The Longest Ride is Nicholas Sparks’ most ambitious novel. Instead of one couple, there are two — and he’s even stretched out of his blond/Southern/Christian comfort zone to make the older pair Jewish.
When you’re young, to be old — even just the 44 kind of old — is unimaginable. Yet no one who has ever turned 44, or 54 or 74, can tell you how it happened. There’s no single moment of passing to the other side of the looking glass; the…
The screen version of any long-running comic-book superhero inevitably feels thin compared to the richly detailed idea of that hero in the minds of the fans who grew up with it. Five movies in, no Hollywood Spider-Man has yet embodied, all at once, the comic iteration’s glorious contradictions.
It’s official, the Science Barge is setting sail in Miami. The floating laboratory, classroom and tourist attraction was granted $298,633 as part of the nationwide Knight Cities Challenge competition. Submitted by nonprofit CappSci (a science innovation organization), the barge was one of 32 “civic innovators” to be granted an award in…
Happy Monday, Miami! We can guess how many of you are feeling on this bright post-Easter day: You’re sluggish from ham consumption and ten too many chocolate bunnies. You feel guilt about said gluttony, guilt only made worse by that once-a-year church visit and the latest TV retelling of Christ’s…
It takes a wise guy from Boston with a disregard for giving a crap to rant about Steve Jobs. “He told other people what to invent,” is comedian Bill Burr’s joke. For Burr, politically correct banter isn’t part of his nature, and it’s what makes him one of the best…
Unless you’re a climate change denier (PLEASE say you’re not a climate change denier), it’s pretty clear that South Florida is in serious trouble with sea level rise. Miami will sink, and soon, if we don’t start addressing this issue in a major way. At the first-ever Climakaze, artists, scientists…
The weekend is finally here and, as always, there’s plenty to do in the 305. This weekend brings comedy, contemporary dance, modern classical music, a BBQ festival, and the inevitable DJ performance. New Times has rounded up your ten best bets for this weekend. Happy weekend, Miami. Friday: Lyric Live…
Art and poetry collide in Speech Actions, a week-long sound project hosted at Meta-Gallery. The event will combine transformative elements and sensory exploration to create a unique artistic experience. Speech Actions is the brainchild of Guillermo León Gómez, a multidisciplinary artist who is currently artist-in-residence at Cannonball. The event itself…
Daniella Levine Cava, Miami-Dade County Commissioner representing District 8, is on a mission to ensure that Miami’s women receive equal pay for equal work. Levine Cava is currently drafting legislation that would ban pay discrimination across the county. The legislation would essentially enact the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of…
Country fans have Nashville. Hip-hop fans have Empire. And now, Latin American music fans have South Beach. Produced by Miami-based Dolphin Entertainment, Hulu’s upcoming musical soap opera, though fictional, is rooted in South Florida. Born from the desire to film a show in his hometown, Dolphin President and South Beach…
There’s only so much that the Stairmaster can do for your butt after years of climbing the stairway to nowhere. Stagnant workout routines are definitely a first world problem, and one that I was desperately suffering from until I discovered Classpass. Sure, I would do yoga here and there but…
Ever since he graduated from New World School of the Arts, Magnus Sodamin has kept himself pretty busy. His first show, “Into The Rainbow Vein,” opened to rave reviews, he started a year long residency at the Deering Estate, and last Thursday he premiered the latest installment in his oeuvre: Infinity…
Ultra is finally over: goodbye costumed teenager ravers and goodbye to all of the celebrities who swooped in to our beautiful city for a few days. From Weezy to a Kardashian sister, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande and the return of Justin Bieber, Miami was practically drenched in celebrities. In between…
Furious 7 and While We’re Young are two very different movies — one’s all synchronized driving and explosions, the other’s all sorta-depressed New Yorkers who don’t drive — but both receive generally positive reviews from Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, and Amy Nicholson of LA Weekly,…
Mad Men has always been, among many other things, about the exit of the old guard and the entrance of the new — and the acceleration of that transition by the mood and the movements of the Sixties. The pilot, set in 1960, finds the Sterling Cooper higher-ups scrambling to…
It’s great to be the smartest guy in the room if you’re a president, economist, or engineer. It’s less than great if you’re Baruch Spinoza — the pioneering 17th-century Dutch philosopher, Enlightenment thinker, and pantheistic provocateur behind the seminal tome Ethics.
For the second year, South Floridians can get in touch with their inner Francophiles as Tigertail Productions offers 30 consecutive days of French-inspired cultural events during the FLA-FRA Festival beginning Wednesday. “I was looking for groups that were part of the French diaspora, the Francophone,” explains Tigertail Productions Founder and…
As if dating in this town isn’t hard enough, Tinder is here to remind the woman of Miami that rock bottom is actually a lot deeper than we previously thought. Oh sure, it’s great for a laugh, and its even enjoyable when you’re drunk and trolling Tinder guys with your…
You may, like me, have seen all of the Fast and Furious movies, and you may, like me, have enjoyed most or many of them. You may also, like me, have a hard time remembering exactly what happened in each film. You needn’t worry.
If you’ve ever played music or even just attempted to coax a pleasing sound from a keyboard or a guitar string, you may have some sense of the dissonant signals that the desire to make music can set off…
When Miami Beach reinvented itself post-hurricane in the late-1920s, Art Deco was the style du jour. New and reactionary, Art Deco served as a modernist response to the natural, nouveau style that preceded it. Chamber ensemble Nu Deco embodies those same principles of creative reinvention. Miami’s brand new chamber ensemble…
