Pioneer Winter and Jared Sharon Premiere a Divided Host

While Miami native Pioneer Winter has been active in the local dance community as a choreographer, he has also been wrapping up his Masters of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University. HOST, Winter’s current project, is also his thesis performance. The piece explores the potential of what Winter calls a “practice-based” approach…

Eye on Miami: Shane Battier, Nas, and More

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…

Dancer Farruquito Improvises Flamenco Back to the Future

Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as “Farruquito,” was born into one of the grand families of flamenco. His father was the late cantaor Juan Fernández Flores, “El Moreno.” His mother, the dancer Rosario Montoya, was referred to as “La Farruca.” And his grandfather, the founder of a flamenco school of…

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday, March 3 Like a warm summer wind, “Sinatra: An American Icon” breezes into HistoryMiami this Thursday for a three-month stay. The exhibition, which originated last year, is a celebration of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday. It’s a deep, multifaceted look at the singer’s humble beginnings in Hoboken, New Jersey, through…

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Confirms That the Movies Don’t Get Tina Fey

The title of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s strained dark comedy, in which the War in Afghanistan serves as the backdrop to an American woman’s self-actualizing journey, is the military phonetic-alphabet rendering of WTF. The mild Islamophobia and highly questionable casting choices in the film call to mind other texting…

Malick Goes L.A. in the Sumptuous Knight of Cups

What if Terrence Malick directed an episode of Entourage? Well, we’re about to find out, sort of. In Knight of Cups, the director of Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life turns his roaming camera and ruminating voiceovers toward Los Angeles and the movie business,…

Disney’s Zootopia Paws at Segregated City Life

In Zootopia, animals do a lot of the things that animals in Disney movies usually do: They speak, to begin with; they walk upright and wear funny clothes; they exhibit attitudes that align or ironically misalign with their species’ appearance and reputation; they hold jobs; they experience outsize emotion and…

Former Teacher Launches Empathy Education Program in Miami

Given the state of our seriously messed-up world, there’s one quality that could make a major difference: empathy. It means identifying with your fellow inhabitants of Earth instead of caring about no one but yourself. A new program dedicated to teaching this crucial skill, Everyday Humane, is making its way…

South Florida-Based True Crime Podcast Sword and Scale Is the New Serial

Some of society’s greatest entertainment is born out of our desire to peer into the deepest, darkest corners of the soul. Real life monsters regularly populate the headlines during the height of their infamy: Charles Manson, Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Donald Trump. However, there’s a true crime podcast actively…

Miami International Film Festival 2016 Makes Miami Shine

The main offices for the 33rd-annual Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) are hidden within the 91-year-old Freedom Tower on Biscayne Boulevard. On a recent windy Monday morning, Jaie Laplante, the festival’s director of programming, laces his fingers around a paper coffee cup in the building’s shadow and shows off the…

As Terrible Movies Go, Gods of Egypt Is Pretty Grand

Let’s give Gods of Egypt this much: An hour in, a giant cobra crashes and explodes like a bad guy’s car in a dumb movie from the ’70s. That snake, one of two in Alex Proyas’ film, is wide as a locomotive and long as a parade. It’s also straddled…