Is surrealist comedy a genre? If it wasn't ten years ago, it is now that Eric Andre has hit the scene. The Florida native's strange brand of situational comedy plays on familiar ideas, constructs, and social tropes — and then turns them upside down and competes against a stegosaurus to...
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Don Festge, a hospitality and tourism teacher at Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School in North Miami, had already been toying with the idea of running for office when he traveled to Tallahassee in January. It was Rep. Frank Artiles who pushed him into the fray. Unable to arrange a meeting...
In the days leading up to yesterday's vote on whether to build a massive new convention center and hotel in the middle of South Beach, skeptics voiced a number of concerns: The snarled traffic in the heart of SoBe, the outsized scale of the building, the environmental impact. But when...
You don’t have to be a special kind of science person to know that the sun and the desert are both hot and that reveling in the hot desert sun will do damage to your body. It’s barely even science at all. So, given that the sun in the desert...
Last night two children reported to security officers at the Flamingo condominium building in South Beach that their mother had been assaulted in her unit. When police showed up they found the 31-year-old woman dead. Police identified Samir Jemaaoui as the main suspect, and CBS Miami reports that the victim was his...
“Did I want to shoot comedies?” asks Brandon Trost, director of photography on two of this summer's funniest films, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. “It’s funny — not at all.” But then came MacGruber, Jorma Taccone's 2010 SNL film.“The director wanted me because I wasn’t...
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There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back to the first weekend in May. This year, the superhero flicks started arriving with Deadpool’s release on February 12. Only two...
You have to hand it to Duran Duran. Nearly 38 years since the group formed, it's still going strong, adapting to changing times and forging its own path forward. Once dismissed by critics as poseurs of Britain's so-called New Romantic movement — replete with those multitiered haircuts and garish fashions...
Marco Rubio had a no good, very bad weekend. He's now the de-facto establishment candidate, and in the four states voting on Saturday, he racked up tons of high-profile endorsements. He spent more per spent more per vote this weekend than any other candidate on either side of the aisle. It...
Thursday Wine is the elixir of creativity. It unlocks artistic whimsy and lowers inhibitions. Are you doing this right? Hell, there's no wrong way to paint a beach at sunset or a cabin in the mountains or a demure cocktail glass like the one in your hand. Painting-and-drinking classes are...
Miamians tend to enjoy their lives. They feel that they have purpose, enjoy their close network of friends and family, and are in some of the best physical shape of anywhere in the country. Just don't bring up Money. Locals are also some of the most financially stressed in the...
Florida Republican lawmakers have been chipping away at abortion rights for years, but yesterday the Florida legislature passed its most sweeping anti-abortion law to date. The bill is now headed to Governor Rick Scott's desk, but significant parts of the law may be struck down by the Supreme Court by...
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This weekend, protest organization Occupy Miami (a branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York) will host the inaugural Radical Film Festival. The two-day cinematic celebration of resistance aims to inform and inspire. Screening will be six topical films selected by local organizations, including Black Lives Matter Miami, Dream...
For Cuban musician and Fabrica del Arte Cubano (FAC) founder, X Alfonso, art exists in a multidisciplinary space. The Havana based business brings this sensory experience to Vedado's early 20th century government electricity building every week; screening films and hosting visual artists all in the same venue. It's a testament...
The race to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate is already one of the strangest soap opera-worthy down ballot races in the nation, and it might get even more bizarre. GOP operatives are apparently pressuring Ben Carson to make an official exit from the presidential primary to run for Senate...
It's been almost a year and a half since mainstream-indie-rock band Grouplove played its last live set — more than two-and-a-half since its sprawling second album, Spreading Rumours, was released. That extended break might not have been the outfit's original plan, but for vocalists Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi, there...
Beneath a canopy of trees on NW 29th Street between NW First and North Miami avenues in Wynwood, a boxy white building houses O Cinema. Inside the small indie theater, narrow hallways lead to intimate viewing spaces. Just past the miniature art gallery area, a large purple sea monster curiously...
The Limon Dance Company celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, having existed more years without its founder than with him. The company’s survival is an homage to the man and his work. José Limón (1908-1972), a dancer and choreographer, created many works that are considered masterpieces of modern dance; his...
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Today is a day the GOP establishment never could have imagined. If neither Marco Rubio nor Ted Cruz surge in the dozen states casting primary ballots on this Super Tuesday, Donald Trump could all but wrap up a Republican presidential nomination tonight. And there are hints that Florida's Trump-lite governor,...
Few local bands have been as prolific as SunGhosts this last year. After being voted Miami's best band in our 2015 Best Of Reader's Poll, the group released a new EP, Parhelion, and toured heavily to promote it. Now, SunGhosts just released a music video for its newest single, “Til...
Picture a warm cinnamon roll from Knaus Berry Farm. Now, imagine it wrapped in soft and fluffy 24-hour brioche dough from the Salty Donut, drowned in a roasted-pecan-toffee-rum glaze, and topped with a few caramelized pecans. Voilà! Your craziest doughnut fantasy is about to come to life this weekend at the Salty Donut's...
Thursday The fireworks have boomed, the grills have cooled, and this year's Fourth of July has come and gone. But Independence Day isn't the only party this month. Miami Swim Week is back with the hottest events of the summer. For the second year in a row, Funkshion Productions will...