“It’s interesting that when we’re young, we do everything in our power to avoid becoming like our parents,” says John Sevigny. “It’s a natural part of becoming independent, and I’m a little suspicious of young people who aren’t rebellious in that respect.” A photographer and Miami native, Sevigny has always been…
Art is rarely made with the intention of throwing it away. But that’s the mission of Trash Detectives, a project co-presented by the Frost Science Museum and Miami Science Barge that will launch during DWNTWN Art Days this Saturday and Sunday. DWNTWN Art Days, a three-day-long civic project aimed at…
Florida Supercon, the largest geek gathering in South Florida, announced this week that it plans to hold its 2017 event in Fort Lauderdale, rather than at its former venue, the Miami Beach Convention Center. Some Dade County superfans may have been disappointed by the news. But Irving Santiago is taking…
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. Friday DWNTWN…
As Wynwood, Miami’s burgeoning arts district, battles the Zika outbreak discovered in July, the neighborhood remains at a loss. “The name Wynwood is on people’s minds on a national scale,” says Diego Orlandini, founder of the Wynwood Coloring Book. “They associate it with Zika. It’s time we show people what Wynwood…
If you can finagle a day off so soon after Labor Day, you might want to do so — DWNTWN Art Days kicks off Friday, bringing a three-day schedule of more than 70 events to Downtown Miami’s museums, studios, theaters, streets, and waterfront. With exhibitions, live performances, outsize installations, social-issues…
Attention, Miami fans of Florida Supercon: If you want to go to next year’s convention, you’re going to have to plan a road trip. The four-day event for all things comics, cosplaying, anime and beyond, will be held next year in Fort Lauderdale, after eight years of hosting the festivities…
Thursday History is not etched in stone. The events of the past are subject to interpretation by the minds of the present, and museums often create and designate historical artifacts and truths. New York City-based Titus Kaphar is an artist interested in exploring the relationship among truth, history, and art…
The Bachelor stands erect as the vanguard of heterosexual romance competitions. Bachelor in Paradise (BIP), whose third season concludes this week, is the sunburnt, daydrunk cousin of the ABC franchise. Set in the Ewok Village on the Planet Endor (the perfect place to fall in love), the summertime distraction stars…
Nicknamed the City Beautiful, Coral Gables is one of South Florida’s oldest and most historic neighborhoods. Designed with Mediterranean influence, Coral Gables features lush, tree-lined avenues, mighty, opulent buildings, winding roadways, and lots of green spaces. Incorporated in 1925, George Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, set out to create one of…
In her career as a journalist and author, Geraldine Brooks has traveled the world. Born in Australia, Brooks became a U.S. citizen in 2002 and has ventured to the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, and Yugoslavia in search of her next story. And in November, she’ll head to Miami to…
Since 2001 Art Basel has slowly transformed Miami Beach from a vacation spot for well-to-do snow birds into an art world mecca. The fair has also driven the local art scene, inspiring the community to rally around artists, gallery owners, and museums. Though Art Basel 2016 will make Miami the…
Twenty years ago, Antonia Wright was walking on a frozen reservoir in Massachusetts when she fell through the ice. The teenager clawed her way out of the water — and kept the ordeal a secret. “It was actually illegal to walk on it because it was the water source for…
The most destructive villain in this year’s summer movies isn’t some super-powered fiend. It’s us, the consumers of North America, whose desires shape the world. The U.S. looms over Jayro Bustamante’s patient, observant, exquisitely painful debut feature Ixcanul, just as it looms over the Guatemalan coffee plantation in which Bustamante’s…
Eight minutes into the pilot episode of Cinemax’s new crime show Quarry — an uneven but largely rewarding translation of Max Allan Collins’ crime books into emotionally challenging, character-driven television — Marine Lloyd “Mac” Conway, Jr. (Logan Marshall-Green) returns home a day early from his second tour in Vietnam. By…
New York Times best-selling author Brad Meltzer remembers living in his grandmother’s one-bedroom, six-person apartment in North Miami Beach as a teenager. The first in his family to attend a four-year college, he is now the author of more than ten historical thrillers and the creator of Decoded, a show on the…
Like American Sniper (2014), Clint Eastwood’s Sully is a movie of nightmares. In Sniper, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sits rigidly in the living room, imagining the gunfire, roaring helicopters and wailing bystanders of Fallujah playing out on a turned-off television as his children race through the house. In Sully, Chesley…
Remember staring at the classroom clock in high school, waiting for the bell to ring? Sometimes, those final minutes felt as though they dragged on for hours, and you could have sworn the minute hand sluggishly dragging across the clock face ticked backward for a brief second. It’s entirely possible…
Before The Eric Andre Show came along, I always thought acting like a complete lunatic on television was mostly a white-people thing. As a culture, African-Americans generally frown upon the idea of being unabashedly clownish for the masses — black folks call it “showing your ass.” All those years of…
Barbara Kopple’s Miss Sharon Jones! tells the kind of true story that makes you want to kick creation itself square in the crotch. Here’s that firecracker soul singer, nearing her 60s, her boogie still majestic, her band still a tight retro marvel, her wail still the southern end of a northbound…
In contemporary film, it’s typical for an African-American character to be the sole person of color in the story, only existing to reveal hidden racism or make white people uncomfortable with themselves. Black characters rarely get to talk to other black characters. Last year, Manohla Dargis suggested a new Bechdel-type…
Where were you when you learned that you’d be making your DJ debut at the biggest rave of the year? And that said rave was only eight hours away? Ethan, the sheepish main character of Netflix’s straight-to-streaming EDM movie XOXO, gets the news in his kitchen, where his mom is cooking breakfast…
