As two of Miami’s biggest cultural events of the year pull all your focus and finances, we know you could use a little cheap entertainment. Whether you’ve been dining like a boss at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival or stocking up on all your Miami International Film Festival…
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…
We’ve all been there. You finally get around to watching this year’s nominees, and you think, “Didn’t I see pretty much this same Oscar-bait movie last year?” You probably did, thanks to the McKee/Weinstein-driven formula behind most Best Picture noms. You can even build your own! Just mix and match…
The pro footvolley tour is coming tghis weekend to Hollywood Beach and — if you are a soccer fan — or if you just like acrobatics, you won’t want to miss it. The 2016 Hollywood Beach Open Pro Footvolley Tour’s visit this year is being sponsored by the New Margaritaville…
Do you remember that video of bikini-clad University of Miami Delta Gamma sorority sisters jumping off yachts a few weeks ago? You should. It topped the Facebook trending list for three days. The man behind that video is back, but this time, there are no half-naked college girls. Instead, there’s…
Most people would kill to host a show that lasts 23 years. Foulmouthed South Beach drag babe Shelley Novak, on the other hand, ain’t most people. “I’m excited to be doing it, but like any homosexual, when something gets around 23, 24, we start to lose interest in it,” Novak…
If there’s one animal that rules the internet, it’s the almighty cat. Felines are the undisputed champions of cyberspace — just ask Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub, or Hamilton the Hipster Cat. Their bank accounts prove the power of the purr. Now, South Florida felines can claim the catnip in the…
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 Fall Out Boy at Hard Rock Live, Cocodrills at Space, The Beach Boys at Hard Rock Live, and Michael Brun at LIV. On…
If you’ve wondered just why Hollywood now so aggressively courts Chinese viewers, look no further than The Mermaid. In just two weeks of release, Stephen Chow’s fantastical comedy has already brought in $430 million in its home country, making it China’s highest-grossing release ever. (It’s doing well here, too, having…
Dick Tracy is coming to town, and with him arrives one helluva party. This Saturday, the Olympia Theater will celebrate its 90th birthday with a 35mm showing of Warren Beatty’s classic 1990 film. “Dick Tracy is a film that borrows and blends lots of wonderful elements in telling its story:…
Jeff Quintana, co-founder of Miami’s Villain Theatre, woke up on a Central Park bench every morning for two weeks in the dead of New York City’s winter. It was 2009 and Quintana had just left Miami to pursue his love of comedy — a passion not readily supported in Miami. He…
The popular car service, Lyft, which launched in Miami in May 2014, announced today a new in-app shared ride option. Lyft Line allows users to split a ride with strangers going the same way for a discounted fare. The service acts much like Uber’s carpooling concept, UberPool. “Lyft Line matches passengers…
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…
Eighty-three years ago in 1933, a small horror movie about a large ape came into the world and stole our hearts. A poor, abnormally large ape named Kong falls in love with a teeny, tiny human woman and the whole film is his quest to posses her. King Kong was…
This year’s Melton Mustafa Jazz Festival is the most ambitious ever, with events spread out over four days beginning Thursday. The festival marks its 19th year with a move to Overtown’s historic Lyric Theater. In addition to the student workshops, competitions, and master classes it offers ever year, it now…
Artist John Miller is a slender man with long hair and stylish thick-framed glasses. He is very thorough and detaile d as he explains the artwork he’s created over the past 35 years on display as “I Stand, I Fall” at ICA Miami. This is the first solo museum exhibition…
Cody and Marcus Johns always knew they’d be entertainers. The South Florida natives were writing, filming, and acting in their own mini movies before the eldest brother was even 10. They would shoot the scenes sequentially on their dad’s Hi8 camera, and though they’d move on to higher production roles…
The evolution of 35mm showings in Miami has been fascinating and no one has brought it all out to the population better than Secret Celluloid Society. Nearly two years after Nayib Estefan launched the midnight movie revival with Shirley’s at Gramps, and a year after he made the move to…
This Thursday, Danilo Maldonado Machado, a Cuban visual and performance artist known as ‘El Sexto,’ will premiere “PORK”, a new exhibition at the Market Gallery on Alton Road in Miami Beach. He calls it a “raucous carnival for the mind, body and soul.” There will be new paintings, a surprise…
Thursday, February 25 You look stressed. You’ve been working too hard. You deserve a massage and a facial and a foot rub and some wine. What’s that? You don’t have the money for a spa day? That’s not true. Haven’t you heard about the Viceroy Hotel’s monthly Beauty and Besties…
For Italian photographer Tina Modotti, her place of artistic inspiration was Mexico. As an immigrant living in an unknown city, Modotti was struck my the cultural roots alive within the country in the first-half of the 20th century. She was so enthralled, the photographer continued to work in Mexico City…
Esti Chazanow is a busy woman. Based out of Miami, Chazanow is the co-founder and brand manager for LIV, a Swiss watch company. Though the brand has no problem selling their watches, their most recent accomplishment is pretty impressive. In order to raise funds for a new design, Chazanow turned to…
