New Times‘ Mastermind Awards Deadline is Today

Last chance, artists. When the clock strikes midnight tonight, it’ll be too late to add your name to the list of New Times’ Mastermind Award hopefuls, snagging $1,000 and exposure in print and online. Look, you can’t say we didn’t warn you. But even if your master procrastinating skills have…

The Selling of the Governator, 2013

We’re now a generation removed from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s brief, odd reign as the biggest star in movies. This Coppertone age lasted from 1990, when two of the 10 top-grossing pictures were Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall and Kindergarten Cop, until 1993, when Last Action Hero — an attempt at a tonal gene…

Serfs Up

Nearly everyone who’s rented an apartment in Miami knows that Magic City landlords can be a little shady. And unless you’re best friends with a lawyer willing to write threatening official letters on your behalf, you’re pretty much at your landlord’s mercy. Until now. Seattle Solidarity, or SeaSol for short,…

Dancing Into Flora

During Botanica, the latest high-tech performance from the Momix troupe, the dancers bloom. No, really. Through fantastical costumes, set designs, and special effects, flowers blossom, creatures emerge, and the entire stage comes to life in vibrant colors and with brilliant props. It’s all set to music from Vivaldi mixed with…

(More Than) 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

There are 81 reasons not to visit Marlins Park. They’re called home games. Until Jeffrey Loria sells the team to a group of owners who give a damn about winning, the Fish will almost certainly continue to swim in Major League Baseball’s pond of relative obscurity. Lucky for us, the…

Kings of Calle Ocho

Every year from Helsinki to Hell’s Kitchen, the Christian world celebrates Three Kings Day, the “epiphany” holiday that honors three magic wise men seeking and finding a holy baby in a haystack. Taking place every year in early January, it signals the official end of the Christmas season. But here…

Jazz Age Jams

Nearly 300,000 enthusiasts of our city’s architectural heritage will gather en masse this weekend to celebrate the neon signs, geometric shapes, and pastel colors that characterize art deco, Miami Beach’s defining, historic architectural style. It’s Art Deco Weekend, hosted by the Miami Design Preservation League and taking over Ocean Drive…

Never Grow Up

Animate! Miami is a revamped addition to this year’s slate of conventions dedicated to Miami’s geek scene — this time focusing purely on anime and animation. Voice actors form the bulk of the celebrity guests — most notably including the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic cast, who’ll hold court…

Bloody Good Time

Your eyes are swollen shut, their broken vessels leaking fluid, turning black and blue from the beating your opponent just gave you. But your nostrils are pumping victory, a pungent mix of hard-fought blood and sweat that’s rising off the mat like steam into your pounding champion’s heart and back…

Art on a Boat

Feel like hobnobbing with blue-haired collectors and socialites while toasting with a flute of bubbly aboard a mega-yacht like a snazzy art world player? If so, then mosey over to Bayfront Park this weekend, where the good ship SeaFair docked at the Intercontinental Hotel (100 Chopin Plaza, Miami) hosts the…