July 4th weekend is finally here, and Miami offers everything from good, old-fashioned parades to a slew of parties like IndepenDANCE at Nikki Beach, Tiësto at LIV and Rush Rush Red, White, and Blue at Rec Room. So put on America’s colors and celebrate Independence Day weekend the Miami way. It…
Local artist Addonis Parker has built a reputation providing much needed art-based services to the local community. The Ohio native quickly realized the need for arts education in South Florida, especially among the children of Miami’s Liberty City. Since the late 90s, Parker, in close collaboration with the YMCA, has…
This month, Bridges to/from Cuba—a writing blog with the goal of ending the “emotional” embargo between the U.S. and Cuba—launched. Soon after, cofounders and writers Ruth Behar and Richard Blanco took a week long tour of the island to spread the word and introduce each other to friends, relatives, and…
This year, Florida Supercon attracted a crowd that not only embraces comic books and geek culture, but also loves to cosplay. And we’re not talking about your run-of-the-mill store-bought costumes either. Some cosplayers spend years handcrafting their disguises to appear like the perfect replica straight out of their favorite video…
Another month of summer is swinging around, and instead of dying in the scorching heat and humidity, you need to get your butts inside a theater ASAP. And for the folks who don’t find anything particularly interesting about these new features, here’s another month of classics to tide you over!…
After twelve years on the air, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart became required viewing during the Dubya years, when much of the nation was desperate to look to almost anyone else for political leadership. The Comedy Central series offered nightly catharsis in five- or eight-minute bursts, voicing the anger…
The upcoming Amy Winehouse documentary Amy is one of the best music docs Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek has ever seen, and she explains why to Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson this week. Also this week: The confusing (yet really, really enjoyable)…
In 2004, before a sex scandal rendered him a candidate non grata, John Edwards distilled this country’s widening income gap and lack of upward mobility into a bumper-sticker meme: Two Americas. The division was between the privileged-from-birth and the perpetual strivers, the haves and the have-nots. By most accounts, this…
“I like brunettes,” an unidentified and happily married (11 years and two kids) stranger said to me. “What kind of girls are you into?” This was the second time I’d been asked this question in two months. The first was prior to my first round at Skirt Club’s launch back…
Do you believe in soul mates? With seven billion people on Earth, the likelihood that one person exists to love you best is rather unlikely, and it’s even more unlikely you’d find that person, right? The odds must be stacked into infinite impossibility that you’d find that person on a…
THU 7/2 In Miami’s nightlife-driven music scene, your ears can get pretty starved for romance. Thankfully, the Community Arts Program of Coral Gables continues to provide a break from all that bass and EDM synth with its annual Summer Concert Series. Since 1985, the series has brought prestigious classical and…
The four-day gathering of comic book aficionados and closeted nerds alike, Supercon, spilled over the Miami Beach Convention Center this weekend attracting the likes of some super hot geeks. Who says that playing video games for hours on your couch can’t give you a solid bod? After all, you’re working…
In 1996, Denise Soler-Cox enjoyed a warm Miami night on the town with a group of friends — some close, others newly acquainted. As the friends laughed and joked about their families and similar upbringings, Soler-Cox felt a sudden wave of awareness and acceptance that took her by surprise. “For…
If you’re familiar with the New York Times bestseller lists, you’ve likely heard of Meg Cabot. A bestselling author of books for both adults, tweens, and teens, Cabot has a knack for creating addictive series. From the supernatural-inspired stories of The Mediator, to the mysteries surrounding former teen pop star…
Too often, Hollywood film reduces love to romanticized lust between people. Yet, in truth, Love can be a slippery thing, as it comes from within a single person, transmuted by perception of the other, which can in turn, influence the feelings of the source. Time and environment has an effect,…
Crystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack is a Manhattan fable about fear. Two decades ago, a Hare Krishna conspiracy theorist and self-described god named Oscar Angulo moved from Peru to a public housing tenement on the Lower East Side with his American bride, Susanne, whom he’d met and wooed on the Inca Trail.
Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 Magic Mike was a cocktease. The ads tempted audiences with sweaty chests and thrusting crotches, but after Soderbergh lured us in to his all-male strip club, he turned on the lights to show us the squalor. His hunks were drugged and morally decayed.
Five films into the franchise, Terminator: Genisys feels like a VHS cassette that’s been rewound and recorded over for 21 years. Director Alan Taylor (of the unmemorable Thor: The Dark World) gives us images — a thumbs-up, an abandoned factory, a liquid-metal cop smashing through the windshield of a car…
I am a nerd. Or at least I thought I was. I’m not so sure now. Underneath my bed is a long plastic container bulging with the comic books I collected throughout my adolescent years; it’s heavier than Superman’s once dead body. I have two shelves of graphic novels, a…
Last Thursday night in the Coral Gables Congregational Church of Christ, it’s possible that more than one person had a spiritual experience, albeit the kind you find with a literary reading. Amongst the pews, candles, and bibles, Elmaz Abinader, Staceyann Chin, Junot Diaz, Kim Euell, Ruth Forman, Marjorie Lui and…
The land of the free and the home of the brave is about to reach the ripe old age of 236. Sure, she’s had a few nips and tucks, but who hasn’t these days? Particularly in Miami. In addition to the free and the brave, the 305 is home to…
Good news, sun-sapped friends: Miami Spa Month has arrived! Starting this Wednesday and going through August 31, cash-strapped Miamians can get deals at spas on massages, manicures, and all those self-love services. If you plan on pampering your paychecks away, you’re going to need all the help you can get…
