Miami City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is a mainstay to Miami’s holiday season. MCB first produced The Nutcracker on Nov. 23, 1990, at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts. Since then the company has performed the Christmastime classic annually throughout Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade Counties…
If you’re the kind of person who shudders at the thought of Black Friday or abhors malls altogether, chances are you’d be a good candidate for buying handmade this year. Not only do you avoid fighting your way through obnoxious crowds of sale-hungry consumers, but when you buy handmade, you’ll…
Miami is nothing short of party central, and with all that partying comes a lot of fun to be had — and money to be made. The party scene is brimming with opportunities for clever entrepreneurs with something to offer, like Kyle Head, aka Antic Icon, head of the Illuminautians…
Once a year around the holidays, Victoria’s Secret gets their angels to strut their stuff during a leggy fashion show that’s guaranteed to make your grandmother blush. While the underpants empire is one of the most lucrative brands out there, their annual fashion show has become more about theatrics and…
For many Americans, this Thursday will be a day of thankful reflection over a meal the size of which a third-world family has never seen. But according to the National Retail Federation, about 152 million of those folks (that’s about half the population) can be expected to line the cold…
Ah, Thanksgiving; the time of year when Pilgrims and Indians grow corn and shoot unsuspecting turkeys all in the name of a gigantic overindulgent feast.Nowadays however, Thanksgiving is known for its family-oriented festivities where all the relatives can get together in one place and criticize each other. Oh, and eat…
Most people know Zooey Deschanel for her Smiths-loving, heartbreaking role in 500 Days of Summer, opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or for her musical project She & Him with singer-songwriter, M. Ward. Either way, she has emerged as one of the most beloved (and envied) female indie idols of the past decade…
We’re living in tumultuous times, people. Look around you. Everything is changing, nothing is sacred and people are taking to the streets demanding answers. We’re a nation plagued with questions like, what’s really happening with the Arrested Development movie? Is Courtney Stodden really in love with that old guy? The…
If you are one of the millions of primetime TV viewers every night, chances are you’ve heard of NBC’s new fantasy/cop-drama, Grimm. Airing Friday nights at 9/8 Central on NBC, and premiering just days before Halloween, Grimm has already shown promise as a fan favorite for the Fall season. So…
Since this spring, Brazz Dance Theater has been giving Miami audiences sneak peeks at a work called “Cordel.” In the company’s March performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Theater, we saw a short lyrical piece, no doubt a tiny fragment of what has now become an ambitious, hour-long choreography…
Garth Fagan choreographed the spectacular Broadway production of The Lion King, and that one show has sealed his legacy. But there is much more to the 71-year-old Fagan than leaping gazelles and flying baboons. His company, Garth Fagan Dance, has set the standard for contemporary dance inspired by the many…
If you ask us, there are icons and then there are legends. Icons are people we all admire. Legends are people who you, your mother, your grandmother, and your future children will totally love forever. And rocker Joan Jett is an effing legend. She founded one of the first all-girl…
Miami native, Octavio Campos, founder and director of the arts organization Camposition, has built a local and international reputation for creating provocative, multidisciplinary performances that reinvent the boundaries between dance, theater, and activism. Now after a two-year hiatus, Camposition debuts Intention Intervention, a hybrid dance theater piece commissioned by Sleepless…
With “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” officially over for the U.S. military, many more Americans are discovering that old stereotypes about homosexuality simply don’t pass muster. Nowhere is that sentiment clearer than in Scott Pasfield’s Gay in America, a book chronicling the cross-country journey the photographer took to interview gay men…
Miami City Ballet opened the season last night with a program of favorites that covered a wide range of modern and contemporary ballet choreography from classic Balanchine to sexy Jerome Robbins and from stately Christopher Wheeldon to sassy Twyla Tharp. The Friday night performance also revealed that the company’s greatest…
Damn you, ghost of Chris Farley! What have you done with Christina Aguilera? The “Genie in a Bottle” seductress was scheduled to perform at the Michael Jackson tribute concert earlier this month. But when it came time for the “Beautiful” singer to take the stage, one of the “Gap Girls”…
The Miami City Ballet will perform George Balanchine’s Square Dance as part of its upcoming Program I, kicking off the 2011-2012 season. It’s a beautifully symmetric choice: Edward Villella, the founder and director of MCB, was a star protégée of Balanchine. The MCB first performed this quintessentially American dance in…
The Mark Morris Dance Group made a long-awaited return to Miami in front of a spirited and chatty crowd. Not that the audience was distracted. There were frequent outbursts on the beauty of the performance. Like when dancer Michelle Yard, back turned toward the audience, squatted above her partner, who…
Miami’s got a lot of catching up to do. It’s been 15 years since the Mark Morris Dance Group last appeared here. That’s a whole half-life for this esteemed company, which celebrates 30 seasons this year. So why is MMDG returning now? “We only go where we’re hired,” deadpans artistic…
Last night, Wynwood was abuzz with openings, including one titled Dark Age Ahead, a pop-macabre multimedia installation at Fredric Snitzer Gallery. It was the work of local duo Viking Funeral, who oscillates between being “artists” and “musicians.” They create everything from video and art books to sound installations. And they…
Annie Vazquez guest blogs on fashion for Cultist. Visit her blog at TheFashionPoet.com. Bangladesh beauty Shareen Sarwar-Rubiera is one gal that knows how to rock vintage garbs with the very essence of coolness and chic style we, Miami chicas all wish to parlay. So it’s no wonder the former Teen…
Primate and Whores With Secret Arms and Devalued Churchill’s Pub Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Better Than: Rugby night at Churchill’s the night before. Not all bands are created equal. Some appease the masses at American Airlines Arena, some ride the indie-waves at Grand Central, and some are born to blow…
