A piece of jawbone first unearthed from a cave in England in 1927 was discovered last week to be 44,000 years old, providing evidence that modern humans existed in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought. This dating also confirmed the contested theory that early humans co-existed with Neanderthals.Being…
The founders of the Miami Short Film Festival (MsFF) have a great idea for combating the over-prescription of attention deficit drugs like Ritalin and Adderall: instead of making attention spans longer, just make movies shorter! While this ingenious solution to one of America’s pill popping problems does not seem to…
Ever since I wrote my first articles about juicing in Miami, people have come to me asking how to get started with their own at-home, fresh, organic juice routines. Their first questions are invariably about which juicer to buy.There are lots of options out there. Some cost as little as…
Andrew Dice Clay will never forget the year 1990. It’s when he sold out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row — a feat that hasn’t been repeated by any comic since. These days, however, the former household name is fighting to get back into the comedy game. It…
Miami Short Film Festival at Colony Theatre November 14-18
His passion for a woman brought him to veganism. After five years, his passion for culinary art brought him back to beef.Okay, so maybe that’s packaged a little too neatly. Timothe Crandall, the relatively new sous chef at Red the Steakhouse, never enjoyed eating meat as a child. “I hated…
The idea of a funny doorman is perfectly logical. The job puts people in their line of vision for exactly ten seconds, prompting short conversations every time they enter and exit the building — a situation that seems almost designed for the cultivation of witty one-liners.Maybe that’s what playwright Kenneth…
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. Naomi WilzigTwenty years ago, Naomi Wilzig, the curator of…
If you go into any juice bar worth its wheatgrass, you’re bound to find spirulina on the list of available “power-ups” you can choose to boost the nutritional value of your smoothie.It sounds so weird that it must be good for you. But what exactly is this superfood, and where…
It’s a house filled with an odd mix of seven people, with character defects in full effect, and lots of booze-fueled drama. And it’s not MTV’s Real World, Season 73. It’s Captiva, a world premiere play by Carbonell-winning playwright Christopher Demos-Brown. And it’s smart as hell and funnier than a…
Whether you make people roll on the floor at every cocktail party, or have a trove of untold tales bubbling up inside your shy little throat, now’s your chance to make your best story heard in a very public forum.Lip Service: True Stories Out Loud is a quarterly reading founded…
Terence Gerchberg is fit to be tied. Literally, fit to be tied. In June, he and four friends tied themselves together and ran the God’s Country Marathon in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, breaking the Guinness world record for “fastest marathon completed by a linked team,” with a time of 3:26:15.He will likely…
The idea of a funny doorman isn’t exactly a groundbreaking plot twist. The job, which puts a guy in your line of vision for exactly ten seconds, seems almost designed for the cultivation of witty one-liners. Maybe that’s what playwright Kenneth Lonergan was thinking with Lobby Hero, which opened in…
The founders of the Miami Short Film Festival (MsFF) have a great idea for combating the overprescription of attention-deficit drugs. Instead of making attention spans longer, just make movies shorter! Though this ingenious solution to one of America’s pill-popping problems hasn’t taken off, the festival has somehow survived and thrived…
’Tis once again the season for many local farmers’ markets to re-open their al fresco fruit peddling tables. If you want to sink your teeth into some fresh Florida flora, you’ve gotta know where and when to scoop up the bounty. Here’s the lowdown on Miami-Dade County farmers’ market openings…
Teena’s Pride, a local community supported agriculture (CSA) program, offers fresh-from-the-earth packs of vegetables and herbs, delivered weekly to a drop-off point near you, for reasonable prices. The farm is located in the Redland.The company offers different size options, depending on how many mouths you have to feed. The biggest…
For his latest daring Miami stage experiment, GableStage at the Biltmore’s producing artistic director Joseph Adler presents Red, John Logan’s six-time Tony Award-winning play about Russian-American abstract artist Mark Rothko. Set in 1958, the drama centers on the sometimes antagonistic interaction between Rothko and his assistant Ken as they create what…
In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami’s tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.There are two ways to make vegan food. Or rather, there are two ways to make food vegan.One starts with “normal” dishes, subtracting the animal-derived…
For his latest daring Miami stage experiment, Joseph Adler, producing artistic director of GableStage, presents Red, John Logan’s six-time Tony Award-winning play about Russian-American abstract artist Mark Rothko. Set in 1958, the drama centers on the sometimes-antagonistic interaction between Rothko and his assistant Ken as they create what was at…
While watching The Addams Family musical last night at the Adrienne Arsht Center, we were struck by the realization that the entire pop culture phenomenon is basically an extension of the idea of “opposite day.” Bad is good, gloom trumps happiness, death is preferable to life, weird is normal, and…
Finding the juice and vegan food bar at the back of Beehive Natural Foods is like discovering Narnia in your closet. You push through tight spaces and cluttered shelves to enter a world of adventures you never expected — without the white witch. If the health food counter is the wild…
When it comes to beautiful things, it’s better to look and not touch than to not look at all, right? That’s the thinking behind this guide to the host of classy vintage furniture shops in North Miami known in some circles as “20th Century Row.” Previously, we brought you Part…
