In the face of last year’s loss of state incentives for entertainment production in Florida, Miami-Dade County has stepped up to offer a program that hopes to fill the gap locally. On Tuesday, commissioners voted to approve a rebate valued at $100,000 to productions shooting in Miami-Dade…
Although the shows will certainly be great, the best part of Miami Swim Week is the parties.
When Skyler White challenged her husband’s secret fun life of crime on Breaking Bad, the backlash to her drove Anna Gunn to write an op-ed in The New York Times. Gunn revealed that a number of disturbing “hate boards” had often conflated her with her character, inspiring some to threaten…
Thursday: We may know him as the hurricane expert who guided South Florida through one of the worst storms in its history, but Bryan Norcross has continued to have a prestigious career as a hurricane specialist, covering the devastating Hurricane Sandy and routinely scrutinizing government response to natural disasters. In…
Evelyn Onyejuruwa is the founder of Ankara Miami, an events company that focuses on fashion from Africa and the African diaspora. After four years of growing African Fashion Week, Ankara hosted its first Ankara Swim Week last year. The summer event is a truncated version of its winter counterpart, with a focus on swimwear and resort wear.
It must be nice being Luc Besson, stuck at the age of 14 for the past 44 years. Back when I was that age, in the late 1980s, Besson was among my favorite working filmmakers. I adored the earnest wonder of the deep-sea worlds of The Big Blue (1988) and…
The nerve-racking war thriller Dunkirk is the movie Christopher Nolan’s entire career has been building up to, in ways that even he may not have realized. He’s taken the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 evacuation from France, early in World War II — a moment of heroism-in-defeat that has become an…
As a child, I wasn’t really the bathing suit type of person. I didn’t have that confidence.” Creative director and fashion stylist Sarah Williams grew up in the spring break capital of Fort Lauderdale. But she felt self-conscious about baring her body on the beach alongside the tourists. And confidence…
The host of the popular Youtube science channel Nickipedia, Nick Uhas, will be conducting experiments for a live show at Frost Science on July 19.
Get ready for a treasure hunt — Florida Treasure Hunts sends Miami into a frenzy on August 3.
At 88 years young, the rebel-shaman filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has led an eclectic life and enjoyed a provocative career not easily encapsulated. His 1970 acid western, El Topo, crowned him godfather of the midnight-movie craze. His phantasmagoric 1973 masterpiece, The Holy Mountain, was ripped off by Kanye West for the…
Nothing makes you feel quite as broke as sharing space with fashionistas and supermodels. And while there are plenty of before and after photos to show you that beauty is in the hand of the richest bitch, you can still feel fabulous during Swim Week with just a couple of…
Truth in advertising: Girls trip hard during their New Orleans getaway in Girls Trip, which maybe doesn’t need that possessive apostrophe after all. Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy, written by Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver — the same creative team behind last year’s uneven Barbershop: The Next Cut — pops with…
Kenny Kramer lived across the hall from Larry David in the ’80s, and he’s got plenty of stories about it.
It’s Friday, it’s July, and you just want to get the hell out of work and start your weekend. We feel you. Go ahead and pull your work email up in another tab so you’ll be able to switch to it quickly and avoid getting caught planning your weekend during work hours. Your boss doesn’t need to know you’re going to a ganja festival in Wynwood or taking your dog to the movies in Coconut Grove.
From Game of Thrones to The Handmaid’s Tale, narratives of sexual assault have become particularly common in film and TV lately. But rarely do we think about the filmmakers, actors and crew who make on-screen rapes happen. How do they feel? Are they tired of rape scenes? Or could portraying rape could actually be a positive thing?
“The more we do it, the more awake we become.” That’s how Sandra Lopez describes the benefits of the slow-sex practice she advocates. Lopez, a sexuality and relationships coach who discovered the slow-sex practice in 2013, is now a leader in South Florida’s orgasmic meditation (OM) community.
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…
In February of 1995 Charlton Heston called Rush Limbaugh’s radio program to read from Jurassic Park – the book, not the movie. In his best Old Testament boom, Heston declaimed a speech about man’s hubris that Michael Crichton had written for Dr. Ian Malcolm, the chaos theoretician played onscreen by…
Jeff Orlowski grew up wanting to be a nature photographer. But like so many in that field, his work now focuses less on capturing Earth’s natural wonders than it does on cataloguing their steady demise. “This is an entire field of professionals who are witnessing firsthand the falling apart of…
About 10 minutes into Marti Noxon’s eating-disorder drama, To the Bone, Ellen (Lily Collins) sneaks away from her overbearing stepmom, Susan (Carrie Preston), to chug warm water from a public-bathroom faucet (a trick to fool the body into thinking it’s full so that it will burn more calories). A fellow…
If you’re a Miamian, chances are you’ve embraced climate change as fact (or live in an ideological bubble). The evidence is all around, and it forecasts rising sea levels, warming temperatures, changing wildlife patterns, and increasingly volatile storm seasons. While the majority of Florida voters seem content to elect officials who deny this now-obvious science in favor of short-term profit, many Dade County denizens live with the effects of climate change every day.
