As she sits at a table inside a Wynwood coffee shop, Aileen Quintana projects an otherworldliness. Though she’s dressed mostly in black, she seems to radiate the colors that characterize her vibrant art projects, such as her vaporwave mall installation, Sunset @ Noon, which recently showed at this year’s III…
When Della Heiman, an Ohio native, started at Harvard Business School in the fall of 2012, she envisioned following three generations of her family into the textile business. But while she was taking classes on international business and global supply chains, she was also hosting regular dinner parties for her…
As a salesperson at a Miami boutique, Irma Martinez used to dress the mannequins in the windows. Customers loved the way she put the outfits together — so much so they’d come in and buy all the pieces. Irma has always been a creative dresser, skipping the rules and mixing…
From the time she was 12 years old, Inez Barlatier would drive to Miami Beach every Friday night with her dad and younger sister. For three hours, her family’s musical group would play to tourists dining at Tap Tap, a colorful Haitian restaurant on Fifth Street. Murals by artists from…
Sure, teen comedies make stars of their leading ladies and fellas, but what about the authority figures? Eugene Levy’s nameless dad in American Pie is peripheral but memorable as a bumbly guiding force. Tina Fey’s Ms. Norbury in Mean Girls is a motherly but revelatory mess of a teacher. Harry…
Anna Biller’s ripe, vibrant The Love Witch is an act of reclamation — and love. In this out-of-time extravaganza of feminist-satanist serial-killer erotica, the writer/director/producer — plus editor and set and costume designer — has crafted the best kind of homage or parody, the kind that honors every thrill and…
The Amazon series Good Girls Revolt, centered on a landmark 1970 gender discrimination case at Newsweek, is the kind of period drama that’s more interested in commenting on the present than recreating the past. The storyline, about professional journalists, plays fast and loose with the facts, and creator Dana Calvo…
Each of us ascribes to a certain narrative about ourselves that helps us face the mirror each morning. Conceptual artist and writer Jason Handelsman is a man committed to experimenting with those narratives for art’s sake. The former Miami New Times clubs editor, current proud father of 2-year-old Timothy…
The Miami Book Fair kicked off yesterday, bringing another impressive roster of authors and events to Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus. But after making it through the presidential election and reading a plethora of angry Facebook comments, you might feel more like chugging a cocktail than picking up a new book.
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they all cost less than $10. From ladies’-night bingo at the Freehand to the Wynwood Yard’s first-anniversary party, grab a few bucks and enjoy Miami.
Maybe they thought we’d all had a little too much of Donald Trump’s racist banter over the past few months. Or perhaps it just seemed all too real now that the guy who talked in broad strokes about banning Muslims and Mexican rapists is about to enter the Oval Office.
Artists Rei Ramirez and Ivan Roque based their recent mural, “When Pigs Fly,” on a simple premise: If Donald Trump were to win the presidency, surely we’d all be seeing swine swooping through the air. But like pollsters, media pundits, and roughly half Americans, they were wrong.
Though not native to Miami, 29-year-old Magnus Sodamin has taken to these southern swampy lands like a fish to water. And fishing is actually something that inspires him as an artist. From the time when his grandfather in Norway first brought him out on peaceful waters to the days he spends in nature today, he observes and processes the waking world around him.
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…
Need a dose of feminism in this postelection-funhouse version of reality? Yeah, us too. Luckily, the Miami Book Fair launches Sunday, bringing these inspiring women writers to push back against the nightmare of Election 2016 — or at least distract us from it for a bit.
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, 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.
It’s fun watching Ginny Baker be rude to people. I was hesitant to give a chance to Pitch, the new Fox series imagining the life and career of the (fictional) first woman to play Major League Baseball, because I feared Ginny would be impossibly noble, driven and hardworking — the…
In 2010, when things on the internet were actually fun, Ronnie Rivera made it even more of a virtual party as one half of online arts collective Bleeding Palm. He took paparazzi-style photos at live events at a time when everyone woke up bright and early the next afternoon, drenched in alcohol sweat and cigarette stink, to see if someone had snapped a cool pic of them the night before and posted it on a website.
Despite what Hollywood would have us believe, beauty isn’t limited to the traditional standards handed down by movies and television. In other words, Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie ain’t all there is. Real-life loveliness comes in many incarnations, and showcasing this diversity is the mission of the Bold Beauty Project.
Because a six-pack is part of the official Miami uniform, working out is a priority for many citizens of the 305. For some people, it’s how they spend the better part of their day (because not having a real job is also part of the Miami uniform, apparently)…
A few years ago, artist and writer Cara Despain made the fairly dramatic move from her hometown of Salt Lake City to Miami. She didn’t just spin a globe and point; her childhood best friend had already dropped anchor here in a sea of artist friends. Though Despain always knew she would be an artist one day…
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…
