Dena Stewart

For Conversations with Stewart Stewart, a spin-off from Alive on South Beach, Stewart talks with Photographer Manny Hernandez who has made his mark on the Society Pages capturing images of celebrities and fashion icons at their best and their worst.

When basketball coach Dax loses everything in order to have his team compete in the Rucker’s annual basketball tournament in Harlem, legendary basketball player Uncle Drew rounds up his old team of old men to play the game.

Documentary-style, GOTTI the movie is about John Gotti Sr., former head of the Gambino Crime Family, and his son, Gotti Jr. – heir apparent to the “family business”. John Gotti Jr. visits his father in jail, where he is serving a life sentence, to tell him he is tired of constantly having to look over his shoulder, and is willing to serve time in jail in exchange for his “freedom” from the mobster lifestyle.

OCEAN’S 8, another heist movie — but this one features Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of legendary conman Danny Ocean, and Debbie’s lady-friends-in-crime.

January 1, 1975, when Robert Kraft was 24 years old, he made a New Year’s Resolution to run eight miles every day. Now 66, he has run for more than 15,300 consecutive days and counting. His persistence and commitment over the years has attracted more than 2,600 runners from all over the world to run with him. Always shirtless, a black sweatband holding back his longish-black hair, black shorts, one black glove, and gray shoes, they dubbed him Raven. Laura Lee Huttenbach wrote a biography called “Running with Raven”.

In the 1980’s activist-attorney Ruth Bader-Ginsburg took on and won women’s rights cases tried before the Supreme Court, and was later appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton. Notorious RBG takes us on a tour of this phenomenal woman’s life.

Although we aspire to be upbeat, positive and kind, people are acting out in rude and aggressive ways towards one another. The lack of civility is becoming the acceptable norm. Center for Folk and Community Art (“CFCA”) wanted to create an awareness of this issue. So, we reached out to teenagers for their suggestions, having them use writing and art to communicate their experiences.

[Above, Rachel Dolezal] Important Update:  Rachel Dolezal’s parents sacrificed both their daughters (their black…

This totally engaging film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted by her brother with a “night nanny”. Hesitant to accept the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.

This year, the MDC – Miami Film Festival celebrated its 35th anniversary with more than 100 foreign films featured. It was tough picking the ones to see, but I’m happy to say we picked winners, including TULLY (with Charlize Theron), FIRST REFORMED (Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried), KISS ME NOT (Egyptian star Yasmine Rais), and LIFE IS A BITCH.