The fourth-ranked Stanford Cardinal face the 13th-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies at the 2011 Discover Orange Bowl in a match-up that features two of the hottest teams in the country. Virginia Tech has won 11 games in a row, while Stanford triumphed in seven on the trot. So how come nobody…
The more the commercial industrial complex tries to sell the merits of the holidays as a time of capitalist bliss, the more you want to paddle your way to communist Cuba. After all, are lines for bread any worse than lines at Wal-Mart? But the one thing that unites us…
If you’re reading any gift guide so late in the Christmas game, sorry to tell you — your goose is already cooked. Significant others can sniff out ill thought up and last minute presents faster than the unfamiliar scent of Chanel No. 5 or Musk on your collar. What you…
For 29 years the King Mango Strut has claimed that it “put the nut back in Coconut Grove.” Leave it to organizers of satirical procession to put those nuts in its mouth. No, wait. Put nuts where the mouth is? Okay, so both sound dirty. But it all made sense…
That five-day art bender, better known as Art Basel, is slowly vacating the recesses of our brains. But if you’re feeling a little blue that we’ll have to wait a whole year to see that depth of art again, take solace in the following: You won’t have to see a…
In the late Nineties, long before becoming the greatest professional tennis player of all time, a pimply-faced Roger Federer played in the Junior Orange Bowl (JOB) International Tennis Championship and won. Earlier in that decade, 16-year-old Tiger Woods did the same at the JOB golf tournament — years before he…
Ole J.C. might have a conniption if he were to see what’s become of his birthday. It’s hard to say which of the mortal sins — greed or gluttony — is more rampant over the Christmas holiday. Commercialism, debauchery, and overall excess is the new Holy Trinity. But leave it…
What’s the worst thing that happened this year? Oil spill in the gulf? Tea Party becoming a national force? Pot legalization flaming out in California? No matter your answer, sprinkle some comedy on it, add a dash of satire, and finish with a flourish of revelry. You’ll have this year’s…
There is no group of Miami celebrities, or pseudo-celebrities, more revered than the list of grand marshals at the end-of-the-year farcical King Mango Strut in Coconut Grove. Actually, that list is kind of hard to come by. Some of the organizers can’t event locate such a list, if one actually…
Maybe it says something about the state of our society that we try to itemize, categorize, and generally make lists out of everything. What does it say? Not sure, but it can’t be good. Don’t get us wrong, here at Cultist we are among the most egregious offenders of the…
The City of Coral Gables prides itself on its historic structures: the picturesque Country Club Prado, the recently renovated DeSoto Fountain, and the always fun Venetian Pool. Another iconic building is the Alhambra Water Tower. But unlike those structures, the water tower is in bad shape and the city is…
Come Thursday, any pretentiousness left over from this month’s Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center better make for the exits fast . In its place: pure, unadulterated, commercial capitalism flourishing at an event where quality is frowned upon, and cheap, plentiful goods are held in higher…
Long before the devastating earthquake reduced the country to rubble, Haiti was a country in shambles. A series of dictatorships dating back to the early 20th century — some sanctioned by the U.S., some not — conspired to keep the country poor and the poor without a voice. But just…
Cuban boxers are revered for their technique and toughness, but surprisingly, there has never been a Cuban heavyweight champion. Fidel Castro isn’t keen on allowing his boxers to compete professionally; He’d rather keep them fighting as amateurs well into their 30s to stockpile Olympic medals. But just as one day…
Not everybody used Art Basel week to show their appreciation of art. A couple of losers used Miami and its signature art event as a platform to send us a giant “Fuck You” when they vandalized a wall mural at Vagabond last week. They wrote “Fuck Basel” over the mural…
Just when you’re ready to dump your shopping bags and tell Santa to go f@ck himself and the reindeer he flew in on, finally you get something a little different with this year’s holiday shopping experience. Or at least you get the hope of something different.Random Acts of Culture could…
The Aqua Art Fair made its way back to the ocean (actually, just a block away from the Atlantic on Collins Avenue), coming back to the Aqua Hotel where it all began in 2005. It’s a good move, because the Aqua Hotel is about as cool a place as you…
In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, 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. 65. Serge ToussaintIf you’ve spent any time in Little Haiti you know Serge Toussaint. You might not…
Come this weekend, you’ll probably be well past your gag limit on good art. Take a well-deserved break from gawking at inanimate objects by ogling what we were all meant to ogle — Playboy babes. Okay, so they are hopeful Playboy lingerie models, but that’s even better for delusional horn-dogs…
Wasn’t it enough that video game geeks across the planet nearly jizzed their pants with the announcement that Tron: Legacy, the much anticipated and long awaited (though only to them!) sequel to the 1980s flick, would be coming out this year? Apparently not. Now there is even more nerdy news…
You’ve heard about petrified forests, but in Miami we have something just as cool – a fossilized reef. One of only a couple such reefs in the world, the fossilized reef in the Bear Cut Preserve in Crandon Park is believed to be the remnants of long dead mangroves. And…
Boxing is the ultimate solo sport. Once the bell rings, your trainer, corner man, even the bloodthirsty crowd slowly fade away until you are left completely alone, under the searing spotlight, facing a singular opponent. The required naked ambition, simplicity, and, of course, brutality once made it the most popular…
