Happy post-Valentine’s Day, everyone. Whether you’re floating on a cloud of Dove chocolate-flavored bliss or marking Singles Awareness Day with margarita pitchers, we’re all united in our now totally empty wallets. Thankfully, we’ll help you get through this trying time with art, music, dance, and all the free fun you…
On the surface, there isn’t much to object to in How to Be Single. Look, it says! No matter how fabulous their lives may seem, everyone wants to be happier and more fulfilled. Everyone is looking for something more, just like you! And really, Christian Ditter’s film (based on the…
Step Afrika! returns to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center this week for a celebration of dance with roots in African traditions during Black History Month. The rhythmic stepping tradition uses dancers bodies as percussive instruments through marches and response choreography. Based in Washington, D.C., and founded in 1994 by…
The Albert Einstein quote “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere” aptly sums up the point NatGeo’s hit show Brain Games tries to make. Our brains interpret information and influence every millisecond of our lives, yet the average person knows little about the most important part of the…
New Times’ MasterMind Awards honor the city’s most inspiring creatives. We’ll profile those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — who’ll receive $1,000 checks — will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soiree celebrating Miami culture. For…
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 Miss Kittin at Heart Nightclub,Claude VonStroke at Trade, Jessie Andrews at Bardot, and Martin Solveig at LIV. On Friday, dive into the vast…
Toby Lerner Ansin, founder of Miami City Ballet (MCB), compares choreographer Justin Peck to famed ballet choreographer George Balanchine. “Every time you see their choreography, and depending on where you sit when you watch the ballet, you’ll take away something different,” Ansin says. For the founder’s 70th birthday, her family launched…
Regardless of the status of your love life, Valentine’s Day can be a drag — the seesaw between looking for prospective dates and watching Netflix at home alone. Those in committed relationships might be at the point where the day is kind of a big deal and a proper amount…
While spending Valentine’s Day couch-side with ice cream and a romantic comedy on repeat might sound ideal, the folks at the Thompson Miami Beach have a better idea. The Love Shack is popping up inside the 1930s House at the beachside hotel, connecting dating past and present with interactive experiences to spark conversation,…
HBO’s Vinyl is the latest in a series of cultural hard-ons for the rough-and-tumble world of pre-Koch NYC: From novels like Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers and Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire to online photo galleries of graffiti-splattered subway trains and can-you-believe-this-juice-bar-used-to-be-a-crack-den slideshows, there’s a hunger for what Manhattan looked,…
The first Zoolander, Ben Stiller’s dopey, fitfully funny fashion spoof, was released less than three weeks after the September 11 attacks. Its sequel shows the extent to which another kind of nefarious plot — the cynical quest for world domination through cross-brand synergy — has proven impossible to eradicate on…
New Times’ Mastermind Award honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soiree celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit…
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…
The New Tropic partnered up with The Wynwood Yard to bring a taste of Fat Tuesday to Miami last night. No more fear of missing out from all the Mardi Gras fun happening in New Orleans. “We don’t have a lot of celebrations of Mardi Gras in Miami, so it’s nice…
If you attended author Fabienne Josaphat’s panel at the Miami Book Fair last November, then you heard her read a small sampling from her debut novel, Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow. As she read, you could feel the tension in the room, notice the silence, and hear a collective murmur…
It has become impossible to say the words “women aren’t funny” — regardless of a lot of boring, unfunny men trying hard to do so. Miami’s Villain Theater proves women comics are seriously hilarious, which is why they are part of the Saturday Gigantic lineup every week. On Thursday, February…
New Times’ Mastermind Award honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soiree celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit…
Along West Eighth Street in Hialeah sits a corner store in the warehouse district covered in painted flames. Above it hangs a sign that reads “Open 24 hours. Caliente. Adult superstore.” Even at 11 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in late January, there was a steady flow of customers —…
Thursday, February 11 Over the years, it has become pretty much impossible to say the words “women aren’t funny” — regardless of plenty of boring, unfunny men trying hard to do so. Miami’s Villain Theater proves women comics are seriously hilarious, which is why they are part of the Saturday…
It has been weeks since the Oscar nominees were announced and Carol, which many viewers and critics alike were rooting for, found itself robbed of a Best Picture nomination. “You know, it happens,” says the film’s producer, Christine Vachon, shrugging it off. “We got six nominations. I can’t engage in…
New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soiree celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit…
If there’s one holiday that brings a lot of baggage, it’s Valentine’s Day. The highly profitable holiday tends to incite burning passions on both sides; but love it or hate it, it’s hard to ignore. This weekend’s love-o-rama will greet you everywhere you turn, so might as well find a…
