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…
Bomba Estéreo, Dominican Heritage Night at Marlins Park, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend.
Compared to New York and Los Angeles — and let’s not forget Atlanta — Miami can be a difficult place for an independent filmmaker to get funding for a feature film. Last year, Miami-Dade County commissioners approved a rebate system that called for film or television productions to spend…
… It’s a hero-dude adventure movie based on a Michael Crichton-esque paperback techno-thriller, which means we hear more science talk than is strictly necessary, get a tour of a gleaming research facility and meet a billionaire finder (Rainn Wilson) who just might have ulterior motives
Many of us used to bowl on weekends when we were younger, only because we weren’t cool enough for the popular kids’ parties or old enough for the bars and clubs. Remember Cosmic Bowling? Don’t act like you don’t. Now, ironically, many of us bowl on weekends as an alternative…
This Thanksgiving, instead of flocking to the dinner table, one production company hopes to see flocking to the party. After ten years in Barcelona, Circuit Festival, an over-the-top LGBTQ festival that has attracted attendees from all over the world, is branching past Spain and heading to the United States…
Almost a year has passed since Hurricane Maria razed much of Puerto Rico with rivers of floods last September, but the storm’s implications remain vague. There is no definitive death census, for instance—estimates range between 1,100 and 4,600 victims—which raises profound questions of identity, belonging, and citizenship. The associates at…
Thursday Carol City is a music mecca. The Miami Gardens neighborhood has bred the likes of Rick Ross, Flo Rida, and, now, Twelve’Len. A new minidocumentary, Twelve’Len: Definition of a Florida Boy, was produced with Red Bull Music and follows the rising rapper’s upbringing and influences. To celebrate the flick’s…
Florida’s an obvious target for political jokes. So Daily Show host Trevor Noah will have plenty of material to draw from when he brings the Comedy Central show to Miami Beach in late October. A special “undesked” week of programming will be taped before a live audience at the Fillmore Miami…
The Alphabet of Enchantment Island is a bilingual children’s book about the magic of being Boricua and the African heritage of Puerto Rico, says its author Yajaira De La Espada. The Afro-Latinx creative of Puerto Rican and Panamanian decent spent the last four years writing the book, but after Hurricane…
Photographer Ian Witlen got a call from New Times’ art director just after 2:30 p.m. on Valentine’s Day. She had heard reports that there was an active shooter on the campus of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. Witlen had graduated from the school in 2001. “I immediately thought it was just another…
After receiving a 1,000-piece jigsaw as a gift at that party, Agnes discovers a surprise talent and passion: She can put one together in just a chunk of an afternoon
When John David Washington stood up and joined a series of elementary school kids declaring “I am Malcolm X” in Spike Lee’s 1992 movie Malcolm X, he never thought he’d actually become an actor. Much less did he expect to appear in a leading role in a future Spike…
You’ve probably already upped your movie intake recently — it’s a foolproof way to escape the summer heat. But if you need more inspiration to buy those tickets, here it is: Miami’s art cinemas have quite the collection of classics available for viewing this August. Bill Cosford Cinema. Flaming Classics…
Twelve’Len’s documentary screening, a discussion of Pedro Almodóvar’s films, and more of the best free events in Miami this week, August 6 Through August 12.
Based on a crazy true story (or, as an opening title puts it, “some fo’ real, fo’ real shit”), BlacKkKlansman follows the efforts of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), an African-American detective in the Colorado Springs police force
When most people think of Hialeah, they think of brutal traffic on broken roads, a sea of fades, and Cuban bros hollering at ladies from the driver’s-side window — or worse, the passenger side.
The Warped Tour’s final show, Miami Girls Rock finale, Mas Miami Vol. 2, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend.
An assemblage of TV clips sets the stage: Ninety percent of all children have died within the space of a month, with the survivors gaining a variety of superpowers that the government catalogs in a color-coded chart ripped right from the Bush administration
A particularly pointed political cartoon made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook after Donald Trump took office. In it, his face, puckered in his signature duck lips, is tilted up toward a globe precariously sitting on an American flag atop a table. Trump’s baby body greedily grasps at the flag with poop-covered fingers, allegedly smeared from his seeping diaper.
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…
SOL Fete Miami will make going outside in the brutal Miami heat a pleasure instead of a chore. Also known as the Summer of Love Festival, it will include a wide range of fun activities that empower and enrich while celebrating the arts, music, and culture of the African diaspora. The free event…
