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…
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…
GroundUp Music Festival, Nicky Jam with Plan B, Cupid’s Undie Run, Mardi Gras, and other can’t-miss events in Miami this weekend.
He says his dance comes from his dreams. French-Algerian choreographer Hervé Koubi’s most recent work, “What the Day Owes the Night,” combines Sufi rhythms with cutting-edge b-boy moves, classical ballet, and capoeira in a work as fluid and full of grace as it is wildly athletic. One reviewer at…
February 13th, Galentine’s Day, consists of three important things: waffles, women, and wise words by the holiday’s creator, Leslie Knope, Amy Poehler’s character on the hit TV show Parks and Recreation. And it’s time you celebrate the unofficial holiday IRL.
The Coconut Grove Arts Festival occupies a little over a mile on the waterfront and is filled with family-friendly activities, including an art show with 360 artists in 14 mediums, culinary demonstrations, and live musical and dance performances.
After nearly a lifetime of painting graffiti murals, Miami native Trek6 will debut his first gallery show in the Magic City. Best known for using spray paint in the streets to pay homage to his Puerto Rican heritage, the artist explores similar themes in the exhibit “La Mancha de Plátano.”
With Valentine’s Day nearly here, it time to start planning what you’re going to do to woo your special someone. But sometimes romantic ideas can be hard to come up with. Don’t fret – the New Times has you covered. Here’s our list of 10 things couples can do on Valentine’s Day.
The Ritual finds a quartet of British lads/drips hiking through the deserted woods of northern Sweden, a labyrinth of ancient trees with trunks that stretch up forever.
Thursday Don’t let the stately new museums of mainstream musical artists food you. Miami culture is weird. It’s always been weird. And weirdness will stay at the core of this town’s ambiance as long as the International Noise Conference continues raging. Each year, Churchill’s Pub hosts entire days full of…
As you might have guessed and/or feared, Will Gluck’s screen adaptation of Peter Rabbit departs fairly significantly from Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s tales. But though the film insists on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset — it opens with a group of birds inspirationally singing, “You’re only as small as your dreams,” before they get abruptly knocked out of the sky — it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down, and wisely keeps the pandering to a minimum.
Charles J. Kropke is an author, entrepreneur, and environmental activist who has owned the tour company Dragonfly Expeditions for the past 27 years. Kropke also served as a first lieutenant for more than a decade in the volunteer efforts of the Everglades Restoration Movement. He has created a number of PBS films, The Unseen Everglades: Stories of a Legendary Wilderness, which won an Emmy. Now he’s releasing a project with PBS titled Battleground: Everglades, a six-part series dedicated to looking at both the wonders of the Everglades and the dangers that face them.
In the tense but hearty Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, actress Daniela Vega plays a transwoman, Marina, who must navigate life after the death of her lover
The season for cinema has begun. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and you need something to talk to your date about, so why not catch a film and discuss it over drinks and dinner? With nothing but Oscar contenders and a slate of not-so-interesting releases populating theaters, it’s best to turn to a bona fide classic.
When these performers get the chance to exchange dialogue, to react to each other rather than declaim the movie’s themes, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool rouses to life
We live in the Zone now. The Zone — a widespread allusion to the 1979 film Stalker popularized by leftist comedy podcast Chapo Trap House and further propagated by the Weird Twitter hive mind — is a useful, catch-all reference to the United States’ current state of moral confusion…
Fans of Juno and Young Adult will be thrilled to hear what Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival has up its sleeve for 2018. The latest project by director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody will hit the big screen early thanks to MIFF. The 35th-annual festival will open March 9 with Tully, and the director will be in attendance.
As Hollywood continues to unpack more casualties from the #MeToo movement, women are fighting back by creating the kind of work they want to see and the roles they want to play. Erika Soerensen’s Reservoir Dolls, presented by the Outré Theatre Company at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, flips the script in an all-female stage adaption of Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 testosterone-driven heist film, Reservoir Dogs.
The Insult is a little pushy, sometimes even tough to swallow, but no more than actual geopolitics
Are you still recovering from Super Bowl Sunday? Depending upon your bets, you might have either celebrated too hard or needed to drink your sorrows away. If you’re in the latter category, you’re probably not in the mood to spend boatloads of money on booze or expensive outings. Luckily, there are plenty of free events to attend in town as you watch the sting of defeat fade in the rearview mirror.
According to the irreproachable authority of the internet, the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic has been around for about five years. It caught fire after CaShawn Thompson started tweeting the phrase and making merchandise donned by celebrities like Willow Smith and Amandla Stenberg. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Thompson noted…
Super Bowl parties, Wigwood, Fractal Beach, and other can’t-miss events in Miami this weekend February 5 through 7.
