During most of our lame, suburban upbringing, we figured all food was made by lab-coat-clad fascists on petri-dish assembly lines. We still have Styrofoam stuck between our teeth from all of that processed goodness. Later in life, though, we discovered that real food actually grows in dirt — you know,…
During most of our lame, suburban upbringing, we figured all food was made by lab-coat-clad fascists on petri-dish assembly lines. We still have Styrofoam stuck between our teeth from all of that processed goodness. Later in life, though, we discovered that real food actually grows in dirt — you know,…
Artist Addonis Parker is a giant on the streets of Miami, and not just because he stands 6′ 8″. For over a decade, Parker, who runs Art Forever Studios in Liberty City, has concentrated on social empowerment through paint and brush. From teaching art to at-risk youth, to completing large-scale…
In honor of our People Issue, which will hit newsstands and computer screens November 25, 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.88. Gustavo MatamorosA cat’s meow, nails on a chalkboard, glass…
Even the Antichrist loves Santa’s Enchanted Forest at Tropical Park. Hey, switch a couple of letters in the fat man’s name, and you’re talking about the lord of the underworld. Twenty-eight years into Tropical Park’s festival of a million lights, “Let’s go to Santa’s” is still a rallying cry across…
Back in the day, we yanked the catalytic converter out of our gas-guzzling Pontiac for extra horsepower. And every time we drive past a pack of those silly, bicycle-riding hippies, we’re glad they’re inhaling our fumes at the most noxious level of toxicity. We love driving, we love driving fast,…
Photos by SwampdogFriday’s Heart Happening benefit for the Lotus House Women’s Shelter at the Margulies Warehouse offered a great mix of young, old, rich, broke, boisterous, reserved, and overall positive people. They ate, they drank, and they enjoyed great art all for the sake of a good cause. The performance…
What do you call a massive warehouse on the west side of Wynwood filled with dancers, graff artists, photo types, film makers, loonies, locos, and lovers? The Heart Happening, a night of performance art, silent auction, and chef’s tastings to benefit Lotus House Shelter, which serves homeless women contending with…
Flickr CC SwanksalotNot a Miami dumpster, hence the snow.Are you a broke, hungry, starving, artist? Then get money, fool. The 6th Street Container Project, in association with the Bakehouse Art Complex and General Hauling Service, are having a dumpster art contest. Submit any 2-D piece that you’d like to do…
West Perrine is rough. From the Circle Plaza Projects to the Dada 5000 fight compound, choppers, yard boys, and black flags rule. The population, locked in a vise-grip of poverty, drugs, and violence, begs for salvation. Every Sunday, on SW 168th Street, the scream of amplified steel rings out from…
West Perrine is rough. From the Circle Plaza Projects to Dada 5000’s fight compound, choppers, yard boys, and black flags rule. Every Sunday, on 168th street, the scream of amplified steel rings out from the Church of the Living God as Keith Dominion tries to save their souls. The church,…
via russellandrews.comDirector Russell Andrews”Yeah, I bet I disgust some of you black women out there, but every boy out there on them streets wants to be just like me. A player. An entrepreneur of bodies.” That’s a line from the pimp character in the Diary Of Black Men: How to…
Rock stars and jail-time go together like bars and stripes, weed and whiskey, hookers and cocaine. No wonder so many of our musical heroes end up in trouble with the law.Like Miami’s own Against All Authority say, “Fuck the law/Fuck the law/Fuck the law/You’re fuckin nothin’ but a pig.”So in…
Not long ago, our iPhone fell in a ditch, and when we climbed down to save it, we tripped on a shovel. Mountains of earth collapsed on us, and dirt filled our lungs. That’s when we noticed the dead body next to us and the maggots feasting on the remaining…
“Yeah, I bet I disgust some of you black women out there, but every boy out there on them streets wants to be just like me. A player. An entrepreneur of bodies.” That’s a line from the pimp character in Diary of Black Men: How to Love a Black Woman…
Fifi’s Record Shop celebrates 30 years in Little Haiti
¡Mayday!’s Stuck On An Island is officially out now, meaning you can buy it physically in select stores, digitally on iTunes, or via the band’s site as an instant “HD MP3 download.” You can even score a copy as part of merch packages that include hangout time with the band,…
No live music scene in Miami? You’re wrong and the Miami Music Festival is here to prove it, incontrovertibly, with more than 400 performances across 45 stages from downtown to the Gables, from Groveside to South Beach, from Little Haiti to the District. (Alright, so those last ones are just…
In about 50 days, Miami art fair week (AKA Art Basel) drops on the city like a Haiti freighter in the Biltmore pool. Wynwood will glory in the treading of a million tourist footsteps on her concrete tits. Right now, though. the hood’s a local’s playground with an intense creative…
For every Rick Ross, there’s a Rudy Mage. That means a creative professional hustling work in the County of Dade. For Mage, that means running Inked Productions, a graff writer-founded printing company that started out of an efficiency apartment selling “dead rapper tees at the flea.” Now the company does…
In South Dade, entrails swing from tree limbs slimed with pancreatic juices that drip into puddles of bile. The Devil loves your sodden, rotten body’s anguish at suburban living hell. This ghost season, visit Zoo Miami for Dr. Wilde’s Creepy House, a 7,000-square-foot tribute to horrid abjection that opens this…
Ever walk into an art gallery, see something like a pile of beer cans tied together with piano wire floating in a puddle of soup, and wonder what the fuck is so artful about it? Maybe you’d be more into illustration. It’s what local monkey proliferator Krave describes as “art…
