8 June 26 – July 2, 2025 miaminewtimes.com | browardpalmbeach.com NEW TIMES As executive director of Men4Choice, the Miami Beach resident and former MDCPS teacher helps to educate and mobilize men to advocate for abortion rights and reproductive freedom. In the lead up to the November 2024 election, Bos-Lun spearheaded efforts to get men off their asses to fight for our rights. He also led petition drives to put Amendment 4 on the ballot — which, had it passed, would have ended the state’s extreme abortion ban. Currently, Florida bans abor- tion at six weeks of pregnancy, before many people know they’re even pregnant. He says it’s not OK for men to sit this one out just be- cause it’s not their bodies under attack. Abor- tion rights are human rights, and, whatever your gender, Bos-Lun is helping Floridians fight for them. BEST COMMUNITY ORGANIZER Thomas Kennedy instagram.com/tomaskenn While ICE raids are the new horrific norm around the country and intimidation to quiet those who care is high, Thomas Kennedy isn’t staying silent. Born in Argentina, Kennedy lived as an undocumented immigrant first in New Jersey and later in Miami for more than a decade. A policy analyst for the Florida Im- migrant Coalition, Kennedy always sticks his neck out to bring attention to the people who have been detained or deported. The last few months, he’s been way too busy. But Kennedy is used to hard work. In the past, he helped lead a campaign to close a detention camp for migrant children in Homestead and the effort to restore voting rights in the state for people with felonies. In April, he helped shine a light on Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, a U.S. citizen who was wrongfully arrested for being un- documented by Florida Highway Patrol even after he proved he was born in this country. With no hints that the government will stop its cruel crusade against immigrants anytime soon, Kennedy will continue to organize and speak out against injustice. BEST FLACK Veda Coleman- Wright Broward Sheriff’s Office sheriff.org All communications professionals should take a page from Veda Coleman-Wright’s book. As the director of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Public Information Office, Coleman- Wright quickly responds to requests for com- ment and respects that journalists have hard deadlines. And even better? She doesn’t hesi- tate to pick up the phone for an actual chat if she wants to better understand a request. Ev- ery once in a while, she doesn’t have the in- formation we need, but she’s always ready to point us to the agency or person who does, without missing a beat. BEST MOVIE THEATER Silverspot Cinema 300 SE Third St., #100 Miami 33131 305-536-5000 silverspot.net/downtown-miami Silverspot Cinema in downtown Miami lets you escape the hustle without ever having to leave the heart of this Magic City. With fully reclined seating and in-theater dining, you can stuff your maw with popcorn or level up with a chef-in- spired menu, all while laying down — forget what mama told you about safe eating. The best part? There’s no need to wait at the concession. It’s all delivered right to your seat. Before or af- ter the show, you can enjoy a boozy raspberry lemon drop or Kentucky smoke at the bar and lounge area. Silverspot does all this to make a night at the movies an entire night out. BEST ART HOUSE CINEMA O Cinema 1130 Washington Ave. Miami Beach 33139 o-cinema.org Last Spring, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner threatened to evict indie theater O Cin- ema from Miami Beach’s Old City Hall for the crime of screening the Oscar-winning Palestin- ian documentary No Other Land. The mayor claimed it was antisemitic, the community knew it was censorship. The people came out in droves to a Miami Beach City Commission meeting to defend O Cinema. The local theater opened in 2011 to a scene lacking cinematic di- versity and settled at its current space, the for- mer Miami Beach Cinematheque, in 2019. The potential ending to the witch hunt by the mayor was right out of a Hollywood movie. Luckily, Meiner pivoted after hearing how much this theater means to the city, allowing them to continue to screen movies that might provoke, but more often tend to enlighten. BEST MIAMI DOCUMENTARY Churchill’s filmfreeway.com/churchills Five years after its closure, Miami music fans are still holding out hope for the return of Churchill’s Pub. As the 16-minute documentary titled simply Churchill’s lays out, the local music scene just hasn’t been the same without the Little Haiti pub welcoming novice musicians and punk legends alike. As former Load drummer Fausto Figueredo says, “[Churchill’s] was a place that I think solidifies itself in American punk rock club history — like CGBG, like Gilman Street, like the 40 Watt Club.” Co-directors and producers Matt Deblinger and Nicholas Orris capture the indelible impact the anything-goes venue had on how we made and consumed music in our city and shared it with the world. It’s a compelling collection of grainy footage taken in the dive — including Chuck Loose of ‘90s Miami punk band Chickenhead leaping off the stage after setting fire to his shirt — and anecdotes and commentary by one-time regulars to those grimy stages. Ahol Sniffs Glue, Otto von Schirach, doorman Christopher Hubbard (better known as “Mr. C”), bartender Nicky Bowe, and many others make
