Things just got serious. And way cool. Wynwood was the scene of some late night filmmaking magic last week as the Borscht Film Festival production Play Dead brought zombies, explosions, and post-apocalyptic poodles to the neighborhood. Filming went on until late-night and early morning Friday (can you say a 5…
Remember munching on turkey legs and elephant ears while waiting in line for the Doppel Looping? Remember trying to make out while spinning in the Gravitron? The Dade County Youth Fair was a rite of passage for kids the county over. Every spring, the fairgrounds at Tamiami Park became Disney…
Leave it to the French to bring their stylized filmmaking to the online gaming world. In Black Heaven, directed and written by Gilles Marchand, 21st-century gamers are not nerdy. They’re cool and sexy — kind of like the film. The movie begins with a doughy teenage couple answering a call…
Sure, the Miami-Dade County Fair & Expo begins a couple of days earlier and has farm animals and contests. But really, it can’t hold a steer to the Miami International Agriculture and Cattle Show at the Ronald Reagan Equestrian Center at Tropical Park . The show is like the major…
Calle Ocho is a time to be proud of your Hispanic culture. Many revelers wear their country’s colors — a popular fashion statement is draping your nation’s flag over your shoulder — but there still can be confusion. After all, the Cuban and Puerto Rican flags are nearly identical –…
The Miami Heat is reeling. They’ve lost four in a row, and can’t seem to beat any teams that are any good. And apparently, they’re crying about it. And now, to add insult to injury the Harlem Globetrotters – think Sweet Georgia Brown theme song – are coming to town…
Last week you learned how to play the living dead from the experts, so tonight it’s your chance to show the world what you can zombie with the best of them. On film no less. The Meza-Valdes Brothers are filming the big zombie scene for their upcoming film Play Dead…
Beastly, the latest take on classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast, opens at theaters across the country tomorrow and has all the makings of being this year’s first teenybopper mega hit – hunky dude (who gets ugly), a High School Musical Star (Vanessa Hudgens), and even an Olsen twin. Ordinarily,…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg insulted the Irish last month when he joked that their greatest contribution to world culture was a brand of whiskey. It got worse when he acknowledged that the Irish were sensitive about their drinking but that they could be calmed with a “nice, stiff drink…
Ever taken a dive, thrown in the towel, or generally served as a straight man to some funny guy? Then you know the pain of the Washington Generals — the team that always loses to the Harlem Globetrotters. Players, with heads down and serious looks on their faces, run around…
Everything you need to know about living in Miami you can learn in a single visit to the Calle Ocho Festival this Sunday. There are insufferable pedestrian and auto traffic, tempers flaring at the slightest provocation, and a slightly dangerous, overtly sexual, and thoroughly intoxicating fog permeating the air. (We…
We like to make fun of Coral Gables here at Cultist. The ritzy city is an easy target – an affluent, conservative community surrounded by a much grimier and poorer metropolis always makes for some good mean-spirited fun. But even we can’t fault the City Beautiful for its emphasis on…
Maybe second only to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping in the early party of last century, the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh in South Florida in 1981 was the most infamous case of child kidnapping in US history. It was every parents’ nightmare–one second their child is playing video games…
We’ve got some rough looking characters in Miami, no doubt, but this is getting ridiculous. Just days after the details of Zombie Walk 2011 and hours after Cultist brought you an interview with a Zombie comic book artist, we hear more news about flesh eaters in the Magic City. And…
Remember some years back when it was cool to own pot bellied pigs as pets? Those porkers were pretty damn cute. But eventually you sat down for a meal and looked at your plate of bacon, ham, or pork chops, then down at old “Wilbur” and realized something was inherently…
When Cultist chatted with Cocaine Cowboy Director Billy Corben about an unofficial Hollywood remake of his Miami documentary, he was excited at the prospect even though his Miami studio Rakontur has nothing to do with that project. So you can imagine how psyched he was to talk about the HBO…
Sometimes it’s hard to tell a true Miamian from a Juanito-come-lately. The closest thing we have to a litmus test is knowledge of a short-lived local TV show that ran from 1977 to 1980 called ¿Qué Pasa, USA? If, for example, you know that Rocky Echevarría starred as Joe Peña…
There’s soccer, and there’s volleyball. And nary the twain shall meet. Unless, of course, you live in Asia where kick-volleyball, or sepak takraw, is played. The sport is even more amazing than it is rare. Players kick a small ball, called a rattan, over a net that is about head-high…
There was a time when parents allowed their children to explore the world relatively unsupervised. Kids could ride bikes to school alone or hang out at video arcades for hours on end. Then came the Adam Walsh story AKA every parent’s worst nightmare. In 1981, the six-year-old boy, whose image…
All families have drama. Some, like the McGrath sisters from Hazlehurst, Mississippi, might have more than others. Their mother hung herself, and her cat. One of them took aim at a husband to hide a secret, and the other, she’s got a great life and wonderful career—unfortunately it’s all in…
We’ve heard for a while now that Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio would team to bring the real life story of Miami drug icons Jon Roberts and Mickey Munday to the silver screen, but that looks closer to happening with reports that director David O. Russell is considering directing the…
It’s easy to forget Miami and South Florida are actually part of the rest of Florida most of the time. We might fancy ourselves cosmopolitan, but invariably we are humbled by the realization that we are closer to the “South” than we are comfortable admitting. That point is unmistakably driven…
