Miami-born filmmaker Barry Jenkins has been featured on PBS for his 2008 film Medicine for Melancholy, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and at Miami’s own Borscht Film Festival. Although the film is based in San Francisco, Jenkins grew up in Miami’s…
Even there’s not much profit in the poetry game, the art of writing verse can still be dangerous and seductive. So don’t give up hope — you, too, can be like the classic poets. You can exude confidence and daring. You can totally copy them. The first step is to sign…
We hereby declare that being strapped for cash is no longer a valid excuse for staying home and missing out on all your city’s cultural offerings. You can see a movie, catch an art show or two, or perhaps even have a chance to rub hair poofs with the cast…
Now living in Las Vegas, Brian Regan remains a Miami boy. Sure, it’s been more than 10 years since he last stopped by South Florida for the express purpose of making people laugh. But he’s coming back this Saturday and he’s happy as heck about it. With two Comedy Central…
Some of the nation’s greatest tween thespians have come together to bring Beastly, Miami author Alex Flinn’s modern retelling of the fairy tale The Beauty and the Beast, to the big screen.Hot on the heels of the Twilight craze, the movie is set for release this July. High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens stars…
Grab the weekend by its horns and ride till Monday.Friday Tonight, Chicago’s Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (whose moving, lo-fi sound has been described as “bedroom-synth”) will play at Bar, the newly reopened, former Max Fish/PS14 space. Need more convincing? No cover. Marco Resmann and Tony Rohr bring minimalist techno…
Inside the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, businessmen sip mint-infused lime water next to a display of diamond rings. Four-foot-tall vases of wild orchids vie with the flat-screen TVs for attention, and the ocean crashes just yards from the entrance. Behind the scenes, things are not as pretty. Haitian-born chambermaids…
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Not sure if you heard, but the Super Bowl’s coming to Miami. Since the Dolphins didn’t make it, we care nothing about the on-field contest. Far more intriguing is the galaxy of debauchery that will be descending on our innocent city for the big weekend — including almost a thousand…
Who is Aziz Ansari? Is he Randy the spazzy comic from Funny People who jokes about getting blowjobs in weird places, like Ikea, a car, and underwater? Or is he Tom Haverford the smarmy government official from the city of Pawnee? Or is he perhaps Sinjay the racist fruit vendor…
Harrison Ford talks about his new movie, Extraordinary Measures
Famed Chilean artist Robert Matta’s paintings at Gary Nader Fine Art
Peter Jackson makes a one-dimensional Lovely Bones
So in the end, it was just some guy sitting behind a curtain, tweaking knobs, and pushing buttons. But the Land of Oz was grand while it lasted. A Technicolor world where you could off bad people by dropping houses on them and then steal their fancy magic shoes before…
The Great American Trailer Park Musical goes slumming at Actors’ Playhouse
Studies show that a single molecule from the gravel in the parking lot at Churchill’s (5501 NE Second Ave., Miami) contains enough rock ‘n’ roll to fuel a car for 100 miles. Scientists say the force is so strong at this corner of Little Haiti because there’s nowhere else to…
Nobody gets through life unscathed. And right about now, it seems like everybody’s got the blues: fired, dumped, divorced, broke, and slipping way too deep into the booze. We got the blues, mama. It is the eternal background music for hard times because the blues will make you laugh and…
Murder. Hallucinations. A blood-soaked and betrayed bride. Sounds like a scene straight out of a horror flick, but Lucia di Lammermoor is actually one of the most famous Italian operas of all time. Sure to be the source of many a groom-to-be’s worst nightmares, Lucia kills her new husband in…
Attention, husbands of South Florida: Keep a watchful eye on your wives, because this weekend, Pro Bowlers will pillage Miami. And we’re not talking about the Pro Bowlers Association. We’re talking about the Ochocinco-name-changing, 40-year-old Brett Favre-playing, Sparano-wildcatting National Football League. The streets will be filled with so much manpower…
While the Miami Heat’s Mario Chalmers remains the starting point guard, he continues to struggle with a severe case of the suck on a night-to-night basis. So, to offset this, the Heat traded Chris Quinn and his 1.2 points per game for Rafer Alston from New Jersey. A former streetball…
Many a girl has lost her singlehood to Air on a G String. Friends, that’s not a track from 2 Live Crew’s reunion album but a popular wedding processional based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Overture No. 3 in D Major. Bach wrote it, one of the most famous pieces of…
The rest of the country loves to think of Miami as a pastel-colored celebrity playground of busty beach bods and strobe-lit gyration dens. But everyone who has lived here long enough knows a very different town that the cameras never seem to capture. For when the MacArthur Causeway’s congestion of…
