The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday You don’t have to wait until March to see some of the competition flicks hitting the 36th Miami Film Festival. Gems boasts an intimate selection of movies, all of which you will absolutely be talking about next year. At MDC’s Tower Theater, see titles such as Diamantino, directed by…

Zoetic Stage’s Dracula Reflects Real-World Monsters

The #MeToo Movement has shed light on the misconduct of numerous men in power: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and now… Count Dracula? When South Florida playwright Michael McKeever set out to bring the story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the stage, he wanted it to stand out from the countless…

What to See and What to Skip at Miami Film Festival Gems 2018

Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival is back with its annual Gems event of weekend movie premieres at the Tower Theater in Little Havana. This year’s edition will screen several movies likely to become Best Foreign Language Film contenders at next year’s Academy Awards. Here, New Times film critics Juan…

Hurricanes, Coral Fires, and the Florida Coast Inspired “Genius Grant” Winner Kelly Link

As a child, Kelly Link would excitedly await South Florida’s hurricane season. The sense of trepidation an oncoming storm would bring is what the 2018 MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow used for later writing inspiration. “That sense you have when you’re a kid, living in Florida — that feeling during the hurricane season, something big might be on the horizon.” Now an author, she says, “It’s great preparation for imaging worst-case scenarios and then imaging the extraordinary coming into a landscape and changing everything.”

An Evening With Christo and His Surrounded Islands at PAMM

Even before Pérez Art Museum Miami’s big opening night for the exhibition of historical and archival materials from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands, it was clear this would be a different kind of show. As Christo himself said during a private tour a few days before the official opening: “This is not a normal exhibition. It’s a documentary exhibition — it goes beyond a work of art. It’s more like a museum of natural history.”

Museums Across Miami Explore Themes of Identity and History

If art reflects life, the art world has had a lot to deal with in the past year. It’s no surprise that many local art institutions’ programming reflects the identity crisis sweeping the nation. A good example are two shows that ended the Wolfsonian-FIU’s previous year of programming: “Wit as…

Miami Book Fair Returns With a Feast for Voracious Readers

In 1984, the crime-fighting duo of Crockett and Tubbs went face-to-face with dangerous drug lords and other unsavory characters, making Miami famous for cocaine, synths, and violence. While Miami Vice was lighting up every living room in America in pastel shades, Miami Dade College was launching the Miami Book Fair,…

Eyes on Miami: Trina, Amara La Negra, Phil Collins, and Others

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…

The Ten Best Running Races in Miami

It’s that time of year in Miami when we say adios to the treadmill and hit the pavement. Summer is officially in the rearview and the weather soon will be changing from miserable to warm, making running outside tolerable-ish. The fun runs and half marathons around the city are starting…