Tarell Alvin McCraney, the acclaimed playwright who penned the play that inspired the Oscar-winning film Moonlight, has been given the green light to create a TV series set in South Florida and inspired by his experiences growing up in Liberty City.
For his weekday-afternoon interview with New Times, mentalist Alan Chamo, AKA the M1ND H4CK3R, arrives at a restaurant in casual clothes: a T-shirt, shorts, and sandals. But Chamo is far busier than his attire indicates, for he immediately must take a business call. It’s clear he has a lot on his mind as he prepares to amaze and manipulate the minds of South Floridians.
You know that 90-minute hot stone massage you’ve been eyeing since July? It’s time to make a reservation. There are less than two weeks left of Miami Spa Month, when the city’s most exclusive spas offer treatments at discounted pricing. Before it’s too late, here are the five best last-minute deals to book for Miami Spa Month 2017.
Our least-favorite sculptures and murals in Miami.
Look, you don’t need to have watched Iron Fist to enjoy the brisk, brawling silliness of The Defenders, a team-up adventure that’s something like a surprising return on an investment you thought had soured. In fact, not knowing all the plot details of all the earlier stories brings the experience…
Thursday The Prism Creative Group has been busy pumping us full of Miami culture this summer. This week, it’s gifting us a performance by Venezuelan songstress Manu Manzo, sweets by Elsie’s Flour Shop, and food from Fufi Restaurant in the last installment of its Summer Crafts and Concerts series. Madewell…
There is a better, more touching movie hidden somewhere inside The Only Living Boy in New York, and you can often see it creeping in around the edges. It’s not to be found in the somewhat empty coming-of-age narrative at the film’s center, which follows Thomas (Callum Turner), a precocious,…
Here are our top seven places in Miami to experience the solar eclipse August 21.
At a crater in the lush, mossy-green Mexican countryside in Amat Escalante’s fourth feature, The Untamed, every native species of animal gathers to fuck, like a pornographic Noah’s Ark. This scene of otherworldly magical realism is not what audiences have come to expect from the director, whose most well-known film,…
As Miami’s cultural landscape boomed in the past decade — with the influx of major art fairs, new museums, and local galleries opening in up-and-coming neighborhoods — the city’s queer culture was in flux. Reading Queer, a Knight Foundation-sponsored cultural organization, is looking to change that fact by highlighting voices…
On a crowded Brooklyn street, an Orthodox Jew adjusts his yarmulke, a tefillin bag under his arm. He speaks on a smartphone and practically struts. The man, as dandified as one can look in a black suit and a white shirt, is a red herring in Menashe. Several other Brooklynites,…
“Fyre Festival still did what it was meaning to accomplish, even without existing. That’s why they went, that’s how it was advertised, and that’s what they did, even though it didn’t work out.”
Here’s what Patrick Hughes’ The Hitman’s Bodyguard has going for it: It’s exactly the movie it promises to be, but more so. It’s more wild, more hilarious, more giddily irresponsible — it’s the hard R action comedy that kids sneaking into it might imagine it’s going to be, minus ’70s…
O, Miami. Borscht Film Festival. Nu Deco Ensemble. Organizations such as those have embedded themselves so deeply into Miami life they seem like they’ve always been a part of this city. But a decade ago, those projects — and many others like them that have expanded and evolved the cultural landscape of South Florida…
Here’s what you didn’t see if you aren’t from there. Here are the voices you didn’t hear if you didn’t go there. Here’s the pain you can’t fully comprehend if you’re white, as I am, if you’re just watching on TV, if life has taught you that just saying sir…
The phenomenon of lucid dreaming, if experienced correctly, allows you to control your dreams and exist without limits in a fantasy world. Though it sounds like high-concept science fiction, lucid dreaming is real and backed by science. And now there’s a headband that allows lucid dreaming on a regular basis, the Aurora Dreamband.
In Steven Soderbergh’s hillbilly heist comedy Logan Lucky, the West Virginia prison where vault specialist Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) resides is pristine and peaceful. This is a high-security facility in a seemingly alternate world, a jail without racial tensions where the prisoners feast on edible food. While only a small…
Neo-Nazis are marching in the streets, Mercury is in retrograde, and the sun will disappear from the daytime sky in a week. It’s OK to be a little overwhelmed, but you don’t have to escape with a therapeutic shopping spree or a night of expensive diversions. See a free movie Tuesday in South Miami and free music Saturday in Coral Gables and Wynwood, or head to Miami Beach for National Rum Day this Wednesday or a pool party over the weekend. You’ve got options, so don’t despair.
Taylor Sheridan isn’t afraid to embrace genre. His Wind River plays more like an unusually well-made episode of CSI: Wyoming than the highly anticipated directorial effort from the screenwriter of Hell or High Water (which may well have been last year’s best-written film). Set in the desolate, snow-covered Wind River…
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown,” reads the H.P. Lovecraft quote that opens Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s The Endless, playing at Popcorn Frights Film Festival this weekend. Their former works, Resolution and…
The tail end of summer is a mixed bag – on the one hand, endless diaper rash on parts of your body you didn’t think could sweat; on the other, the final vestiges of the kind of reckless abandon that only college kids on their off-time could imbue into the air. If you’re trying to get all you can out of these last precious weeks, here are the concerts, festivals, and tours that will make venturing into the heat totally worth it.
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...
