South Beach may be a century old, but the city’s grand Gay Pride celebration is only six years old. Of course, six is the perfect age to appreciate a vibrant and colorful parade, and this year’s Sunday afternoon extravaganza was bigger, brighter, and better than ever. For a few sweaty…
Bill Burr is one angry and funny dude. At least that was the consensus from his new hour of comedy, which he let Miami in on Friday night during the South Beach Comedy Festival. Burr got noticed for his recurring role on the second season Chappelle’s Show and has since…
Mid East Performing Arts Academy For those looking to learn the authentic Middle Eastern dancing styles, the Mid East Performing Arts Academy brings the moves to South Florida. The classes it offers shows techniques of Middle Eastern and Central Asian dancing, including Egyptian styles. Classes are also offered that teach…
Living in Florida means having to defend your home in the face of overwhelming bullshit. Jeb Bush’s latest asinine statements, women driving around bottomless, and representatives giving the OK to block gay adoption are just a few recent doozies to besmirch us all. We can’t let these fools kill our…
In 1848, Euphemia Gray, a bright and pretty young girl from a family of modest means, left her home in Scotland to marry her era’s equivalent of an art-world rock star, the imposingly erudite critic John Ruskin. Perhaps as early as her wedding night, Effie knew she had made a…
Poet Elizabeth Jacobson has a new approach to poetic inspiration: texting. Jacobson will be leading O, Miami’s Poetry Texting workshop, a two-hour session that marries the now-mundane act of texting with the art of poetry. The idea behind the workshop is that partners will produce poetry by texting lines back…
Poetry in the Park, the crown jewel of O, Miami, is back at SoundScape Park for its second year bringing the masses the written word. This year, the unintentional theme of the event seems to examine the intimate versus the public. Attendees will be surrounded by poetry, including “O, Hi…
For many fashion is an art form not unlike sculpture or architecture, and in many ways one that more perceptively illustrates history. How would we visually identify the 1970s without bell bottoms? The 1920s without bobs and drop waists? The 1990s without grungy jeans and flannel shirts? Studying and documenting…
The weekend is finally here and are we happy to see it. This weekend the Magic City offers up some of its finest local talent, from the anticipated premier of Miami City Ballet’s Heatscape, the often surreal Otto von Schirach, O, Miami’s techy take on poetry, and Miami Beach’s annual…
Reviews and discussion of Ex Machina, Dior and I, Clouds of Sils Maria, The Longest Ride, and About Elly are all on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, which includes Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, and Amy Nicholson of the LA Weekly. [Subscribe to the Voice…
Wooden panels cover the floors, sheets of dust blanket the area, scattered nails are collected in the corners, and the eeriness of the dimly lit passageways is amplified by the cold of the cement walls. Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore, we’re inside the heavy shell of the future Museum…
The South Beach Comedy Festival is here for four days, so we’ll have plenty of chances to practice our gleeful guffaws. This year’s lineup — Dave Chappelle, Patton Oswalt, Hannibal Buress, Bill Burr, Mark Normand, and others — is bound to incite a laugh riot.
Whether or not you have a background in modern dance, Delma Iles and her company of dancers at Momentum Dance Company want spectators to look beyond the movements they see on stage. Drawing inspiration from modernist paintings, classical music, and devastating real life experiences, the company’s artistic director and her…
Another week, another seven days of Miami gossip. The week brought some good news for our cultural institutions, the inevitable celebrity sighting on South Beach, and supermodel Christie Brinkley is apparently at odds with the bird population. Here’s this week’s best culture (both highbrow and lowbrow) gossip from the 305. …
Miami, even more so than many other global locales, is about to feel the effects of environmental negligence. With climate change and sea level rise, the Magic City will be lucky to stick it out ’til 2020—especially given the mind-boggling denial of our state’s leadership. Thankfully, the Miami and the…
April showers bring a whole lot of gay fun to South Florida. This month the party kicks off with Miami Beach Gay Pride’s sixth anniversary, and caps off with Miami’s Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Check out some of our favorite LGBT friendly events we suggest you partake in this…
It may be hard to remember now, but there once was a time when Daenerys was the most exciting character on Game of Thrones. Played by Emilia Clarke, the exiled royal best embodied the HBO drama’s paradoxical appeal: its mix of historical authenticity and rousing fantasy. Reduced to currency by…
News spread this afternoon on social media of the passing of Naomi Wilzig, the founder of the World Erotic Art Museum (WEAM) in Miami Beach. She died at the age of 80 last night in her sleep. Naomi’s son, Ivan Wilzig, confirmed the news on Facebook: “With the heaviest of…
Miami-based choreographer Pioneer Winter and visual artist Jared Sharon have invited us all to a “crazy space pirate Mean Girls and an operatic cyborg-like ship mixed with film projection, contemporary dance and extreme beauty regimens.” This new project, Sirens in Space, premiers on Thursday at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium’s versatile…
It’s been six days of O, Miami. Have you encountered a poem, yet? That’s the goal of the O, Miami Poetry Festival—to deliver a poem to every person in Miami-Dade County. Founded in 2011, O, Miami coincides with the celebration of National Poetry Month, which was established by the Academy…
Phillip Pessar’s Flickr stream reads like a love letter to Miami. In roughly 9,600 photos, it tells the story of South Florida’s ever-changing architectural landscape.
Noah Baumbach has always had a dash of hypochondria, but in the past few years, his doctor’s visits have changed. “If you’re a worrier like I am, or Ben,” he says, referring to Ben Stiller, the star of his 2010 movie Greenberg, “you’re used to going, ‘Is this something that should be cause for worry?'”
