What becomes clear, watching McEnroe harangue line judges and intrusive photographers, is that the rages were birthed in a disappointed agony, a disgust at a world with inhabitants who persistently failed to see what he did
Move over, ritzy resorts. The hostel scene is alive and thriving in Miami. Famous for shared dorm rooms and alarmingly low prices, an abundance of budget-friendly accommodations offer visitors to the Magic City cheap options. From a tranquil home base in Little River to a pulsating pregame headquarters in South Beach, there’s a hostel to accommodate each of Miami’s most potent aesthetics. Presented in alphabetical order, these are ten of the 305’s most memorable hostels.
Most of Nico, 1988 takes place two years before its subject’s death, in 1986, when a now raven-haired Nico (played with an inquisitive weariness by the excellent Dyrholm) tours Europe with a band of amateur musicians desperate for gigs
Thursday You have to see this video to believe it. Cinematographer Arthur Jafa’s Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death is a seven-minute window into African-American identity with a reflection on some of the news media’s strategies. The carefully crafted piece includes clips encompassing a range of topics, from…
There’s no narration and very little onscreen text, just a steady drumbeat of clips and sound bites that portray how nuclear warfare went from a welcome announcement — the big new bombs that would end World War II — to an international arms race …
This is a story of stifling manners and oppressive codes of conduct, where the wealthy “villains” wear a strained smile and an icky sheen of privilege
The new 7,500-square-foot skate park and pump track in Haulover Park cost $267,000 and was a joint effort of five Miami-Dade municipalities.
Twisting and turning, a delicately crafted mangrove constructed of rope and steel snakes through the air, impossibly knotted but still unmistakably distinct in its path forward. A red line runs boldly along a gnarled makeshift branch, connecting it with another sapling looming ahead.
Its unruly scenes emerge out of disorder, out of chants and shrieks and fractured images, and always threaten to fade back into abstraction
The Miami of two decades ago would be unrecognizable to recent transplants. Back then, Wynwood was still a working-class Puerto Rican neighborhood with discount clothes and weave shops. And 20 years ago, folks were lining up to go to bars and clubs in Coconut Grove. The first Art Basel didn’t arrive…
This is a portrait of a decades-long partnership coming to a head but also of the American literary community reckoning with what so many know to be true: Women are still not seen as “serious” writers or contenders for major prizes
Valerie Lopez remembers winning the most important competition of her life like it was yesterday. “It was one of the most nervous moments I’ve experienced. It was a high stage and purple lighting. You look up, and you see all these people staring at you. It was quite nerve-wrecking.”
Peretz could have given each potential pairing equal time in the story, but he sticks with the most evocative of the two; Juliet, Naked has its charms, and they are named Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke
Labor Day at Ball & Chain, Shelley Novak’s “Triggered!” and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, August 27 through September 2.
Weitz’s film, concerning a Mossad team’s 1960 hunt for Eichmann, is a sort of Argo Goes to Munich, blending heist movie jollies with some moral inquiry into justice, revenge, torture and execution
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…
National Dog Day, Sweat Records’ label-launch party, Residente in Wynwood, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend.
The film’s wrenching centerpiece is the 2014 death of Eric Garner, killed due to “compression of neck, compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police” who suspected him of selling loose cigarettes
The first thing you should understand about The Little Stranger, the new film by Room director Lenny Abrahamson, is that it’s only partly a ghost story. The period film, which follows a country doctor tending to a high-society family in its crumbling mansion, speaks to a shift in the class…
At its best, the show was a canny deconstruction of contemporary late-night comedy, which has been swamped with political satire since Stewart, the former Daily Show host, turned Bush-era liberal outrage comedy into its very own TV genre
Happytime Murders, though, demands that we take its world somewhat seriously, that we invest ourselves in the tensions between people and puppets, that we buy into its by-the-book serial-killer narrative …
The Standard is set to host its first Summer Lovin’ Speed Dating at 7 p.m. Wednesday, August 29.
