ArtSea Festival, which is in its seventh year, is a volunteer-run event held at Virginia Key Beach Park. It integrates art and science through a packed programming schedule of activities, including educational science and art stations, dance and drumming performances, beach meditation, paddleboarding, and kids’ yoga.
Happy birthday to Miami Film Festival — it’s finally fully legal. In its 35th year, the fest will show 148 films on movie screens around Miami, as well as host parties, dinners, panel discussions, and other celebrations of cinema in South Florida. Even the most devoted moviegoer couldn’t see and do it all. But if you’re looking for a place to start, check out New Times’ best bets.
No other series even attempts to capture the tremendous variety within Asian America, much less to do so unassumingly
What began as a dance party by the ocean in South Beach has evolved into a multiday extravaganza. This year is the 25th edition of Winter Party, and organizers have pulled out all the stops. At pool parties, an artscape, a VIP cocktail reception, parties at clubs galore, and…
The Looming Tower is a show about the human relationships that keep systems functioning — and how when those relationships break down, the system does, too
Brad Meltzer is one of South Florida’s most celebrated thriller writers. For more than two decades, the author of page turners such as The Tenth Justice, Identity Crisis, and The Millionaires has more than proven the width and breadth of his imagination. In his latest book, The Escape Artist, due out March 6, he draws from some of the least-known segments of America’s military and turns them into a tale all their own.
If your only experience with art in Miami has been at Art Basel and other exclusive art fairs in town, you might imagine that being an artist in the Magic City is glamorous. In reality, for most, it’s really hard work. Many artists aren’t able to support themselves with their work because their community lacks the resources…
It is what it says it is — 24 “frames,” images digitally extrapolated out into 4 1/2-minute unconnected, unmoving set-piece shots
In Between is a movie not so much about suffering as it is about the grinding reality of just being
The film gives only the most paltry consideration to geopolitics, to relations between the U.S. and Russia or America’s own corrupt operations
An episodic ensemble drama organized around the logic of theme rather than of traditional narrative, the film concerns above all else accumulation and dispersal, in the American vein
Before there was the South Pointe Pier most Miamians know, there was the First Street Pier. Back then, locals could cut bait, cast, and fish at their leisure from the pier. But as Miami Beach began to draw more tourists, the city began encroaching on the fishermen who had long called the pier home.
Potter isn’t what you’d call subtle, but she also knows not to overstay her welcome, and this pithy comedy is a masterclass in all that a filmmaker can squeeze from the most basic theatrical concept …
From screenings of Moonlight, The Fate of Carbon, and Operation Pedro Pan to Miami Gras, TransCon, and Road to Afro Roots Festival performances, here’s a look at the best free events happening in Miami this week.
Come on, Miami, why don’t we paint the town? And all that jazz. The production coming to Miami this weekend is good — it’s grand, it’s great, it’s swell, and it’s fun. Ladies and gentlemen, coming to Villain Theater: It’s MissCellaneous, a monthly event that mixes cabaret and drag; and Sexcago…
It’s only February, but Miami is quickly heating up. Your best bet this weekend is to stay on the beach for the seventh-annual Virginia Key Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance. This year’s performers include New York’s Big Mean Sound Machine as well as longtime local favorites such as Locos por Juana, Elastic Bond, and Afrobeta.
On March 3, movie fans will have the opportunity to spend the night with Scarface himself. At An Evening With Pacino, the Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino will take the Fillmore stage, where he will reminisce about his past, share his acting techniques, and answer questions taken from the audience.
The LGBTQ community and its allies are set to converge on Miami Beach yet again. It’s time for another Winter Party Festival, and this one is an especially big to-do. This year marks the 25th edition of the high-energy, multifaceted fiesta that, in years past, has attracted more than 10,000 attendees.
Every year, high-school students from across the nation travel to Miami’s National YoungArts campus to present their work. For a week, these aspiring artists take part in workshops, master classes, and shows as they vie for the chance to become a YoungArts scholar — a distinction that comes with funding apart from recognition.
It’s been a tough week in South Florida. We could all use some deep belly breaths and some quiet time to reflect and regain our balance. Bess Wohl’s play Small Mouth Sounds, which opened at the Arsht Center last weekend and runs through March 4, offers just that by giving audiences 100 uninterrupted minutes to immerse themselves in a play set in a silent retreat in the woods.
In the second season of the new One Day at a Time, it seems like everyone in the Cuban-American Alvarez family faces a crisis of their own that reminds them to hold onto each other
When you think of land in Palestine, conflict might be the first thing that comes to mind. But for Jumana Emil Abboud, the Palestinian landscape evokes other, older associations — with mythological creatures such as water spirits and ghouls.
