Arts & Culture

Tuesday nights are so boring. Luckily for you, there’s always a magical place called Planeta Macho. Score hosts what has become the premier Latin gay night in Miami. Every Tuesday night, the club’s hot dancers help get the crowd pumped for salsa, reggaeton, merengue, and whatever else your weary Hispanic…

Tiësto. Unless you’ve lived under a soundproof rock since the mid ’90s, you know that this Grammy-nominated Dutch beat maker is one of the biggest electro acts of the modern dance era. He’s been crowned world’s best DJ a staggering three times consecutively. Dude’s a light-eyed BPM pimp, the 40th…

Brad Garrett’s voice or face has appeared in nearly every movie you’ve ever seen (Ratatouille) and most of the ones you haven’t (Hoodwinked II: Hood vs. Evil). He’s a fine poker player who contributed maybe the funniest moment to Celebrity Poker Showdown, when he suddenly began channeling Bill Cosby in…

New Year’s Eve falls on a Saturday this year, and that gives you permission to engage in all kinds of extra ridiculousness. With the night before free to warm up, the whole day of to relax, and the whole day after fully dedicated to hangover recovery, Saturday night is ripe…

Other cities drop balls at midnight on New Year’s Eve. But in Miami, we drop a giant neon orange. That’s right, we tropical folks lust for an over-the-top fireworks display and laser show. Every December 31, hordes of South Floridians head to Bayfront Park to watch the big fruit in…

It’s been heralded as the Tournament of Roses Parade’s outrageously inappropriate Cuban-American cousin, a frighteningly satirical afternoon peppered with conch-shell headgear and semiprofessional kazoo ensembles. Backed by a bipartisan committee of disorganizers, the King Mango Strut parade has prided itself on putting the nut back in Coconut Grove since 1982…

Planning your New Year’s Eve night out in Miami can be a hassle — getting tickets to shows, entrance to clubs, shoving your way through crowds of your fellow revelers. If you’re attached to your personal space, head to Beer & Burger Joint instead, which promises an enjoyable, normal night…

It’s not a meal for a child, that’s for sure. Dolores But You Can Call Me Lolita is offering a special New Year’s Eve menu: two dinner seatings with caprese salad, croquettes, oyster bisque, prime rib, lobster, and chocolate mousse parfait. Okay, maybe Lolita would’ve dug the dessert. Sat., Dec…

For most of the year, Bayfront Park is a tourists-only zone. But on New Year’s Eve, it’s one of the best places in Miami to scope out the fireworks. The park will be complementing the light show with a DJ dance party. Sat., Dec. 31, 6 p.m., 2011…

When we first saw that the hated New York Jets were the Miami Dolphins’ final regular-season opponent, we were hoping it would be an epic showdown to determine the winner of the AFC East or, at the very least, determine the final Wildcard playoff spot. But because the Dolphins have…

The Orange Drive Music Festival lineup reads like a Now That’s What I Call Music compilation, a Top 40 extravaganza fit for late-night television commercials sandwiched between Teen Mom and Jersey Shore: ten radio-friendly acts neatly packaged into three crazy, consecutive nights — two in 2011, one in 2012. Resurfacing…

Ah, the new year — a time to make resolutions, get a fresh start, and forget about the mountain of tossed monkey poop that is the Miami Dolphins. And what better way to do that than to go see the Miami Heat. While one team is busy finishing a third-straight…

Until the ’60s, censorship guidelines known as the Hays Code forbade films from depicting life in all of its true, sexual, cross-dressing awesomeness. The only way directors could show transsexual people without getting the censors’ panties in a bunch was under the guise of humor, which resulted some pretty insensitive…

After all the corny Christmas blockbusters — Oh, you bought a zoo? No one cares — a documentary about a somber topic will be mentally refreshing. Into the Abyss is Werner Herzog’s newest documentary, an examination of one violent crime and the many people it affected. Subtitled A Tale of…

Long before the media and the Internet were used by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann to inform public opinion, propagandists relied on old-fangled, Kafkaesque data-slinging to stack the cards in favor of their arguments. Surreptitious name-calling might still be fashionable for, say, Michele Bachmann, but back when…

It was a better time, a simpler time. A time when we wore flannel and floral prints and combat boots. We smelled like Teen Spirit; we didn’t want no scrubs; we liked the way you worked it (no diggity). Those were the days when boy met world, when we were…

You have to suck the hardwood reed, get it hot and wet, before you can hit those high notes on your alto. And the spit valve on a trombone gets so thick with juices that you have to clean the pipe regularly. Wanna play the flute? Gotta finger the right…

Remember that time geeks dressed as storm troopers took over the Miami Airport Convention Center? What about the bridal swimwear that walked the runway at Fashion Week Swim? Or the gold-plated, hundred-dollar-bill-covered bicycle at Wynwood Art Walk all those months ago?All year long, Cultist keeps you abreast of the most…