Gabri Christa is back. This is the third year Tigertail has invited the dancer/choreographer/filmmaker/Guggenheim Fellow to its annual ScreenDance Miami Festival. Her films opened the 2015 festival, and this year Christa will offer a hands-on workshop. The dancer intends to focus her workshop on ways to direct dance for the…
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve lived in the Magic City – whether you’ve been here for years or only recently arrived, you’ve quickly learned that you probably won’t be finding your soul mate in Miami anytime soon. From guys who put booty over brains, flash their money or really just…
One of Wynwood’s most reasonably priced art fairs was acquired earlier this month in one of the many upheavals seen in Miami’s first Art District. Over the past nine years, Red Dot Art Fair established a strong name for itself as a place to buy moderately priced pieces for your…
Friday, January 22 Usually, orchestra members dress in black formalwear. Though the fellows of the New World Symphony, America’s orchestral academy, will likely follow that centuries-old tradition during Pulse: White Out the New World Symphony, they’re encouraging audience members to do the reverse and wear white. The New World Symphony…
The movie they’re selling isn’t the movie this is. Sony Pictures Classics is peddling Nicholas Hytner’s film of Alan Bennett’s play and memoir The Lady in the Van like it’s the usual twinkly Best Exotic time-with-our-elders holiday entertainment. There’s Maggie Smith, dressed up as what my grandmother used to call…
“Every film is a documentary of its actors,” Jean-Luc Godard once said. Starring Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Haigh’s shattering marital drama 45 Years expands that maxim: As we gaze at and listen to these performers, whose characters reflect on nearly a half-century together — almost as long as…
There was a slight drizzle in the air and a breeze for the opening night of the 19th Annual Miami Jewish Film Festival at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center last Thursday. The Miami winter weather created a bit of chaos for the festival organizers. Thirteen minutes behind schedule, Rabbi…
Following one of the nerdiest holiday seasons thanks to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Magic City Comic Con acted as a nice bookend to winter geekiness and provided some relief from the oversaturation of Disney’s latest. Boasting perhaps one of their strongest guest lineups yet, the folks…
Plenty of films explore the notion of discovering oneself, but few are so deeply rooted as those by filmmaker Andrew Haigh. From his best-known feature, Weekend, to his television series, Looking, self-discovery is an essential factor that makes his films work, and his latest, 45 Years, is no exception. On…
Screendance, sometimes called videodance, was born decades ago in the work of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. A lack of performance space led dancers to experiment with new ways of presenting their work. The term refers to “the short film form in dance [that is] diverse, global, emergent, alive, trans-media,…
While the Dolphins may have disappointed us (again), Miami will still have some hometown heroes hitting the gridiron come the big game day. An array of cuddly puppies born in the 305 are competing in Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl. The network worked with a total of 44 different animal shelters…
Another day, another reminder you can be broke as hell and still have a good time in the 305. This week, you can catch movies, enjoy live music, attend block parties, and mark the memory of MLK, all for free. Monday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade in Liberty…
For movie-buffs and movie-lovers alike, the name Charlie Kaufman rings a bell. After all, he’s the guy behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, and Adaptation to name a few. But he and Duke Johnson — the co-director of Anomalisa — seem to just be getting started with delivering fascinating…
One can never have enough LGBTQ events in a city like Miami. Not only are we uniquely prideful, but we’re heavy on the Latino, too. Whereas the Latinos have the annual Calle Ocho festival, the gay Latinos now have Gay8 (or GayOcho!). In its first year, the Latino LGBTQ art, music…
It’s a new year, which means millions of people are renewing their dusty gym membership, setting new goals, and putting together plans that will result in 2016 being the best version of “you.” Then bam — you remember tax season is just around the corner and your motivation is killed. You plop…
If a first feature is meant to be one’s calling card, Deniz Gamze Ergüven is a name the world won’t soon be forgetting. Her debut, Mustang, premiered at Cannes and won the Europa Cinemas Label Award and, just this week, was nominated for Best Foreign Lanuage Film for the 88th…
Benghazi is a hashtag battle cry, a call to arms that many Americans don’t understand. Unlike the simplicity of “Remember the Alamo!” a bleat of “Benghazi!” still has people wondering, “Wait, what happened? And why are we mad?” Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi has an explanation,…
Earlier this week, the Carbonell Awards announced the nominations for the 2015 season. In its 40th year, the prestigious award honors excellence in theater in South Florida — from Cutler Bay to Jupiter. With 100 nominations in 20 categories, Fort Lauderdale’s Slow Burn Theater Company leads the pack with 15 nominations,…
The best time of the week is finally here: the weekend. Miami offers just about every activity this weekend. On the music front, you can catch Jon Secada at Seminole Theatre, Butch at Heart Nightclub, Lil Jon at LIV, Afrobeta at E11even Rooftop, and Borgore at Icon Miami. On Saturday, Life in…
Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Duncan) hellbent on annihilating a play before she’d even seen it. Birdman was joined in its release year by other unfair portraits of critics in Top…
Alan Rickman has died at the age of 69. To Americans of a certain generation, he’ll always be Hans Gruber from Die Hard; to those of a slightly fresher vintage, he’ll never not be Severus Snape. But it was his ability to transcend the typecasting of those iconic roles that…
As comic conventions become increasingly more popular, Miami’s local nerd and pop culture-loving community have great options. From Animate! Miami to Florida Supercon to Magic City Comic Con, all are organized by the power that has taken human form in Mike Broder. While Broder and his team prepare for Magic…
