While James Franco was in Miami last weekend to accept an Ally award at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, he apparently took some time out to celebrate his 35th birthday. So just how does a hyper, quasi-genius, unfailingly quirky, handsome stoner commemorate the ol’ three-five? With a cake…
Calling all Ewoks, all Obi-Wans, all Princess Leias and Chewbaccas. Come out, you Han Solos and Darth Vaders, you Yodas and R2-D2s. There’s a party for all you Star Wars cosplayers right here in Miami. Yes, Jabba the Hut, there’s even room for you. Brickell’s Spazio Nightclub is hosting Star…
Life is a winding road, full of unexpected twists and turns. Just ask Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. If you’d told the basketball legend in the ’80s that his career would have wound up as a series of AT&T commercials and reality-TV appearances just a few decades later, he probably would’ve said, “What?…
Congratulations, Florida. You did it. You’ve committed to being one of the most emphatically stupid states in the country. You’ve put in the time, out-crazying formidable competitors like West Virginia and Texas for years. Through hard work, dedication, and nutso batshittery, you’ve climbed the ranks of ill repute, earning first…
O, Friday. O, Weekend. O, Miami. The next three days mark your final chance to participate in Miami’s quirky poetry festival. Want a poetic tattoo? Done. Wanna dress like a zombie and roam the South Beach streets? Go for it. All in the name of literature. Of course, here in…
If you see Pain & Gain, Michael Bay’s made-in-Miami dark comedy about a bodybuilder extortion scheme gone awry, before you read the original New Times story on which it was based, there’s a good chance you’ll like it. It’s colorful and exciting and genuinely funny at times; its cast does…
Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) believes life has cheated him. Doesn’t America promise riches and luxury to people who deserve it? He’s worked hard to build his body into a hulking knot of muscles; success should follow. But Lugo ― the lead in Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain, a neon-noir ode…
Richard Lewis Springthorpe was just your average kid in suburban Australia hanging out in the Sydney suburbs, working on his boomerang throw and boxing kangeroos to pass the time. Then, during lil’ Ricky’s preteen years, his father’s Army job took the family to London, where they lived for two years…
Know what, Robin Williams? Your teaching methods are a joke. You think just because you convinced a bunch of impressionable prep school boys to seize the day by standing on their desks and pissing off their parents, that you actually imparted any wisdom about the art of poetry? And what…
Pain & Gain: Michael Bay Injects Potent Absurdity Into an Unbelievable True Story
See also: “Pain & Gain: From New Times Story to Michael Bay Film“
For years now, Miami enthusiasts of Allen wrenches, horse-flavored meatballs, and cheap, Swedish furniture had to shlep all the way into Broward County to satisfy their cravings at the IKEA location in Sunrise. But soon, those Liatorps, Bjurstas, and Fabrikörs will be no farther from your home than a drive…
In Pain & Gain, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays Paul Doyle, a recovering cocaine addict and Christian who was born again in prison. He’s also maybe the most giant bodybuilder you’ve ever seen, a hulking heap of rippling, veiny muscle tissue assembled into the vague shape of a human being…
It’s happening again. The Miami Heat is back in the NBA playoffs. LeBron is leading in scoring. Ray Allen is putting in a decent show. Even Rihanna showed up to support the defenders. But if you attended the Borscht Film Festival last year, you know the real hero of this…
Hollywood celebrities, flashy cars, sexy models, pro athletes, and rappers poppin’ bottles in the club. Does that sound like South Beach to you? It does to John Legend. According to Deadline Hollywood, the singer-songwriter is helping to develop a series for HBO called Down Lo, set in Miami and featuring…
The line between real-life comedian Tracy Morgan and his 30 Rock character “Tracy Jordan” has always been thin. And at his show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, just a week before Morgan takes the stage in Miami for the South Beach Comedy Festival, that line got a little bit…
When Miami City Ballet announced that baseball great and onetime Florida Marlin Mike Piazza would take the stage during the company’s performance at the Arsht Center next month, they made one thing very clear: Piazza would not be dancing. Turns out, they were wrong. MCB called our attention yesterday to…
Hey there, Cultist reader. Wanna go to the South Beach Comedy Festival? Sure do, Cultist! But I can’t decide which hilarious comedian I’d like to see. Sarah Silverman? Seth Meyers? Tracy Morgan? Which should I choose? Don’t choose, Cultist reader. Go see them all — for free. See, we’re giving…
Graffiti is everywhere in Miami: on signposts, highway overpasses, bathroom stalls. Perhaps that’s more true in Wynwood than anywhere else, where street art hangs beside traditional works in the galleries and giant, complex murals often outshine the culture indoors. Now, you can add your voice to the visual chorus. Tomorrow,…
Star magazine has ranked the 20 most despised, anger-inducing, why-won’t-they-just-go-away celebrities of the moment, beginning with woman-beater and Britto collaborator Chris Brown and leading up to Gwyneth Paltrow, whose tone-deaf-hippie-meets-Martha-Stewart-meets-a-fairy-princess-with-unlimited-disposable-income persona earned her the number one spot on the list. There are plenty of names on Star’s ranking that probably…
Bikini basketball. You thought it was a dream, didn’t you? A sexy dream you had months ago that would never come true. Well, we’re here to tell you to think again. The Miami Spice is a real team of hard-hitting, superhot basketball babes, and they’re kicking off the 2013 season…
“Deep Throat.” “Donnie Brasco.” “The Worm.” Yeah, you read that correctly. Dennis Rodman, the retired basketball player and cringeworthy fashion plate with poor copyediting skills, can add another bizarre descriptor to his resume: FBI informant. The feds got interested in Rodman after his highly publicized trip to North Korea, he…
For a private investigator, Ed Du Bois has had quite a career. His work helped take down Miami’s infamous Sun Gym Gang in the ’90s. He was immortalized in Pete Collins’ three-part chronicle of the gang’s activities. Now, he’s being portrayed by Academy Award nominee and deathstare master Ed Harris…
