It’s summer! Well, okay, it’s not officially summertime until June 20. And only kids really have a summer vacation, so you might not get any time off work to take a vacation of your own. But you can’t deny it’s hot as hell outside. So… Summertime! Hooray!Even if these next…
There’s nothing like Art Basel to remind you of your sad station in life. If you’ve browsed the tents alongside show-off yuppies or Brazilian ex-pats making purchases, you know what we’re talking about. And we feel you.So we were pretty psyched this weekend, when we mere fiscal mortals got a…
If you like your movies with stunted dialogue, big hair, plenty of fight scenes, and a Florida setting, we have good news for you. Austin, Texas-based film distribution company Drafthouse Films has acquired the rights to Miami Connection, a so-bad-it’s-good movie first released in 1987.Directed by “black belt philosopher/author/inspirational speaker”…
It’s hard out there for a Miami Dolphins cheerleader. You’ve gotta work out all the time and diet to stay thin and attractive. You’ve gotta put up with the pervy stares of beer-swilling football fans. And you’ve gotta put on a good show of excitement and optimism about, well, the…
City Theatre sifts through hundreds of plays every year to find a handful of scripts that are just the right amount of fun and hilarity for Summer Shorts, their annual short play festival, which opened last night at the Arsht Center. The aim is to be Saturday Night Live with…
It’s an amazing time to be a cinephile in South Florida. What was once an all-but-ignored town for anything that wasn’t coming out of Hollywood now boasts a robust art house cinema scene of five theaters dedicated to indie, foreign and art films- each with a distinct character, audience, and…
Wildchild World is a planet of no impossibilities. Anything — especially sexy, bewitching things — can happen.This week, Iron Side Café hosted Wildchild’s 16th anniversary celebration in its main ballroom, complete with a fashion show. Don’t ask where to wear these outfits, or how to walk in them. This was…
Screw big-budget superhero movies. Forget bland rom-coms. Fairy tale remakes and vampire epics? Yawn.If you want truly original film this summer, it looks like you’re going to have to make it yourself.The Museum of Contemporary Art is once again giving you the perfect excuse to dive into that freaky experimental…
Miami H&M fans, get ready. If you’re headed to the opening of the chain’s Lincoln Road pop-up shop today, you’d better be prepared to fight the crowd. No one, not even members of the press at yesterday’s VIP preview, were allowed to buy items before noon today. So we’re expecting…
My, my. It’s been quite a week, y’all.What with all this zombie talk and something about baths and salts or salty baths, it seems some lone man has captured the attention of the nation right in our own backyard.We’ve got better news for you, though. It’s the damn weekend, y’all!…
Last week, I urged all Miamians participating in Urban Beach Weekend to be careful not to make us look like a herd of comemierdas to the rest of the country. I was hoping I could write this week’s article about how great Memorial Day weekend ended up this year, pero…
Mega chain H&M has been teasing us for two years already with talks of bringing in a Miami storefront. The permanent store is set to finally open its doors in the fall. But H&M just couldn’t wait that long to please the Magic City masses. So they’ve decided to open…
A brand new newspaper is about to be born in Miami, and you are invited to the christening.The launch party for the Miami Rail, taking place at Lester’s this weekend, will be your first chance to check out the South Florida counterpart of New York’s non-profit culture journal the Brooklyn…
Miami has new residents — for now. Justin Vallee and Jeremiah Taylor, the artistic duo that is 2Square, travel the world like creative nomads, leaving their graffiti, poetry, photography, and even nontraditional hair styling along the way. Think of them as one part neo-hippy, one part fashion trendsetter. More than…
Yesterday, motorists on Biscayne Boulevard around 59th Street who saw a burly, tattooed guy in MC Hammer pants wielding a baseball bat might have thought it was just another day in pimp city. But that dude was The Rock, and he was on the set of the New Times article-based…
When Demetrious Johnson and Ian McCall squared off in the Ultimate Fighting Championship octagon in Australia two months ago, it was UFC’s first fight in its new flyweight division. After a somewhat controversial ending in which Johnson was initially declared the winner, only to later find out there had been…
In a recent Travel & Leisure poll, Miami ranked #4 as the world’s most stylish city – not far behind the #1 New York City. Not too shabby, but also a little bit irksome. Comparing NYC fashion to style in MIA is like comparing apples to oranges — if the…
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Dave Tompkins, music journalist, historian, and author of “How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop,” leads a discussion on the history of Miami bass and its cultural, political and geological impact on the Magic City. Lecture begins 6:30pm. (Doors open 6pm. Seating is…
Coral Gables changes its nickname from “the City Beautiful” to “the City Foodiful” this Thursday when the fifth annual Taste of the Gables sweeps into the Westin Colonnade Hotel (180 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables). From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., eventgoers will be able to sample food from 20 participating Coral…
