When Jenan Matari, the cofounder of MissMuslim.com, asked me to wear contemporary Muslim clothing including a headscarf as part of A Day in Her Hijab — a virtual event she is organizing for December 10 — I hesitated. In general, I’m the kind of friend who will show up if something is critical — but if it’s just for social purposes, probably nah.
Filmmaker Faren Humes delivers work that feels relevant and necessary. Her short film Our Rhineland, about two sisters who took on the Third Reich as it rendered mixed-race Germans sterile, has earned her a Director’s Guild of America Student Film Award and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Television Award…
Always the first festival that cinephiles anticipate in the new year, the Miami Jewish Film Festival returns this January. For its 20th year, the festival will present 64 films from 20 countries while hosting 50 filmmakers and special guests throughout South Florida.
Thursday A Bridget Everett performance isn’t just a comedy show. It’s a full-blown sexual celebration. Armed with skimpy, sparkly outfits and an utter lack of modesty, Everett unabashedly sings about dicks and oral sex. She runs the stage like a naughty cabaret, breaking up her songs with comic interludes. But…
Borscht Corp., the nonprofit organization that makes your favorite short films in and about Miami, has a lot of exciting news for the start of 2017. First up? For the seventh year in a row, Borscht-commissioned works are playing at the ever-growing Sundance Film Festival in January. Better yet: Borscht…
In his Variety review of Monica Peña’s feature debut, Ectotherms, Guy Lodge referred to the zero-budget film as one of “the most striking world premieres at the Miami Film Festival.” To meet Peña and chat with her is such a casual, though always engaging, experience that one would never expect her to be a filmmaker who presents such intensity in her work.
It’s December, which means it’s time to curl up in front of the TV in a fetal position and pray for 2017. Since this year has been Satan’s masturbatory fantasy, we deserve to glue our eyelids open and soak in the sweet, sweet escapism. And on January 1st, fortified by…
The great Mariah Carey once sang, “All I want for Christmas is classic movies.” OK, she might not have said those exact words, but who doesn’t want some good old-school movies to check out during the holidays? Miami has plenty for you this month, so get ready.
One reason why Isabelle Huppert makes suffering so compelling onscreen is her sheer … well, “unflappability” isn’t quite the right word. It’s a kind of ironic distance, perhaps: The actress can convey curiosity, bewilderment and coolness all at once, even as she deals with the most agonizing of circumstances. But…
Watching Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s mesmerizing sci-fi arthouse stunner, Evolution, I thought of the paintings of surrealist Rene Magritte — a few in particular: The Collective Invention (1934) and The Human Condition diptych (1933, 1935). The former features a creature — the bottom limbs of a woman and the body of a…
The tents have emptied. The crowds have flown home. The roads have cleared — by Miami standards, at least. Another Miami Art Week has come and gone, and if you’re one of the thousands of frustrated South Florida commuters, you likely stayed far away from its epicenters in South Beach…
Since 1990, Paul Castronovo and Ron Brewer have cohosted the Paul and Young Ron show on South Florida radio airwaves. For years, the two have been some of the most recognizable faces plastered across billboards and signs all over Miami. If you have lived in South Florida for any meaningful amount of time, you’ve likely come across the duo at a festival or event.
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is first and foremost a storyteller. Though the mediums through which his stories are told can vary, the direction of his artistic gaze stays laser-focused on the Caribbean. The 35-year-old musician, writer, and filmmaker left his home of Barbados more than ten years ago, but it has not left him and continues to shape his creative expression.
Art Basel’s celebrity scene gets more crowded each year, with club events, block parties, rooftop soirees, and everything in-between, all competing for the attention of the famous faces who flock to Miami’s biggest art week. From actors to musicians, models and more, here’s how the other half partied during Miami…
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 Concrete Beach Brewery’s Brew House Rock beer-drinking educational series to the South Beach Jazz Festival and Miami Public Transit Day.
Osama Bin Laden’s erect genitalia covers the nose of a cut-out of President-elect Donald Trump’s head. Trump’s mouth spews glittery brown droplets of waste. A neon-green speech bubble sprouts from Bin Laden’s mouth, declaring in all caps, “THE SPECTACLE LIKE MODERN SOCIETY ITSELF IS AT ONCE UNITED AND DIVIDED.” Surrounding…
The year 2016 has been fraught with political unrest, discord, and so much tension you can feel it like the crackling of electricity in the air. With a Trump presidency looming and many Americans expressing fear of what that regime change will look like, the art world is responding in…
Looks like we made it. Another Art Basel week in the books. But the party’s not officially over yet. The fairs are still open, and plenty of events around town are hoping to lure stragglers in with promises of restoration and mimosas. If you can muster the strength to get…
Spirits were high as three adventurous souls stripped down to their skivvies, grabbed a Pussy Riot surfboard, and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, as part of DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY, an installation by Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija at Untitled, Art, Miami Beach. Artist Tomas Vu happily…
One of the latest additions to the Brickell skyline, the East, is getting in the Basel spirit with an installation and show of recent work from Chinese artist Ye Hongxing. The Shanghai-based artist is known for her intricate canvas pastiches, constructed with stickers she finds at flea markets and small…
Here’s what you will not encounter at fashion designers Maxwell + Dao’s installation at the Confidante pool area this Basel: Any exhibits to do with fashion design. Here’s what you will get: An ear into the candid conversations of the Public School duo and their friends, as they tackle every…
You have just two more days to take in all the spectacles around the city. The Basel fatigue struggle is real, but now’s the time to chug a coffee and get over it — or resign yourself to waiting a whole year for redemption. Basel Saturday has the biggest crowds,…
