The #MeToo Movement has shed light on the misconduct of numerous men in power: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and now… Count Dracula? When South Florida playwright Michael McKeever set out to bring the story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the stage, he wanted it to stand out from the countless…
Each beat of this plays out with exquisite delicacy, as does the exchange where the crook lays out, with exacting detail, how he’d rob this diner if it were a bank — and then takes it all back, letting her think he was joking
Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival is back with its annual Gems event of weekend movie premieres at the Tower Theater in Little Havana. This year’s edition will screen several movies likely to become Best Foreign Language Film contenders at next year’s Academy Awards. Here, New Times film critics Juan…
Created by New York-based artist Derrick Adams, the billboard, “Vote,” carries a simple but profound message of only five words: “Ride, walk, drive, march, vote.”
Crafting his pseudo-realistic account of the crimes and trial of anti-Islamic murderer Anders Behring Breivik (Anders Danielsen Lie), writer-director Greengrass … examines the attacks through the pinhole lens of post-disaster trauma
Bad Times is a much better time in its mysterious middle, which tingles with darkly comic possibility, than in its final 40 minutes, when Goddard’s cards are on the table
As a child, Kelly Link would excitedly await South Florida’s hurricane season. The sense of trepidation an oncoming storm would bring is what the 2018 MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow used for later writing inspiration. “That sense you have when you’re a kid, living in Florida — that feeling during the hurricane season, something big might be on the horizon.” Now an author, she says, “It’s great preparation for imaging worst-case scenarios and then imaging the extraordinary coming into a landscape and changing everything.”
A tense, terse drama that plunges us headlong and handheld into the high-risk world of the space race in the 1960s, the film spares few moments for reflection or reverie
The Listening Den, a primer on the 2018 constitutional amendments, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, October 8 through 14.
It has become abundantly obvious that the forces of truth, justice, and the American way have gone out of fashion. Superman is dead, and the barbarians have taken over the republic. Every day, fools and hypocrites like Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins stand at their pulpits and shamelessly voice their…
This alien being, which helpfully calls itself Venom, is a fairly terrifying creation: a many-fanged, slobbery, snake-tongued monster that loves to eat people’s heads
Even before Pérez Art Museum Miami’s big opening night for the exhibition of historical and archival materials from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands, it was clear this would be a different kind of show. As Christo himself said during a private tour a few days before the official opening: “This is not a normal exhibition. It’s a documentary exhibition — it goes beyond a work of art. It’s more like a museum of natural history.”
If art reflects life, the art world has had a lot to deal with in the past year. It’s no surprise that many local art institutions’ programming reflects the identity crisis sweeping the nation. A good example are two shows that ended the Wolfsonian-FIU’s previous year of programming: “Wit as…
In 1984, the crime-fighting duo of Crockett and Tubbs went face-to-face with dangerous drug lords and other unsavory characters, making Miami famous for cocaine, synths, and violence. While Miami Vice was lighting up every living room in America in pastel shades, Miami Dade College was launching the Miami Book Fair,…
UM vs. FSU football, the Miami Taco & Beer Festival at Marlins Park and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, October 5 through 7.
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…
At times, Green’s film feels too familiar, exploring what we already know — cops can be dirty and may retaliate if they’re crossed
It’s that time of year in Miami when we say adios to the treadmill and hit the pavement. Summer is officially in the rearview and the weather soon will be changing from miserable to warm, making running outside tolerable-ish. The fun runs and half marathons around the city are starting…
It’s 10 in the morning, and Daniel Chimowitz already simmers with energy. He speaks with an impassioned flair that accentuates a hint of a twangy West Coast accent. (The London-born international artist and fashion designer grew up in San Francisco.) Mere minutes in conversation with Chimowitz pass before a moment…
Miami’s theater scene refuses to stray from political plays even if some viewers are probably looking for escapist fare during the frustrating Trump era.
Its leads, feminist writer Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti), a one-time wunderkind of no-budget theatrical productions, find themselves desperate to conceive a child even as the doctors they pay (with borrowed money) thousands to speak frankly of the odds
October Christo & Jeanne-Claude: “Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83: A Documentary Exhibition.” Thirty-five years ago, an art installation titled Surrounded Islands premiered in Biscayne Bay. In May 1983, Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 11 uninhabited islands in Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of fabric. The pink…
