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…
One of Wynwood’s oldest galleries is closing two of its show-stopping exhibits this weekend. When Locust Projects opened its doors, it was the first artistic outpost in a neighborhood mostly marked by warehouses, junkyards, and tire fires. Yet this Saturday they celebrate the close of Robert Gomez’s What Happens When Nothing…
Several Miami artists are in the running for a hefty wad of cash, courtesy of the Orlando Museum of Art. Dubbed the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, the annual award, now in its second year, recognizes one notable artist who’s contributing to the state’s increasingly awesome range of cultural offerings…
The weekend is finally here, and this weekend Miami offers up music, art, and a food festivals. So get out there and enjoy your weekend Miami. You’ve earned it. Friday: Taste of Caribbean at Hyatt Regency Miami: The event brings together the top chefs and bartenders from the Caribbean. Huey Lewis…
It’s took Carson Kievman almost 30 years to bring Intelligent Systems – The Surrender of Self in Mystical Contemplation to the light of day. Originally commissioned by the prestigious Donaueschingen Music Festival, Kievman’s story is one of transformation through chaos, the composer patiently for technology to catch up with the visions…
Next week marks the start of E3 in Los Angeles, one of the most highly-anticipated events in the video game industry. E3 (that’s the Electronic Entertainment Expo, for the uninitiated) is the place where you’ll find some of the most highly-anticipated announcements in video games, along with chances to play…
Given imminent sea level rise and our oceanfront locale, Miami is in for an underwater future. Hence the timeliness of the Frost Museum of Science’s 4th Annual Underwater Festival. The annual event is in honor of the global World Oceans Day, and the 2015 theme is Coasts, Reefs and Open…
Prison life is reliably repetitive, but conditions can be frighteningly unstable, too. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, which returns for its third season on June 12, reflects that paradoxical state of affairs by delivering more of the same — heartfelt but complicated relationships, inspired capers, compelling personalities, stomach-twisting flips…
Tired of the same old Art Walk? This Saturday, venture outside of Wynwood and over to the Design District for graffiti artist Remote’s first solo exhibition. In it, Remote takes hazardous waste and turns it into mind-altering pieces of art. Dubbed “Sprayskull,” the three night pop-up show at 3801 N…
The powers-that-be at the freshly minted Institute of Contemporary Art are quite used to getting what they want. The board, comprised of former m embers of MOCA North Miami, walked away from their long tenure at MOCA with enough art and museum staff to open a new, privately funded museum…
Another week and more to do. This week Miami offers up some great new museum exhibitions, live music, and interleague baseball. Even legendary author Judy Blume can’t resist the 305, she’ll be visiting to read from her latest book. Here are some of the best bets for this week: THU…
In Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic Park reboot — set 22 years after dinosaurs began walking the Earth, again — brontosauruses, stegosauruses, and velociraptors have become old hat, sort of like the mechanical Abe Lincoln at Disney World. Meanwhile, the habitat around them has gone Vegas.
A New York judge has ordered that businessman Marc Schiller’s lawsuit over his portrayal in the movie Pain & Gain, which was originally filed in April 2014, must now be transferred from the Empire State to South Florida. The case will now be heard in a federal court in Miami…
Twenty years ago, long before everybody else was doing it, Miami’s City Theatre launched a festival of ten-minute plays. Summer Shorts, theatergoers’ annual kickoff to the steamy season in South Florida, has withstood a handful of reboots in its two-decade run, experimenting with celebrity actors, adults-only programming, and unprofitable Broward…
Have you been outside lately? It’s sticky and gross, right? What if we told you it doesn’t have to be that way? What if we told you there are numerous ways to cool off and stay cool right here in the 305? It’s true. From unorthodox ice cream to jumping…
“I hate myself.” That’s an unusual statement coming from the hero of an animated film, let alone in the first two minutes. But 12-year-old orphan Anna (Sara Takatsuki), the protagonist of Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s lovely anime When Marnie Was There, has no illusions about her place in the world
A romance about wanting to see a romance, a comic tragedy about an onlooker willing something tragic, Anne Fontaine’s Flaubert-inspired meta-pleasure Gemma Bovery takes as its subject the act of watching the lives around us — and of wishing those lives were literature.
How convinced you’ll be by Soaked in Bleach, the latest vehicle for the Kurt-was-murdered theory the private investigator Tom Grant has now megaphoned for two decades, will hinge on how plausible you find its portrait of the Nirvana frontman approaching his end. The film insists that Cobain, far from the…
As many journalists, bloggers and fiercely loyal locals like to report, Miami is in the midst of a cultural renaissance. Of course, in any renaissance, art is a key ingredient, and artists need somewhere to live. But with the prices in Wynwood out of reach and rents rising rapidly in…
This week brings great news for all the foodies and hungry hungover messes of Miami. Today kicks off Coral Gables Restaurant Week, that magical time of year when three-course, prix-fixe menus at discounted prices take over your favorite neighborhood eateries for three whole weeks. As we know you’ll be kissing those paychecks goodbye…
“I started in 1980,” says Dr. Carson Kievman, composer and founder of SoBe Institute of the Arts, “I got an NEA fellowship back when they actually had those for individual artists and I was inspired. There was a publication, a new publication by Stephen Hawking on the ‘Big Bang Theory’…
Apparently leather skin is no longer hip in South Florida. After all these year of gloating to our northern neighbors about how the sun always shines here in Miami, science has caught up with us to inform us that melanoma is, in fact, a real thing and actually pretty shitty…
