Vanesa R. Del Rey doesn’t think she could have stayed in her native Cuba. People who are different are ostracized, she says. “It’s tough,” she adds. A small, slender woman with dark eyes and a wry smile, the artist might seem demure if it weren’t for the large snake tattoo…
Simple shapes and elemental colors — vibrant, yet subdued — solidify the backdrop in Kareem David Piper’s Miami landscapes. There is nothing fixed about his images. They move on the canvas. They flow. Apparent in all his pieces is a blue-orange sky. It’s an atmosphere that is both volatile and…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they’re all free. Monday Memorial Day in Miami: The forecast predicts sunny skies, so grab your beach towel, some sunscreen, and head to the closest shoreline. Yoga at Bayfront Park: At 6:15 p.m., downward dog…
Sex sells. That’s indisputable. Some sources estimate that the adult industry takes in about $13 billion in annual revenue. However, despite numbers that surpass the profits of even the almighty NFL, with all the free porn available on the interwebs, that’s actually not as much as the industry could be…
Newly appointed Perez Art Museum Director, Franklin Sirmans, capped off the first six months of his tenure with the largest donation of works in the museum’s short history. Over a hundred pieces of art were donated by Design District developer Craig Robins. The move the symbolizes South Florida’s budding relationship…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. It’s three days of a festive cacophony of music, art, and frosty libations. The inaugural Raddest Craft Fair at the Wynwood Yard launches Saturday, with 12 independent craft-makers. Friday 64th…
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…
In August 1992, the biggest storm to hit Miami in over 60 years roared through the city. It destroyed homes, claimed a few lives, and left more injured. Many families remember the ferocity of the howling winds and the sounds of the branches cracking. Others still recall huddling in a closet…
Flocks of quinceañera in puffy, blinged-out dresses fill the gardens of Villa Vizcaya all year round. Fortunate couples celebrate their nuptials on the museum’s stone steps, immortalizing their special day in the glamour of a bygone era. Romance abounds at James Deering’s former estate, first opened in 1916. Even the name…
Memorial Day weekend in Miami is synonymous with late nights, loud music, mega yachts, and enough sun and sand to make it to the official start of summer (that’s on June 20). HistoryMiami has another idea: A peaceful sail through Biscayne Bay, diving into old lore and its ever-growing biological…
An ordinary backpack is so basic. The big zipper gives way to a space and you throw your laptop and books in and then you strap it on your back. Lame. Clearly, the only way to really rock a book bag is if it’s electric and has a built in skateboard. …
Summer is quickly approaching. This makes most of us reminisce over how we’ve spent the last few months. Do late nights, tasty eats, lazy days, and an overload of mimosas sound familiar? What about the last time you went to the gym? Yeah, our memory is a little hazy too…
Thursday, May 26 As Queen Bey would say, women need to stick together. That’s the idea behind Take a Walk in Her Shoes, an annual charitable event run by females for females. Created by Chapman Partnership, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Miami’s homeless and disenfranchised, the soiree is all about…
There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back to the first weekend in May. This year, the superhero flicks started arriving with Deadpool’s release on February 12. Only two…
If you went to sleepaway camp as a kid, you probably reminisce over those long summer nights spent in the woods filled with late-night snacks, scary stories, and a few moments of debauchery. Now, you can relive the glory days — or experience them for the first time because not all…
Less than three years ago the Cuban artistic husband-and-wife team of José Toirac and Meira Marrero marked their first ever solo exhibition in a U.S. gallery. The event took place at Pan American Art Projects during a time when the risk of censorship back home was still very real. Their…
Director R.B. Schlather, in a joint effort with the vocal chamber group IlluminArts, presents a weeklong rendition of David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Little Match Girl Passion, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). The performance marks the latest in a series of collaborations with local museums and galleries to…
When The Royale begins, Jay, a heavyweight champion boxer, and Fish, his amateur opponent, line up next to each other. Spotlights shine on both, leaving the rest of the sparse set in the dark. But instead of squaring off against each other in the ring, the two stare straight at…
Even when working from source material crafted by others, Terence Davies, like all singular filmmakers, imprints it with his DNA. At once solemn and lusty, Davies’ page-to-screen transfer of Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel beautifully conveys human fragility, our bodies and minds outmatched by the brute indifference of…
There’s a scene during the first half of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse that is so emotionally resonant, so well-put-together and so quiet that you might briefly forget you’re watching a superhero film. It involves a raid by some Polish officers in the remote forest where Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto (Michael…
Even by the standards of Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster’s premise is a doozy: Colin Farrell plays a recently single schlub forced to report to the Hotel, where he has 45 days to form a romantic relationship lest he be turned into an animal of his choosing. This is the plight…
In his archly empathetic comedies, Whit Stillman has long chronicled the uncertain ways in which young people of privilege launch themselves into worlds too in decline to offer them much. The debutante-ball life of Metropolitan or the nightclub and publishing circles of The Last Days of Disco are already dying before…
