Garth Fagan Has More Roar Than The Lion King

Garth Fagan choreographed the spectacular Broadway production of The Lion King, and that one show has sealed his legacy. But there is much more to the 71-year-old Fagan than leaping gazelles and flying baboons. His company, Garth Fagan Dance, has set the standard for contemporary dance inspired by the many…

Thirteen Best Things to Do This Weekend

In spite of the last week’s crap weather and overall miserable Halloween weekend, Cultist plans on raging hard as shit this week. We’ll be staying up all night on Saturday, kicking it with giant fish and carpetbaggers, then jumping in our time machine and heading back to Seattle circa 1991…

Donna of the Tribe Called Fresh

​Fashion Breakdown: Top from Loehmans, belt from Urban Outfitters, jeans from Gap, sandals from Saks 5th Avenue, bracelets made by herself and available at Betru boutique, earrings and necklace from Africa, and hair braided by Kiki…

Eight Ridiculous Bollywood Clips to Watch While High on Life

Actually, you don’t need to be chemically-altered to enjoy Bollywood (and other Indian cinema). It’s that good. If you’ve never heard of Bollywood, it’s the lovable term referring to the Hindi-language portion of Indian cinema. And as westerners, we can’t tell the difference between Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, or any others,…

Octavio Campos on His Haunting Intention Intervention for Sleepless Night

Miami native, Octavio Campos, founder and director of the arts organization Camposition, has built a local and international reputation for creating provocative, multidisciplinary performances that reinvent the boundaries between dance, theater, and activism. Now after a two-year hiatus, Camposition debuts Intention Intervention, a hybrid dance theater piece commissioned by Sleepless…

Miami New Times Seeks Writers for Night&Day and Cultist

Miami New Times has immediate openings for writers for the Night&Day calendar section and online culture blog, Cultist. For N&D, ideal candidates should be able to pen an event preview that is as enjoyable as the event itself. For the blog, we’re looking for any cultural coverage that showcases quality…

Animal with Wild Hunger

As part of the University of Wynwood reading series, poet Roger Reeves is appearing at Lester’s Bar this Friday. UW founder P. Scott Cunningham recently spotted Reeves at a writers’ conference. He was impressed by the poet’s intellect and charisma, noting “His work combines formal rigor and contemporary speech that…

Arabian Dreams

In the decade-plus since Miami Dade College started it’s Middle East Dance Program, the curriculum — and it’s accompanying, annual Belly Dance Show — has become the biggest and best place in the state of Florida to hone the ancient art of danse du ventre. Saturday’s showcase, titled Arabian Dreams,…

Look Like Jimbo

​Jimbo is a father to this community. The 84 year old represents the fighter in all of us, the squatter, and the guy who tells the Man “fuck you, I’m staying right here.” His little corner of the earth is a laidback hangout for anyone, be it your three-legged dog,…

Toture Porn

Pretentious muddle trumps splattery satire in this high-minded indie button-pusher, which is only fleetingly as transgressive as its infamous Sundance-screening walkout might suggest. (That incident, a video of which is all over the Net, seems at least half-staged anyway.) Picking up where 2009’s dopey The Offspring left off, The Woman…