleged “communists,” was not only the best documentary of 2012, but one of the finest films of the past decade. In it Oppenheimer persuaded the perpetrators of mass murder to re-enact their crimes on…
Jason Segel didn’t tell his book club he’d been cast as novelist David Foster Wallace in James Ponsoldt’s biopic The End of the Tour. “I didn’t want to sound like Fancy Pants McGee,” Segel admits over lunch in Los Angeles. (Especially since the six-foot-four comedy actor is famous for dropping…
Great ideas are often so simple; it’s a wonder they haven’t been done. So it goes with SiliDogs, the south Florida startup bringing pet tags into the modern era. SiliDog tags are brighter, more durable, and more customizable than traditional dog tags. Plus, every design supports a different charitable cause…
Flea markets are as American as apple pie, but they’re hardly a common occurrence in Miami. Finding a good one takes a trek to Hialeah or Homestead. Now, on August 16, the city’s Arts + Entertainment District is hosting Miami Flea, the first-ever carefully curated flea market experience in Miami…
Cue the cat videos and food delivery: It’s National Lazy Day. A day to shirk all adult duties, August 10th is a blessed unofficial celebration of nonstop Netflix and making that freshly laundered pile of clothes the perfect couch nest. For those sun-addicted South Floridians, dozing in hammocks and passing out…
Ever feel like people don’t get you or where you come from? Ever feel like the city you call home doesn’t belong in the U.S., doesn’t belong anywhere? Congratulations: You must be from Miami. The following seven books are about the city you call casa, about the best and worst…
It’s not exactly common for two sisters to experience a simultaneous meteoric rise to stardom, but prima ballerinas Lorena and Lorna Feijóo aren’t your average siblings. Though the pair danced side by side nearly their entire lives and often competed for the same roles, not an ounce of competition exists…
