Finally, the weekend is here. This weekend offers a diversity of choices for the residents of this fine town: poetry, museums, music and musicals. Whatever you could possibly want to do, you can do it this weekend in Miami. So get out there and enjoy your 48 hours of freedom,…
While the Design District may be Miami’s hottest spot for luxury brands and high-end sports cars, it’s also staying true to its artistic roots. The neighborhood is hosting a series of arts and culture events, and there’s one on the schedule this Saturday. Co-hosted by the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art),…
This year’s Miami Dance Festival features an afternoon of new works this Sunday, covering a variety of dance forms during PAN (Performing Arts Network) Choreographers at Work. For instance, there’s Nina Martin’s tribute to Marcel Marceau. And there’s Colleen Farnum’s original work In Everything I See You, a dance piece…
Dogs are amazing. As our faith in humanity seems to diminish daily, our faith in canine-kind never wavers. Dogs are loyal, loving, obedient, hilarious—and they really know how to let loose and party. That’s what makes O, Miami’s Dogleggers: A Four-Legged Book Exchange event such an inspired idea. The party…
The trolling is coming from inside the house! Mere emojis can’t capture the plugged-in joys of the first hour or so of haunted-internet teen flick Unfriended, which knives with dexterous wit The Way We Live Now.
No show wears its love for language and land more proudly than FX’s Justified, which ended its six-year run this week. Based on a novella by Elmore Leonard and starring squinty-eyed sex symbol Timothy Olyphant, the hillbilly noir never received the critical adulation or the audience one might expect for…
Miami is flourishing with theaters that showcase classic cinema on a regular basis. It’s gotten to the point where it’s practically impossible to keep track of how many there really are, to the point where March’s list became incomplete due to new additions throughout. As such, for April, we’re taking…
Popular Miami graphic artist Rob Cabrera has released his studio’s first eBook, RobART: Sketch, which he hopes is the first of many new and exciting ways he can show aspiring artist how to make their own work. The owner of the an art studio named Creative Squirrels, and a Digital Cartooning…
Here in Miami, we’ve gotten used to landing on best and worst listicles. With our particular brand of tricked-out tropical realness, you either love us or you hate us. Sorry we’re not sorry. For the second year running, Conde Nast Traveler has asked its readers to report on America’s friendliest…
Miami’s own commercial art king Romero Britto is going head-to-head with Apple. According to a lawsuit filed April 6 by Britto Central Inc., the Apple’s latest ad campaign, “Start Something New,” closely resembles Britto’s style. Britto’s lawsuit, which claims copyright infringement and unfair competition, seeks unspecified damages from both Apple…
This weekend, as temperatures swelled and snowbirds flocked back to cooler pastures, Locust Projects celebrated its annual Spring Fling Fundraiser. Apart from raising much needed cash, the event brought together Miami’s local art community during the off-Basel season, proving that the scene is still vibrant without the influx of foreign…
In the Walgreen’s storefront at the corner of Collins Avenue and 23rd Street in Miami Beach, an apocalyptic scene fills the windows. Everyday objects like a basketball and a plastic chair are strewn alongside seaside junk like empty bottles and discarded beach umbrellas. The store, located along a frequently path…
Victor Levin’s 5 to 7 is a romantic drama about a young writer in Manhattan that could be a superhero flick if its leading man wore tights. It’s as much a triumph of boyish wish fulfillment as Peter Parker swinging on skyscrapers.
Truth in film takes another jolly beating in Disneynature’s Monkey Kingdom, a documentary-like nature flick with the last-century chutzpah to pass off its marvelous footage of some months in the life of a single-mom macaque as a full-fledged princess story, with three acts, a tearful exile, and her ascent, in the final reels, to the throne. (Oops, spoiler for the anthropomorphized-monkey movie.)
For any thinking person, little in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s fleet and sweaty Colombian-smuggler thriller Manos Sucias will surprise. Drug-running is work for the broke and desperate; the runners might be less broke after a delivery, but that desperation only grows worse; killing is grim and painful and utterly unlike the…
Even if you think you don’t know the photographs of Sebastião Salgado, you’ve probably seen them. In one of his most famous pictures, taken in the mid-1980s in Mali, a woman whose face is half-hidden by a dark, rough-textured cotton veil, her bearing as elegant as anything you’d see in fashion photography, appears to gaze off into the middle distance.
The sequence that opens True Story tells you plenty about what you’re in for: A rumpled teddy bear drifts down from our vantage point like a puffy brown snowflake, landing with slow-motion deliberateness on the form of a PJ-clad toddler curled up in a suitcase, seemingly asleep.
The Magnificents, like many of the House Theatre of Chicago’s productions, is driven by its transformational set design, drop-down projection screen, and impressive aerial showmanship. The term “dog-and-pony show” applies, though in this case the live animals onstage are a rabbit and a parakeet.
South Beach may be a century old, but the city’s grand Gay Pride celebration is only six years old. Of course, six is the perfect age to appreciate a vibrant and colorful parade, and this year’s Sunday afternoon extravaganza was bigger, brighter, and better than ever. For a few sweaty…
Bill Burr is one angry and funny dude. At least that was the consensus from his new hour of comedy, which he let Miami in on Friday night during the South Beach Comedy Festival. Burr got noticed for his recurring role on the second season Chappelle’s Show and has since…
Mid East Performing Arts Academy For those looking to learn the authentic Middle Eastern dancing styles, the Mid East Performing Arts Academy brings the moves to South Florida. The classes it offers shows techniques of Middle Eastern and Central Asian dancing, including Egyptian styles. Classes are also offered that teach…
Living in Florida means having to defend your home in the face of overwhelming bullshit. Jeb Bush’s latest asinine statements, women driving around bottomless, and representatives giving the OK to block gay adoption are just a few recent doozies to besmirch us all. We can’t let these fools kill our…
