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…
This year’s fest will feature a poetry-by-prisoners project, a Metrorail poetry partnership, a comedy night, and array of other irreverent events and projects. Festival founder P. Scott Cunningham, a former New Times staffer, gives the scoop on some highlights.
The beginning marks the beginning of the end: A middle-aged man rouses from sleep, about to face another day of accosting and insulting strangers. He hates people but needs them, too. His voice-over kicks in, a peroration that opens with a bid for camaraderie (“Remember when we were kids and…
Shirley MacLaine has been described by press and co-stars over the years as “rude,” “nasty,” “difficult” and “selfish.” Hell, she’s called herself impatient, caustic and much worse. None of that has stopped her from being a fiery mainstay in American screwball comedies and dramas. Her signature pixie cut came to…
The world of high finance is equal parts confounding, infuriating, and downright terrifying. Most Americans look at Wall Street’s slick, greedy players and are resigned to the fact that it’s filled with money-hungry vultures, the kind of people who won’t settle for just one yacht. They’re sucking the economy dry,…
The spring equinox marks the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness. It’s also a day after Miami ended the first homegrown World Happiness Summit (AKA WoHaSu), a three-day event that has the ambitious goal of making the Magic City the capital of happiness. Today also heralds the release of the World Happiness Report, which ranks 155 countries.
“What’s going on in the world? A lack of compassion. I wish we had a little bit more of that and less Trump.” That’s how Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, set the tone for his March 16 talk during the H20 government track at the World Happiness Summit — the first global gathering of government leaders, economists, academics, and researchers who met at Miami Dade College to explore the science and economic impact of happiness on civic well-being.
Almost no one ever asks young women what they desire — in movies or reality. Feminine cravings are still seen as a dire threat, a grand disturbance to the power structure, and the few movie men who dare speak the words “What do you want?” — like Noah in The…
Miami is a city that is brimming with talent. From local designers and makers to artisans and illustrators, there’s no shortage of creatives trying to make it in the Magic City. But because rent prices for retail spaces are exorbitantly high, many locals lack the resources to host their brands in a brick-and-mortar.
In 1976’s The Devil Finds Work, James Baldwin makes a crucial verb distinction when discussing the screen legends, like Bette Davis, with whom he was transfixed (sometimes uneasily so) in his youth: “One does not go to see them act: one goes to watch them be.” When one goes to…
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they all cost less than $10. Grab a few bucks and enjoy what’s new in town, from a movie in the street in Downtown Dadeland to a block party in Little Haiti.
In 2016, Philadelphia-based Koresh Dance Company crossed its 25-year mark. To celebrate, the company is returning to Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts with a 25th-anniversary program featuring choice selections from its repertoire. It’s a retrospective of the development of artistic director Ronen Koresh’s style and creative voice.
There’s something funny about bringing art and comedy together. At least that’s what Yuval Ofir from Yo Space Gallery thinks. The art curator has been hosting comedy events around Miami for five years, uniting the creative community through laughs. This weekend, he plans to put on his usual comedy show, but with a street-art twist.
To understand how Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending might disappoint you if you’ve read the suspenseful, tear-jerking Julian Barnes novel on which it’s based, you should think back to Batra’s much-lauded debut feature The Lunchbox (2013). In that humanistic film, a young woman trapped in her marriage falls…
“There’s been a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won.” Those eight words uttered by La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz sent the internet — and much of the media-consuming world — into a tizzy. A nation watched in disbelief as the Moonlight team cautiously took the stage at the Academy Awards. But Patrick Decile, the 20-year-old Miami native who played Terrel, the film’s brutal antagonist, was not among them.
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, parties, and boozy beverages galore. From Coral Gables to Little Havana to South Beach, these are the best places to be until the sun comes up Monday morning. Friday…
Somehow, MTV2, the channel that was launched 21 years ago to show all the music videos MTV wasn’t, has essentially turned into BET — or TV One or Centric or whatever black programming-filled channel you know about. The evidence is all there — before it jumped back to its original…
Despite catastrophic statistics about honeybee decline, including a loss of 44 percent of colonies between 2015 and 2016, local horticulturist and entomologist Adrian Hunsberger of the University of Florida says local bees are in pretty good shape, all things considered.
Visitors to PAMM’s Museum Park are in for a surprise following the recent acquisition of a monumental piece by renowned sculptor Jaume Plensa. Titled Looking Into My Dreams, Awilda, the 39-foot-tall sculpture depicts the elongated face of the titular Awilda, her eyes closed in meditation, perched close to Biscayne Bay.
A single palm tree adorns the City of Miami’s official seal, but these days, it might as well be replaced by a high-rise condo. Construction cranes now dot the skyline of “Bayhattan” along the Miami river where city founder Julia Tuttle first settled and incorporated the territory in 1896. The Magic City is often maligned by Old-World visitors as a “city without history,” and maybe that’s because so much visible evidence of history has seen the wrecking ball. Here are a few classic Miami landmarks that no longer stand.
Art can stir emotions, comment on the turmoil in the world, and spur action in our communities. Miami arts patron the Knight Foundation has believed in the power of creative expression since its founding by newspaper moguls the Knight brothers in the 1900s. The foundation’s annual open call, the Knight Arts Challenge, is now celebrating its tenth anniversary.
In an age when we’re all asking the world to provide us with more representation onscreen, be it television or film, we should also be demanding it onstage in the theatre. The Future Is Female Festival, a cross-country event that offers audiences short plays by women of all backgrounds, is here to do just that — and Miami is going along for the ride.
