On the second page of Birds of Paradise, Diana Abu-Jaber evokes local carpet salesman Don Bailey as that “thirty-foot naked man reclining, selling God-knows-what.” The novel, which is steeped in the visual cues of Miami life, flips back and forth between a wayward daughter’s street life on the pink sidewalks…
In Composed, Rosanne Cash recalls folk singers, addicts, preachers, and sex kittens knocking on the door of her childhood home in the middle of the night, looking for her dad, Johnny. The country singer opens this year’s Miami Book Fair International with a reading Sunday at 7 p.m. Tickets cost…
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 behind a professorial podium, Sedaris talked about the human turds covering China, blow jobs, and shitting in your own…
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb? One. He holds the bulb, and all of Europe revolves around him. No, but seriously, if there’s one thing France is at the center of, it’s film. The Lumière brothers practically invented it in 1895 Paris; then the New…
Aside from pitching a tent outside Government Center for Occupy Miami, there’s another way to boost the 99 percent’s economic standing without getting roughed up by cops. Buy handmade. Every time you throw down some green at a big-box store, the employees continue to endure minimum wage while some fat…
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 town, where folks often greet sunrise with another vodka Red Bull, the event stands out because it transforms Miami Beach into one giant 13-hour…
What do you do when your head designer turns out to be blatantly anti-Semitic? Well, first you fire him. Then you hope for a reputation makeover. Christian Dior is collaborating with a German artist for a pop-up shop in the Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach. These kind of…
Set in the Everglades and steeped in “swamp gothic” surrealism, the show follows a struggling alligator-wrestling family in a rapidly changing Florida.
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 Year’s Eve in 1959, the same day Fidel Castro took over Cuba. In our…
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 suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys. Joseph AdlerJoseph Adler may be the saving grace of…
Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis depicts a futuristic city of employees and an elite group of managers that controls and exploits them. The industrialist machine literally feeds on disposable workers — much to the horror of a privileged son who follows his working-class crush underground. As we’re still allowing CEOs to…
Monday, the Miami Beach Cinematheque will open its Cin-e-maze, a walk-through installation in which classic scenes from German expressionist horror films are projected all around you. After you survive the visual onslaught in the lobby, watch a restored version of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, with showtimes all night long…
Last year, the cool kids at Super Market Creative threw the Gatsby Gone Goth bash, encouraging ’20s attire at their annual Halloween event. This year, the theme is Jack the Ripper — yes, the 19th-century British serial killer. Don your Victorian best — corsets, petticoats, and bustles or suits with…
No Halloween weekend would be complete without a couple choruses of “Dammit, Janet” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Join the sing-along with a live cast of Miami musicians, artists, and actors including Otto Von Schirach and Monica Lopez De Victoria at O Cinema this Saturday at 9 p.m. and…
South Florida’s most haunted house is undoubtedly the Deering Estate at Cutler. The League of Paranormal Investigators’ aura cameras, pendulums, and recorders captured major evidence of paranormal activity there last year. This Friday, the ghost hunters invite you to spend the night with them at the historic house for Spookover…
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 blaring. Someone will bring up Fidel or Chavez. Yes, the Everglades need to be saved and the Port…
Ernest Hemingway went through four wives in three decades. But there’s one lady who stayed with him for almost 30 years — Pilar, his 38-foot motorized fishing vessel. The avid fisherman found the boat, hewn from Canadian fir and Honduran mahogany, in Cuba. As cataloged in the new book Hemingway’s…
How bad is the economy? 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. Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, is trying to get Florida’s dwarf-tossing ban lifted. He…
A woman exits the dense, sweaty mangroves and finds the limestone splendor of Vizcaya. She attempts to make sense of the Mediterranean-revival home on Biscayne Bay by caressing the furniture, wandering the gardens, and even trying to dethrone the civilized lady of the house. Such is the fantasy of Miami…
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 story. But rather than huff and puff on a jog, we prefer to spend our alfresco time leisurely. However, in these crazy-bad economic times, we almost lost…
Despite its mysterious-sounding name, the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium is not a secret society conspiring toward a new world order. It’s a group of nine American orchestras that commission a prominent black or Hispanic composer to create a new work each year. As part of the Sphinx ennead, New World Symphony…
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 romantic desire for a particular inanimate object. This might make you a little shy about your extreme affection for your Audi. But it’s more likely you’re…
