Email Author Elyse Wanshel

Awards

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association

  Loon Over Miami

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published December 25, 2008

  "Strippers XXXmas"

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published October 23, 2008

  "Giant Chicken Clucks at Wynwood Gallery Walk"

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published April 10, 2008

  "Pregnant Pause"

• 2009 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published April 10, 2008

  "Pregnant Pause"

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2010 Stories by Elyse Wanshel

• She's Got Matzo Balls

  published December 30, 2010

  Have you always loved the play The Diary of Anne Frank but felt like it was missing something? Maybe a rubber chicken? A whoopee cushion?... More >>

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  Video: Vajazzle DIY Kit Infomercial Drinking Game

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Thanks to Jennifer Love Hewitt, we know that when one vajazzles it's the fine art of bedazzling one's vajayjay. So what's Tajazzler Well, it a three-part system that combines the act of adorning one's... More >>

• Steve-O Set Audiences and His Head Aflame at Miami Improv

  published Dec 20, 2010

  First off, who knew Steve-O did stand-upr Secondly, who would've guessed a swarm of people would show up this past weekend, packing Coconut Grove's Improv Comedy Club like this headliner would pack a ... More >>

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  Steve-O Will Act Like a Jackass at Miami Improv This Weekend

  published Dec 15, 2010

  Sure, people know Steve-O once swallowed a goldfish live and then threw it up back into its bowl. And the Jackass star got the world's dumbest tattoo (a self portrait of himself with two thumbs up and... More >>

• Steve-O comes to the Improv

  published December 16, 2010

  Sure, you knew he once swallowed a goldfish live and then threw it up back into its bowl. And that he got the world's dumbest tattoo (a self... More >>

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  Margaret Cho Was One Hilarious Ho at the Fillmore Miami Beach

  published Dec 13, 2010

  Margaret Cho sure has a purty mouth. She did spout out quite a few "I-really-like-to-give-head" jokes last Saturday night during her super raunchy show at the Fillmore Miami Beach, her latest stop on ... More >>

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  Margaret Cho on Ed Hardy, the Situation, and Khloe Kardashian

  published Dec 09, 2010

  Margaret Cho is like the Charlie Brown of comedy. Despite talent, a loyal cult following, and a knack for rocking a leather catsuit things never seem to go her way. She's had bouts with anorexia and a... More >>

• Fo' Cho

  published December 2, 2010

  Margaret Cho is like the Charlie Brown of comedy. Despite talent and a loyal cult following, nothing ever seems to go her way. She had a... More >>

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  Comedian Kyle Grooms on Univision, Rick Sanchez, and John Mayer

  published Nov 26, 2010

  It's hard not to love a Jersey/Miami-brewed comedian. Especially one that makes jokes about white people's response to his black family skiing ("Are those bearsr") and being mistaken as smart because ... More >>

• Hey There, Kitty

  published November 25, 2010

  When you think Hello Kitty, the mental montage probably goes something like this: Hallmark, eight-year-old girls, and a white cat with no mouth... More >>

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  Hello Kitty Goes High-Brow When Sanrio Opens Pop-Up Shop, Small Art Miami

  published Nov 24, 2010

  rWhen you think Hello Kitty, the mental montage probably goes something like this: Hallmark, eight-year-old girls, white cat with no mouth and exactly six whiskers, Mariah Carey, toilet, beer, d... More >>

• Julie Klausner, Julie Klam, and Sascha Rothchild at Miami Book Fair

  published Nov 22, 2010

  What happens when you get three funny ladies in the same roomr Knock-knock joke about kittens, tampons, and feelingsr Nah, more like Julie Klausner, Julie Klam, and Sascha Rothchild -- three writers o... More >>

• Here Comes the Grooms

  published November 18, 2010

  If you have a pulse, it’s hard not to appreciate comedian Kyle Grooms. Before stints on Chappelle’s Show, Last Comic... More >>

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  Five Celebrities Who Would Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

  published Nov 09, 2010

  AMC killed Mad Men and rising from it's corpse of a time slot is The Walking Dead, a show based on the comic series by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore. Last Sunday's episode was super helpful as it show... More >>

• Miami's vultures go to court

  published November 11, 2010

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  Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli, on High-Maintenance Whores and Joey Ramone's Bad Breath

  published Nov 05, 2010

  Lisa Lampanelli, the insult comic dubbed "The Lovable Queen of Mean" and the belle of many celebrity roasts, is performing tomorrow night at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Cultist caught up with Lampanelli... More >>

• Betty White Gets Immortalized in Female Force Comic Book

  published Nov 01, 2010

  On the TV sitcom Hot in Cleveland, Betty White plays a sarcastic old coot who freaking loves herself a bedazzled jumpsuit. Her character's name is Elka and interestingly enough, Betty in real life fre... More >>

• Her Maj-Nasty

  published October 28, 2010

  What does the Queen of Mean look like? Does she have a long and twisted nose complete with a single-haired mole? Does she sit in a tower... More >>

• Paranormal inactivity: Walk the Grove and see ghosts, or maybe not

  published October 28, 2010

  Coconut Grove ghost tour: Real or nonsense? More >>

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  Slutty Halloween Costumes for the Thinking Woman

  published Oct 18, 2010

  OK, ladies, we get it. Halloween is the one time of the year when you can dress like a hooker and actually get insulted when someone offers you money for sex. It's all good. You're entitled to express... More >>

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  Five Reasons Why You Should Date a Thickette

  published Oct 11, 2010

  A lot of us look like pears. We have thin torsos, wide hips, and thighs that can crack a walnut. That's because our bodies are full of pears, walnuts, and, on occasion, alright, we'll admit it, peanut... More >>

• Oh My Tosh

  published October 7, 2010

  So you've filmed a kitten sleeping in a teacup, set it on fire, and performed a choreographed dance with your drunk uncle to a Justin Bieber song... More >>

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  Sad Keanu: Can Strippers and Cocaine Cheer Him Upr

  published Oct 06, 2010

  Keanu Reeves has plenty to be sad about. He was in a Paula Abdul video, he's Canadian, and he attended the Keanu Reeves School for Acting. And despite what George Carlin said, Wyld Stallyns' music nev... More >>

• Gator hunting, Loon-style

  published October 7, 2010

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• Browned to Perfection

  published September 30, 2010

  How do you make an Alton Brown? The basic recipe includes 2.5 ounces of nerdy yet delightfully quirky wit, a tomato, an evil twin brother... More >>