With the MiFo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in town, there’s an abundance of options for audiences to check out some queer films. This could be your only chance — otherwise, you’ll have to wait months and hope for a theatrical or online release. Halfway through the festival, there are…
As traffic gets progressively worse, Miamians are (finally) starting to get serious about alternative transportation. The city just announced plans for six new rail lines. And since May is National Bike Month, the celebration is bringing citywide attention to two-wheeled travel. In order to commemorate and show support for cycling, Pérez…
Fairy tales were meant to be oral stories. Translating the tangents of old women in far-flung villages (whose chips on their shoulders about, say, their brother’s failed shipping business might inspire long asides about the shipping industry) into written texts doesn’t always make for the most linear, easy read. In…
Queen B kicks off her highly anticipated Formation World Tour tonight at Marlins Park, marking a 40-stadium journey around the globe. As Miamians eagerly wait for her to grace the stage, we can only imagine how fierce she’ll look, which is why die-hard Beyhive members need to look the part too…
Them Beaux is an upcoming Miami Theater Center play that touches on themes of sexual identity, racial issues, and gender equality. In other words, it’s a socially relevant tale — despite the fact that it takes place in America during the 1800s. A period piece can be stressful to produce…
In 2014, Miami-Dade County made an estimated $23.8 billion in tourist money. That’s an almost astronomical figure. It’s 317,333 times more than Justin Bieber blew at King of Diamonds that same year. It’s enough to rent a room at the Versace mansion every day for the rest of your life…
Actor Jesse Eisenberg is known as a jittery person who speaks with a nervous stammer punctuated by “um”s and “uh”s. That characteristic is in full effect when he apologizes for calling a New Times reporter eight minutes past the scheduled time. The Oscar nominee says that after five months of…
Thursday, April 28 It’s time for anyone who wants a heavy dose of queer cinema to get excited: The MiFo LGBT Film Festival hits town this month. Formerly the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF), the fest is now split into two editions — one in Miami (“Mi”) and…
Painting is thought of as a highly personal enterprise. The masses think artists create in solitude, making work that is as much therapeutic as it is beautiful. For Los Angeles-based painter Alexander Kroll, that popular stereotype couldn’t be further from the truth. A native New Yorker, Kroll delved into the…
Last week, the film The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal (El Sol Como un Gran Animal Oscuro) – directed by Miami-based filmmakers Christina Felisgrau and Ronnie Rivera (together known as Bleeding Palm) – made its online debut. Produced by the Miami-based Borscht Corp., the short had its world premiere at the 2015…
The lure of everything Cuba is strong. It’s in the news, on top of everyone’s travel list and in our movie theaters. But the recent films about Cuba aren’t exports from the still-embargoed country. Most come from visiting filmmakers. Irish director Paddy Breathnach captures a gorgeous portrait of Cuba with…
When John Giorno steps onstage dressed in head-to-toe black, he doesn’t just read his poems — he performs them like a standup routine. He grimaces and grins while his eyebrows rise and fall. He bellows and sings, inflecting syllables, drawing out vowels, and blending octaves high and low. He repeats…
The low-rise warehouse district on East 45th Street in Hialeah is filled with noisy clutter from auto mechanics’ shops and cafeterias during the day. But on a recent Saturday night, the humid air was glued to the concrete. It was quiet. At 11th Avenue, the faint vibrations of hip-hop bass…
A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn’s tiny hand helplessly clinging to a father’s finger, and ends with a different father watching his two sons sleep. In between is a story…
Score one for going home again. After misfiring with Begin Again, a film that asked us to worry over a disillusioned A&R man’s efforts to coax a folk-pop album out of Keira Knightley, writer-director John Carney has turned back to the striving Irish of Once, his breakout hit. He’s also…
Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way. The premise will make some cringe, while making others giddy: A punk band, trapped in a club in the middle of nowhere, have to fight off a bunch of murderous skinheads to get…
Each year, the Knight Foundation accepts applications for the Knight Arts Challenge, which awards thousands of dollars to the best idea that seeks to transform the community through art. Here, a winner offers insight from her experience and provides tips for those interested in applying this year. Ideas are being…
The Riso EZ 220 printer looks like any ordinary piece of office equipment: A gray hulk of plastic. The risograph machine is long favored by boutique print shops and zine-makers for its rich colors and ink textures. And Leila Leder Kremer and Juana Meneses, founders of the publishing operation Portable Editions,…
Happy Monday, Miamians. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is: they’re free. Monday Free tour at the Arsht Center: Get the inside scoop of everything Arsht-related at its free backstage tour. Farmer’s Market at the Arsht Center: Purchase fresh food from stands overflowing with local harvest, all…
The second season of Amazon’s Catastrophe might do for the #TGIF-style family sitcom of the late ‘80s and ‘90s what the first did for the ailing rom-com: open-mouthed resuscitation on the operating table after one too many Garry Marshall–fueled heart attacks like Valentine’s Day. (Or New Year’s Eve? It doesn’t…
In ’81 he accessorized his trench coat with high heels and bikini briefs. In ’84 that coat got dandified, high-collared and famously purple, Edwardian formalwear over a frilled tuxedo shirt over that wicked slick of chest hair. It was the get-up of a perv or a president, a look that…
How does one mourn a loved one who has been disappeared? How can you express the wounds of a nation scarred by civil strife, war, torture and mass graves? For a gut-wrenching glimpse into the horror, visit Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s exhibit opening at the Perez Art Museum Miami today…
