Let’s get the results out of the way up top: Donald Driver and Peta are your Dancing with the Stars Season 14 champions. In many ways it should have been obvious; athletes have now won seven out of the 14 seasons (that’s 50 percent, for all of you statistics junkies…
Some first heard the name Billy Corben in 2001, when he became one of the youngest directors in Sundance history. His next release, Cocaine Cowboys, co-produced with his Rakontur collaborator Alfred Spellman and David Cypkin, would prove to be monumental in its exploration of the cocaine-fueled Miami heydays of the…
Last week we had to bid farewell to Maria Menunous and Derek, and with them, the last shred of drama on Dancing With The Stars. William Levy, Katherine Jenkins and Donald Driver are all very accomplished dancers, for celebrities at the very least. But they also seem to be nice…
Miami may not be doing a great job of supporting its local artists financially. But when it comes to supporting the arts in general, this town seems to be doing just fine.Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium owner Stephen M. Ross, who also happens to be chairman, chief executive officer…
You know you’re on Basketball Wives when your getaway in paradise somehow becomes the most dreadful time of your life.Can we give a quick shout out to the poor families on vacation who were also staying at the Wives’ resort that week? Poor things.If you missed last week’s episode, count…
Fifteen-year-old Alma just might be the horniest person in Norway. She rings up exorbitant phone sex bills when her mom, a single parent, is out of the house. And she rides rolls of coins when she gets bored working the checkout at the local supermarket — a job she had…
Look up the word awkward in the dictionary, and next to it you’ll find a photo of a couple frozen in the throes of a first date. From the bailout phone call to the bungling lean in, it’s hard to imagine anything but weirdness in those first few hours alone…
When last night’s Lion King audience returned to their seats after the show’s intermission, they probably expected some more tribal music, some more freaky human-animal costuming, and a nice tidy Disney ending to their night at the theater.What they got was a downpour all over the imagined Pride Lands.The ceiling…
There are a lot of wheels spinning on this week’s Magic City, which means the show has a lot of ground to cover, plot-wise, and little room for some of its other signature flair. Like non-stop nudity and banging. Oh sure, there’s a moderate amount of nudity in this episode…
The Mayans had it wrong. The world will not end December 21 this year. It ends every year during the last weekend in May.That’s when the good people of Miami and the Beaches are swarmed with hoards of tourists flooding in for Urban Beach Week. And it’s coming again this…
In 2006, hundreds of Miami Beach sunbathers stared in awe as a bizarre procession paraded down the South Beach sand. Eighteen giant helium balloons — shaped like vampire rabbits, volcanoes, and eerily smiling black spheres — floated along while the Hialeah Senior High School marching band blasted a jazz tune.It…
“I’ve been abused and molested all day … and I think I like it.”That’s how King of Diamonds stripper and Cultist advice columnist Skrawberry summed up her experience at Exxxotica this weekend. We sent her to see what she could see at the biggest sex convention in the U.S. –…
Nobody likes a Monday. As you read this, we are wishing we hadn’t vowed to give up caffeine and pinching ourselves periodically to stay awake through yet another TPS report.But regardless of your work woes, at least summer is starting to show itself — via the ungodly heat and afro-inducing…
The accounting department at Disney is working overtime these days, burdened with tallying the ever-growing box office reports for the blockbuster superhero film, The Avengers. Since its April 25th release, the film has earned a reported $1 billion in box office sales worldwide; it also set the record for opening…
As Miamians, we’re perpetually spoiled by our 250+ days of sunshine each year. Vitamin D is our drug of choice (one of them, anyway), so when rainy days befall us — well, we don’t know what to do with our sun-bronzed selves.That’s especially bad this year, since the rainy summer…
Seymore Butts (AKA Adam Glasser) is more than just a porn impresario.He’s a first amendment freedom fighter who caught a case for fisting on video, and his lawyers didn’t give him a five finger discount.He’ll be in Miami for Exxxotica teaching seminars on better sex, signing autographs, taking pictures, and…
In the mid-’60s, the phrase embedded journalist had likely never been uttered, let alone ignited a controversy over newspaper ethics. But that’s exactly what Jim Nickless was back then: a freelance cameraman for NBC News who lived among members of the Movement for Revolutionary Recovery (MRR), Cuban revolutionaries plotting to…
Magic City’s having a tough first season. It debuted to low ratings, though those numbers may have been affected by the availability of its series premiere at the Miami International Film Festival, OnDemand, and online in the weeks leading up to its official debut. Critics have not been nice about…
This week was cray, y’all. Thank Cultist, it’s Friday!We have so much lined up for you this weekend, it should be illegal.One of the biggest and sexiest conventions is in town — surely you’ve heard about it. The biggest names in porn are here in our quaint city, and they’re…
Stefanie Kuncman, AKA Steffy, is the head and heart behind the blog Steffy’s Pros & Cons. Every other day, you can see Steffy on her online diary where she posts her vintage up-dos. It’s a sort of fashion directory, telling you where to get all the fashion relics she’s wearing…
Not Lady Gaga. Not Justin Bieber. Not even Oprah.No, according to Forbes, the world’s most powerful celebrity right now is Jennifer Lopez.So what makes the humble Jenny from the Block such a power player?”It used to be enough for a celebrity to act or sing or swing a bat really…
The Face and Body Art International Convention (FABAIC) is no toddler birthday party face-painting. The event celebrating its 11th year in Fort Lauderdale from May 23 to 27 shows off some serious skill. As the FABAIC staff say, face and body painting is where “ballet meets Monet; where drama meets…
