“Go, go, go shawty / It’s your birthday/ We gon’ party like it’s yo birthday.” Doesn’t sound like the verse of a method actor with a sympathetic heart, but it is. Thrown into fame in 2003 with ear-worm hits like “In Da Club,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson currently stars in…
Every ear has an energy point referred to as a “spirit gate” or shenmen in Chinese medicine. Acupuncturists use tiny needles to prick this spot above the ear canal, claiming such auricular torture alleviates anxiety and dispels depression. Think of this week’s XXI Subtropics Experimental Biennial of Music & Sound…
In the words of female impersonator Charles Pierce, “I’d rather be black than gay, because when you’re black, you don’t have to tell your mother.” But if you’re Angela — the protagonist in the Italian indie film Purple Sea — it’s your father you have to worry about. When she…
Behind closed garage doors, we gals are grunting and sweating through a program of pushups, pullups, and biceps curls. We’re in training so that the next time we get paid 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, we can put el jefe in a Nelson hold until he comprende…
Do you remember when reality TV used to mean something? If Julie from Alabama had been cast in a recent Real World and not the original season in 1992, she would have had to be a former child porn star with incurable hiccups. But 20 years ago, when the series…
With the Miami International Film Festival, South Beach Comedy Festival, and Fashion Week this weekend, it’s going to be tough to choose which to attend. We thought we’d make your decision a little easier by giving away two free tickets to Mad Cat Theatre’s production of The Preservation Society, part…
How do you make a liger? Put a lion and tiger in close proximity and then light a few candles. And unicorns? They’re the offspring of a carousal horse and a My Little Pony. True story. Borscht Film Festival organizers realize that in order to breed something really special, you…
Now that New World Symphony moved across the alley to the fancy Frank Gehry building, what’s to happen to the delicious art deco Lincoln Road Theatre? Well, if the Miami Herald is correct, part of it will be outfitted as Miami’s first H&M store next year. Many of you recognize…
There’s no better seismometer for groundbreaking performance art in Miami than the annual Miami Made Weekend. Commissioned by the Miami Light Project and Arsht Center, the series includes the 305’s most innovative multimedia artists, dancers, and thespians in three programs. Here & Now features premieres of works commissioned specifically for…
Consider this a public service announcement: Before you buy tickets for The Redemption of General Butt Naked, which screens on Monday as part of Miami International Film Festival, know what you’re getting into. Although it shares the same name as your senior prank — the one in which you streaked…
Long before Pam Anderson bounced down the beach in Baywatch, the original purveyors of jiggle TV were filming beautiful women running in Charlie’s Angels. And as bouncing bosoms never really go out of style, the lady crime fighter series is currently being remade by ABC. This time, however, the drama’s…
There are a few times a year when Miami makes us proud. One is the annual Zombie Walk, where droves of 305-ers douse themselves in blood and pretend to eat brains. Hundreds showed up to last year’s and considering the early recruitment for the 2011 walk, we only expect those…
“Go, go, go shawty / It’s your birthday/ We gon’ party like it’s yo birthday.” Doesn’t sound like the verse of a method actor with a sympathetic heart, but it is. Thrown into fame in 2003 with ear-worm hits like “In Da Club,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson currently stars in…
If you see bumper-to-bumper traffic on Tamiami Trail heading to the Everglades, it’s because author Karen Russell has made our mucky, inhabitable frontier seem like a thrilling carnival ride. Her debut novel Swamplandia! follows the adventures of the Bigtree gator-wrestling dynasty. Ava takes an Odyssey-like expedition through the swamp in…
There are a few times a year when Miami makes us proud. One is the annual Zombie Walk, where droves of 305-ers douse themselves in blood and pretend to eat brains. Hundreds showed up to last year’s and considering the early recruitment for the 2011 walk, we only expect those…
Think back to the last day of fifth grade before summer hit. You were so delirious with joy you chewed through the pink erasers on your no. 2 pencils, practically pulled out your pigtails from your pre-pubescent cranium, and ripped tiny tears in your Mead composition book. Adults rarely get…
Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys. 10. Susan Lee-ChunAt a 2007 performance of inter-disciplinary artist Susan Lee-Chun, 600 people swarmed the space. And last year, the artist inspired 18 Baltimore…
Did we just crankily decry Miami’s supposed art cinema boom yesterday? Looks like we spoke too soon because O Cinema will start screening films next week — albeit in a soft opening. On February 24, the theater will show their inaugural film, Mississippi Damned. O Cinema was open during Art…
Can we bitch for a minute? Seeing movies at multiplexes like Aventura and Lincoln Road is about as enjoyable as air travel. They move us like cattle through roped lines and mega escalators. We half expect them to make us take off our shoes at some point and start touching…
If you see bumper-to-bumper traffic on Tamiami Trail heading to the Everglades, it’s because author Karen Russell has made our mucky, inhabitable frontier seem like a thrilling carnival ride. Her debut novel Swamplandia! follows the Bigtree gator-wrestling dynasty in a mythic version of the river of grass. Orphaned by cancer…
Have you heard of the hottest new club in Miami? It has everything: schizos, kite enthusiasts, an entire room of high-diving Muppets, and human backpacks (you know, short people who climb on your back and hold your drink and purse). Competition among Magic City nightclubs is pretty stiff, and now…
There are three reasons to watch the Oscars this year: First, there’s a good chance James Franco, who cohosts with Anne Hathaway, might get weird. The actor is part of a performance art duo that includes Kalup Linzy, who dresses in drag and sings love ballads while Franco barks muddled…
