Irvine Welsh, the author of the youth and drug culture touchstone “Trainspotting,” mentions Miami only in passing in his latest novel, “Dead Men’s Trousers.” But the Scottish writer is grateful to be back in his adopted hometown. “I’ve been in [the United Kingdom] the last couple of months. It’s so dreary and dark. We have no seasons in Scotland — it’s one long, dreary fall.”
Juggerknot Theater Company is back again with another iteration of its popular Miami Motel Stories series. Only this time, there’s no motel. Juggerknot’s Executive Artistic Director, Tanya Bravo, explains that its next production will tell the story of one of Miami’s most swiftly developed neighborhoods: Wynwood. Since there’s no physical…
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 World Red Eye,…
Women’s History Month events, St. Patrick’s Day parties, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, March 11 through 17.
From gaining the right to vote and entering the workforce to shattering a few glass ceilings and the declaration of International Women’s Day on March 8, women have made tremendous strides in gaining equality. But there’s still a long way to go. That’s according to the Women’s Fund Miami-Dade, which…
Jazz in the Gardens, TransCon, Calle Ocho festival, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, March 8 through 10.
Have you been feeling your blood pressure rise while sitting in traffic on Okeechobee Road? You’re not alone. A study by Babylon Health has found that Hialeah is the most stressed city in the entire United States. That’s right. According to this research, people in major metropolises like New York or Los…
Miami isn’t the most Irish city, but that doesn’t keep us from sporting green and boozing it up on St. Patrick’s Day. Here’s a look at some of the places where the 305 will be shamrock-ing out St. Patrick’s Day weekend.
Everybody Knows. Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi is a filmmaker who has crafted subtle but focused movies about the dynamics of human relations in Iran. Here, he goes out on a limb with a cast of Spanish actors as varied as that of Cannonball Run — and falls off…
“Every Miamian should have access to high-quality arts programming.” That’s the belief of Dennis Scholl, president and CEO of Oolite Arts, formerly ArtCenter/South Florida, which announced this week it plans to relocate to a newly built headquarters in Miami’s Little Haiti. “We want to be an integral part of the neighborhood.”
9 Mile Film Festival, Gary Clark Jr., Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, and more can’t miss events this week.
Wine, dine, party, and enjoy a ‘Science of Sex’ theme this Friday at the Frost Museum of Science.
ArtCenter/South Florida is dead. Long live Oolite Arts. That’s one of two major announcements from one of South Florida’s most impactful arts organizations today. ArtCenter, which has renamed itself Oolite Arts, plans to move its headquarters to Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, it also announced this afternoon. The organization is working…
When filmmaker Billy Corben was putting together the 2006 crime documentary “Cocaine Cowboys,” he came across an epic document. It was a deposition from Jorge “Rivi” Ayala, a former hitman for Miami drug queen Griselda Blanco. At a whopping 1,300 pages, Ayala’s testimony walked authorities through the bloodshed of…
The Calle Ocho Festival, TransCon, a master class with Chucho Valdés, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, March 4 through 10.
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 World Red Eye,…
Carnaval on the Mile, the Miami Film festival, John Williams at New World Symphony, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, March 1 through 3.
The Miami Film Festival’s opening night documentary, “This Changes Everything,” is a bold call for gender equality in the film industry. It cites devastating statistics that measure women’s participation in some roles as low as 2 percent, and includes testimony from directors, producers, television network executives, and women actors from…
Greta. Neil Jordan’s “Greta” is the best kind of B-movie: a knowingly funny thriller that allows the actress at its core to go ham. Isabelle Huppert, arguably the greatest living actress, plays the titular Greta Hideg, a woman who leaves bags on the trains in New York hoping for someone…
Though the themes in “/peh-LO-tah/” touch upon the issues America is reckoning with at a heightened state at the moment, Joseph wrote the play during the waning period of the Obama era, and it premiered just ten days after Trump was elected.
This Changes Everything. This year, Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival takes a big risk with its opening night film. Generally a place for celebratory, uplifting cinema, the first movie to screen at the festival’s centerpiece venue, the storied Olympia Theater, is a documentary that wags its finger at the…
As millions of young people across the country became transfixed by Elvis Presley’s hip shaking, a subculture of young, Jewish, New York-to-Miami Beach transplants looked past the blues and country-tinged sounds coming out of the American South, leaning instead toward the tropical beat of pre-revolution Cuba. This is the story pf the Mamboniks.
