Seven Miami Bars for Your Next Game Night
Plenty of local spots offer diversions, from classic pinball to board games and billiards.
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Profoundly Human Eighth Grade Teaches More Than Actual Junior High Does
Part of Eighth Grade’s charm comes from a refusal to go for easy confrontations or humiliations; it keeps threatening to become a cringe-fest, but pulls back, as Burnham opts instead for something more human and realistic
Generation Wealth Chronicles the Addictive Nature of Luxury and Excess
Photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has made a career of chronicling excess, from glamorous youth in Los Angeles who grew up privileged as children of celebrities, to the desperate-to-be-skinny women receiving treatment for anorexia at an inpatient clinic in Coconut Creek, Florida…
Hulu’s Castle Rock Is, for Better and Worse, an All-You-Can-Eat Stephen King Buffet
Much of the series comes down to scenes of men digging up dogs or dogs digging up men, and then veteran actors — Sissy Spacek — talking around what it all means
The Essential Blindspotting Insists That People, Cities and Movies Can’t Be Reduced
The film, like Oakland itself, is forever evolving, always becoming some new thing just when it at last seems to have revealed its full self
Mission: Impossible – Fallout Might Restore Your Faith in Action Blockbusters
A cinematic centrifuge of acrobatic stunt work, breakneck chases and immersive action, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a perfectly calibrated piece of filmmaking that plays the viewer like a drum right from the start
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The Best Free Events in Miami This Week
The Anderson’s rock ‘n’ roll night returns this week with DJ sets by members of Bleeth and Shroud Eater, New York pop singer Janna Pelle and AnastasiaMax play a Critical Mass After Party, and Beach Day plays a homecoming show at Las Rosas with the Saucy Jacks, the Woolly Bushmen, and Fat Sun. If you’re looking for something a little quieter, check out HistoryMiami’s Komorebi 2018 Bonsai Exhibition, along with special event programming at the Bass Museum and the Wolfsonian.Here are the best free events happening in Miami this week.
PageSlayers Summer Program Fosters the Next Generation of Writers of Color in Miami
The ultimate goal for PageSlayers is to foster the next generation of writers of color in Miami. Youngsters encountering writers like MacArthur fellow and Haitian-American memoirist Edwidge Danticat and Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves might feel professions in the arts and humanities are more legitimate on the one hand, and on the other, they’re encouraged and empowered to express themselves.
With El Chancletazo, Josue Garcia Returns to His Roots
Even if you didn’t know it, you’ve probably seen Josue Garcia around Miami — at El Tucán, Gramps, the Corner, on New Times’ site — in or out of drag as half of the duo Juleisy y Karla. But with his new Microtheater Miami play, Garcia brings something new to the city: a one-man show that’s uniquely him.
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
MegaRumba 2018, Premios Juventud, La Santa Cecilia, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend.
African Heritage Cultural Arts Center Shapes the Next Generation of Miami’s Black Creatives
Last spring, the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center celebrated a major win for one of its most esteemed alumni. Moonlight co-writer, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney stood proudly on the AHCAC stage holding a “Moonlight Way” sign alongside director Barry Jenkins. A street in Liberty City was being named after their film, which had just…
Eyes on Miami: Miami Swim Week Models, Jaden Smith, Rick Ross, 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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Smile Till Your Face Hurts at Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The film’s half-baked story about a girl trying to live out her slutty, wonderful, deceased mother’s dream of operating a hotel on a Greek island (all set to the music of ABBA) is so thoroughly entertaining and ridiculous that the cast members can’t help but crack into dumb grins at what they’re doing
Pioneering Natural Hair-Care Brand Miss Jessie’s Plants Roots in Miami
There’s an unspoken sisterhood among women with curly hair. Could it be the early memories of straightening maintenance? Probably. The all-too-familiar annoyance of strangers reaching for their hair? Absolutely. The lack of products on the market embracing natural curls? Definitely. Miko Branch and her sister Titi…
The Equalizer 2: Denzel Thinks Globally, Kills Locally
All that lashing wind and rain, and Fuqua’s sometimes haphazard storytelling, deny us the grim pleasures of Denzel’s methodical slayings, which often take clever advantage of whatever tools happen to be handy
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
We’ve heard enough about a certain entertaining Hamilton. It’s time for a new one. London-based DJ Archie Hamilton has made quite a name for himself worldwide, jammin’ everywhere from Amnesia in Ibiza to the massive Sonus Festival in Croatia. He’s a true force in the house and techno spaces…
Miami for Life: Locals Explain the Significance of Their Hometown Tattoos
There are few better ways to immortalize a moment or a memory than with a tattoo.
Eating Animals Demands We Face the Truth About Factory Farming
… Eating Animals proves persuasive mostly in its diagnosis of what has gone wrong, and in its account of how it went wrong on such a massive scale (through thumbnail histories of KFC, Tyson, and Chicken McNuggets)
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At Locust Projects, Teen Artists Address School Shootings and Other Violence
Before Solo cups became the stuff of beer pong and mystery punch in the realm of teenage iconography, they were the conduits of makeshift fence signage. Messages like “CONGRATS CLASS OF ’18” and “GO FALCONS” are spelled out by plastic circles in front of schools all over America…
Custody Spins Unlikely Suspense From Trouble at Home
Miriam (Léa Drucker) has quit her job and absconded with the family’s two kids — 11-year-old Julien (Thomas Gioria) and almost-18 Josephine (Mathilde Auneveux) — after, she explains, experiences of spousal and child abuse
Help Artist Haiiileen Launch a Free Experimental Studio Space in Miami
Miami-born-and-bred artist Haiiileen, real name Aileen Quintana, has displayed her larger-than-life, neo-acid experimental works — from massive installations at III Points to performance art and sculptures at local museums — in the Magic City throughout her career. But when the building that housed Quintana’s studio was sold, she was left with no space to continue creating her art.
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Florida Supercon 2018 Brought Cosplayers, Wrestlers, and Multi-Universe Fans Together
Florida Supercon 2018 began with a ribbon-cutting ceremony early Thursday afternoon. Holding the scissors was a Brooklyn kid who was bullied and teased for being different; he was 90 percent deaf. Like so many con attendees, he simply wanted to be stronger than the bullies made him feel and have a place in the world.