The Ten Best Things To Do in Miami This Weekend

The weekend is finally here, and this weekend the Magic City offers plenty of entertainment: From the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, to Wynwood Life, Tyler, the Creator and more. So get out and enjoy the city before the summer comes and makes it almost painful to go outside…

Flowerbox, a New Artist-Run Space, Opens in Lemon City

Art spaces are popping up everywhere these days — downtown, the Upper Eastside, MiMo and, of course, Wynwood. But Lemon City’s Flowerbox Projects has a unique vision that sets it apart from the crowd.  The brainchild of  artists David Marsh and Kristen Soller, the space supports emerging artists who have a…

O, Miami 2015: Changing the Audience for Poetry

Have you felt the urge to break into verse this month? Have you participated in any creative pursuits or stumbled upon any lyricisms? April is the time to do it, you know, and not only because it’s National Poetry Month. For the third year running, ‘tis the season of O,…

Manual Cinema Brings Shadow Puppets to O, Miami 2015

Simple hand shadow puppets like birds and butterflies aren’t going to cut it at this week’s Manual Cinema collaboration with O, Miami. The Chicago-based company brings an entire cinematic show of shadow puppetry—created from paper and beamed onto walls and screens at Little River // Miami with vintage overhead projectors—to…

Nadia Beugré and an African Woman’s Voice That Soars in Dance

Tigertail Productions will present Ivory Coast dancer and choreographer Nadia Beugré in a solo performance this weekend at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, as its month long FLA-FRA festival approaches its end. And what a finale this will be. Beugré has been described by the New York Times as “wild like…

Wolfson Archives Screen Never-Before-Seen Vintage Films

Miami-based artist Barron Sherer is no stranger to work in film and archiving every day, rudimentary film/video. As a curator and producer of many film-related events in South Florida, he has a unique perspective when blending different aspects of the cinematic tradition with artistic conceptualizations and presentations. “This is a…

Ballet Memphis Flows Like the River That Runs Through It

The Tennessee-based company Ballet Memphis will be serving up quite a feast, with a three-part program featuring works by exciting North American choreographers Trey McIntyre, Julia Adam and Matthew Neenan this Saturday at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, presented by Culture Shock Miami. The company was founded in 1986…

On the Heels of a Public Dispute, MOCA’s Latest Exhibition Falls Short

One of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s first exhibitions since the very public dispute between the City of North Miami and MOCA’s former board, “Alternative Contemporaneity: Temporary Autonomous Zones” presents works by more than 50 of Miami’s established and emerging artists. The show seeks to create a temporary autonomous zone…

In Hausner’s Amour Fou, the End Is Refreshingly Pragmatic

Austrian writer-director Jessica Hausner has an unerring talent for examining, skeptically but never cynically, grand notions about destiny: What we perceive as — or have convinced ourselves to be — the workings of fate, whether religious or romantic, is ultimately better understood as arbitrary or coincidental occurrences. In Lourdes (2009),…

Ex Machina Wonders if Robots Can Be Human

Ex Machina is an egghead thriller with a scary selling point: Unlike Liam Neeson shooting up half of Boston, this actually could be taking place right now. It’s a smart film about the shrinking divide between man and robot. It’s also a hoot, an anti-comedy where all of the jokes…

Wynwood Life Returns for 2015

The second annual Wynwood Life Festival is gearing up to get underway this month from the 24th to the 26th and this year’s celebration of art, food, and fashion is expected to be an even bigger event than its inaugural predecessor. This time around, the stages will showcase the likes…

Lilly Pulitzer Craze Swept Miami on Sunday

This Sunday women across America set their alarm clocks for the wee hours of the morning to wait in long lines at Target. No, it wasn’t black Friday, it was the launch of Target’s Lilly Pulitzer line. The retail chain had been promoting its collaboration with the Palm Beach fashion…

NPR Radio Show, The Moth, Finds a Home in Miami

The NPR personal story telling program, The Moth, made its Miami debut in January. Hailing from New York, the radio hour dates back to 1997, the creation of poet and novelist, George Dawes Green. He wanted to recreate the feeling of his childhood, of summer nights in spent in Georgia, where…