Rejoice, Miami. We’re about to get a hell of a lot more literary starting June 21. For over 15 years, Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA) has offered workshops to writers of color, launched community writing programs and events, hosted faculty readings, and more. Originally based out of San…
Let the comically oversized countdown clock begin. One week from today, a flock of geeks will descend upon the Miami Beach Convention Center for Supercon Florida. As Miami’s largest comic book, anime, gaming, TV, and film convention, Supercon is the buffet nerds all over Florida hunger for. Taking place June…
“All handiwork is not necessarily good, but all good work is handiwork,” was the motto of the man that founded the Newcomb Pottery movement, an enterprise presumably created as a correction for the idle hands of turn-of-the-century women. Founded in 1895, the Newcomb Pottery group had a long run, producing…
The weekend is finally here, and this weekend Miami offers up music, theater, free movies and more. So get out there and enjoy your weekend Miami. You’ve earned it. Friday: Pitbull at Revolution Live: Call him Mr. 305, or call him Mr. Worldwide, just don’t call him irrelevant. For better…
We’ve all been there: it’s Friday and the clock is about to strike five when you’re all like T.G.I.F, but then remember you haven’t worked out yet. All of the sudden your brain and body engage in an internal conflict between happy hour and downward dog. Well, what if we…
Something all fathers do in Miami is sweat. And something all good Miami fathers do is sweat through seasons after season of soul-crushingly boring little league games, those awkward mermaid-themed quinceañeras, and just watching you go through your Gothic phase. Point is, your old man was, and sometimes still is,…
On Monday night, Books & Books and Temple Judea hosted a discussion between beloved YA writer Judy Blume and WLRN’s editorial director and arts reporter Alicia Zuckerman. There aren’t too many authors that can draw a crowd of die-hard, life-long readers, but Blume—whose books include the childhood classic, Are You…
Dancer and choreographer Annabel Guérédrat, a native of the Caribbean island of Martinique, creates dance works that fuse her childhood background in dance with her experiences as professor of literature in Paris and as a Butoh dancer. Quite a combination. Deeply ritualistic, her work is a performance study investigating socio-political…
The Nintendo World Championships came back for the first time in 25 years on Sunday, putting 16 competitors (including one South Floridian!) against each other in a grueling series of Nintendo-based game competitions. South Florida’s own Fernando “Fer nSig01” Terracuso won his spot in the LA-based finals at the qualifying…
This week looks bright and sunny, with plenty of things to keep you busy. From theater to music, outdoor yoga, and the return of the Dude, Miami is your oyster. Get out there and enjoy your city. THU 6/18 While most of the country tucks into a good book trapped…
Mia Hansen-Løve’s lucid and shimmering movie memoir Eden traces the sloping rise and even more meandering fall of a French techno DJ across some twenty years. Eden isn’t even about anything as broad as electronic dance music: It deals largely with the specific techno subgenre known as garage — at…
Miami Beach usually host its Gay Pride celebration earlier in the year, when it’s actually hospitable to spend long stretches of time outdoors. This weekend, the town’s gay moguls and their straight allies mixed, mingles, and cavorted under the temperature controlled auspices of 1 Hotel and Homes for the Miami…
Summertime means longer daylight hours, no school (for the lucky ones), and plenty of leisurely holiday time. Unlike the lackluster blockbuster season where schlock reigns, these next few months are a time to bask in the literary hits of spring and anticipate stellar new releases chock full of fantasy, romance,…
“Everglade creatures, let’s go!” artist Wayne White yelled out in his Tennessee drawl to a group of high school students hidden under their own colorful cardboard creations as they paraded through Hollywood’s Young Circle. White wore coveralls with a simple “Wayne” on the name tag. The procession included a manatee…
The first time we cry, as newborns, might be the purest emotion we ever feel. We sob — a raw mess of tears and terror — and a big human rushes to give comfort. Mentally, the connection is made: Our feelings trigger a response, be it hugs or milk or simply that we are heard.
Part of what makes writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope so fresh and joyous is that in many key ways it’s not new at all. Here’s a dramatic teen comedy, flavor-crystaled with sex and drugs and innocent raunch, about good friends who get caught up in bad business on their way to…
No one recognized Rick Famuyiwa when he strolled up to the Ladera Park basketball courts on a bright weekday afternoon. In January, the lanky, 41-year-old director’s new comedy, Dope — a crowd-pleasing high school flick about nerds who dress like Kid ‘N Play, dream of going to Harvard and bash…
After a decade of TV work and a not-bad kids flick, director Joe Dante — like his ’03 Looney Tunes — is back in action. But instead of harking to the matinees that once inspired him, his zombie-girlfriend embarrassment Burying the Ex digs back into less promising territory: early seasons of Two and a Half Men…
Grab your plutonium, rev that engine to 88 mph, and hang on tight: Best of Miami 2015 is almost here! Here’s a preview of one of the winners, but check out the entire issue when it hits miamnewstimes.com/bestof tomorrow and newsstands Thursday, June 18. Institute of Contemporary Art 4040 NE…
By now, you must have seen Sunday night’s season five finale of Game of Thrones. And if you haven’t, you were either living under a rock or binge watching Orange is the New Black. (If it was the latter, you’re forgiven.) So if you’re not yet caught up with this…
In the opening scene of his new web series, No Seasons, musician/filmmaker/artist/2014 New Times Mastermind winner, Julian Yuri Rodriguez swings back and forth on a white bench hanging from a tree holding his cellphone while talking into a camera saying, “My name is Julian Yuri Rodriguez, this show is called…
Fun fact: International Picnic Day and Ramadan both fall on Thursday, June 18. That is some cruel coincidental shit. Perhaps those diving into the holy month of discipline could celebrate a day early and feast on the beach? The rest of the faithless populous will undoubtedly Yogi Bear their way…
