Mayans M.C. is the spinoff series from what was once everyone’s guilty pleasure Sons of Anarchy (oh, RIP to the sweet abs on that show). Garnering what FX network President Nick Grad called “breakout ratings,” the cable program was renewed for a second season mere episodes into the first. Hotly anticipated by die-hard fans, Mayans M.C. season 1 finale airs Tuesday, November 6.
By and large, this latest entry in Lisbeth’s adventures … offers a drab genre piece that’s more like an attempt to establish a James Bond-like franchise for Lisbeth than a compelling exploration of the character
Midterm elections are surrounded by so much hype this year that some are comparing them to the Super Bowl. But there’s an important difference: In football, the worst-case scenario is your team loses and those Fantasy Football projections suffer a nosedive. The upcoming elections will do much more than merely…
The couple has begun to discover that raw truth that, around 1960, American novelists and filmmakers were only starting to face in their art: that the post-war dream of a little house and a little family just might not be enough to ensure happiness
The Miami Book Fair, election night watch parties, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, November 5 through 11.
One has a pool with a retractable roof and a translucent bottom, and the other comes with all kinds of fun toys.
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 WorldRedEye, New Times…
The Coral Gables Food, Wine & Spirits Festival, March for Black Women, Final Fantasy in concert, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, November 2 through 4.
The Activist Fair is a radical new mini-zine fair going down in the heart of Little Haiti November 3. Exile Books is calling all zine makers, independent publishers, and artists collectives interested in social causes who want to buy, sell and trade their work to attend. Amanda Keeley, the founder…
Parents are always looking for safe, fun, and educational experiences for their children. This weekend, they’ll find all three at the sixth annual Miami International Children’s Film Festival happening November 2-4 at the Coral Gables Art Cinema. “What we want to do is entertain children of all ages, and families…
Immigration, climate change, racial violence, and gentrification — these are issues that need to be addressed both in Miami and throughout the rest of the world. Creative Time, a New York-based public arts organization, saw an opportunity to explore these issues from a local and global context at the…
Despite being built based on Welles’ notes and the input of people who were in front of and behind the camera on set, this The Other Side of the Wind has a haphazard “well, he shot it, so we better include it” vibe
Poetry is best read aloud. That’s a known fact of literary nature. But what becomes of it when it’s stamped into a concrete sidewalk? Miami-based artist Agustina Woodgate devised a scheme to see how that would play out after she won a Knight Arts Challenge grant about three years ago. This…
Director Joseph Kahn (who cowrote the script with actual battle rapper Alex “Kid Twist” Larsen), a man who directed many a hip-hop video in his time, knows exactly what cliches and tropes need to be mocked
Thursday Art and politics will come together when the Creative Time Summit hits Miami for the first time. The summit, now in its 11th year, is typically chock full of meaningful workshops, discussions, roundtables, performances, and other diversions designed to inspire people to take meaningful, artsy action. The theme of…
When Rene De Dios and the South Beach Shark Club made its debut in Miami earlier this year, it surpassed the highest expectations of even the filmmakers, Robert Ramos and Pedro Gomez. The short film went on to win five awards at Miami International Film Festival’s CinemaSlam before being chosen as an official selection for the Stock Island Film Festival in Key West and named Best Miami Documentary by Miami New Times. Since then, the filmmakers have been turning the 17-minute documentary into a feature-length film. And now, they want to give viewers a glimpse of the fruits of their labor.
The finished work, a half decade in the making, is informed by his deep familiarity with its characters, which might be one reason why he has the confidence to abandon traditional narrative structures and strike out on his own lyrical path
Once again artwork by Banksy is coming to Miami during Art Basel, and it’s problematic. Despite its name, the “Art of Banksy” exhibition, which will open at Magic City Studios December 1, just in time for Miami Art Week, was never authorized by its anonymous anti-capitalist vandal namesake, who reluctantly accepts…
The more prickly and belligerent Israel becomes — and McCarthy never burdens her with likability — the more Holofcener and Whitty soften her choices with extenuating circumstances, imbuing their subject with a zeal for artistic purity at odds with her actions
If you buy into the witch cliche s—pointy hats, flying broomsticks— Miami might seem an awfully sunny place to headquarter a coven compared to, say, the rainy and foggy Pacific Northwest. But to be a witch is to be misunderstood. They bear the ridicule of storybook stereotypes, are feared for their…
In the gloriously positive and progressive Disney series featuring the company’s only Latinx princess, Elena of Avalor, the noble namesake sings a song about the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos. She calls this holiday dedicated to the dearly departed “The Festival of Love.” And, indeed, the story goes that…
Celebrities hanging out together have become quite the artistic muse. A photograph of Richard Nixon and Elvis shaking hands inspired a movie. The urban legend of Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlon Brando driving out of New York City after the World Trade Center towers fell was made into a British TV show and short story.
