What better way for the Design District’s 101/Exhibit to cap its year than with a grotesque display of terrifying creatures? After all, 2012 was a monster year for the space’s owners, who expanded to a second location in L.A.’s West Hollywood neighborhood in October. That kind of bicoastal success was…
Wait for it… Wait for it…. IT’S FRIDAY! And it’s almost as though we didn’t even have to wait that long, right? Surely enough secret shots under your desk pulled you through the week so Friday came a lot sooner than expected. It’s cool. We don’t judge. Anyway, there’s lots…
In person, Edgar Ramirez has a soft but solemn quality. Bathed in the sunlight shining into the top floor suite of the Soho Beach House in Miami Beach one recent afternoon, his eyes are an iridescent gray. A well-manicured beard of stubble coats his baby-cheeked face, framed by a thick,…
If there’s one word that sums up this century so far, it’s interactive. These days, audiences don’t want to sit and silently watch a film screening or listen to a monotonous lecture. In our modern times of Twitter, Instagram, and digital engagement, they want in on the action. Now, in…
Since President Obama’s announcement that he was chosen as the 2013 inaugural poet, Richard Blanco has become poetry’s most talked about name. But though he’s scheduled to read on one of the biggest stages for poets in the nation — the upcoming presidential inauguration — he hasn’t forgotten his roots…
In Miami, any support of the arts is valuable. But there’s a special kind of supporter with the deepest appreciation of art, people who take change into their own hands and do something more with it than just hanging it up on their living room wall.Meet those special kind of…
One week. Seven Days. One hundred sixty eight hours. Ten thousand eighty minutes… you get the idea. Time is running out for you to submit to this year’s New Times Mastermind Awards, earning you a shot at winning one of the three $1,000 grants we’re giving away to local artists,…
Marlon Wayans is perhaps the most contemplative of the Wayanses, never missing an opportunity to learn more about himself. Take for example, what he took away from a nearly four-hour improvised shoot for a scene in his film A Haunted House, in theaters Friday. “I discovered I can actually — for…
Who’ll save Wynwood from itself? That was the question on many minds at Books & Books in Coral Gables Tuesday night, when ARTtuesdays/MIAMI presented a panel to discuss the future of the district that’s become so successful it’s actually a problem.As New Times reported in 2011, and then the Miami…
Originally slated to open in September, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, suddenly made a scene of gunfire in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre “inappropriate.” Four months later, a turn in the film’s plot that relies on gunning down an adolescent risks recalling Newtown, but the proximity…
What better way for the Design District’s 101/Exhibit to cap its year than a grotesque display of terrifying creatures? After all, 2012 was downright monstrous for the space’s owners, who expanded to a second location in L.A.’s West Hollywood neighborhood in October. That kind of bicoastal success was far from…
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard’s outrageous melodrama Rust and Bone without laughing. Loosely adapted from two works in Craig Davidson’s 2005 short story collection of the same name, Rust and Bone finds Audiard returning to the overdetermined characters and swift…
“Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it,” screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood’s A-list. Unexpected, because just five years ago Beall was busy working for Tinseltown’s second most famous employer, the Los Angeles Police Department, where he…
It’s not easy being famous, as the famous love to remind us. Just ask Jennifer Aniston, Kid Rock, or any of the other instantly recognizable talking heads director Kevin Mazur has assembled for his docu-evisceration of the parasitic celebrity apparatus, appropriately titled $ellebrity. Although no one would deny that the…
It’s almost impossible to dislike Chris Colfer, the young Glee star who wrote and stars in the high school comedy Struck by Lightning, which plays like a cheerful gay Revenge of the Nerds. However, never having seen Glee, I’ll make two observations about Colfer: (1) Yes, he’s very likable, but…
When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong Il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Jong Il, who ruled the hermetic North Korea from his father Kim Il Sung’s death in 1994 until his own passing 17 years later, was a noted…
For aficionados of bold, abstract metal sculptures, two artists at Pan American Art Projects (2450 NW Second Ave., Miami) offer contrasting visions through works that are both unexpected and gravity-defying. Ted Larsen’s show, “Gimrack,” boasts salvaged steel and mixed-media pieces rife with color and unpredictable shapes. The labor-intensive sculptures are…
Theresa Caputo licks her lips, clicks her French-manicured acrylic nails, and takes a deep breath of the afterlife. In a flash, your dead grandma, holding a bouquet of roses, appears to her. Your other dead grandma is there with a white dove. These, Caputo insists, are symbols she receives and…
What better way to kick off a healthful new year than by socking it to that rat bastard known as diabetes. The Sunshine State’s culinary hero, Norman Van Aken, is guest-cheffing a tasty evening to benefit research for the cure. The master of New World cuisine will make edible magic…
Nothing brings people together like a thick-accented New York Italian barking orders and baking cakes. No, this isn’t a Martin Scorsese and Rachael Ray mashup. This is the star of TLC’s Cake Boss, Buddy Valastro, coming to the Fillmore (1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) this Sunday at 8 p.m. The…
When acclaimed choreographer Liam Scarlett teamed up with Miami City Ballet last year, the results were dazzling. The young prodigy, then just 25 years old and choreographing for Britain’s Royal Ballet, brought his original work Viscera to the Arsht Center (1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami), where it was spectacularly performed by…
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is back in town, taking over the American Airlines Arena (601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) for 17 shows beginning Thursday. This time, “The Greatest Show on Earth” has pulled out all the stops to dazzle and delight with ferocious, fire-breathing dragons in honor of…
