Admit it: You’ve grown weary of the typical club night. $20 drinks this, untz-untz that. What’s a party-ready Miami kid gotta do to change it up?The answer: Get tickets to Artopia, Miami New Times’ annual arts soiree. We’ll be dining, drinking, and toasting the city’s top cultural talent, including the…
They say Hollywood is full of leftist liberals and borderline communists. In fact, the right has been spouting that line since the ’40s and ’50s, when several actors were blacklisted for their alleged ties to the American Communist Party during America’s second Red Scare. Well, the Cold War is over…
Most of us remember the ’90s as a magical time. It’s partly because we were younger then, and we don’t like this whole “aging” thing. But it’s also because the last decade of the 20th Century was hella off-the-chain, dawg. Back then, most people had jobs and money; we had…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…
Like 11.5 million other viewers, last night we tuned in to NBC’s Smash. It’s not because we’re huge fans of Glee, or even musical theater in general. We were just kinda curious. With so much hype, the show would either be amazing, or it would crash and burn. Either way,…
Miami may be one of the vainest cities in the country — but at least we look good doing it. In that spirit, we’re indulging our love of the superficial by spotlighting fashion finds in the 305.The Find: A Spanish style hand fan, or abanico, available in a clean, modern…
It’s official: The Miss USA beauty pageant won’t be coming to Miami Beach in 2012.Imagine a single, tragic tear rolling slowly down Cultist’s face. We had our snark engines all revved up, just waiting to pounce on the big hair, the flashy gowns, the crazy eyes and fake-happy smiles. Why,…
Women need very little to survive: food, water, and high-speed Internet access so they can peruse the gazillion images of Ryan Gosling that float around like meteoroids of pure hot in cyberspace. The ladies have been obsessed with Gosling ever since the release of The Notebook. Hell, those “Photoshopped” abs…
They came for G.I. Joe, and we said nothing, because we always thought G.I. Joe was kinda dumb.Then they came for Transformers, and we said nothing, because Michael Bay is unstoppable and anyway, Megan Fox is hot.But then they came for Battleship, and we realized that soon, there would be…
Fashion Breakdown: Knitted shawl from Spain; white patched skirt “painted by me”; black skirt from an Italian designer; shirt — “don’t remember, bought in the States”; underneath brown tutu from Spain; bag from Parcel; headpiece “by me.”…
Kim Kardashian’s recent trip to Miami to scout locations for her store D-A-S-H has led some to speculate that a new version of her eponymous reality show could be headed this way. But Miami has already been taken! By Kardashians! We’re specifically referring to 2009’s Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…
If old traditions hold true, and obsessively watching Mad Men has taught us anything, it’s that big advertising firms have their fingers in each other’s pockets. Like Russell Crowe watching pigeons in A Beautiful Mind, patterns can emerge when you look at any given year’s Super Bowl ads. Last year,…
Did you catch the big game last night, champ? Oh, it was truly one for the ages. There was plenty of action, highs and lows, and surprises around every turn. And that’s just the commercials.The Giants-Patriots showdown was more than the mere spectacle of violence and pain we’ve become accustomed…
If you’re in a relationship, you’ve probably already spent all your money on Valentine’s Day gifts for your significant other.If you’re currently unattached, you’ve probably spent all your cash on episodes of Downton Abbey and tubs of Ben & Jerry’s to keep you company.Either way, you’re broke. So it’s a…
Winter, which saw its world premiere last night at New Theatre, is an affecting and hilarious look at the scars of abandonment told through fraternal twins so wrapped up in their own lives, neglect becomes second nature.It’s a story about how we begin to remember the ones we love, but…
Fashion Breakdown: Necklaces and bracelets are a mix of Marc Jacobs, Top Shop, and thrift; earring from a street vendor in Soho in NYC; the pants, jungle boots, and his Armani Exchange jacket have all been redone by Hand Crafted Statements…
The best part about the Super Bowl isn’t the football, the nachos, or the pizza. Who are we kidding? It’s the commercials.Those sneaky little buggers that make us hold our pee during game breaks are baaaaack. Bladder infections aside, we’d do anything to get our grubby hands on what the…
We felt a bit out of our depth heading into UM’s screening of Granito: How to Nail a Dictator at the Bill Cosford Cinema last night. The documentary is a follow-up to When the Mountains Tremble, a doc that courageous young director Pamela Yates produced in the early ’80s, exposing…
Decadancetheatre, an all-female crew based in Brooklyn, is all about staying true to hip-hop culture. They use old-school styles — breaking, popping, locking, and house — to tell stories on stage. In their 2004 performance, Decadance vs. the Firebird, the company remade Stravinsky’s classic ballet. For their Miami debut at…
Dear Sandra Beasley,We read your story in The Washington Post yesterday, in which you describe your quest to find the “other” Miami during your residency at LegalArt, and it made us smile. Some of us are native Miamians, and were happy you enjoyed our hometown. The rest of us moved…
Florida’s law requiring the poor to pass a drug test before receiving welfare funds came under the scrutiny of The Daily Show last night. In an interview with Aasif Mandvi, bill supporter Representative Scott Plakon claimed that any recipient of taxpayer money should undergo drug testing. When Mandvi pointed out…
