Poetry is best read aloud. That’s a known fact of literary nature. But what becomes of it when it’s stamped into a concrete sidewalk? Miami-based artist Agustina Woodgate devised a scheme to see how that would play out after she won a Knight Arts Challenge grant about three years ago. This…
Director Joseph Kahn (who cowrote the script with actual battle rapper Alex “Kid Twist” Larsen), a man who directed many a hip-hop video in his time, knows exactly what cliches and tropes need to be mocked
Thursday Art and politics will come together when the Creative Time Summit hits Miami for the first time. The summit, now in its 11th year, is typically chock full of meaningful workshops, discussions, roundtables, performances, and other diversions designed to inspire people to take meaningful, artsy action. The theme of…
When Rene De Dios and the South Beach Shark Club made its debut in Miami earlier this year, it surpassed the highest expectations of even the filmmakers, Robert Ramos and Pedro Gomez. The short film went on to win five awards at Miami International Film Festival’s CinemaSlam before being chosen as an official selection for the Stock Island Film Festival in Key West and named Best Miami Documentary by Miami New Times. Since then, the filmmakers have been turning the 17-minute documentary into a feature-length film. And now, they want to give viewers a glimpse of the fruits of their labor.
The finished work, a half decade in the making, is informed by his deep familiarity with its characters, which might be one reason why he has the confidence to abandon traditional narrative structures and strike out on his own lyrical path
Once again artwork by Banksy is coming to Miami during Art Basel, and it’s problematic. Despite its name, the “Art of Banksy” exhibition, which will open at Magic City Studios December 1, just in time for Miami Art Week, was never authorized by its anonymous anti-capitalist vandal namesake, who reluctantly accepts…
The more prickly and belligerent Israel becomes — and McCarthy never burdens her with likability — the more Holofcener and Whitty soften her choices with extenuating circumstances, imbuing their subject with a zeal for artistic purity at odds with her actions
If you buy into the witch cliche s—pointy hats, flying broomsticks— Miami might seem an awfully sunny place to headquarter a coven compared to, say, the rainy and foggy Pacific Northwest. But to be a witch is to be misunderstood. They bear the ridicule of storybook stereotypes, are feared for their…
In the gloriously positive and progressive Disney series featuring the company’s only Latinx princess, Elena of Avalor, the noble namesake sings a song about the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos. She calls this holiday dedicated to the dearly departed “The Festival of Love.” And, indeed, the story goes that…
Celebrities hanging out together have become quite the artistic muse. A photograph of Richard Nixon and Elvis shaking hands inspired a movie. The urban legend of Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlon Brando driving out of New York City after the World Trade Center towers fell was made into a British TV show and short story.
There are some evergreen horror concepts, where the bare bones of the story are strong enough that they can be adapted and made over in multiple generations to express whatever fears and frustrations of the times in which they’re made
It’s one of those biopics where everything significant that happened to a famous person happens all at once, in the couple of seconds of any given year that we see dramatized
Miami Beach Salsa Fest, The Miami International Children’s Film Festival, Halloween, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, October 29 through November 4.
British comedian Rowan Atkinson, the man behind Mr. Bean, is back with another installment of the Johnny English spy spoofs. Johnny English Strikes Again follows the last spy anyone wants on the case as he takes a job to stop a hacker wreaking havoc on London’s infrastructure. Britain’s prime minister…
It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with WorldRedEye, New Times…
Asia O’Hara is the true embodiment of charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.
The 305 is No. 1 in our hearts… and way up there on Lonely Planet‘s Top Cities to Visit list for 2019!
Halloween parties, J Balvin, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, October 26 through 28.
Few issues facing the Florida peninsula are more pressing than climate change. Sea-level rise, saltwater intrusion, and rising temperatures all pose serious threats to the Sunshine State, and all of them are directly linked to our shifting climate. In 2015, during a speech given on Earth Day in the Everglades, President Barack Obama praised Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe Counties for uniting to take on climate change.
Earlier this week, Santa’s Enchanted Forest experienced an on-property fire with a blaze so large it could be seen from the Palmetto Expressway. But that measly fire isn’t putting a damper on this holiday season. Santa’s will proceed with business as usual and open next Thursday. According to Miami-Dade Fire…
For Nic and his family, rehab becomes sobriety becomes relapse, a pitiless cycle of hope and disappointment too many of us will experience at one time or another, either as addict or loved one
A few years ago, around the time Misael Soto was asked to contribute to an exhibition on sea-level rise for Miami-Dade County, the artist drove down a flooded Indian Creek Drive in Miami Beach while two gas-powered pumps sucked sea water from the road and spewed it back into the bay. It was, as Soto recalls, an utterly absurd scenario.
