The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

Get ready, Miami: The final holiday weekend of high season starts today. For the next four days, you’ll run into a party everywhere you go, especially if that place happens to be in South Beach. If you’re feeling like a three-day-bender, don’t despair: geek convention Mizucon and a new exhibit…

“Where the Oceans Meet” Aims to Blur Cultural Borders

Miami is known as the crossroads of the Americas, a place that unites people from diverse backgrounds and cultivates an environment where people get inspired by the different cultures they encounter. At the recently renovated Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design, the new exhibition “Where the Oceans Meet”…

South Florida’s Seven Best Water Parks

Summertime means road-tripping and water-sliding. From South Florida’s largest water park to Miami-Dade’s only wave pool, the region has plenty of ways to stay cool for the summer. If your hot-weather plans include breaking the world record for most time spent floating on a lazy river, we’re not here to judge.

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday Ever wanted to shake your ass in a fountain? Well, here’s your chance. The City of Miami Beach is turning the picturesque Normandy Fountain into a full-fledged Buenos Aires-inspired fiesta. The affair, Milonga Under the Stars, will offer a tango class and performance by True Tango, libations for purchase,…

John Leguizamo Headlines Miami’s 2019 Summer Theater Season

John Leguizamo headlines a 2019 summer theater season in South Florida stacked with diverse stories, drama, musical triumphs, and laughs galore. The prolific Tony Award-winning character actor is bringing his Broadway hit Latin History for Morons to the Ziff Ballet Opera House in July, joining a crazy-good lineup of…

The Urban’s New Marketplace Is Changing the Narrative of Overtown

Visitors can explore Overtown’s rich cultural history by visiting sites such as the Lyric Theatre. But to see the neighborhood’s prosperous future, they can head to the Urban. A 58,000-square-foot open-air venue in the heart of Overtown, it’s ground zero for a new chapter of commerce and culture in the community…

Paulo Nazareth’s “Melee” Examines Brazil’s Past, Present, and Future

Brazil’s topsy-turvy political climate has made headlines recently: a statewide graft probe that targeted politicians on the left and right; the impeachment of sitting president Dilma Rousseff; the incarceration of the previous president, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, barring him from running for office in the latest round of elections…

Dolby Atmos Arrives at Silverspot Downtown Miami

It was an ironic warm up to an immaculate cinematic sound experience: the din of a chatty Miami crowd feasting on free food and Prosecco. At one end of the bar/lobby on the third floor of the Silverspot Cinema representatives from Miami-Dade County congratulated management of the newly expanded Downtown…

Eleventh House, a New Astrological Party, Honors Miami’s Brujería

For far too long, Miami’s mystical community, with its roots in Santería and voodoo, has been overshadowed by The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina or the crystal shops of the Northeast offering discounts on psychic readings in October. Unlike Disney’s Halloweentown, it’s not foggy or cold here, the leaves don’t change colors…

Eyes on Miami: Flo Rida, Diplo, Akon, and Others

It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…