Women are nothing if not capable. Time and time again, despite setbacks, gender inequity and patriarchal power, women have managed to rise to every occasion, from World War II-era factory work to World Cup championships. On Saturday, July 18, the Wolfsonian is gathering members of this high-achieving gender for a…
Remember when, as a child, you had summers off and all you wanted to do was play outside and do cart wheels with your friends? Then you grew up and took on these little things called responsibilities. Ugh. But that doesn’t mean that adult you shouldn’t get to have some…
Escaping Miami’s sweltering summer heat becomes top priority in July, and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) just gave us another reason to stay inside. In conjunction with PAMM’s ongoing exhibition “Poetics of Relation,” the museum will host weekly film screenings presented by Cinémathèque de Tangier, the first cultural cinema in…
There’s no space more infuriating for the local South Floridian than the driver’s seat of a car, on a hot summer day, while stuck in traffic on I-95, the Palmetto, or MacArthur. Sealed off in separate air conditioned vehicles, transportation in car-centered cities has a detached feeling. Unlike pedestrian friendly…
Thursday July, 9 It’s 2015, and the days of geek-shaming and Revenge of the Nerds-esque torture are long gone. In our era, nerd culture has made it to the mainstream, and smarty-pants icons like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Steve Jobs are the new generation’s childhood heroes. So now is the…
Imagine Donald Trump wanted to reboot his disastrous presidential campaign announcement month to start over as a younger man with real hair. In Tarsem Singh’s Self/less, Trump could hire the medical geniuses of Phoenix Biogenic to transfer his aging brain into a strapping hot bod for $250 million — the…
Bite size portions of theater, fresh writing and some well known actors, all available at a reasonable price in an intimate, unusual setting has turned Micro Teatro Miami into one of the longest running, and perhaps most unlikely hits, in South Florida’s cultural scene. Using seven shipping containers parked on…
There’s no denying that the ’80s were awesome, and given Miami Beach’s flair for neon colors and thong-style swimsuits, it’s a decade that suits the city well. To celebrate National Parks and Recreation month, MB is embracing the age of Olivia Newton-John and head-to-toe spandex. Miami Beach has a lot…
A few months ago, we brought you our top picks for creative dating. And there seem to be a lot of single creatives looking for the perfect, off-beat place. So we thought that we’d do you this small service and give you even more places to get your creative date…
Miami is constantly in flux, negotiating and renegotiating its sense of self, in large part because of its ever-changing population. It’s a city whose identity is formed by constant change, by absorbing and adapting to new immigrant populations who — for myriad reasons — have sought a home in the…
Hollywood lives by the simple, sad axiom “Where there’s money, there’s more money,” which is how we get remakes of movies that sometimes shouldn’t have been made in the first place, two Spider-Man reboots within five years, and a Star Wars franchise that ensures our children’s children will revere George…
The death of Amy Winehouse, in July 2011, at age 27, was one of the first great tragedies of 21st-century pop music, an event — like the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain in the last decade of the 20th — that emphasized the jarring contrast between the fragility…
Even if you live in the same city or town your whole life, the place you came from is always a distant country: Old trees are cut down to be replaced, one hopes, by new ones; shops and businesses change ownership or, worse, are torn down; landmarked buildings may stay…
On the fringes of movieland, there have always been filmmakers who identify (in Günter Eich’s phrase) as being sand, not oil, in the gears of the world. Aleksei German, dead in 2013 at 74, could be thought of as this tribe’s most extreme rock star, in his work-life and in…
There’s no one right way to show mental illness in the movies, yet there are hundreds of ways to get it wrong. Even though certain disorders come with specific traits, a diagnosis is not a human being, and doomed is the actor who just cycles through symptoms, rather than working…
Like most museum exhibitions, HistoryMiami’s “Operation Pedro Pan: The Cuban Children’s Exodus” has been planned for years. Museum President Stuart A. Chase has been gathering financial resources and artifacts in anticipation of the exhibition since 2012. It’s pure coincidence that the exhibition debuted only months after President Obama announced he…
In the late 1970s, New York critic Harold Rosenberg saw art at a tipping point. The avant-garde had already exacerbated the limits of conceptual and other forms of non-art, so Rosenberg predicted a shift where decorative, utilitarian and even furniture objects would be gobbled up by mainstream artist. Fast forward…
Happy post-July Fourth Monday, everyone. Whether you kept your patriotic partying limited to Saturday or carried on through Sunday night, you’re likely still suffering from way too much beer, one too many burgers, and have no money left over to grab a pick-me-up smoothie. While we can’t do anything for your…
There is probably no living director who can do what Abdellatif Kechiche can with actors. His amazing collaborations are incomparable. He pulls out some of the most natural and stirring performances from people who often have little experience. When Blue Is the Warmest Color burst onto the scene via Cannes…
Thanks to SCOTUS all marriages are now created equal, but not all months. July is the time when even locals need to a quick sojourn out of the zip code, but that doesn’t make it any less gayer. Independence day bashes, fundraisers, and more are packed-in so you’ll have plenty…
Patrick Brice may not be a filmmaker you’ve heard of, but with two interesting films being released this month, he’s bound to make a splash. The first, which stars Mark Duplass, is Creep. The second, which opened in Miami last week and opens further this Friday, is The Overnight. It’s…
July 4th weekend is finally here, and Miami offers everything from good, old-fashioned parades to a slew of parties like IndepenDANCE at Nikki Beach, Tiësto at LIV and Rush Rush Red, White, and Blue at Rec Room. So put on America’s colors and celebrate Independence Day weekend the Miami way. It…
