Let’s face it: you’ve only got so many years on this planet, and no matter how diligently you tend to your bucket list, you might never make it to The Great Wall of China, Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza or Guatemala’s El Gran Jaguar. Luckily, you can get up close and personal…
Nearly two decades have passed since Chuck Palahniuk published his iconic, anti-materialistic novel Fight Club. Adapted by David Ficher into a 1999 film, the book and movie achieved cult status, fans begged Palahniuk for a sequel. The novel left our unnamed narrator in a mental hospital, shot in the face by his…
Before you succumb to your too-broke-to-afford Urban Beach Week parties depression, remember: Today is Memorial Day! Today is Customer Appreciation Day at Wendy’s! (free Frostys for all!) So despite the overzealous road blocks and city-enforced bullshit, it’s worth getting out of the house this week. Plenty of spots around town…
Poltergeist 2015 is to Poltergeist ’82 what today’s shipped-frozen-to-the-store Pizza Hut dough is to the kneaded-on-site pies the chain’s stoned cooks tossed in the Reagan era. It’s the same kind of thing, with the same shape and some shared ingredients, but the texture’s gone limp, and there’s no sense of…
Memorial Day weekend is usually associated with either getting out town – especially if you want to avoid the oncoming South Florida Heat – or with barbeques and laying poolside. But if you’re looking to spend your long weekend exploring the culture scene in the Magic City, then we’ve got…
Taking advantage of the success of his first-ever pop-up show back in March, +598 Gallery owner Pepe Frances wants to bring more beautiful photography to Miami residents. “[‘Time and Matter’] was our first pop-up show and it exceeded our wildest expectations. We had over 100 people show up in the…
The weekend is finally here, and it’s not your typical weekend, the holiday weekend affords you the opportunity to see even more of the 305 (assuming that you’re staying in town). This weekend offers plenty of diversions, from dance to baseball, outdoor events and more. Plus, the king and queen…
HBO has announced 9 p.m. ET Sunday, Aug. 16 as the premier date for the television series Show Me a Hero, starring Miami native and Star Wars Celebration actor Oscar Isaac as Nick Wasicsko. Wasickso was mayor of Yonkers, N.Y., he saw his career torpedoed by desegregation controversy that attracted national attention he…
We’ve all been paddle boarding, but how do you know you’re doing it right? We know, we know: all you need to do is paddle, right? Wrong. Turns out there’s a whole strategy to paddle boarding and it involves where your feet go on the board (arms width apart between…
Street art has become as synonymous with Miami as Cuban coffee, Tony Montana, and pastel shirts. During the high season, young muralists flood into the city to adorn facades in the hopes that they’ll be spotted by gallerists and collectors. Yet, as the water’s warm, one French street artist has…
During “Compliments,” a first-season sketch on Inside Amy Schumer, a group of female friends respond to every bit of praise with a verbal self-maiming: “I tried to look like Kate Hudson but ended up looking like a golden retriever’s dingleberry,” says one. Sighs another, “Of course I see everyone when…
While the performance season is coming to a close, Miami still has more to celebrate as Augusto Soledade’s Brazzdance turns 10 years old. “Wow,” he says. He hopes Miami audiences will say the same when Brazzdance honors this anniversary with a program called “Oduns” — stories of finding one’s path…
Yuval Ofir has been refining his description Yo Miami for years. “It’s an ecosystem for all things creative,” he explains with certainty four years after its inception. “Whether it’s visual arts, music, craft beer, food, entrepreneurs, PR, or almost anything else that you can think of — the goal has…
Since ballet and high fashion make quite the formidable duo, its only fitting that Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley marry the two art forms in Strictly Ballet, a web series that documents the lives of up-and-coming ballerinas vying for a coveted spot in a world-renowned ballet company. While the first…
The final episode of Mad Men was upbeat — if you enjoy the death of the counter-culture. On this special episode of the Voice Film Club podcast, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and editorial fellow Lara Zarum, along with the Voice’s TV critic Inkoo Kang, discuss the final episode…
Outside the Institute of Contemporary Art is noise — a lot of noise. Construction workers yell and drills pound into concrete, laying the foundation for the Design District’s latest luxury retailer. And just a block away, where the Design District ends and Buena Vista East begins, browning domestic lawns are…
In an interactive age of downloads and mobile devices that bring the world to any tiny cellphone screen, the idea of actually reading a book is rapidly become something of an anachronism. It’s little wonder then that the six characters that inhabit Karen Zacarias’ comedy The Book Club Play are…
Thursday, May 21 In tales of political unrest and civil uproar, women’s place in the action is often sidestepped. Weaving a story of familial turmoil with the revolutionary history of Nicaragua, author Eleni N. Gage takes readers on a journey with three generations of Nicaraguan women, each concealing secrets, in…
In a junk-food summer, Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland is a defiant carrot stick, a blockbuster adventure flick where the message is “Think smart.” It’s a deliberate phooey to the kiddie carnage of movies like Transformers and The Avengers, which frighten children about the apocalypse before they can even spell the word…
Maybe we contain multitudes, and maybe we contain a couple of great splashes of primary colors. With one arm stretched high above his head, puppeteer Caroll Spinney has spent decades embodying the warmest of yellows and grimiest of greens, playing — in every sense of the word — Sesame Street’s…
In the decadent 21st Century, the summer movie season now sprawls from March through December. (Star Wars: Episode VII is due to awaken the Force December 18; every prior Star Wars picture has come out Memorial Day weekend.) But I’ll stick to tradition and call Memorial Day the start of…
Fictional movies that tackle topical subjects often have about them the fusty air of a civics lesson, as if we’re supposed to watch while pretending we’re not being led down the path of righteousness. But writer-director Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill is something else; it’s immediate and vital, and it doesn’t…
