In two tag-team events that made Mexican mariachi music seem hip, had guests drinking frozen Patrón cocktails out of glowing Wet Willie’s-style vats, and drew The Real Housewives of Miami away from their, uh, house work, the Miami International Film Festival celebrated its official opening last night at the Gusman…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. As we approach Artopia, our annual arts soiree where we’ll announce the three Mastermind winners March 8, we’re profiling each of our nine 2012 finalists. For tickets and more information about Artopia, visit the website.Antonia WrightThere’s something about neatly…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. As we approach Artopia, our annual arts soiree where we’ll announce the three Mastermind winners March 8, we’re profiling each of our nine 2012 finalists. For tickets and more information about Artopia, visit the website.Laz OjaldeLaz Ojalde is a…
The only problem with a 10-day, 100-film international flick fest like the Miami International Film Festival invading our beautiful city is knowing where to begin. (Well, that and the risk of losing your golden tan as a consequence of holing up in movie theaters for a week and a half.)…
You know John Leguizamo from his sassy roles in Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, and of course, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar. But after March 9, you’ll know him as the funny guy from Ghetto Klown, the one-man show he’s bringing to the Fillmore Miami Beach.Leguizamo’s newest…
Hot damn, it’s Friday, amigos! It’s also the first weekend of March. That means we have the chance to start fresh. February’s love-sick theme is overrated, anyway. You know what March brings? Beer. We may not be an old English town in the Northeast where people gather around a local…
Miami has seen its fair share of movies filmed right here in the 305: There’s Something About Mary, Bad Boys II, Marley and Me, Scarface, and let’s not forget From Justin to Kelly (Oh yes, we just went there.) But when it comes to TV, our bona fide Miami options…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. As we approach Artopia, our annual arts soiree where we’ll announce the three Mastermind winners March 8, we’re profiling each of our nine 2012 finalists. For tickets and more information about Artopia, visit the website.Audio JunkieHailing originally from Santo…
Sorry, horses. It’s over.The long and storied battle you have waged with humans is done. We, the humans, have won. We have made you our transportation, carrying knights in armor and cowboys and postal mail across all kinds of difficult terrain. We have made you our sport, betting on your…
New York Fashion Week may be the biggest fashion event in the country, but when it comes to Miami’s prominence in the world of fashion, there’s more than meets the eye. Miami Beach International Fashion Week is the largest international and Hispanic fashion event in the U.S., brings together top…
Mariachi Gringo, which opens the Miami International Film Festival Friday, is the story of Edward (Shawn Ashmore, of X-Men fame), a 30-year-old guy who lives with his parents and works a lame job at a postal shop out in Greenville, Kansas. Gringo? You betcha. His skin is nearly translucent, his…
Miamians are total suckers for their furry family members — no surprise in a city where one in five of us snuggle up at night to a canine companion. That’s more than 480,000 pooches in our sunny metropolis, which equates to many a wet nose, wagging tail, and puppy-whipped pet…
We’ve always been averse to cruise vacations. Climbing aboard a ship where you’ll live in close quarters with thousands of strangers for a week or more? No thanks. But lately, cruising has gotten downright scary.There was January’s Costa Concordia disaster, in which the ship ran aground and sank, killing more…
They make lamps from tin cans and roll naked down filthy South Beach alleyways. They record Miami’s best bands in surreal video diaries and release the Magic City’s most underground punk acts in hand-crafted record packages. They sew poetry into clothes, film avant-garde movies starring Uncle Luke, tag Wynwood’s walls…
The Miami International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday, is celebrating its 29th year. It’s no longer just a highbrow affair at the Gusman Center downtown, but a ten-day festival showing films selected exclusively for Miami’s diverse, culture-hungry audience. The 11 venues hosting the 2012 edition — including the Olympia…
Shaquille O’Neal might be the greatest comedian since Andy Kaufman. All of that crap the media has dug up about his supposed problems with ex-wives, IT guys, and fumbling police detectives? That’s the masterful art of staying relevant postbasketball, and Shaq is still in the news because of it. Who’s…
Troy and Abed in Mi-aaaaaaa-mi! Well, minus Abed. Donald Glover, better known to fans of the TV show Community as Troy Barnes, steps out of the ensemble cast for a comedy feature Saturday at the Fillmore. And if you know Glover only for the ditsy character he plays on television,…
Miami’s biggest party is little more than a week away. Of course we’re talking about Calle Ocho, the multinational street festival attended by more than a million people each year. However, before the city’s gran pachanga on SW Eighth Street, several Kiwanis Club of Little Havana-sponsored events leading up to…
Miami can be a pricey place to get your art on. There’s Art Basel, where the world’s 1 percent gather in South Beach to spend gazillions on the visuals. There’s the city’s myriad cultural benefits and fundraisers, with tickets often costing $100-plus. Hell, in this economy, it’s hard enough just…
Latin American art is sizzling. The creative nerve centers of art production in the Southern Hemisphere are hotter than a mouthful of wasabi right now. Last year, Puerto Rico-based conceptual duo Allora & Calzadilla represented the United States at the Venice Biennale; a blockbuster exhibit of Diego Rivera’s murals is…
The beginning of this NBA season was a rough one for Dwyane Wade. A banged-up ankle forced him to sit out a handful of games, and when the Miami Heat was winning with him riding the pine, people began to suggest Miami was better off without him. A #WithoutWade hashtag…
In this economy, everyone loves a comeback story. Y’know what else people love in tough times? Free stuff. So we expect SoundScape Park to be packed full Wednesday night for the screening of The Natural, part of the weekly SoundScape Cinema Series. The Natural tells the story of Roy Hobbs,…
