The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday Perhaps you’ve caught some of Las Nubes’ poppy rock and Spanglish sounds around town. Now the group is dropping its first album at a release party Thursday evening at the Bridge. In addition to snagging your copy of SMVT on vinyl or cassette, you can watch the band perform…

Best of Miami 2019: The Best Art and Artists

New Times’ annual Best of Miami issue will be released online tomorrow morning, with hundreds of our staff’s picks of the finest people, places, and culture that ruled South Florida over the last year. Can’t wait? Here’s a sneak peek at a few of the winners who have helped define…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday “Weird Al” Yankovic is touring with a damn orchestra, and Fort Lauderdale is blessed to host his South Florida show. The best-selling comedy artist of all time is bringing his Strings Attached Tour to the Broward Center Thursday evening. It’s basically a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Catch all the classics, spanning…

John Cameron Mitchell Brings a Hedwig “Love Fest” to Miami Fans

John Cameron Mitchell’s “The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig” isn’t exactly a reincarnation of the show. “I’m not really playing Hedwig,” Mitchell explains to New Times. “I’m playing myself in a Hedwig costume telling the story of its origin, talking about the people involved, the philosophies involved, and just creating a real love fest with our fans.”

Inside the Mind of Iconoclastic I Am Made in Mexico Performer Astrid Hadad

Mexican singer, actress and performance artist Astrid Hadad takes the absurd seriously. Her surreal brand of cabaret lampoons the marketing of Mexico’s cultural icons and reframes received historical truths. Her costumes, often marvels of movable set design, unfold, billow and blink. At one moment, she’s a living Diego Rivera calla…

Artist Jake Berman Imagines Miami With a Real Train System

New York-based artist Jake Berman loves maps. If you visit his website, fiftythree.studio, you’ll find the kind of art an Atlas junkie would drool over: colorful public transit maps that range from traditional (Chicago’s L train) to speculative (San Francisco in the year 2050) to pure fantasy (the comic book…