This past week, a 71-year-old man was arrested for spray-painting “SLA” (Sane, Liberated Americas) on hundreds of light posts. Why’d he do it? The Lord told him he was the 24th Elder of the SLA political party, positioned to take over the world once the economy flat-lines. But that’s besides…
We’re not shy about our love of MOCA’s annual showcase of video art, the Optic Nerve Festival. Heck we even voted it our Best Film Festival in Miami this year. From Coral Morphologic’s glowing sea creatures to Christy Gast tap dancing on the rim of Lake Okeechobee, our city is…
In Sam Lipsyte’s third novel The Ask, a dark look at white-collar loserdom, a character explains his bad behavior with “…because my name is Florida. When I do something shitty, something swampy and wrong, I call that going to my Everglades.” When’s the last time you went to your Everglades…
Four years from now, we will have reached the year Back to the Future II was set. The sequel follows Marty McFly into the year 2015, when he witnesses a depressing, aged version of himself and an unrecognizable world of bleeps and gadgets. The movie correctly predicted tablet computers and…
The Miami International Book Fair, which will be held November 13 to 20th this year, just announced four authors billed for their 2011 literary freak-out. The news trickled out via their Twitter feed earlier this afternoon. So far they’ve listed: Colson Whitehead (whose own Twitter feed is amazing by the…
Yes, we know this mural on NW Second Avenue and 24th Street has been there since Art Basel 2010. But there’s not a lot of new street art going on right now lest the cans explode in this heat. Plus when everyone piles into Wynwood each month for Art Walk,…
Just because a ball player decided to bring his talents to South Beach, Miami was elevated to one of the sneaker capitols of the world. Sneaker Con, which has been held in NYC and D.C., hosted its first Miami showcase this weekend at the Fieldhouse at BankUnited Center. (Read our…
A Romero Britto beach ball sculpture outside the Miami Shores Country Club was vandalized for a second time on Saturday. In June, an anonymous tagger spray-painted the words “Not Art” on the polka-dotted and striped ball. The paint was promptly removed, but the controversy surrounding the Brazilian artist’s monopoly on…
Miami might actually get an art museum worthy of its visual art scene after all. Despite recession hiccups and a tainted history of Miami development projects, the new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park is well underway. The foundation (above) was just completed for the new space, which will be…
We admit that sometimes we look at the calendars in other cities and pine away at their mermaid parades and secretary-themed club events. We’re only human. But considering Miami feels like a sweaty soup right now, the city is full of wild things to do for this time of year…
The essential measure of a good cirque production is how many times the audience gasps. And last night, at the first performance of Cirque Éloize’s iD at the Arsht Center, there were four such audible gasps. The first came about 15 minutes in, when one of the b-boy performers started…
There are many ways to battle: via clamors and guns, via rap a la 8 Mile, and in a spirited dance-off. In the world of Montreal performance troupe Cirque Éloize, rival gangs choose to battle via a circus-off — or, more aptly, a cirque-off. In iD, which opens tonight at…
When we previewed the comedy show at Zo’s Summer Grove for the calendar three weeks ago, the headliner was slated to be D.L. Hughley. On Friday, however, we learned that none other than comedy god Dave Chappelle had joined the line-up. His glory days in Half Baked and the Chappelle…
Do cool things happen in Miami? Yes. Simply click “more” to read the ten best things to do this weekend. For more in depth proof, though, read the Atlantic’s “In Miami, an Alternative Cultural Renaissance” by frequent Cultist contributor Liz Tracy. It surveys how our city has emerged into a…
The Miami City Ballet is enjoying its biggest success in 25 years — or so artistic director Edward Villella told the Miami Herald this past week. He was responding to fantastic reviews of MCB’s three-week season in a historic Parisian theater, where –according to international dailies Le Monde and Financial…
Back in February, London’s Financial Times reported that Steve Lazarides, the art dealer and Sleaze editor credited with discovering Banksy, was planning a huge art/music/film event in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach. They even called it his “most audacious move yet.”Paper Magazine also reported that he was indeed sniffing…
Florida continues to be the butt of the world’s jokes thanks to ridiculous moments of stupidity and depressingly dark violence. And the Casey Anthony ordeal is not helping our state’s reputation any. Then there’s Buzzfeed’s viral list of 40 Things You’ll Only See in Florida, cataloging everything from selling hugs…
This weekend is like the Art Basel of bikinis. It’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim, when all the New York fashionista folk come to Miami and showcase next year’s swim lines and help a company sell cars. But say you have a normal job, an eating disorder, an aversion to corporate…
The Miami arts community is indebted to the Knight Foundation for funding almost every single cultural project in this city. But still, it’s a little scary when all the mula comes one from one pocket, right? What happens when there’s nothing but lint and stale Cheetos in said pocket? Cue…
We’re going to be bold and admit that we have no idea what to wear to the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim this weekend. It recently occurred to us that our wardrobe compiled from the best of the clearance rack at Target may be unsuitable for an industry fashion event. It…
There’s a growing catalog of artists in residence proving that Miami is not only where you show your best contemporary art, it’s also where you create it. Video artist Ryan Trecartin filmed his seven-movie epic “Any Ever” in Miami during a residency. It’s now on display at Miami’s MOCA and…
Face down, butt up. That’s the way we like to… plank? Yeah, plank. In case you live IRL (in real life, as opposed to online), planking is a recent Internet meme where folks lie down — stiff as a board — in random/usual places and share the photos online. The…
