Photography is an inherently duplicitous medium. While drawn from real life, the captured images are single frozen instances that prove to be highly manipulatable by the person behind the lens. Yet unlike painting or sculpture, where artistic intervention and manipulation is the source of the work itself, photographs carry a…
A reality show based on car restoration might not seem like the most groundbreaking idea you’ve ever heard, but Discovery’s new show Cuban Chrome represents so much more than that. The new series follows the A Lo Cubano Car Club, a group of antique car enthusiasts who were granted unprecedented access to film on…
Taking its name from the famous passage written by Hunter S. Thompson — and delivered in the film adapted from the novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Johnny Depp’s character Raoul Duke — Eddie Negron and Marla Rosen’s “The High Water Mark” at the Bakehouse Art Complex collapses…
Thursday, July 16: The unfortunate reality is that you can’t see Pink Floyd. Yeah, it sucks, but thankfully, people are obsessed with this band, and some very special people have become very good at bringing this music to life. One of the most talented of these groups is Brit Floyd…
When Lindsey Noel Whiting twice takes to the air in Lookingglass Alice, it’s easy to forget everything and lose yourself in the rhapsody. Dangling on silks and maneuvering through ropes suspended from the ceiling of the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House, the young actress eschews all inhibitions, making…
Feeling a little blasé about your bookshelf contents? Want something fresh to read but don’t know where to start? Ready to get that new Harper Lee novel, but want something more obscure as well? The following seven book recommendations have a little something for everyone, from families in exile to…
The problem with clamoring for more woman-led comedies is that actual comedy may be the thing that ends up being left by the wayside. Tina Fey, among others, has railed against the boneheaded dictum that women can’t be funny. But in the current climate of watchfulness — one in which…
If you were to hear there’s a new street-crime revenge thriller that pairs a grown-up recent Oscar nominee/beloved TV star with Jennifer Lopez, you would probably respond, “This must be January” and “Even if it’s terrible, that movie will make serious money.” But the lead this time is not Liam…
It’s heartbreaking that, in his last dramatic film, Robin Williams plays depressed and repressed, burdened by secrets, a man incapable of connecting. In Boulevard, Williams invests himself in the role of a closeted Nashville bank manager married to a woman for whom he feels only sexless affection. Clearly, the actor…
We may not need another hero, but true believers don’t need to shrink-ray their expectations. Ant-Man is the first Marvel film — and the first of this summer’s pixels-go-kablooey time-wasters — to get better as it goes. The filmmakers save their biggest, wiggiest ideas for the climaxes, where they wittily…
Above all else, a movie built around a star promises presence, and in Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes, that promise is dual: Here are 104 minutes with the great Ian McKellen, for once not casting spells, controlling magnetism, or classing up script pages of expositional gobbledygook. It’s not his job, this…
To celebrate the publication of Harper Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman, Books & Books is partnering with the Coral Gables Art Cinema for a free screening of 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird on Tuesday. Starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, Horton Foote won an Oscar for his adaptation…
Considering it includes a laser light show, vodka drinks, a wild art display and free books, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science’s upcoming Curious Vault Collaboration is curious, indeed. The evening event will showcase a n eclectic array of entertainment and art, all fueled by Tito’s Vodka and…
Jeff Lindsay has likely painted weird Florida with finer brushstrokes than nearly any other author. After seven best-selling books about Miami-based serial killer Dexter Morgan, Lindsay is back to say goodbye to his beloved anti-hero. In his latest in the series, Dexter is Dead, Lindsay gives Dexter an ending worthy…
Miami ain’t all palm trees and fun in the sun. As frequent news articles and analysis show, most people can barely afford to call the 305 home. The rent is too high, incomes are too low, and our desire for entertainment continues to rise. To keep your spirits up, you…
New York has often been the setting for films about heroin addicts, with titles ranging from Shirley Clarke’s cinéma-vérité-tweaking The Connection (1961) to Slava Tsukerman’s new-wave cult classic Liquid Sky (1982) mining the drama of smack freaks tying off, shooting up, and nodding out. But Josh and Benny Safdie’s tough,…
Children’s programming is about to get a little friendlier. Los Angeles-based and Miami-bred art collaborative Friendswithyou recently announced a partnership with Netflix to produce and air at least two seasons of a characteristically bright, colorful, and smiley-faced kids show. According to an interview with artnet News, True and the Rainbow…
Miami-based Rakontur studios is bringing its latest obsession to the big screen. From the same group that produced Cocaine Cowboys, The Tanning of America, Limelight, Square Grouper, The U, Broke, and the recently released The U Part 2, comes the newest creation from director Billy Corben; The McAfee Project. Spike TV has picked…
Earlier this year, we broke the news that Miami Beach’s beloved Swim Week would be stripped of its main event, and fashion fiends and PR mavens all over Miami unanimously lost their shit. Throngs of Swim Week producers, presenters, and aficionados took to Twitter to declare that the Swim Week…
The best time of the week is finally here – the weekend. And Miami offers everything from an international mango festival, a boozy arts and craft night, and a laundry list of concerts from The Eagles, Imagine Dragons and Rascal Flatts. So drink a cup of coffee and take advantage of what this…
Just like sea levels, Miami’s book culture is on the rise. Ever since the first Miami Book Fair International was held in 1984 (originally dubbed Books by the Bay), the fair has steadily grown into what is today—namely, an eight-day playground for authors, publishers, agents, writers, readers, and everyone in…
As beach crowds swell, Miami’s galleries keep opening new exhibitions proving that the off-season shows pack as much of a punch as their winter counterparts. Recently Diana Lowenstein Gallery in Wynwood opened shows by two of Miami’s favorites: Chu Teppa, and Alejandra Padilla. Titled “My Parallel Universe” and “Collages &…
