When I told my friends I was attending a Miami FC soccer game on Saturday night, I got responses like this: “You mean Beckham’s team?” If you explain that to the people over at Miami FC, they will most likely give you a smirk and say, “Just a little friendly…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Music at Government Center: Start your week off with a free concert during your Monday-morning commute. Tuesday Lecture: “Realizing Sea Level Solutions” at FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios: Join Dr. Todd Crowl,…
You can be forgiven for thinking that the new show from Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, might come off as niche. Available on the new comedy streaming service Seeso, Harmonquest features comedians playing Pathfinder — a tabletop role-playing game similar to Dungeons and Dragons — in…
It takes a particular brand of dude to pull off a luxurious, well-groomed, badass beard. It’s not a look everyone can wear, especially in the South Florida heat. For those who can rock a glorious beard, it’s a secret handshake. A good beard signifies you’ve seen some shit in your…
This Saturday, Bookleggers mobile library will celebrate its four-year anniversary in a fashion that could best sum up its run of bringing books to the masses in an unorthodox way: by drinking good beer, eating great food, and riding a mechanical alligator. If that doesn’t sum up Bookleggers outside-the-box business…
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 Viernes…
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…
Summer may be coming to an end in other parts of the country, but not in Miami. High temperatures are holding steady, and the Magic City needs some help cooling off. Luckily, the Good Humor company is bringing the Welcome to Joyhood tour to Bayfront Park today to hand out…
Spanish writer/director Jonás Trueba admits he has a bit of baggage with Miami. The 35-year-old was only a teenager when he was last here. His father, writer/director Fernando Trueba, followed up his Oscar-winning movie Belle Epoque with what would be his first and only English-language film, Two Much. The film…
It’s hard out there for a TV comedy fan. That’s the case for network television, at least. Before All in the Family altered the TV comedy landscape, most sitcoms hewed closely to the formula of solving minor annoyances in 22 minutes (with the occasional “OMG Vincent Price in Hawaii” curveball)…
When former Sagamore Hotel owner Martin Taplin passed away in March of this year, the hotel lease was signed over to new ownership, a term that can mean significant change for a landmark of South Beach since the 1940s. A Art Deco tenant, The Sagamore Hotel has been an important…
Maybe you remember the heyday of Miami Marine Stadium, with its boat races and performances by legends such as Queen and Ray Charles. Maybe you snuck in for painting or parkour after Hurricane Andrew turned the structure into a relic. Maybe you’ve been following recent efforts to restore the stadium to…
Thursday On August 25, 1916, the U.S. Congress passed the National Park Service Organic Act, marking the birth of the National Park Service. A century later, NPS has worked to preserve and provide public access to more than 400 national parks, battlefields, historic sites, and monuments. This week, on the…
The sarcastic wag who first drawled the phrase “as exciting as watching grass grow” never intended it as a compliment. But have you ever actually watched grass grow? I mean, I haven’t either, but there must be a pretty cool hidden world of fresh-smelling earth and tickly dew and bugs…
Today, a pop-up preview of Brickell Backyard will be revealed to kick off the first stage of development in Miami’s anticipated project, The Underline. The unveiling of the temporary outdoor gym and fitness area marks the first opening of the 10-mile linear park spanning the land below Miami’s Metrorail, akin…
Natalie Portman proves herself a filmmaker of intelligence, ambition and inventiveness in her debut as a director and writer — just not one who is always certain as a storyteller. A Tale of Love and Darkness adapts, with a passionate somberness, several threads from Amos Oz’s autobiographical novel of the…
Miami is a city with some serious issues. Sure, there’s the looming threat of sea level rise due to climate change (sorry, Rick Scott, it’s a fact), but that’s just one piece of the key lime pie. South Florida has more than a few environmental, political, and financial woes. And,…
Critics often dismiss blockbuster entertainments with the vague, half-assed complaint that they resemble “video games.” Movies like Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe reveal games’ actual influence — for the better. The breakthrough with studio horror films in recent years, since the found-footage boom, is a welcome environmental immersiveness. It’s a testament…
At the Miami Hispanic Cultural Arts Center, a grand white house standing just west of downtown, Pedro Pablo Peña is organizing this year’s International Ballet Festival of Miami. Now in its 21st year, it’s one of only a handful of festivals like it in the world. What began with only…
Robert De Niro — the Raging Bull himself, now aged from boxer to trainer — is introduced in Hands of Stone bathed in Madison Square Garden’s overhead spotlights, more the image of a reigning champ than the promising fighter whose American debut his character Ray Arcel has come to see…
Just like there’s a bizarro internet where Donald Trump is celebrated as a warm, loving, generous, successful businessman who really wants to earn a Purple Heart, I wonder if there’s also a bizarro, ravenous audience awaiting a feature-film reenactment of Donald and Melania’s epic first date. (He literally tricked his…
The beer company Beck has donated $20,000 to salvage the recently defunded Big Night in Little Haiti. Beck’s Urban Canvas has partnered up with South Florida nonprofit Rhythm Foundation to relaunch the monthly free music and arts series that celebrated art, music, culture, and food at the Little Haiti Cultural…
