This doesn’t feel like a film that exists. How is George Miller’s bonkers, exhausting, no-future smash-’em-up Mad Max: Fury Road not one of those almost-was boondoggles mourned and dreamed of by fans, a revered director’s impossible vision that, thanks to the unstout hearts of studio bean counters, never actually vaulted…
Blues legend Bessie Smith was arguably America’s most powerful black woman during her heyday in the 1920s and ’30s. Her reign wasn’t just based on being the highest-paid African-American entertainer of her generation, but, according to the new HBO movie Bessie…
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA) announced last year that they would be building a new space to house their collection. Designed by renowned Spanish architectural firm Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos, the rendering showed a sizable modern space defined – as is the style – by open spaces and natural…
Mother’s Day is a costly tradition: Buying her love and staving off that bad seed guilt takes a lot of capital. Whether you successfully brought Mom a smile or not, you’ll never see that flower money again. Now that the holiday is over, you can get back to the fun…
Everything’s got a dark side, even a yo-yo. The spinning trinket offers good clean fun to kids of all ages, but the business behind it can be a mucky trench of jealousy, subterfuge, and espionage. Ask Ken Russell, current candidate for City of Miami Commissioner, and former yo-yo businessman and…
In March, the Miami International Film Festival hosted the Florida premiere of Iris, with fashion icon Iris Apfel herself in the audience, watching the film for the first time. Minutes before, while chatting in the back room of O Cinema Miami Beach, she’d revealed it was her first time watching…
Ernest Hemingway once quipped: “Write drunk, edit sober.” And long after his death, it’s still pretty applicable advice. Tonight the Miami Writer’s Institute is hosting an evening happy hour for program participants and Miami locals interested in writing and publishing. The Miami Writer’s Institute, part of The Center for Literature…
#CubanWaysToDie has been trending on Twitter this week, finally bringing awareness to millions of Twitter followers around the world that the struggle is real. If you’re the child of Cuban immigrants, then you know what we’re talking about. The chancletazos. The “eyes” from your abuela when you’re misbehaving at Sedano’s…
The month of May brings to mind bursts of spring, the birth of new life and possibilities in our minds. Though we try to savor the short season, it slips away quickly to make way for the languidness of summer. While those days bring travel and exploration to some, most…
The weekend is finally here, and you’ve earned your time to kick back and unwind. This weekend, MIami offers up some warm weather-appropriate entertainment, from theater (indoor to keep you cool), to getting drunk at Zoo Miami. Don’t forget that Sunday is Mother’s Day, so make sure to treat the…
“I’m over people who think they’re funnier than the movie,” says LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson, in the wake of her recent piece, “Stop Laughing At Old Movies, You $@%&ing Hipsters.” Joining her — *in the same room, for the first time ever on the podcast* — as usual…
In another progressive step towards the thaw of the U.S. – Cuba embargo, the United States has announced it will once again allow ferry service between Florida and Cuba. At least four companies have been approved to begin operations, some of which will commence as early as this summer. Those…
If art’s interpretation is truly 90% in the beholder’s eye and ten percent whatever the beholder’s been fed by the artist and/or gallerist/institution, then Locust Projects’ recent opening, Roberto Gómez’s “What Happens When Nothing Happens” and Mia Feuer’s “Mesh,” had a particular resonance with this writer for a number or…
When audiences see the two pieces Vladimir Issaev has planned for his Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida’s Spring Gala, it won’t be the first time the company has presented these ballets. However, the artistic director believes each time he and his company breathe new life into them. The traditional Spring…
Despite the hubbub around Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter, we all know there’s one holiday that trumps all the others: Mother’s Day. This once-a-year tribute to the women who birthed us is the the granddaddy mommy of occasions, and screwing it up isn’t an option. This year, instead of trotting your…
Loss is a universal truth. As horrific as it is to face the loss of a loved one, especially in a very sudden way, but even in death, there is always a reminder that life is a force that can’t easily be stopped, or as author Elizabeth Alexander’s husband told…
By now, Martine Rothblatt is used to making headlines. She’s launched four extremely successful and totally diverse ventures that have revolutionized telecommunications and life sciences industries. She’s the highest paid female executive in the world, earning $38 million in 2013. She’s a trans woman and an activist for transgender rights…
Returning to her hometown after a 15 year stint in New York City, 34-year-old dancer/choreographer Hattie Mae Williams’ first year back in Miami has been marked with artistic achievements, including a grant from the Knight Foundation to develop site specific dance works at the Miami Marine Stadium and the Venetian…
Sofia Vergara is built like an amphora, a living testament to the form ceramicists throughout the centuries have adored. In the fleet and gloriously ridiculous comedy Hot Pursuit, Vergara plays Daniella Riva, a mobster’s wife who needs to be escorted from San Antonio to Dallas, where she’ll testify against the head of a major drug cartel.
“I’m an optimist,” says Cuban journalist Yoani Sanchez, “if I wasn’t an optimist I wouldn’t be able to live in Cuba. You need a lot of optimism to live in Cuba,” Sanchez said during a panel discussion at the eMerge Americas conference on May 4. Sanchez made the comment during…
Lincoln Road in known for many things these days– $15 lobster tails, parking lots out of Architectural Digest, and sunburned European tourists. As the strip quickly morphs into a cosmopolitan shopping mall, one of the places responsible for the area’s boom closes its doors. This Saturday, The ArtCenter South Florida…
Various performers this season have brought us thought-provoking takes on black masculinity. Both Nora Chipaumire’s powerful paean for her father, presented in December at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, and Shaneeka Harrell’s look at Cassius Clay, shown at the Miami Light Box during O, Miami, examined how the image of…
