A floating sustainable farm, a edible park, and an innovative app meant to fix some of Miami’s public transit problems: these are just three of the ten Miami-based finalists of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s new grant program, the Knight Cities Challenge. There are 126 total finalists…
It’s Monday again. The weekend is over, and all of the goodness and joy are gone from the world. So long boats, beaches and bands. Hello traffic, pointless conference calls, and 50 degree offices. Now that we’ve thoroughly depressed you, the least we can do is raise your spirits so…
Star of Jane the Virgin, Gina Rodriguez, won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy. Rodriguez was obviously excited (and so were we) about her win, and she undoubtedly gave one of the best speeches of the evening. “This award is so much bigger…
Art Miami will celebrate its 25th anniversary by expanding to New York. The fair will be the newest addition to Frieze Week, the massive international art show that is generally considered to be one of the more prestigious fairs. Last week, Art Miami named former Armory Show head Katelijne De…
Painting. Painting. Painting. 2015’s opening edition of the Wynwood Art Walk doles out an irresistible excuse for lovers of the medium to explore plenty of shows devoted to painting in all its forms. Beginning at 5 p.m. you can catch the works of two young Cuban painters visiting from the…
You might not remember, but before graffiti covered walls and unfathomable rent, Wynwood was known for something else: high-end, locally manufactured garments. “If you go to Northeast 29th Street and Biscayne Boulevard, right in front of Out of the Closet Thrift Store, you’ll see a big sign that reads, Fashion…
Riding a bicycle for either leisure or transportation has become increasingly popular in Miami. With the launch announcement of Citi Bike Miami and its eventual expansion, to the monthly herding of Critical Mass, bike safety has become crucially important. Next week, Miami-Dade Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces will present a…
It’s tough to be a dog. You have to stay home and lick your nether region while your humans go to restaurants, the gym, the mall — all sorts of fun places where you just aren’t welcome. So you’ll just go back to licking yourself and gazing with sad brown…
“What is a weekend?” Maggie Smith’s badass Dowager Countess once famously quipped on Downton Abbey. Well, we have an answer, and it doesn’t involve sitting around the house and watching the latest season of the dreary British melodrama. No — go out and enjoy the Miami sun and this perfect…
In past generations, conscription meant military service was a collective hardship — nearly every family understood the difficulties of serving and the horrors of war. Now it’s a niche group of Americans who shoulder the burden. But Miami Dade College’s MDC Live Arts, with help from the Knight Foundation, is…
All you need to know about Taken 3 is that Liam Neeson survives an explosive car crash — twice. Director Olivier Megaton even rewinds the second blast to show us how his hero escaped. It still doesn’t make sense. But who cares. The Taken franchise is rooted in implausibilities, specifically…
Cultist is looking to expand its roster of freelance writers. We’re looking for enthusiastic and reliable freelancers who can generate pitches and take assignments covering events throughout Miami’s arts and culture scene. You should be as comfortable blogging about The Real Housewives of Miami as you are writing about the…
Lumped together in a cluttered corner of what used to be the spare bedroom of an apartment rests a stack of papers decorated with graphics. “There are just orders we’re completing – everything is made to order,” says Amor Galeano, shuffling the designs with one hand like a black jack…
If you’ve ever woken up with your ass on fire, chances are you engaged in some unnatural activity like spinning the night before. I say unnatural because anything that burns 500 to 700 calories in 45 minutes is pure insanity. Yet that’s exactly the premise behind SoulCycle, New York’s popular…
Thom Collins, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), announced late on Wednesday that he would be leaving the museum to become the director of the highly respected Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. The museum’s deputy director for external affairs, Leann Standish, will become the interim director after Collins departs…
Describing Ava DuVernay’s quietly remarkable Selma to a friend, I caught myself referring to the Civil Rights Era as a historical event, a thing of the past, and then backtracked. The killing of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice at the hands of police officers — not to mention…
Paul Thomas Anderson was making serious movies long before he began making “serious” movies, ponderous works of certified art like There Will Be Blood and The Master. His earliest pictures, like Hard Eight and Boogie Nights, and even the later Magnolia, were wily, imperfect, vibrating with life like yeast springing…
Without dropping spoilers right and left, how do I explain that I’m completely baffled by the Spierig Brothers’ retro-futuristic thriller Predestination? So the she who’s really a he is the earlier version of the he we meet later on and the later version of the she who shows up near…
Nerds have come a long way since the days of wedgies, swirlies, and having their glasses knocked off for being brainy. But behold, in the modern era, nerds are finally cool and, maybe, a little hot. A monthly event dedicated to all things cerebral, Nerd Nite happens all over the…
Despite his decidedly dark portrayal in HBO’s The Girl, Alfred Hitchcock will forever be known as a cinematic treasure. From Psycho to The Birds, Hitchcock’s oeuvre makes the master of suspense a hard figure to dismiss, even if he was nearly as creepy in real life as his film villains…
Since 2009, Dimensions Variable has been downtown’s premier alternative artist-run exhibition space, drawing local and national artists who wish to showcase their provocative and compelling works with the community. To celebrate their five years of advancing creative discourse, founders Leyden Rodriguez, Frances Trombly, and Adler Guerrier are throwing a fundraiser…
The first gunshot of World War I bulleted through the air in 1914, yet a hundred years later, we continue to examine it with both fascination and horror. The Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) is in fact dedicated to veterans of all wars but was founded specifically to commemorate…
