Email Author Amanda McCorquodale

2011 Stories by Amanda McCorquodale

• Sleep When You're Dead

  published October 27, 2011

  In a city where revelers regularly debauch until 5 a.m., Sleepless Night is more than just an excuse to stay up all night. No, in this... More >>

• Pesimo, Jade, and Entes: Attack of the Bird People

  published Nov 09, 2011

  Art Basel Miami Beach is the time of year our city's street art is replenished with new work. That Hanged Banker mural by Above next to I-95 replaced this graffing pin-up girls piece. We're excited to... More >>

• Love Don’t Pay No Bills

  published October 20, 2011

  Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis depicts a futuristic city of employees and an elite group of managers that controls and exploits... More >>

• Amaze Us

  published October 20, 2011

  Monday, the Miami Beach Cinematheque will open its Cin-e-maze, a walk-through installation in which classic scenes from German... More >>

• Miami New Times Seeks Writers for Night&Day and Cultist

  published Nov 03, 2011

  Miami New Times has immediate openings for writers for the Night&Day calendar section and online culture blog, Cultist. For N&D, ideal candidates should be able to pen an event preview that is... More >>

• But a Dream

  published October 20, 2011

  Last year, the cool kids at Super Market Creative threw the Gatsby Gone Goth bash, encouraging ’20s attire at their annual Halloween event.... More >>

• Dammit, Janet!

  published October 20, 2011

  No Halloween weekend would be complete without a couple choruses of “Dammit, Janet” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.... More >>

• David Sedaris Drops Scatological Satire at the Fillmore

  published Nov 02, 2011

  David Sedaris talks dirty. That's the major difference between his New Yorker and This American Life stories and his live events like last night's at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Diminutively perched beh... More >>

• No Slumber

  published October 20, 2011

  South Florida’s most haunted house is undoubtedly the Deering Estate at Cutler. The League of Paranormal Investigators’ aura cameras,... More >>

• Christian Dior Opens Miami Pop-Up Shop with German Artist Anselm Reyle for Art Basel

  published Oct 25, 2011

  What do you do when your head designer turns out to be blatantly anti-Semiticr Well, first you fire him. Then you hope for a reputation makeover. Christian Dior is collaborating with a German artist f... More >>

• Old Man and His Sea

  published October 13, 2011

  Ernest Hemingway went through four wives in three decades. But there’s one lady who stayed with him for almost 30 years — Pilar, his... More >>

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  HBO Picks Up Swamplandia, Karen Russell's Novel Based in Everglades

  published Oct 24, 2011

  When we interviewed Karen Russell about her debut novel Swamplandia!, we characterized her fiction as swamp gothic - equal parts adventure and macabre. But when Hollywood types got a hold of this stor... More >>

• Spooked by Satire

  published October 6, 2011

  Our doctor recently advised us that if we didn’t get more fresh air, we’d eventually turn into a gray polyester office chair. True... More >>

• Magic City's First Trailer Rivals Mad Men's Mid-Century Flare

  published Oct 21, 2011

  So the Miami-set and filmed Charlie's Angels got the boot, but at least we still have Magic City. According to the trailer for the first episode (posted after the jump), the Starz drama begins on New ... More >>

• Joseph Adler Brings Gutsy Plays to GableStage

  published Oct 21, 2011

  In honor of our People Issue, which will hit newsstands and computer screens November 24, Cultist presents "Miami Backstage," where we feature some of the city's behind-the-scenes culture makers. Have... More >>

• Commission Position

  published October 6, 2011

  Despite its mysterious-sounding name, the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium is not a secret society conspiring toward a new world order. It’s a... More >>

• Love Object

  published October 6, 2011

  Erika Eiffel is so named because in 2007 she married the Eiffel Tower. She’s an object-sexual, a person with a pronounced emotional and often... More >>

• Vodou, Do You?

  published September 29, 2011

  The spotlight will again be on Haiti when University of Miami history professor Kate Ramsey talks about her book The Spirits and the... More >>

• Seven Documentaries to Piss You Off Enough to Go to Occupy Miami

  published Oct 13, 2011

  Dangling down here like the neglected foreskin of America, we're expecting Saturday's Occupy Miami protest to spiral out of control. Mark our words: There will be food trucks. There will be reggaeton ... More >>

• Rock of Angst

  published September 29, 2011

  What’s it take to get art banned in Germany? Abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse, and suicide — at least in 1891, when Frank... More >>

• Ten Best Things to Do This Weekend

  published Oct 07, 2011

  How bad is the economyr It's so bad, little people (we Googled, it's the politically correct term for dwarves) are willing to get thrown through the air by drunk people -- as long as they get paid. Re... More >>

• Killed It In France

  published September 22, 2011

  Call us shallow, but our desire for Miami City Ballet only really flared up after news that the troupe was garnering standing ovations in Paris.... More >>

• Friends and Lovers

  published September 15, 2011

  Nan Goldin’s photos are a film in stills. They capture downtown New York bohemians and outcast drag queens embracing, sleeping, kissing, and... More >>

• Stranger Than Fiction

  published September 22, 2011

  We’re big fans of the Moth, a storytelling series with the tag line “True Stories Told Live.” Everyday folks — as well as... More >>

• After the Aftermath

  published September 1, 2011

  On Sunday, the museum will screen Images of the World and the Inscription of War, a 1989 movie by European filmmaker Harun Farocki.... More >>