This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, take in some poetry and relive Dr. King’s message of defeating barriers during “Poetry that Breaks Silence: An MLK Day of Service Event.” The program, a collaboration between Florida International University’s (FIU) Arts and Sciences MFA Department, the City of Sunrise, Broward College, and…
The weekend is finally here. All hail the weekend! There’s a lot of great stuff going on in the Magic City this weekend, from chocolate festivals to micro-theater to concerts, fitness and film. Enjoy your weekend, Miami. You’ve earned it. See also: The Ten Best Comedy Acts in Miami in…
Here’s the pipsqueak who has hauled himself up into a sharp-dressed leading man. Here’s the comic who’s boundlessly inventive in his swearing but also suave and commanding in pursuit of love, the motormouth horndog who yawps about like a puppy on fire but can melt your mother’s heart with his…
By Fernando Gonzalez, artburstmiami.com We’ll never know what Mr. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would’ve made of Ms. Kelly Clarkson, but the first movement of “A Little Night Music” flowing into Clarkson’s “Since You’ve Been Gone” certainly makes for a startling mash-up. Welcome to the world of Well-Strung, a singing string quartet…
If you’re looking to get your funny bone tickled, then 2015 is going to be a good year. This year the Magic City plays host to some marquee comics from mainstream, observational comics like Jerry Seinfeld and Seth Meyers to improv groups like The Groundlings and Second City and funny…
If you think comic conventions are solely for people into comics, then you’re sorely mistaken. In fact, one of the biggest draws lately seems to be all those television stars we so love to hang out with, even if it’s just for a few seconds and to snap a wacky…
Did Mad Cat’s Paul Tei select Neil Simon’s The Star-Spangled Girl despite the fact that it’s a bad play or because of it? This is an unusual question to ponder when attending a play, but Mad Cat operates on a different plane of reality from most companies, a headspace so…
An Alonzo King dance is almost unimaginable without facility of movement, those forcefully shifting patterns of gorgeous bodies that make for a seductive surface. Yet what gives greater value to the program this San Francisco-based choreographer’s LINES Ballet is bringing to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center this weekend is…
In Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) — an astoundingly talented marksman credited with more than 160 confirmed kills in Iraq — runs into a fellow veteran at a mechanic’s shop between deployments. The soldier shows Kyle an artificial leg and thanks him for saving his…
In the opening moments of Two Days, One Night, a working-class Belgian woman named Sandra (Marion Cotillard) wakes from a midday nap, takes a phone call, removes a tart from the oven, pops a pill, and begs herself not to cry. With a sense of having arrived in the middle…
Forget its generic title, its breakup setup, and its indie-standard Brooklyn walk-and-talks: Writer/director Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior is the freshest comedy of life and love in the city since Obvious Child. Hilarious and heartbroken, Akhavan stars as Shirin, a bisexual Iranian-American video artist just bounced from her lover’s Gowanus apartment…
Anyone who loves Michael Mann movies, or even just the idea of Michael Mann movies, accepts that film style is a language and something more, a way of thinking, feeling, and looking that goes beyond basic plotting, dialogue, or character motivation. I can tell you pretty much everything that happens…
Emerson argued that each flourish and tendril of a work of art has its exact corollary in the mind of the artist, that creative expression is always, in its way, a sort of autobiography: Want to know the person? Look at her works. But Ralph Waldo never lived to see…
Making Space: Beyond a Room is a multi-media exhibition that builds upon the discussion of women’s creative practice and access presented in Virginia Woolf’s 1929 feminist essay, “A Room of One’s Own.” This exhibition examines the current status of creative space for female artists today and how this space is…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was a guest on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show last night, and a roast of Florida broke out. Eh, let’s be honest — we deserve it. Funny is funny. Rubio was on the show to promote his new book American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone,…
While the rest of the nation is still shoveling out snow in puffy, shell jackets, and colossal boots, South Floridians get to enjoy 80-degree sun rays in a perma-paradise. For us, spring and summer come everyday. Well, save for that annual week of cold weather when layering twenty tanks upon…
January 12 marked the fifth anniversary of the earthquake that left 220,000 people dead and another 300,000 injured in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. Despite humanitarian aid and efforts to help with rebuilding efforts, the country still faces a host of challenges. The Novack family of Miami is stepping in…
For most of us, the concept of paying it forward began and ended with the credits of a Haley Joel Osment movie. For Miguel “Mike” Fernandez, it’s a lifelong lesson. Fernandez, who immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba at 12, started private equity firm MBF Healthcare Partners in Coral Gables…
In the world of dance and movement, utilizing film as a medium opens up a new world of options not available in live, site-specific performance. Boundaries can be broken, the laws of physics can be defied — when film is involved, anything is possible. And here in Miami, anything is…
Among many other things, Girls has always been great satire, lampooning with scolding empathy the callowness, narcissism, and insufferableness of early-to-mid twentysomethings who are privileged enough to spend their post-grad years making mistake after mistake with no serious consequences. But the HBO dramedy’s fourth season, in which Hannah (Lena Dunham)…
Miami Artist Magnus Sodamin is obsessed with size. Large canvases, broad brushstrokes, sides of walls, Sodamin’s chaotic aesthetic is barely contained by the large surfaces on which he paints. There’s nothing too big for Sodamin, in 2014 the artist wrapped an entire roller coaster. Sodamin debuted his first solo show…
“It’s what teens do,” Samantha Van Dresser told the New York Times. “Especially in Florida.” The Florida teen was the focus of a story that outlined growing concerns about indoor tanning in America and the health side effects that come with prolonged exposure to UV rays. The key words here…
