The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
The Warped Tour’s final show, Miami Girls Rock finale, Mas Miami Vol. 2, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend.
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The Darkest Minds’ YA Dystopia Isn’t as Compelling as Its Excellent Young Adults
An assemblage of TV clips sets the stage: Ninety percent of all children have died within the space of a month, with the survivors gaining a variety of superpowers that the government catalogs in a color-coded chart ripped right from the Bush administration
“Wit as Weapon,” at the Wolfsonian, Examines Historical Propaganda
A particularly pointed political cartoon made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook after Donald Trump took office. In it, his face, puckered in his signature duck lips, is tilted up toward a globe precariously sitting on an American flag atop a table. Trump’s baby body greedily grasps at the flag with poop-covered fingers, allegedly smeared from his seeping diaper.
Eyes on Miami: Winnie Harlow, Trey Songz, Floyd Mayweather, 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 WorldRedEye, New Times…
SOL Fete Celebrates the Arts of the African Diaspora and Miami Entrepreneurs
SOL Fete Miami will make going outside in the brutal Miami heat a pleasure instead of a chore. Also known as the Summer of Love Festival, it will include a wide range of fun activities that empower and enrich while celebrating the arts, music, and culture of the African diaspora. The free event…
Out Con, South Florida’s Largest LGBTQ Geek Convention, Returns With Cosplay and K-Pop
Out Con is set to return to the Miami Airport Convention Center this Saturday, August 4, and it’s expected to attract queer fans of nerd culture from across South Florida.
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Finally, Some Good News: Netflix’s Like Father, With Kristen Bell, Kelsey Grammer, Worth Your Time
… Like Father, it turns out, is an emotional, heartfelt depiction of what it’s really like to reconnect with a loved one after they’ve hurt you irreparably, but with some solid laugh lines and none of the melodramatic sap
The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
You go, girl. ¡Fuácata! or a Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe showcases more than 20 Latinas touching on everything that affects the community. All of the characters are played by one very talented leading lady, the three-time Carbonell Award-winning Elena María García. The performance touches on a wide…
Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2018 Brings Horror Premieres to Savor Cinema
This year, Florida’s premier horror film festival, Popcorn Frights, moves its series of chilling works to Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale. The festival gave New Times film critics Juan Antonio Barquin and Hans Morgenstern a preview of several of the movies premiering at the festival. Here’s their guide to the films you must see and ones to miss, ranging from science fiction to zombie horror and ghost stories.
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Miami Drag Performer Jupiter Velvet on Body Positivity and Trans Representation
Miami’s drag scene has exploded in the best way. New Times has been there to capture much of it through the lens of photographer Karli Evans. During the past year, Evans and filmmaking partner Cassandra Keith have chronicled the evolution of the scene in a documentary that creates a dialogue with six local performers and brings their fantasies to life.
Like Its Fallen America, Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth Is Too Much All at Once
Greenfield searches for commonalities between her subjects, linking the tacky and Trumpy nouveau riche to the strippers and pornographic performers who embody her conviction that for American women the body itself is a commodity
Eugene Jarecki’s The King Loads Elvis and America Into a Wood Chipper Aimed at Your Face
… It’s as scattered and disorienting as the infamous LP Having Fun With Elvis On Stage, an official cheapie that consisted of nothing but the King’s between-songs ‘70s stage banter
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The Best Free Events in Miami This Week
Miami summer isn’t only a season to head to the beach; it’s also peak season for visits to local museums and theaters. Besides, AC is a necessity, and those are the best places to have fun while staying cool. This week, the Miami Theater Center hosts a screening of Wes…
The Spy Who Dumped Me Squanders Kate McKinnon’s Kate McKinnon-ness
McKinnon has for a couple of years now been on a collision course with just this sort of role, one that, in order to fulfill the dictates of programmatic movie plotting, demands she surrender much of what audiences love about Kate McKinnon
The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
An Almodóvar retrospective at Coral Gables Art Cinema, Critical Mass, a free 2 Chainz concert and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend.
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Moonlight Screenwriter Tarell McCraney on the 305/One Festival and Miami’s Unconventional Creative Scene
I left Miami without knowing exactly how my hometown had affected me. I began to get an inkling with a realization about colors. Where I was in Colorado, the flowers could be paler and more delicate; the sky could be a spacey, airy blue, but nothing was quite as vibrant…
Local Photographer Peggy Nolan: “It Took Me Many Years to Call Myself an Artist”
Peggy Nolan devoted the majority of her life to raising seven kids, all the while dreaming about making art. When she wasn’t cooking and cleaning at home, she studied photography books and honed her skills behind the lens with shoplifted film. As her kids grew up and moved out, a marriage came and went…
Eyes on Miami: Pusha T, Floyd Mayweather, Becky G, 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 WorldRedEye, New Times…
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Women Run Wynwood Creates an Empowering, Safe Space for Fitness in Miami
If you’re a man, you’ve probably never had to worry about getting catcalled while running, enduring the creepy x-ray vision nod from passersby, taking an Uber to make it home safely before your last mile, or holding your keys between your knuckles on a run because uno nunca sabe.
Hong Sang-soo Continues To Make a Mess of Things With The Day After
The Day After continues the obsessively self-analytical (and often self-flagellating) tenor of Hong’s recent films, as he once again mulls the impact of his very public affair with star Kim Min-hee and the ensuing collapse of his marriage
Netflix’s The Bleeding Edge Exposes the Horrors the FDA Approves From Medical Device Makers
The film, which premieres on Netflix on July 27, traverses the spectrum of medical devices but opens and closes on one particular item, Essure, a metal coil that’s inserted into the fallopian tubes for sterilization purposes
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The 20 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
From RnBae, to Panic! At the Disco and Coral Gables Art Cinema’s Almodóvar retrospective, these are the best things to do in Miami July 25 through July 31.