For most people, a cruise ship represents a relaxing vacation in the middle of the ocean. For Mitya Trotsky, however, these sea vessels offer those on land an opportunity to catch a glimpse of humanity in its unadulterated form.
Though fictional, Alea’s film mixes a variety of forms, incorporating both documentary footage shot by the director on the streets of Havana as well as archival historical images
Now that Valentine’s Day has come and gone, you might be holding tight to your cash this week after getting your significant other that special something. But there’s no need to become a hermit: Plenty of exciting free events are happening in the Magic City this week.
Also just like History, Period offers a chance for comedians and the actors who love them to play dress-up and goof off in a period-piece setting
Wilkine Brutus didn’t look like the other teachers when he taught English in South Korea for four years. In fact, the Haitian-American writer with braids and tattoos didn’t look like almost anybody in the homogeneous Asian country. As you might expect, he often fielded questions from students that had little to do with the curriculum…
The Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Black Panther African-Themed Adult Prom, Gay8 Festival, Locos por Marley, and other can’t-miss events in Miami this weekend.
South Floridians are still trying to make sense of yesterday’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. It was the act of a madman, a teenager with a gun in a country plagued by gun violence and a state that saw one of the worst mass shootings in history less than two years ago in Orlando. Seventeen people are dead.
Fifteen or 20 years from now, history will be told through Twitter comment threads and text message receipts. But for now, Philadelphia-based artist Laurence de Valmy is reimagining the artist friendships of decades past via Instagram in her series Post. Two paintings from the series will be on view in the Avant Gallery booth at Art Wynwood.
After almost three years of construction, Miami’s most eagerly awaited skyscraper is almost done. 1000 Museum, also known as the Scorpion Tower, is already one of the most distinct buildings in downtown and it’s not even finished yet. Last night, developers and supporters of the high-rise gathered at the Frost Museum of Science to celebrate the skyscraper’s topping out with a lighting ceremony.
For the past five years, the SLS South Beach has been home to one of the most titillating networking events in the nation: CamCon. For a few days a year, many of the most beautiful and brazen faces (and bodies) of internet stardom come together to have fun in the sun, make new professional connections, and show their fans some love.
Thursday That $40 million yacht of yours is so 2017. It’s time to find an upgrade at the Miami International Boat Show. Whether you’re in the market for a new dreamboat or simply want to gawk at vessels out of your league, this spectacle will satisfy. This year’s show boasts…
The narrative is needlessly complicated, and it all seems crafted just to build to a single joke voiced in the third act
After a red-carpet movie premiere and dinner Friday, a local group will host the Black Panther African-Themed Adult Prom Saturday. The elegant affair will take place at the classic Overtown Performing Arts Center.
The event will be female-centric, with lesbian bartenders and shot girls, a female DJ, and a Drag King instead of a Drag Queen. Local “gay-lebrity” Noel Aru will host, and DJ La Trice Perry will spin at the first installment of Periodically. Molto, which is also a full-service restaurant, will offer food and drink specials such as happy-hour appetizer prices, $15 cocktail pitchers, $20 beer buckets, and $7 beer and whiskey shots.
Tiptoeing toward the hot tub of camp without quite diving in, Double Lover starts to fracture Chloe’s point of view, resulting in at least one fabulous Cronenbergian dream scene …
It’s sometimes reassuring to see ourselves reflected in the world around us, even in depictions of the past or of cultures far and radically different from our own. Other times, it can feel overwhelming and inescapable, part of a never-ending cycle of rehashed power dynamics and existential crises. With a limitless source of information to scroll through, having yet another reminder of how we’re barreling toward hell in a gold lamé hand basket just seems, well, cruel.
It’s a twisty-turny crime drama complete with stolen money, vengeful mob bosses, and all sorts of strange coincidences and random dialogue digressions.
The politically incorrect comedian Jackie Mason can rest easy knowing there is no mention of him in ex-lover Ginger Reiter’s upcoming comedy musical 700 Wives. Reiter took a break from poking fun at her ten-year love affair with her baby daddy, whom she razzed in Both Sides of a Famous Love Affair: The Jackie Mason Musical and its previous incarnations, 702 Punchlines and Pregnant and Oh, Jackie, Oh.
Here’s a look at the best free events in Miami this week.
Here’s the Marvel movie even non-Marvel fans are prepared to root for, the rare black superhero film, one boasting not only an almost-all black cast but helmed by a black director as well
The only fantasies Fifty Shades Freed convincingly fulfills are those of boutique publishers who would like to believe that a debut novel can acquire 250,000 preorders and that a local glossy can employ upward of 50 full-time staffers, both of which occur in this film.
After a hectic and exhausting Basel season, Miami’s art world is ready for its next round of creativity-based commerce. In its seventh year, Art Wynwood, a sister to the Art Miami/Context/Aqua trio of white-tent showcases, leads the new round of art fairs in 2018 by kicking off President’s Day weekend…
