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…
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…
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…
1. Really, it’s all in one line of dialogue. Late in Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, that ever-lovin’ man-mountain Benjamin J. Grimm sets himself at last to the good work of bad-guy punching. As he rushes off to pound Doctor Doom, he mutters, “This is what I do.” He’s resigned to…
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 renaissance has arrived; no longer does Miami stand in the shadow of NYC and San Francisco. These days, the Magic City holds its own — particularly when it comes to arts and culture. In added proof that the 305 is flush with serious talent, The Juggerknot Theatre Company is producing “The Crocodile’s…
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…
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,…
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…
With the Kremlin and White House not exactly seeing eye to eye these days, it almost feels like we’re on the verge of a second Cold War — if we aren’t in one already. (In case you were wondering, the next great war will probably be fought in space with…
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,…
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…
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…
Jonathan Demme’s rock ‘n’ roll dramedy Ricki and the Flash exists in a wormhole where the past five decades of pop culture are a blur. There’s 66-year-old Meryl Streep, playing a broke singer who ditched her family to dominate the stage with the whiskey growl of Janis Joplin, the jangly…
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…
Anecdote #1: Chris Farley made a habit of pouncing on Mike Myers — at the same exact time each week — during the early- to mid-1990s era in which the two starred on Saturday Night Live. The elfin Myers deliberately took showers at a fixed, quiet time, but each week,…
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…
With Miami Spice in full swing, we can guess your gluttony is riding shotgun this month. Despite the unavoidable increase in calorie intake, sampling the city’s finest cuisine at a discount is a pretty stellar way to spend those paychecks. Lucky for you, we’ve got a flurry of free activities…
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…
In an open letter to the Miami community, President and CEO of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science Gillian Thomas, announced that the museum would officially close its Coconut Grove location at 10 p.m. on Sunday, August 30. The close comes in preparation to the museum’s move to…
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,…
Surely you’ve used the phrase “once in a blue moon” at some point in your lifetime without knowing exactly just what the phrase actually means. In figurative terms it describes a far-fetched or rare idea or set of events. Literally, however, a blue moon is the term given to a…
