Category: Middle East

Despite being an omnipresent name in music this decade, rapper Brooke Candy is most excited by the thought of being in silence. She’s in New York preparing for the release of her debut full-length album, but she’s finding the city’s hustle and bustle overwhelming rather than creatively stimulating. “I just feel like it’s making me […]

Miriam Alba is tired of being tired. An immigrant from Nicaragua, she wears her exhaustion like a uniform, juggling multiple jobs to keep a roof over her head and help put her granddaughter through college. For years, Alba’s working days have been filled with cooking and cleaning homes, leaving little time for sleep. The few […]

What’s your biggest fear? Is it enclosed spaces? Dark places? Heights? Snakes? Disappointing your parents? Whatever it might be, everyone — even the most macho among us — is afraid of something. During the Halloween season, the operators of haunted houses do their damnedest to expose our fears and use them against us. They get […]

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, New Times brings you a […]

Stone crab season, South Florida’s favorite time of the year, begins October 15, which means you’ll soon see those sweet claws showing up on menus and at your favorite seafood market. Though many Miami restaurants — from steakhouses to seafood shacks — offer the claws, there’s one place most famous for the delicacy: Joe’s Stone […]

Florida’s annual nuisance has returned: Red tide has bloomed in the Gulf of Mexico near Naples and already begun to spread during the past week, according to a state map from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The last red tide event that affected Florida lasted for a year and a half, killing hundreds of […]

Hemingway had A Moveable Feast, but the artist Canal Cheong Jagerroos has a different metaphor for her life: “Floating Islands.” “I’ve been living in so many different cultures, so in many ways my whole life I’ve been floating around,” she says. The 51-year-old Chinese painter and sculptor came up with the concept to describe the […]

Last year’s American Priority Conference was, according to attendees, a bit of a joke. According to a Politico reporter who went to the inaugural event, the conference — pitched as some sort of yearly gathering for people who love Donald Trump and “American nationalism” — played to a lot of empty seats. Those who did attend wound […]

If misery loves company, tourists newly arrived in Miami can rest easy knowing that going through customs here basically sucks for everyone. It’s so bad, in fact, that Miami International Airport (MIA) ranks among the worst customs wait times in the nation when it comes to processing international travelers. That’s according to a new analysis […]

There’s always been something mysterious about Banks. Her penetrating brown eyes have a story to tell, but she never reveals much beyond glamour shots and performance clips on social media. Since she broke out in 2013, she’s detailed her stories through her songwriting rather than on Instagram. And on her latest release, III, she exposes […]