MDC Debuts Exhibition by Contemporary Chinese Artist Lu Chengxiang

As China aims to surpass the US as the world’s leading economic force, many of the nation’s most distinguished artists have also made significant in-roads into the contemporary art world. These game changing creative talents have shaken-up the market, driving up prices of work previously overlooked by the art establishment…

Jai-Alai Magazine is Now Accepting Digital Submissions

For the first time since its inception in 2011, Jai-Alai Magazine is accepting online submissions in short essays, poetry, fiction, translation, and art. New Times spoke with the magazine’s editor José A. Villar-Portela to discuss  writing, and why Miami “is a place that’s no place.” New Times: How did you…

Chicago Repertory Ballet Leaves Few Stones and Tones Unturned

The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center will present The Chicago Repertory Ballet Company this coming Saturday night, the first chance for Miami audiences to see this company, just three years old, and already being heralded by the Chicago Tribune as “wonderfully dramatic.” One might add “mightily varied” as well. “I…

The Eleven Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday, July 23 The countdown to Miami Spice, the two-month restaurant promotion that lets you try the city’s top (and most expensive) eateries, has begun. In just a short week, you’ll be able to eat your way through 150-plus restaurants, most of which have probably been on your foodie wish…

The Ten Most Miami Things About HBO’s Ballers

HBO has renewed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Miami based football comedy Ballers for a second season, which means so much more Miami. Ballers is like if you wrote the word Miami on a piece of paper, covered it with glue, then poured an entire bottle of glitter on it — it’s incredibly…

Boxing Drama Southpaw Pummels the Audience

The opening of Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw, shot in gritty, grayed-out tones, is a grim harbinger: A fighter getting ready for the ring holds up his meaty paws for the ritualistic wrapping of gauze and tape. His gloves are slipped over the wrappings, and then they’re taped on too — but…

Batkid Begins Reveals the Epic Origin Behind a Make-A-Wish Triumph

Dana Nachman’s Batkid Begins marches in with the mini-movie you’ve already seen. (Unless, as Bruce Wayne suffered in The Dark Knight Rises, you’ve spent months in a hole.) On a November weekday in San Francisco — AKA Gotham-by-the-Bay — 5-year-old cancer survivor Miles Scott rode shotgun in a Lamborghini Batmobile,…

First Pictures Revealed of Miami’s Oscar Isaac in X-Men: Apocalypse

Film fans got a glimpse of what is to come when Entertainment Weekly released the first X-Men: Apocalypse photos late last week. The film features Oscar Isaac, who we recently named Miami’s Best Movie Star, as the blue-skinned-alien-villain Apocalypse. Isaac’s character in Apocalypse is unearthed after 5,000 years and recruits the…

The Best and Weirdest Stars on the Miami Walk of Fame

Bayside is not quite local central, but if you live in the downtown area as I do, you head over to that strange tourist trap for convenient one-stop shopping. Also, tourists get to choose from the best selection of sun-hats, and you really should be donning those daily. Anyway, I’ve…

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 Joe Jonas spinning at Mansion, Ariana Grande belting it out at the BB&T Center, and hardcore beats and booze at Chocolate Sundays. Put on your party pants and get ready for another memorable, Miami-style…

Peter London Dance: Heat From the Feet Up

Peter London Global Dance Company takes the stage at Little Haiti Cultural Arts Center on July 18 with their annual Heat Wave summer showcase. Featuring a world premiere new work by Peter London, the program will also feature two pieces by choreographer Luis Alberto Cuevas. By fusing contemporary dance and…