Once upon a time there was a romantically bankrupt city called Miami, where chivalry meant holding the door for your hooker, and true love was something you felt for your Mini-Hummer. Once a year, the citizens of this strange land would do their best to seem normal. They would buy…
Ever since the Los Van Van concert last month went by without a hitch, cantankerous anti-Castro activists here have been itching for some kind of PR victory. They just got it today: bolero singer Omara Portuondo canceled her March 2 concert at The Fillmore in Miami Beach citing slow ticket…
At last night New Times’ Artopia event at Freedom Tower, the winners for this year’s winners of the 2010 MasterMind Awards were announced. Four local artists from different fields were chosen from over 150 applications. This year’s winners included the Borscht Film Festival, which is committed to developing Miami’s local…
You may know Reed Cowan from WSVN’s weekend night news desk, but the openly gay anchor has been moonlighting as a filmmaker. After debuting at the Sundance Film Festival last month his latest documentary, 8: The Mormon Proposition, has been picked up for theatrical and DVD release.Narrated by Oscar-winning screenwriter…
Fifty percent of you will claim Valentine’s Day is an invention of Hallmark; the other half of you will pitch a fit when flowers don’t arrive. We’re not naming genders here, you know who you are. Whether you feel jipped and jaded about this weekend’s holidays or swoon-able and sentimental,…
Contrary to conventional thinking, chicks dig guys who read. But how can the solitary act of enjoying a good book actually get you girls? Do it in public. On the first Tuesday of every month the Bookstore in the Grove hosts the Young Professional’s Book Club. Join up because like every…
Well, there you have it. Our seven finalists for our first ever MasterMind Awards. Only four will actually receive the $1,000 grant to use toward their craft. Tonight, at our Artopia event they will find out whether or not they were selected. But let’s take one last look at the…
This is the last in a series of articles profiling the seven finalists for the Miami New Times MasterMind Awards, which will be presented to four local artists during Artopia at the Freedon Tower February 11.There is plaid everywhere — stretched taunt against the walls, draping down, billowing on the…
This is the sixth in a series of articles profiling the seven finalists for the Miami New Times’ MasterMind Awards, which will be presented to four local artists during Artopia at the Freedom Tower February 11.According to the dictionary, Borscht is a beet soup served hot or cold, usually with…
This is the fifth in a series of articles profiling the seven finalists for the New Times’ Mastermind Awards, which will be presented to four local artists during Artopia at the Freedom Tower February 11.It all started with a fish tank. Like many boys, Colin Foord had an aquarium his…
This is the fourth in a series of articles profiling the seven finalists for the New Times MasterMind Awards, which will be presented to four local artists during Artopia at the Freedom Tower February 11.Carson Kievman has helped grow the SoBe Institute of Arts from a tiny creative incubator in…
It’s entirely possible you’ve never attended a proper art party. It’s entirely possible you’re ignorant to the ways of the average artiste. It’s entirely possible you don’t have a cocktail dress appropriate for schmoozing and losing with brainiac MFAs and their pals. Well, don’t worry. For this week’s Loose Exchange exhibition…
A few months ago, we told you about the Miami Beach Cinematheque’s plans to move the theater to City Hall this summer. The impending change made some of you nervous that a new space would denude the MBC of most, if not all of its Española Way charm. Fear not,…
CCE Miami features poster art for books and films that use sex to sell
The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s best film
Valentine’s Day has too many stars and too many story lines
The Hour of the Tiger at New Theatre misses the mark on Japan and its geisha culture
What you’ll notice first about listening to a chat with Tenzin Gyatso, known in the hood as the 14th Dalai Lama, is his aura of humble, genial calmness. This is no small feat for a man who has been the spiritual leader of his people for 49 years; he has…
David Bowie showed up for the Ziggy Stardust cover shoot with a Marlene Dietrich photo book in hand. And he wasn’t the only one inspired by this German film star whose look was steeped in the theatrics of the drag balls of 1920s Berlin. Director Josef von Sternberg centered his…
Every day, you fight the temptation as you make that final turn into your job’s parking lot. The temptation to rev the gas and snake down the peninsula over the Seven Mile Bridge toward the desolate Dry Tortugas in search of anonymity laced first with a little speed. And for…
Never mind that she picked herself up from being the poor daughter of a washerwoman and became the “toast of Paris”; that she was the first African-American female superstar; that she smuggled intelligence to the Nazi resistance in coded sheet music; that she adopted 12 multiethnic orphans, whom she called…
Born and raised in the Germantown section of Philly, Amanda Blank isn’t just a girl. She’s a whole gang. Or at least she raps like it. Where most hipster spitters might invite a roomful of semifamous friends to guest on their A-side, Blank summons some kind of multiple personality disorder…
