If the New Theatre’s 1-Acts Festival were a Black Friday deal, people would be clawing each other’s eyes out just to get a piece. The two shows of the festival (December 21 to 22) will comprise a total of 16 short plays — the works of 16 playwrights, 16 different…
It was a difficult year for theater in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Plantation’s Mosaic Theatre, whose sudden closure was announced this month, was the third quality company to shutter for various reasons, after the Caldwell in Boca Raton and the Promethean in Davie. Luckily, Delray’s Theatre at Arts Garage…
If you love bikinis, basketball, or women who get into both, Christmas has come early for you this year. The Miami Spice Bikini Basketball team has chosen its roster, and we’re serving up photos and interviews of 12 of its newly named members. Consider it our Christmas gift to you…
Downtown Miami’s about to get another exciting upgrade. Renowned architect Zaha Hadid will design her first skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere across from the new Museum Park, investors Gregg Covin and Louis Birdman announced yesterday. The new tower will rise at 1000 Biscayne Blvd., on the site of the current…
Cirque du Soleilʼs latest extravaganza, TOTEM, will swing, twist, and contort its way into Sun Life Stadium come January 10. TOTEM takes audiences on an evolutionary journey with the human species, from our original amphibian state to our ultimate desire to fly. From tribal spectacles to science and technology, the…
Christmas in South Florida isn’t exactly your traditional celebration. There’s no softly falling snow, no chestnuts roasting on open fires, and hot cocoa just doesn’t taste the same in 80-degree weather. But the folks behind Hialeah Haikus, the collection of funny-because-it’s-true verse that made Miami actually want to read poetry…
As this week’s apocalypse approaches, many of us are mulling how best to spend the end times. Volunteering for charity? Spending quality time with family? Drinking ourselves into oblivion? While all of these options sound appealing, we think the best way to spend your last hours on earth is by…
H&M continued its South Florida domination with Friday’s opening of a new location in the shopping Shangri-La known as Aventura Mall. With two massive outposts of the Swedish brand opening less than a month apart, it seems that no one can stop affordable fashion from infiltrating Miami. Throngs of eager…
“Anyone in here ever have any experience with hypnosis?” comedy hypnotist, Rich Alexander, asked the audience before he “zapped” filmmaker Amy Seimetz at Borscht’s screening of her directorial debut, Sun Don’t Shine, at O Cinema.With Borscht’s ever-unconventional methods of promoting experimental indie film work, it’s no surprise that a screening…
Allison Kotzig’s shocking vagina art took us by surprise at the Hangar Gallery in Wynwood during Art Basel week.Then New Times art critic Carlos Suarez De Jesus named it one of Basel’s weirdest pieces.So we caught up with Kotzig by phone and found out what inspired it, how she made…
When Borscht 8 wrapped up Saturday night, just about every person pouring out of the Arsht Center had a smile on his face. The festival, which screened 20 films in total, drew a sizable, vocal crowd who cheered on their favorite films and filmmakers. And with good reason — even…
Shaq went on a laser blasting rampage at the upscale Fontainebleau club Arkadia Saturday night. The guy’s a prankster, and no one can stop him.His platinum selling All-Star Comedy Jam was in the house with Courvoisier to celebrate a successful year of touring.Comedians Lavar Walker, Capone, and Finesse Mitchell cracked…
This is it. The last week before one of two events: A) the Apocalypse or B) Christmas. Either way, you’ve got a hell of a lot to accomplish in the next several days. Finish your shopping, prepare the last supper, hire a priest for your final rites. You know, the…
Like many people in town for Art Basel last week, Miami pop artist Romero Britto went shopping for new works to add to his personal collection in Wynwood. Unlike most people, Britto came home with a piece of canvas painted by Bubbles, the celebrity chimpanzee. The jokes, they write themselves…
Here we thought we knew everything there was to know about painter Kenny Scharf, and then he surprises us. He may not be a Miami native, but Scharf lived in the city during the ’90s, which during the time his pieces were exhibited at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale,…
Motorcycles, excepting steam powered and diesel fuelers, were invented in Germany in 1885. The Reitwagen housed an internal combustion engine that burned petroleum fuel. Hot chicks have been attracted to them ever since. So it’s only right that Hamburg, Germany’s Erik Vauth and his House Of Thunder dealership moves into Wynwood…
When the opening scene of Real Housewives of Miami is pouring rain, you know the editing guy with a degree in drama is thinking, “Self, this is pure genius! What a scene I am creating!”And yeah, he did — but these ladies created a shitshow all on their very own…
The folks at Borscht Corp. are having a tough couple weeks. First, they received a cease-and-desist letter from Chris Bosh, the subject of artist Bleeding Palm’s trippy homage Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse, just weeks before tonight’s planned Bosh Film Festival. Then, earlier this week, they experienced trouble…
Matt & Kim are back! The DWNTWN Miami Concert Series is still happening. Borscht 8 is tomorrow. New Found Glory came home. Who said life after Basel was impossible? One of the many beauties of the Magic City is that no matter what, there is always something to do. In…
At about 8:30 p.m. last night, the atmosphere in Katsuya, the lounge-y Japanese restaurant at the SLS South Beach, will filled with anticipation. Rumor spread through the dining room that Brooklyn Nets player Kris Humphries had made a reservation for dinner — and that his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, was on…
It’s time to add another title to the list of films shot in South Florida. The Magic City tells the story of a handful of a Liberty City community: Tiana and Nia, sisters who are abandoned by their drug-addicted mother; Georgia, the aunt who takes them in; and their neighbors,…
Seriously, almost an hour passes before he exits that door.With the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Peter Jackson has given the world 162 minutes of imaginative visions never before realized on a movie screen, save for those in Jackson’s previous 12 hours of Middle Earth adventures. It’s not…
