There’s more television today than at any other point in the medium’s history, but there’s a good chance you’re stuck in a TiVo rut. That’s because, with a handful of exceptions, this fall has delivered a truckload of mediocrity and dead-on-arrival trends. (Goodbye, “rom-sit-coms” like the already canceled A to…
Christopher Nolan’s space epic Interstellar is a big, ambitious picture but it didn’t connect with our critics. We discuss the film at the top of this week’s podcast before moving onto a few other notable films on screens large and small this week. See also: Our review of Christopher Nolan’s…
Keanu Reeves in John WickOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we welcome Village Voice contributor and filmmaker Zachary Wigon, who tells us about his paranoid thriller The Heart Machine (iTunes). See also: Read our John Wick movie review…
Miami New Times is looking for a writer and editor to oversee coverage of all things related to art, theater, and other cultural happenings in America’s hottest city. The job entails working closely with a pool of freelancers to produce Night+Day, our weekly print guide to the city, while editing,…
Miami New Times is looking for a writer and editor to oversee coverage of all things related to art, theater, and other cultural happenings in America’s hottest city. The job entails working closely with a pool of freelancers to produce Night+Day, our weekly print guide to the city, while editing,…
It’s awards season and the hyped movies are starting to land in theaters. On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we talk about Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, and Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip, and carve out some time to recommend Nothing Bad Can Happen and Glen…
It’s time to snatch some pieces from your fellow art lovers’ fingertips: The annual Smash & Grab fundraiser kicks off this Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at Locust Projects, Miami’s longest-running alternative art space. Smash & Grab revolves around a raffle for which local as well as international artists have donated…
Café Tacvba’s 20ReCT25 Tour Presented by Jack Daniel’s Olympia Theater at Gusman Center, Miami Thursday, October 16, 2014 Last night, Mexican rock band Café Tacvba kicked off its 20ReCT25 Tour at the Olympia Theater in downtown Miami. This tour is a celebration of the band’s 25th anniversary, as well as…
An industrial-sized fan, huge enough to cool off hell, whirred across from Jerry, AKA the Gamma Bot. About to perform some awesome ’90s R&B-influenced electronic tracks, the guy’s glorious mane was not even mussed by the manmade gusts. Originally he and the other members of XYZA (pronounced zi-zuh) were planning…
Groupie has come to be an ugly word, a misogynist dig that’s used all too casually by men and women alike. A groupie is a woman who doesn’t “do” anything; she gets all of her glamour via her association with a strong man, most often a rock star. How can…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with LA Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, open this week’s podcast with a brief discussion of Twin Peaks, which comes back to TV via a series on Showtime in 2016, and move onto The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall,…
Christians pray for the men of Eyehategod. Which is good, considering the Louisiana sludge giants’ 26 years of hardship, disaster, and even death. They may have sold their souls on the bayou. But how else would they spawn heavy, full-bellied blues and give a pulse to stiff darkness? “We’re definitely…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with LA Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, talk about one of the big movies of the year, Gone Girl, which opens in about 3,000 U.S. theaters on Friday, but the trio also makes room for lesser-known films like The Blue Room, Men,…
One rhyme in particular crystallizes the genius of Nas’ 1994 classic, Illmatic. It comes in the song “One Love,” which takes the form of a letter to a friend in prison: “Congratulations, you know you got a son,” Nas raps. “I heard he looks like ya, why don’t your lady…
As Bob McCall in The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays a regular Joe who turns into an eye-gouging, brain-drilling nightmare for Boston’s Russian mob. At first Washington “toodles about a Home Depot-like store, helping customers, decked out in New Balance shoes and jeans so last-century you’ll be looking for pleats,” writes…
It’s the kind of forward-thinking experience David Bowie himself might have predicted. Just for one day, in theaters across the country, a movie about a museum exhibition (featuring the rocker’s groundbreaking albums, outlandish costumes, and clips from his artistic videos) will briefly tantalize the world — and be gone. Screening…
Juan Gabriel Volver Tour 2014 American Airlines Arena, Miami Friday, September 5, 2014 Over the weekend, Mexican music icon Juan Gabriel performed an epic three-hour set at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami. Only a few months ago, Gabriel had delayed his entire Volver 2014 tour because of health…
The long line of Biscayne Boulevard is home to a string of historic hotels in various states of decay and charm. Looking to recapture the seaside glamor of these spots is the Vagabond Hotel on Northeast 73rd Street, the iconic inn whose soft opening last month gave us a glimpse…
On Saturday, Miami’s first gay literary festival, Reading Queer, hosted its headlining event at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, where poet and scholar L. Lamar Wilson read selections from his award-winning collection of poems, Sacrilegion. A Marianna, Fla. native, Wilson’s poems have appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, jubilat, Los…
This week in South Beach, artists and guests will take part in an interactive artistic and philosophical expression in the Reading Queer Series, which aims to inaugurate Miami as a center of queer literary culture. The series kicked off at the Betsy Hotel in South Beach last Saturday, and continues…
Why did so few people see Sin City: A Dame to Kill For over the weekend? That and other topics are discussed in this week’s edition of the Voice Film Club podcast with the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek, joined as always by Amy Nicholson of the L.A…
You’re nobody until you own your own yacht. Or charter one. Or maybe just work on one, because yacht rides are hard to come across these days. That’s how Kate Chastain and Kat Held scored cabins on the Ohana, not to mention starring roles on the second season of Bravo’s…
