A few months before 40-year-old writer Luis Felipe Garcia began his eight-and-a-half-year stint in prison, he was selling liquid acid at a party when he accidentally dosed himself with the equivalent of 200 hits. At the time, the author of the new collection of short stories, Missing, was taking buprenorphine,…
Thursday Maybe it’s a bit of an oddball pairing, but if you were born before 1970, you’ve probably enjoyed songs by both Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper. Whether you’re more in the “Maggie May” or the “Time After Time” camp, these legends have enough hits to keep you entertained the…
If you grew up in a Cuban family, birthdays and Noche Buena always involved the maturer relatives retreating to lawn chairs and breaking out the dominoes. Whether or not the game makes any sense to you, the clacking of tiles and bursts of argument are nostalgic and,…
The first time Eclectic Overdrive’s Adam put on a show at the now shuttered, all-ages Pembroke Pines venue Talent Farm in 2012, it was packed with people who didn’t typically attend live music events. The popularity of that night was a sign that Adam, whose last name is Arritola but goes…
Thursday Miami New Times is turning dirty 30 this year, meaning we’re just as sexy but can impart something like sagely advice on you younguns. Which is why celebrating our yearly picks for the top places, people, and things in the Magic City is especially pertinent this year. At the…
Flower crowns, cotton candy, and fresh R&B tunes for your slow-grind pleasure. No, it’s not a new Coachella-inspired Beyoncé track. It’s RnBae, a monthly showcase of underground R&B thrown by local artists, curators, and DJs. If you’re looking for a sweet spot to spend some romantic time with your…
Thursday Even in Miami, a city defined in part by its Cuban diaspora, we don’t have much of an idea of the contemporary culture of our sister island. That’s why shows such as “On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art” can be necessary as a reminder of the cultural production constantly…
At a Yale writing workshop in 2003, one of E. Parker Phillips’ college classmates said Phillips’ erotic poem reminded them of a Calvin Klein ad. Phillips, who identifies as genderqueer and uses “s/he” and “he/r” pronouns, doesn’t remember the poem itself, only one line from the work about a lesbian…
Coral Gables has more restaurants per square mile than almost any other neighborhood in Miami, so deciding where to eat when you’re there can be daunting. If you’re more of a toe-in-the-water type than a dive-in-headfirst person, Taste of the Gables might help with your dining dilemma. A dozen…
Thursday John Dunkley was largely unknown as a painter during his lifetime, but the artist’s small collection of visual and sculptural work is dark and compelling. Whether he was painting dense, tropical landscapes or responding to significant cultural events in his native Jamaica, Dunkley, who died in 1947 in Kingston,…
Thursday Sometimes people need to be bribed into looking at art. But if the prospects of looking über-cool, getting free drinks, and being immortalized through art after becoming a painter’s lover aren’t enough to lure you to your nearest gallery, the Chocolate and Art Show has another angle: free treats…
Even though much of his work is inspired by Victorian-era occult and gothic romanticism, Hernan Bas exposes himself as a Miami native in the lush compositions and lurid colors of his paintings. The artist is more recently based in Detroit, but Bas will head back south to speak at…
Young men’s heads bobbing in an ocean heavy with secrets painted on a folding screen. A flock of spoonbills flying by Stiltsville on a triptych. A sculpture of a dead flamingo, doubled over like a macabre midcentury modern table, chained to a metal ball. This is Hernan Bas’ “Florida Living.”…
Thursday Art and politics are almost inextricable in Cuba, largely because the postrevolution government oscillated between brutally censoring artists and enthusiastically championing the arts. This is why looking at Cuban art can feel like looking into an alternate reality — movements like pop art and surrealism are recognizable enough, but…
Thursday Many would argue that a good desk job is preferable to half a dozen side hustles, but that coveted job security comes with sitting on your lumpy ass all day.
Thursday Whether he’s making light of death — describing captions for medical examiners’ photos as “really great poem titles, my favorite being: extensive mildew on the face of a recluse” — or deftly crafting accounts of family life and personal reflection, David Sedaris, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day…
Some of our earliest ideations of futuristic technology probably stemmed from the 1982 cult classic that the Film Junkies will celebrate at the Tron 35th-Anniversary Screening. It’s hard to argue otherwise, with videogames, a TV series, and a sequel all stemming from the computer-generated adventure flick. Whether you’re nostalgic…
Thursday Anthropological studies need not be reserved for remote tribes and dead civilizations. The unique and diverse milieu of Miami citizens is rife with opportunity for the study of exotic plumage and strange customs. “Tropical Wildlife” will put these studies on display with portraits of our city’s fair populace taken…
Thursday Doughnuts used to be the butt of cop jokes and sad office kitchens, but no longer. Much like tacos and toast, the humble doughnut has been elevated to an art form. To celebrate this renaissance, the Donuts! Fest is bringing all the glazed and cream-filled masterpieces to one place…
If our future robot overlords eradicate humanity, will a robot philosophy take the place of our humanoid musings? Luciana Parisi, a scholar of technology in culture, art, and politics, is researching the consequences of techno-logic, or the organic development of reasoning in machines. Her lecture, part of the Art…
Thursday Last year, in the midst of the presidential election, a play set in Mussolini’s Italy on the day of a parade for Hitler ran for a short weekend at the Colony Theatre. The election has come and gone, but the urgency of addressing xenophobia, hate speech, and violence has…
Baseball is considered America’s pastime, but other countries have been beating us at it for a while. Japan won the World Baseball Classic in 2006 and 2009, and the Dominican Republic snatched the crown in 2013. But hey, in Miami, our allegiances don’t always lie with the good old…
