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Miami Artist’s Safety-Pin Drawing Becomes a Viral Pantsuit Nation Symbol

By Minhae Shim RothJanuary 13, 2017

In the weeks since the 2016 presidential election, the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation has become a sort of support group for liberals. Started as a secret space for Democratic voters, especially those in red states, to voice their political opinions, Pantsuit Nation grew exponentially as the battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump grew more intense. Today it has nearly 4 million members worldwide, who daily post expressions of grief, messages of hope, and personal stories about how political policy has affected their daily lives.

One-Minute Play Festival Examines Life in Post-Election America

By Artburst MiamiJanuary 13, 2017

Thirty-two playwrights, a half-dozen directors, and around 90 plays in less than two hours: This is the South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, now in its fifth year. The festival, performed at the Deering Estate in Palmetto Bay and curated by Caitlin Wees and Dominic D’Andrea, has become a phenomenon. South…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

By Clarissa Buch ZilbermanJanuary 13, 2017

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.

Miami Jewish Film Festival 2017: This Year’s Best Films

By Juan Antonio BarquinJanuary 12, 2017

The 2017 Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) begins tonight, and from the opening screening in Aventura to the festival closing at O Cinema Miami Shores January 26, there are plenty of worthwhile films to catch. Choosing just a few always requires some tough decision-making, so why not let New Times help? Here are our top picks for what to check out at the festival.

Miami Improv Festival Returns With Its Biggest South Florida Lineup Yet

By Angel MelendezJanuary 12, 2017

If you like Saturday Night Live, you probably like improv comedy. Many of SNL’s biggest names cut their teeth in improv troupes; it’s where Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, and many others honed their skills. Poehler is a founder of New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade; Fey and Murray are both grads of Second City in Chicago; and Ferrell got his career off the ground with the Groundlings in L.A.

The Artful Activist, a Group of Progressive Miami Artists, Tries to “Save the World”

By Neil de la FlorJanuary 12, 2017

Artist and activist Melanie Oliva woke up overwhelmed with sadness, frustration, and helplessness the morning of November 9, 2016. Even her well-curated Facebook feed couldn’t alter the new, bitter reality that Donald Trump had been elected president. She’d hoped that economic, environmental, and social justice would be at the forefront of the incoming administration. But that, she said, turned out to be an illusion.

Blake Jenner’s Billy Boy Will Screen at Miami Film Festival 2017

By Douglas MarkowitzJanuary 11, 2017

For 34 years, Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival has brought international cinema to the Magic City, but this year, a homegrown talent will step into the spotlight. Blake Jenner, a Miami-born-and-raised actor best known for his role on Fox’s Glee, will compete for this year’s Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award when the festival presents the world premiere of Billy Boy.

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

By New Times staff and contributorsJanuary 11, 2017

Name a funny celebrity — Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, Horatio Sanz, Maya Rudolph — and chances are they got their start in standup comedy. The fast-paced, script-free genre forces participants to think creatively on their feet, leading to wacky scenes that never play out the same way twice…

Our Critics’ Picks for Films in 2016

By Miami New Times staffJanuary 10, 2017

Thanks to a bitter election and seemingly endless culture war, last year was a roller coaster, and the films of 2016 reflect those ups and downs, with surprising results. It’s to be expected that lauded movies such as The Lobster, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, and Fences would become awards-season…

Miami City Ballet Serves Up Challenging Company Premieres in Program II

By Artburst MiamiJanuary 10, 2017

The white walls and well-trod floor of a light-pierced studio at Miami City Ballet enclose a charmed space — a field of incalculable energy. Inside, sets of coupled dancers rehearse in quick succession two company premieres for their second program of the season, opening Friday. On the schedule this day: the antic maneuvers of Calcium Light Night, Peter Martins’ 1977 choreographic debut, and Carousel Pas de Deux, a fairground for spinning passions, from the end of Kenneth MacMillan’s career.

Claire in Motion Plumbs and Plumbs the Mysteries of Grief

By April WolfeJanuary 10, 2017

It’s a question the movies ask again and again: How should a person grieve? In Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson’s slow-burn pseudo-mystery Claire in Motion, a talented mathematics professor named Claire Hunger (Betsy Brandt) realizes her amateur survivalist husband Paul (Chris Beetem) might not be coming home from his…

Bayfront Park Will Host a Second Protest During Trump Inauguration

By Arielle EgoziJanuary 10, 2017

Women won’t be the only ones marching against Donald Trump’s inauguration in South Florida next week. The Anti-Trump Action Committee (ATAC) is planning its own March Against Trump, set to take place at Bayfront Park January 20, Inauguration Day. That means downtown Miami will host back-to-back demonstrations in response to the incoming administration…

Patriots Day Finds Mark Wahlberg Caught Between Fiction and Real Disaster

By Michael NordineJanuary 10, 2017

For better and for worse, Peter Berg has found his genre. After oscillating between sports (Friday Night Lights), superheroes (Hancock) and even board games (Battleship) without much distinction, the writer, director, producer and actor has made a loose trilogy in which Mark Wahlberg reenacts recent tales of American heroism. Lone…

Ben Affleck’s Crime Epic Live by Night Is a Pile of Parts

By Bilge EbiriJanuary 10, 2017

Somewhere inside the 128-minute Live by Night is a reasonably solid 168-minute movie struggling to get out. No, that’s not a typo: You can sense the contours of an absorbing story as writer/director/star Ben Affleck’s slapdash and fragmented assemblage limps along. Most of the pieces are there, but they remain…

Moonlight Wins Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture, Drama

By Ciara LaVelleJanuary 9, 2017

The made-in-Miami film Moonlight took home one of the Golden Globes’ biggest awards last night: the statue for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the grand finale of the ceremony. It was a relief to many critics and fans of the film, who’d begun to fear it would be shut out…

The State of Action Filmmaking, 2017

By VernJanuary 6, 2017

In the ’80s and ’90s, there were action movies. They starred muscly guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone, or martial artists from Jean-Claude Van Damme to Cynthia Rothrock, or actors who were dedicated to the physical demands of the genre, like Bruce Willis or Wesley Snipes. They mostly told…

Molly Haskell Follows Spielberg From Boyhood to Responsibility

By Alan ScherstuhlJanuary 6, 2017

Almost all of the history of American movies flows into Steven Spielberg, and the movies that have come since can’t help but be in response. As a storyteller and as a cultural figure, his closest precedent isn’t John Ford or David Lean, but Dickens, another age’s popular titan, beloved more…

Your January TV Watch List: The Six Shows We’re Counting On

By Laura BeckJanuary 6, 2017

New year, new us! JK, new year, same ol’ us: watching TV and hiding in a hole from the bitter January cold and impending doom. The only solution? Watching all the television! You can take the day of the inauguration off to protest, but I expect you back under the…