The Best Things To Do in Miami This Weekend

The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. And Miami offers everything from an award-winning journalist turned author at Books and Books, Chuckie spinning at Story, and the 1988 black-comedy classic Beetlejuice playing at Shirley’s at Gramps. Here’s just a glimpse at what our city has…

Rebecca Hall Is The Gift‘s Great Gift

From the trailer, and just from its initial vibe, Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut The Gift looks like your stock “When bad things happen to good people” thriller, complete with a soulful pet dog you just know is going to get it. But dog lovers, and everyone else, should know that…

K-Hole Collective Is Coming to ICA Miami

Miami is changing and fast. Given current conditions and the rapid evolution of almost every area of the city’s culture, it’s intriguing (and important) to consider how the future might present itself. Enter Dena Yago and Sean Monahan. Two of the co-founders of K-HOLE, a unique trend forecasting group based in…

The Eleven Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday, August 6  Soviet Russia has a bad reputation, and though there’s certainly a good reason, the historical nation’s positive cultural contributions should still be celebrated. What are those, you ask? For one thing, a communist society devoid of religious musings has a lot of time to perfect the art…

The Best Classic Movies Showing in Miami in August

In stark contrast to the last few months, Miami in August isn’t quite as packed with classic cinema as one might have hoped. But, as the summer cools down, so do the good old movies. That doesn’t mean there aren’t a fair share of ’em this month and, as usual,…

Jennine Capó Crucet on Her New Novel, Miami, and Pitbull

In many respects, Jeanine Capó Crucet’s debut novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, is a classic coming of age tale. Lizet Ramirez is the daughter of Cuban immigrants, born and raised in Miami, she leaves the proverbial nest to attend Rawlings College, an elite East Coast University. While at Rawlings, Lizet must learn…

Miami’s Jen Stark on Her Cosmo Cover, Miley Cyrus, and the VMAs

Beneath Cosmopolitan’s special tear-away July cover, featuring an image of a heart-shaped paper sculpture created by artist Jen Stark, Nicki Minaj’s ample bosom and the headline “Wild Summer Sex” pop out. This is how the women’s glossy typically handles its “Love Issue.” Stark, who typically shies away from commercial work,…

Miami Dancer Makes Top 16 on So You Think You Can Dance

Some homegrown talent is joining Season 12 of the beloved dance reality show, So You Think You Can Dance. Tap dancer Gaby Diaz made the final cut to join the cast. The 19-year-old initially auditioned twice, first in Houston and then in Detroit, on the invitation of the show’s judges…

Five Times Jane the Virgin Got Miami Completely Wrong

Jane the Virgin might be the best show on television. It’s a funny and warm depiction of three generations of Latina women, set in Miami. It’s a wonderfully complicated show, and we’ve undoubtedly spent way too many nights binge-watching and cyber-stalking it’s perfect cast members (call us, Gina Rodriguez).  And…

Nina Hoss Illuminates Petzold’s Great Thriller Phoenix

Some of the best love songs are those whose lyrics perch precariously between “I adore you, let’s be happy forever” and “I’m miserable without you, where have you gone?” Together, the melody and words of Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash’s 1943 ballad “Speak Low” take the shape of a vaporous…

Dimensions Variable Revels in the Sound of Silence in Voleur

In one of the gallery’s final shows before its forced relocation from their downtown Miami space, Dimensions Variable will present Voleur (thief), a two-day performance by artists Jamilah Sabur and Andy Robert. Voleur (thief) builds on the themes explored in Dimensions Variable’s recent exhibition, Sounds Like, in which artists explored…

Miami’s Science Barge to Dock at Museum Park

Scheduled to launch early next year, the Miami Science Barge may be the coolest thing to happen to the city since, well, Wynwood. A floating laboratory slash classroom, the idea originated with CappSci’s Ted Caplow, who created a similar barge in NYC. Now, Miami’s version of the innovative experiment has…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. And Miami offers everything from a a yoga social at Whiskey Blue, the Mad Decent Block Party at Revolution, and Jessie Andrews spinning at Bardot. Here’s just a glimpse at what our city has to offer this weekend,…