Kevin Smith Holds Two Miami Q&As for First Horror Flick, Red State

Over the past 17 years, Kevin Smith brought gross and disgusting conversation to film and created intimately personal stories about the rigors of being a convenience store clerk and a mythical adventure about a distant descendant of Jesus.With potty humor, foul language, and Randal Graves’s one-liners, Smith built an empire…

Three Reasons Why Watching Sports Is for Stupids

Organized sports are bigger than ever. This is amazing, considering watching sports is a bigger waste of time than a bowel movement resulting in a Casio. Yes, the actual experience of swallowing, digesting, and excreting a digital wristwatch, has more life-enriching potential than watching the “big” game, which often is…

Plant the Future: A Different Sort of Gallery

When most of us think about art galleries, we envision rows of paintings and an ambience of elegance. Plant the Future, a boutique gallery in Wynwood, delivers on the second count, but surprises the average gallery-hopper on the first. Instead of paintings, Paloma Teppa — an Argentine artist trained in…

Why the Book One Day Is Much, Much Better Than the Film

Anne Hathaway stars in One Day alongside heartbreakingly attractive Jim Sturgess. Together, they represent perhaps the worst casting decision ever. Well, not the worst casting decision — the history of film is long — but readers of the novel which served as the basis for the film probably can’t recognize…

30 Minutes or Less Delivers Yet More Bro Humor

In 30 Minutes or Less, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson play Dwayne and Travis, a duo of going-nowhere types who, on the advice of a stripper, decide to off Dwayne’s hard-ass, Lotto-winning ex-Marine of a dad and live off the inheritance. They need $100,000 up front for the hit man,…

Novels That Would Make Terrible Hollywood Movies

Now that the Harry Potter series has ended, leaving a generation of eager readers (or eager Harry Potter readers at least) and billions of dollars in its wake, it’s only reasonable to assume that movie studios will be frantically digging through bookstores searching for the next big thing.  However, as…

Extra Saucy Miami Salsa Congress Starts Tonight

Miami and salsa are almost interchangeable – there’s hardly an ad or commentary about Miami that doesn’t include a salsa soundtrack, with exclamations of “caliente!” It’s a cliché, but also true: the heart of the salsa sound — Cuban son and its Afro-Caribbean rhythmic roots — makes Miami move to…

Philly Hip-Hop Dance Festival Gets a Miami Makeover

It’s time to get serious about locking, popping, hip hop, house, and b-boy/b-girl moves at the 2011 Illadelph Legends Hip Hop Festival, from this Sunday to August 7. Founded by hip-hop choreography star Rennie Harris, this festival has been taking place for a dozen years in his hometown of Philadelphia…

Best of Awards for Swim Week 2012

Annie Vazquez guest blogs on fashion for Cultist. Visit her blog at TheFashionPoet.com.Swim Week 2012 came and went (thank God), because I’m swimsuited out. After attending the five-day fashion festival, I really don’t want to see another flaca model in a bikini for awhile. However, I wouldn’t mind seeing more…

Mara Hoffman: A Few Repeat Offenders and Lots of Boho Chic

Annie Vazquez guest blogs on fashion for Cultist. Visit her blog at TheFashionPoet.com.Night three at Mercedes-Benz Swim Week had us really excited to scope out Mara Hoffman’s collection. Yet, one step backstage and we felt like we were experiencing déjà vu. There were the same tribal patterns, neon hues, and…