Calling all Miami creatives: Adobe’s Creative Jam is hours away from taking over the Miami Design District, where industry leaders, designers, and locals will converge for an evening of design, creativity, and lots of meet-and-greets. Organized by the Adobe Creative Cloud team, the two-part experience allows local designers to compete…
Hearts of Palm, world-premiering at the Miami International Film Festival this week, sorrowfully repeats the phrase “El la amaba y ella lo amaba” (“He loved her and she loved him”). The repetition emphasizes what audiences know from the moment the movie begins: filmmaker Monica Peña is telling a story about…
Last week, as I was canoeing my car through the flooded aftermath of a typical rainy South Beach afternoon a thought occurred to me. In 101 years, Miami Beach has gone from being an uninhabitable mojon con pelo to one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. The greater…
Thursday, March 10 Miami is great and all, but there are few things we can call ours that hold international acclaim. One such thing is Del Toro Shoes. Miami native and local Matthew Chevallard (part American, part Italian) had the idea to create a luxury shoe line when he was…
When it comes to fashion in Miami, we’ve seen it all: barely-there bottoms on round booties, strappy bandage dresses that perfectly accentuate new boob jobs, and heels so high you’d have to call an ambulance if you tripped while wearing them. And though there are plenty of fashion blogs filling…
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato are riding high on the buzz from their documentary’s first screening at Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival. They were surprised at the amount of moving comments they heard from festival goers who stood up to ask questions after the East Coast Premiere of…
The Miami Dolphins have taken their search for beautiful and talented ladies to join their cheerleading squad worldwide. Somewhere Pitbull is fist-pumping. In an effort to further widen the talent gap between itself and the rest of the NFL, the football team has expanded its cheer auditions to a global…
Miami-based documentary filmmaker Orlando Rojas feels a bit anxious. His first film in nearly 15 years is having its world premiere at the grandest venue of Miami Dade College’s 33rd-annual Miami International Film Festival: the Olympia Theater. Nearly two weeks before the premiere, Rojas was still tinkering with the sound…
When hiking through a forest, some people are wary of wildlife. Others look out for poisonous plants or unique trees. But artist Matthew Ronay searches for nature’s edible fungus: the mushroom. “It’s really a Zen practice— you’re not thinking about the past or future,” he says. “It’s about the pleasure…
A legitimate stunner in that word’s truest sense, Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s river-trip Embrace of the Serpent mesmerizes and jacks with you, leaving you not quite certain, at its end, how to go about the rest of your day. The film is beautiful and ferocious, calm and torrential, a plunge…
Since the dawn of the revolution, Cuba’s state-sponsored cinema has been controversial and intellectually crafted. In the 1960s, Memories of Underdevelopment and De Cierta Manera marked a golden age of nuanced social critique within the confines of the revolution’s dismal sense of humor. But the Special Period wrought dire economic circumstances, forcing the…
Biscayne Bay is lined with plenty of eye-popping structures fit for a sweet Architectural Digest spread, but none on that waterway is quite as impressive as Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. The Italian Renaissance-style former villa and estate of businessman and environmentalist James Deering was built on a seaside strip of mangrove forest…
Last Thursday night, street artist Daniel “Krave” Fila’s mural that lays across the parking lot at Budget Ace Hardware on Second Avenue and 17 Street, was vandalized. An indiscernable message, possibly reading “GRISLE, YALE, HEAL” was bombed across the sunbather’s torso in white bubble lettering. Tears dripped down her face onto the…
While some Miami-Dade residents are so flush they need separate condos for their luxury cars, we common folk appreciate the little things — like free options for fun. From bar openings to movies, we’ve got another week of low-cost entertainment to keep the pep in your step and the bills…
Long before the days of getting ready to get down at LIV, the Fontainebleau Hotel hosted a different kind of entertainment. Frank Sinatra — the classic American singer, songwriter, actor, and icon — used to stay, perform, and film at the swanky Miami Beach hotel. In fact, says HistoryMiami president…
It’s a new month, so that means a new list of classic movies. March offers an abundance of films in Miami, specifically because of the Miami International Film Festival happening the first two weeks, but that doesn’t mean the cinemas are stopping the good ol’ classics, though. Here’s what your…
Throughout his storied career, tap dance legend Savion Glover has combined his own brand of tap with a variety of collaborations. He has brought tap to the masses, whether onscreen or onstage. From Broadway and the Tony awards to films like Happy Feet, he has been one of the leading…
The third season of Broad City (Comedy Central) opens with a toilet-centric montage that already feels like one of the year’s TV highlights. At once exuberant, absurd and all-too-real, a split screen reveals besties Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) living their best lives in their respective bathrooms. They…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. On the music front, you can catch Lil Jon at LIV, Danny Daze at Trade, Michale Graves at Churchill’s Pub, and Pitbull in Bal Harbour. La Nuit en Rosé is…
Miami is a relatively young city, so few of its buildings have been standing for more than a century. The Tower Theater, on SW Eighth Street, is close enough to that triple-digit number. Built in 1926, the movie theater celebrates its 90th birthday this year. Throughout the decades, it has…
Now that the Oscars are over, serious movie fans can explore film without the hype awards ceremonies. Miami-Dade College’s 33rd Miami International Film Festival will be a haven for those cinephiles, says Jaie Laplante, the festival’s director of programming six years running. Speaking via phone, he recommended five lesser-known films he…
Have you been outside lately? The sky is clear and blue, the breeze is blowing, and the sun is shining warm. The water is glistening Bahamian blue, and the palm trees are swaying. It is that wondrous time of year — in late winter, just before spring — that reminds…
