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…
A new documentary titled Miami Beach: 100 Years of Making Waves made its debut last night during special viewing at the Art Deco Museum in South Beach. The showing comes in advance of the film being released to the pubic next week. The documentary celebrating the Miami Beach Centennial will air…
There’s a neat little cultural gem brilliantly shining from the recesses of shipping containers just north of the Adrienne Arsht Center: MicroTheater Miami. Located on the patio of the Cultural Center of Spain (also known as Centro Cultural Español), MicroTheater Miami is an innovative take on live theatre. The way…
As of Wednesday evening, the Coast Guard continue to look for Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos. The two 14-year-old boys went missing during a fishing trip seven days ago. Cohen is the stepson of Nick Korniloff, founder of Art Miami. Since Korniloff and his wife Pamela Cohen—director of marketing for Art Miami—announced…
BoJack Horseman lurched out of the gate last year with a whole lotta animal puns and one uncomplicated thesis: Old sitcoms suck. An aggressively stupid and mawkish show from the late Eighties called Horsin’ Around, about an equine-human hybrid in Cosby sweaters who adopts three adorable orphans, made its star,…
Why is it so delicious when Cubans dance salsa?” asks Marisol Blanco, a former member of the National Folkloric Troupe of Cuba, who has been teaching dance in Miami since 2008. Her answer: “Because of this African movement that comes from rumba and son.” Plenty of books will tell you…
Thursday, July 30: Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la. That’s the rallying cry of all drunk-folk guitar-twang music lovers come Thursday when none other than the Counting Crows hit the stage at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre (301 Biscayne Blvd., Miami). It’s the Somewhere Under Wonderland tour, but it’s going to be something more than awesome when…
For the last six weeks, Wynwood has been alight with more art making than normal for the summer as Arts for Learning Miami has transformed the neighborhood into a creative campus for its fourth annual ArtWorks Internship program. It culminates with two performances this week featuring work from students in…
Sue Mengers represented dozens of eminent actors and directors during the New Hollywood era of the late ’60s and ’70s. The late talent agent possessed a scabrous wit untarnished by political correctness. About a certain famously gay singer/pianist, she said, “Elton’s the easiest dinner guest ever: He’ll eat anything but…
When it comes to film and television, there are few current shows out there that Miamians can be proud to own. Sure, there’s Jane the Virgin that takes place in Miami, but the show isn’t filmed here and its version of Miami is sometimes laughable (though we love it anyway)…
There’s probably only one humanist film that opens with the words “Merry Christmas Eve, bitch!” accompanied by the proffering of a single, sprinkle-dusted doughnut. In Sean Baker’s Tangerine, best friends, transgender women, and prostitutes Sin-Dee and Alexandra (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor) catch up at a doughnut joint on…
At 53, Tom Cruise is past the retirement age of every James Bond except Roger Moore. Yet not only does his 19-year-old Mission: Impossible series tick on, counting down the seconds till its next explosion, but Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is also determined to unman his cross-Atlantic competition. Forget high-tech gadgets…
How much time would you like to spend in the company of benignly kooky hobbyists? That’s the question to ask before committing to docu-commercial A Lego Brickumentary, a largely genial but frequently wearying feature-length toy ad. The film’s central conceit is sound enough: Lego construction kits “unlock [users’] imagination,” in…
The pizza joint Shakey’s in Hollywood is packed when transgender actresses Mya Taylor and Kiki Rodriguez slide into a booth with their director Sean Baker, whose shot-on-location-and-on-iPhone comedy Tangerine was the most talked-about surprise of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Taylor, the quieter and more glamorously aloof of the pair…
World cinema may have no better builder of delightful scenes than Roy Andersson, the deadpan Swedish existentialist. Each shot in an Andersson film is part diorama, part theatrical performance, part moviemaking the way Thomas Edison did it: Build a set, plant a camera, and stage highly orchestrated comedy and tragedy…
At the start of Woody Allen’s campus comedy Irrational Man, caddish professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) drives up to a new school that has already steeled itself for his arrival. “Of course, my reputation — a reputation — preceded me,” Abe admits. Such defensiveness also applies to his tabloid-attacked director,…
It’s been 32 years since the release of National Lampoon’s Vacation, in which Chevy Chase, as dad Clark Griswold, packed his Griswold clan into what looked like a Country Squire from Hell and sought the family-bonding experienceTM by driving cross-country to a mythical mega — amusement park known as Walley…
The Miami City Ballet announced several additions to their corps de ballet for its 30th season. Among the announcements are Ella Titus and Mayumi Enokibara, two recent graduates of the Miami City Ballet School and stars of the Teen Vogue web series Strictly Ballet. The web series chronicled the journey…
Let’s take a little breather from Miami’s woes, shall we? Sea level rise and invasive cockroaches and undisciplined cops will certainly stick around for the near future, so we might as well use the International Day of Friendship to cheer the eff up. Instead of watching that Golden Girls marathon…
Anyone who lives in Miami can attest to the particular strangeness of our colorful residents. Bro, we’ve even written listicles cataloging the type of Miami people you can find in Wynwood to the types of douchebags who inhabit our city. It’s safe to say Miamians are interesting, and definitely interesting…
The power of Miami’s art scene is pretty undeniable these days — and Farley Aguilar is at the top of the list. This week, the Orlando Museum of Art announced the winner of its Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, and Aguilar was the big winner. The self-taught painter was one…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. And Miami offers everything from a music and arts festival in Overtown, Questlove at Basement, and a Fashion Happy Hour at the Catalina Hotel. And if by chance you’re a Harry Potter fanatic, there’s a special harry-inspired tea…
