Never trust somebody who doesn’t like dogs. Never. As well as being man’s best friend, they’re forgiving, generous and generally better people than people. So when you have a chance, make them feel special. That means showing up at Coral Gables Art Cinema this Friday at 6 p.m. as the…
Valentine’s Day is two weeks away. Good luck getting dinner reservations this late in the game. And those online gifts you bought, chances are they won’t arrive until February 15. But before you buy roses and cheap chocolates like every other amateur Casanova, Cultist is here to help stoke the…
Half the country will watch the Super Bowl on February 6 to see if the Pittsburgh Steelers kick the cheese out of the Green Bay Packers. The other half? They watch to see the commercials. And to see whether the $24 million Anheiser-Busch is spending for its 8 30-second commercials…
Oh, Billy Yeager. You had us going with your claim about dropping that Steinway in Biscayne Bay. Admittedly, we were a bit cynical when you said your slight wife managed to lift the piano off a barge and onto the sandbar. A couple other claims (like when you said man…
Miami knows Super Bowls. We’ve hosted ten, including last year’s big game. That’s more than any other city. But beyond that, we know how to throw a good watch party. So even though the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers will be diving onto pigskins in Texas, Miami will have…
Wynwood and the Design District might be Miami’s art meccas du jour. But do they have staying power? Only time will tell. Coral Gables, on the other hand, has proven art cred; Gallery Night existed for decades before the Second Saturday Art Walk. And now, the City Beautiful is primed…
Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are superstars. But they don’t compare to Diego Armando Maradona. The squat, 50-year-old former soccer player born in the slums of Buenos Aires has long retired, but he still inspires love and hate the world over. He’s attained near mythical and farcical status, not unlike…
Wynwood and the Design District might be Miami’s art meccas du jour. But do they have staying power? Only time will tell. Coral Gables, on the other hand, has proven art cred; Gallery Night existed for decades before the Second Saturday Art Walk. And now, the City Beautiful is primed…
Okay, so maybe we’re a little tardy for the party on this one but Cultist did a double take when we saw longtime Miami bad boy Thomas Kramer cavorting with no other than Kim Zolciak from the Real Housewives of Atlanta earlier this week (we only caught the repeat, the…
A novelist, journalist, and blogger walk into a bar. The novelist asks for Johnny Walker Blue, neat. The journalist asks for a beer, a Heineken from the tap. Just as the blogger is about to order, he thinks about it and instead slaps the bartender, insults the novelist, and spits…
Whenever you hear, “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”, it’s rarely followed by “I’m in the lumberyard you crazy, Capulet.” But we do things a little differently in Miami. So when Shakespeare in Miami’s production of Romeo and Juliet was booted from Peacock Park in the Grove the company had…
Don’t get us wrong, we think creating bike lanes on any street is a smart and safety conscious decision. But Washington Avenue on South Beach? Lord help us! If there’s one street that attracts the I-just-popped-three-bottles-at-LUX Nightclub-set, then it has to be Washington Avenue. Perhaps city officials believe that a…
A typical circus may be fun for the kiddies and their parents, but it’s usually a little on the white-bread, hokey side. There’s not much in the way of cool or stylish. So how can you add a little funk, hip-hop, or, dare we say, soul, to the goings on…
Whoever said “The great thing about Miami is that it’s so close to the United States” or asked “Will the last American to move out of Miami bring the flag?” obviously never traveled to Homestead. The name itself conjures up images of pioneers and tax breaks. Homestead is so Americana…
Whenever you hear “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” it’s rarely followed by “I’m in the lumberyard, you crazy Capulet.” But that’s correct, the feuding families will be at Shell Lumber this weekend. But before you draw your symbolic sword and cast aspersions on the latest production of Shakespeare in…
We freaking abhor Glee! Phew. Finally, got that off our chests. That makes us feel a little better, but still nowhere near good enough considering Glee was on last night. And it’s only been a couple nights since it took home its latest trove of awards from the Golden Globes…
Good news. Rakontur, the Miami-based media studio founded by Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben, is debuting its film Square Grouper at the South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW). The bad news: SXSW is in Austin, Texas, so unless you are planning to attend you’ll have to wait a bit longer…
Known as the “mob’s accountant,” Meyer Lansky was financier who worked with golden era gangsters like Charles “Lucky” Luciano and childhood friend “Bugsy” Siegel. Though often portrayed as a secondary character in Hollywood mob hits, Lansky might have been the most influential crime boss of the entire Twentieth Century, helping…
Former JFK Secret Service Agent Gerald Blaine is certain that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone on November 22, 1963, when he gunned down the president. But everything that happened since then has been considerably less certain for Blaine and his brethren.When your job is protecting the most powerful man on…
Those charged with protecting the President of the United States know that if it comes down to it they must take a bullet to save his life. But what if that bullet comes from the 6th floor of a book depository? And there’s no chance to even make the ultimate…
A bunch of phonies like saying they read the New York Times. They think it makes them sound smart. Here’s a quick test to measure their Times pedigree. Throw out the name Thomas Friedman and watch their reaction. If you get a blank stare, they’re stinking fibbers. If they nod,…
After a lecture at Temple Israel in downtown, Thomas Friedman will cross Biscayne Bay and attend a private reception and question and answer session at the Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. Friedman is guy who tells much of the country how they should feel about global goings on. He’s been doing…
