The statue depicting Donald Trump in the nude that appeared atop a Wynwood billboard last week has been stolen. According to Moishe Mana, the developer who collaborated with anarchist collective INDECLINE to bring the statue to Wynwood, the statue was stolen Thursday morning at 3 a.m. “We did have a…
Fashion on a truck doesn’t have to be fast. In a consumer-driven society of fast fashion, in which companies are always rolling out the season’s latest trend, Elisa Sain and Valerie Armas, the business partners behind the mobile, motorized pop-up shop VASE, couldn’t be farther from that model. VASE is a versatile…
Florida is an easy punchline. Thanks to the, ahem, colorful characters that populate the Sunshine State, whether it’s a man robbing a Taco Bell after paying for his meal or a woman hiding her weed in her niece’s lunchbox, this place gives everyone the giggles. But although comedian Josh Wolf has…
In the back of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse in Wynwood this past Saturday, 10 high school students are running through an extensive series of icebreakers — reciting everyone’s name in order, untying a human knot, touching your knee to somebody else’s foot. Physical contact is important for team-building,…
Louis CK’s love for Miami is no secret — he devoted an entire episode of his FX show Louie to the Magic City. So it’s no surprise that he’s booked himself a long weekend stay here in November, complete with four stand-up shows on back-to-back nights. The comedian announced his…
Twenty-five years ago, Luis Moya was invited to a party that changed his life forever. “When I got to the house, and they opened their door I saw from the outside looking in and thought ‘oh my God, what did I get myself into?’” Moya says, recalling his first fetish…
Havi Schanz is an Argentinian artist based in Miami Beach who paints portraits of famous people for a living. In 2014, he painted a 4-foot tall portrait of Donald Trump — “back when he was just a billionaire, not the Republican Nominee,” Schanz says. The painting, along with one of…
Thursday This Thursday is your chance to watch former Miami Heat star Shane Battier belt out some karaoke for a great cause. The Battier Take Charge Foundation is presenting Battioke 2016, an event gathering Battier and his famous friends, ranging from fellow NBA players to popular celebrities, to take the…
America might not be ready for Fleabag, the new Amazon/BBC series from British writer and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Think about all the guff Girls received for “forcing” viewers along on a ride with myopic 20-somethings. Waller-Bridge has gone even further than Girls creator Lena Dunham, speaking directly to the camera…
In this age of billion-dollar, candy-colored, fully digital child-distraction movie-making, the new chatty-animal adventure comedy Storks wouldn’t have to be good in any way to be wildly profitable. It often is good, though, hilariously so, its too-familiar misfits-become-a-family storyline enlivened by flights of lavish comic invention. Its set pieces, especially…
Lately, it seems like Miami’s fledgling art institutions are growing as fast as its high-rises. The Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is barely three years old, and as the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) prepares to move into its large, permanent home, it’s already nipping at PAMM’s heels. While the…
Pasolini’s Salò meets red Solo cups in Goat, Andrew Neel’s deep, dank dive into the depravities of frat pledging that operates as its own kind of hazing ritual. Points are made and lessons imparted with all the subtlety and finesse of a Greek paddle to the head. Based on Brad…
E-hail services, specifically Uber and Lyft, are a godsend in Miami: No more worrying about valet service, parking laws, or your blood alcohol content. The only things to worry about are: Can your driver find you? Can they drive? Are they sane? The answer to all three is usually, “Sure,…
Still and silent, Jerry Lewis slumps there like old furniture in the lifeless house in which the first half of Daniel Noah’s coming-of-old-age drama Max Rose molders. The film is a fiction, a tidy and improbable one, but these scenes have documentary power. Lewis’ Max Rose, recently bereaved, sits and…
Look, if you’re not stirred by the sight of Denzel Washington, clad in head-to-toe black, riding a black stallion over dunes and bluffs and right up to the saloon of some two-bit frontier town — well, then maybe the movies just aren’t for you. Washington, of course, strides right into…
Ernesto García Sánchez paints with brushes that are works of art unto themselves. One is a double-ended pole that he holds over his shoulder to color one canvas in front of him and one behind. Another is a rake-like contraption for creating three images in a row. A third looks…
A decade after the fact, the scandal of JT LeRoy — the HIV-positive, young male (though gender-fluid) writer adored by scores of global alt celebrities who was revealed to be the creation of a woman named Laura Albert — is relitigated in Jeff Feuerzeig’s queasily absorbing documentary Author: The JT…
We’ve come a long way since American Psycho. And also not. When co-writer/director Mary Harron premiered her Bret Easton Ellis adaptation in 2000, the kneejerk assumption for audiences who’d only seen the trailer was that surely a man had made the ultra-bloody black comedy. The film was dismissed before it…
Over the last 10 days, the Toronto International Film Festival has screened hundreds of movies from all across the world. LA Weekly’s April Wolfe and Michael Nordine trekked to Canada in search of the best of the fest, from the Cannes holdovers and awards hopefuls to the world premieres and…
Two walls of windows make Primary Projects’ new Design District gallery feel a little like a storefront, blending into the rows of furniture stores around it. But this is a showroom from another dimension. Monoliths clad in carpet swatches, glass, and flowers sprout from the floor in one corner; a…
Four years ago, before Ashley Sixto Artidiello ever thought about opening up a storefront, she was busy running an online clothing store and blog. Her fashion sense garnered her a following, and left many of her followers thirsty for pieces they could wear instead of fantasizing about through a screen. …
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…
