For the past 12 years, Miami International Fashion Week has welcomed the fashion elite to watch local and international designers display their wares. This Thursday, the runway shows will open to nonindustry folk, beginning with the Swimwear and Miami Style showcases. They start at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., respectively,…
In this rare Iranian entry to MIFF, Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi takes us through the underground music scene in Tehran, where all Western-style music is prohibited. Based on real people, places, and events, Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats follows Negar Shaghaghi and Ashkan Koshanejad of the indie band Take…
Chamaco is the only Cuban film showing at the Miami International Film Festival this year. Made for a few hundred dollars, it’s part of a new wave of independent movies now produced on the island thanks to cheap digital cameras. It’s also the first to seriously tackle homosexuality and chauvinism…
A few hours after midnight, a man and a woman meet randomly on the cold, wet streets of Bogotá. He’s Jorge (Quique Mendoza), a taxi driver whose brother was mysteriously murdered. She’s Angela (Gloria Montoya), a sexy but emotionally damaged party girl with out-of-control coke and liquor habits. Gradually, as…
On December 8 of last year, New Times published “Crime 101”, a feature exposing the stunning amount of violent crime that had over-run the campus of Miami Gardens’ historical Florida Memorial University. Less than two weeks later, the university announced that it was launching a “national search” for a permanent…
Hugh Hefner is old. He’s so old that Hollywood types have started projects based on his legacy. There are the rumors (tweeted by Hefner himself) that Diablo Cody is writing a movie about him. And one of the documentaries at this year’s Miami Film Festival is Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist…
Eric (Steve Evets) was once a spry young man who met the love of his life at a dance competition. He’s now a graying, slouching postman, slowly losing his mind and stuck caring for two teenage sons. He’s so miserable that his fellow postmen stage a little self-help visualization session…
Are your bellies full but wallets empty from this weekend’s SoBe Wine & Food fest? We scoured our resources to find you some cheap thrills for the week. Monday: Bardot gets off on being hard to find. But considering that Fridays and Saturdays are usually packed in this bar, they…
A last-minute addition to the Miami International Film Festival screening schedule, Bruce Weber’s short documentary Liberty City Is Like Paris to Me is among the most locally focused films in this year’s fest. And, for that reason, it could also end up being a lightning rod for debate. Already, we’ve…
No prison time! See below for update.This is the day of reckoning for Liberty City’s most well-known pastor. Rev. Gaston Everett Smith, head of the Friendship Baptist Missionary Church, will be sentenced for blowing county grant funds on personal expenses. He could face five years in prison, but will likely…
For years Miami-born novelist Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta mystery novels have been burning up the best sellers lists, but the effort to get them to the box office has been a long one. After attempts to get Jodie Foster and Demi Moore to star in adaptations in the ’90s, the…
Leo can’t deliver the goods to his girlfriend of six months. And there’s a good reason – he’s gay. But this is Catholic Uruguay, and men don’t just go around kissing other men in public. In Leo’s Room (El Cuarto de Leo), the title character, played by puppy-eyed Martín Rodríguez,…
Despite the fact they’ve been a committed couple for three and a half years, Sonia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Daniel (Romain Duris) don’t even live together. She sleeps alone in a big, polished Paris apartment while Daniel crashes across town in a perpetually in-progress renovation project that she’s nicknamed his “secret…
Tomasito is clearing brush at City Hall. Another Manny Diaz ally is leaving. Last week, it was city manager Pete Hernandez. Now, it’s Robert Parente, the head of the city’s film office, and the guy who convinced shows like “Burn Notice” and Jennifer Aniston’s puppy movie “Marley & Me,” to…
The SoBe Wine & Food Festival kicked off yesterday, but considering the high ticket prices and the fact that some events sold out last fall, we thought you might need a back-up plan for things to do this weekend. While everyone else is attending cooking demos and wine seminars, you…
First, a few facts about Fidel Castro: His favorite movie scene is that part in Batman where the Joker’s hand suddenly reaches out of the boiling vat of acid. His all-time fave baseball team was the never-say-die 1986 Mets. And his favorite biblical figure is Methuselah, who lived to 969…
This week, New Times published “I, Max,” a feature story revealing what became of former Medellin Cartel master-smuggler Max Mermelstein after he decided to cooperate with feds and entered the Witness Protection Program. We’ve obtained documents, many of them never before published, related to the underground informant.In February, 1987, Max…
So, a few weeks ago, I was arguing with this 35-year-old elementary school teacher who likes to wear kitty cat sweatshirts. She kept insisting the 2007 movie musical Hairspray, starring Nikki Blonsky, Troy Bolton, and Tranny Travolta, had been directed by John Waters.I tried to explain that the movie in…
Have you bought your Miami International Film Festival tickets yet? Although they just went on sale to the public a week ago, three performances are already sold out. In fact, the festival reports that advance ticket sales are up 35 percent from last year.Two of the hot tickets are films…
In an early video, artist Mariko Mori stands in an airport. She wears a platinum Barbarella-style wig and a silver bodysuit with futuristic polythene pillow wings. Her mission: Save the Earth. Mori, as a techno-shamanic being, cradles a crystal sphere before touching it to her lips and lowering the ball…
Pan American Art Projects showcases Magnus Sigurdarson and Paul Stoppi’s wild romp through London in “Operation Beefeater”
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Through March 14. By Gabriel García Márquez; adapted by Nilo Cruz. The Playground Theatre, 9806 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores; 305-751-9556, theplaygroundtheatre.com Nilo Cruz does Gabriel García Márquez! The Cuban-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright adapted Márquez’s short story for a kids’ production at the…
