Celia Cruz doesn’t need an introduction. The singer’s energy is synonymous with Miami: loud and sin vergüenza. Cubanitos in the ’70s grew up going to “El Open House,” Cuban dance parties held at the Jai-Alai where Cruz occasionally performed. Her music can still be heard at weddings, quinces, the club…
After this last weekend, you’re most likely either horrifically hungover and broke from Ultra mania, or going out of your mind from your forced hibernation spent avoiding said mania. Wherever you land, we’ve got a week of free cultural goodness to get you back on track. Monday Book Talk by…
It was a long journey from Kendall to Iceland, Morocco, and Turkey before Miami native Juan Pablo Reyes could get his first producer credit for the movie Headlock. Starring Glee’s Dianna Agron and another Miami native, Andy Garcia, the film follows the story of a wife who tries to uncover…
Coral Gables’ famed central walkway, Miracle Mile, is undergoing a makeover. This spring, the new design will feature wider sidewalks covered in a multi-hued granite resembling a cloud-dabbed South Florida sky. Curbs will be removed and replaced with low stone bollards and tree canopies. There will be garden-like seating areas…
The best time of the week is finally here and Miami offers just about every activity this weekend. Ultra, one of the biggest music festivals in the world, begins its three-day Miami takeover today in Bayfront Park. But let’s not think about that right now — there’s plenty to do…
The Limon Dance Company celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, having existed more years without its founder than with him. The company’s survival is an homage to the man and his work. José Limón (1908-1972), a dancer and choreographer, created many works that are considered masterpieces of modern dance; his…
Though cameras are machines, some post-modern photographers introduce artisanal technique into their images. Three such photogs have mounted a joint exhibit of deeply personal work at the Dina Mitrani Gallery in Wynwood. Entitled “Handmade and Heartfelt,” the images come with rich backstories and are printed on everything you can imagine…
It is looking more and more likely that Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton are on a collision course that will culminate when the two face-off this November to determine who will be the next President of the United States. This is real life. It’s happening. A mere two days ago…
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…
For the protagonists of cable dramas, sex and death are twin forces of titillation, pressure valves for frustrated middle-aged men or steely-eyed careerists. That’s also true for the audience of cable dramas, of course, but there’s a reason we eagerly pursue onscreen what often makes us squirm in real life:…
The Miami City Ballet charms us into believing that a supernatural realm can be breeched through the warm waters on South Florida’s shore. Among the whitecaps are fairies ready to conjure up mischief and help fools fall in love. As the company gets ready to close its 30th anniversary season…
When the enigmatic local gallery Guccivuitton announced it had changed its name to Versace Versace Versace, it sent a clear sign to the Miami art scene: this was a new type of gallery, interested in the art and art-marketing of the future. It’s most recent exhibit, “To love a picture…
Neon made Miami great. The city’s iconic look grew one step at a brightly lighted era at a time — from the the Art Deco look of the ’40s to Miami Vice. Some images are so iconic they redefine our skyline. Ocean Drive, anyone? It can be hard to look…
Thursday, March 17 The news is awash with headlines about the warming relationship between Cuba and the United States, but Miami has always been a home for countless immigrants seeking asylum and refuge from a country torn by political and economic upheaval. The story of the Cuban people is one…
The seemingly stark divide between sleep and wakefulness serves as the main motif in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor, which allegorizes the history of Thailand as deepest REM slumber. Weerasethakul’s works are sensory delights, haunted, if obliquely, by Thailand’s violent political past and still fractious present. A film about the…
GrooveMiami transformed the tops of parking garages into dance party space. The Miami Jazz Cooperative, Inc. initiated a lunchtime jazz concert series. And the Village of El Portal has a vision for an expanded nature trail and a meditation garden. These are just three locally conceived projects that have become realities through the Miami Foundation’s Public Space Challenge…
When Dayme Arocena sings, her Santos emerge. Yemaya, Oshun, and Obatala, three saints who claimed her two years ago, take over. Sometimes, she’ll take her shoes off to feel closer to their energies. Her bare feet stepping against the wooden floor. She awakens, belting soulful rhythms. The 23 year-old Celia Cruz-Aretha…
This patchy comedy about a cossetted, obnoxious gymnast who has slid deep into sloth in the decade or so since her Olympic triumph gets an occasional laugh from the American ills it sends up: jingoism, the sports-industrial complex, home-schooling, fast-food gluttony. The scattershot jabs pepper the flaccid storyline of the…
In 1966, Star Trek: The Original Series, promised viewers it would take them to the final frontier. The franchise has pushed way beyond that, spawning numerous spinoff TV shows and films — including a recent reboot that injected new life into the crew of the USS Enterprise. What once began…
This St. Paddy’s Day weekend, while much of Miami is celebrating Irish culture with green beer, shamrock decor, and Celtic rock, Mad Cat Theatre Company will offer a different Irish perspective: existential despair, traumatic recollections, and creaking ghost stories from the nation’s chief export of the avant-garde, Samuel Beckett. For…
Why is it that little movies about being out of step so often wind up feeling the same? Not long into Michael Showalter’s Hello, My Name Is Doris, a comedy about a misfit frump pining for a much younger hunk, the unlikely target of the heroine’s affections muses to his…
In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot after attending a public rally. Rushed to the hospital, he died hours later. His assassin, Israeli ultranationalist Yigal Amir, is in prison for life, having achieved his goal: Without Rabin, the tentative Palestinian-Israeli peace process collapsed. Where’s the story in an…
