Tigertail Productions has made its name in South Florida as the “pioneer of innovative art,” and the tradition continues with two new poetry residencies beginning in February. Poets and spoken-word artists Andrea Assaf and George Yamazawa will give Miami’s youth the opportunity to learn more about themselves and the creative…
While the rest of the country impatiently awaits Punxsutawney Phil’s informed opinion on the duration of winter, it’s a moot point for us. Instead, we can pretty accurately predict sunny skies and 75-degree temps. Ain’t life grand in paradise? And in the spirit of making the most of what this…
Jill Soloway, who has described her new series, Transparent, as just like any other family series, understands the difficulty of family. Her feature debut, Afternoon Delight, proved as much; exploring the unhappiness of marriage, it’s a perfectly blunt, comic approach to depicting a woman who couldn’t cope with the boredom…
In 1992, Disney took a chance on a little story about scrappy newsboys who formed a union and changed the industry. The movie, Newsies, bombed in the theaters. But nearly two decades later, Disney adapted the movie to a live-action musical and began to reap the rewards of their hard…
Every year, New Times accepts applications for our annual MasterMind Awards. This year we received more than 120 applications, and though it was a difficult choice, we’ve whittled it down to ten finalists. Each of our finalists will be featured in a upcoming issue of New Times. In addition, they’ll…
If you’re a real Miamian, you’re probably thinking that the recent cold snap is practically a winter blizzard. So put on the Floridian’s equivalent of winter wear (it’s called a sweatshirt) and get yourself ready for the weekend. The city has a lot to offer this weekend, from opera to…
Halfway through Laura Gabbert’s documentary City of Gold, a salute to Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize–winning food critic’s brother Mark reveals a dark family secret: Gold grew up devouring iceberg lettuce and orange Jell-O. Every day, we eat. It’s a must. And those meals tell a story: The peanut sauce…
Miami Ocean Studios is in negotiations to lease 160 acres of land between the Palmetto Expressway and Florida’s Turnpike. The company expects to begin construction next year on a “Hollywood-class” studio. The land being negotiated falls just north of Opa-locka Executive Airport near the Dade-Broward county line and is currently…
Tuesday night in Wynwood, interested possible applicants, proud previous winners, and engaged Miamians gathered at Gramps for the Knight Arts Challenge Kickoff event, sponsored by Infraculture. A major funding project of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Knight Arts Challenge awarded $2.29 million to 47 projects last…
Tuesday at the recently renovated Tower Theater on Calle Ocho, Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the lineup for its 32nd edition. Running from March 6 to 15, with screenings at seven theaters throughout Miami-Dade County, MIFF will exhibit 125 films from 40 countries. They include 94…
It’s hard not to look at the poster for Dolphin Lover and immediately wonder whether the documentary is serious. It doesn’t get much more provocative than the words “This man had sex with a dolphin,” and it’s a surefire way to pull folks in to Kareem Tabsch and Joey Daoud’s…
The world needs fewer tasteful movies about distasteful things. It definitely doesn’t need J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, in which Oscar Isaac plays a nouveau-riche heating-oil baron in early-1980s New York who’s striving to maintain his principles amid industry corruption and generally scummy behavior. Isaac’s Abel Morales skulks through…
There are few hard-and-fast rules in screenwriting, but here’s one we can probably agree on: Something has gone wrong if your crowd-pleasing family drama asks audiences to hope a child’s father proves to be a crackhead. That’s one baffling turn in Mike Binder’s Black or White, a movie about race…
Most of us can’t imagine having a disease that tugs and tears at the very threads of who we are. When we wake up in the middle of the night with outlandish fears, we strike reassuring bargains with ourselves: If I lose my sight, I’ll still have music. If I…
While many of Oscar’s big shots clock in at more than two hours (led by favorite Boyhood, at 165 minutes), some filmmakers remain committed to telling unique and inventive stories that don’t require viewers to set aside an entire night to enjoy. The Academy Award-nominated short films — which, for…
Where we come from defines us more than we even realize: That’s the idea implicit in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s somber, sturdily elegant drama Leviathan, in which a mechanic who has lived on the same parcel of land all his life — as his father and grandfather did before him — resists…
Let’s leap back to 1994. Grunge and gangsta rap dominated MTV — music that claimed to be gritty and honest. Yet that year in Orlando, as far away from Seattle as it gets, a Ponzi-scheme scam artist named Lou Pearlman selected five lads aged 14 to 21 to form the…
Jude Law, once so shiny-penny-clean and pretty — and with the kind of chin dimple that might have inspired Audrey Hepburn to ask, as she did of Cary Grant in Charade, “How do you shave in there?” — is only now reaching the age where we can call his face…
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, Bruce Hornsby, piano/vocalist.Three world premieres in one incredible performance! Ride the cutting edge of contemporary music and other art forms as MTT leads an evening exclusively dedicated to new work. Composer Michael Gordon, a Miami Beach native and co-founder of New York’s Bang on a Can…
In Miami on April 22, 1988, Manuel Mendive’s painting El Pavo Real was set on fire. The Cuban painter’s work had been purchased at a fundraising auction for the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, but its buyers weren’t exactly art collectors. Rather, the winners of the auction were members…
A.C. Slater is about to earn his rainbow stripes. Heartthrob, actor, and entertainer Mario Lopez has been named grand marshal of the upcoming Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade. An LGBTQ advocate, longtime supporter of GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), and a multifaceted performer extraordinaire, Lopez is a…
Have you ever needed to return a mail-order purchase and missed the cut-off date because the thought of going to the post office made you want to kill yourself? Say hello to Shyp — a let-someone-else-do-it-for-you shipping service that conveniently gets you lower rates — now serving Miami. Have you…
