Next time you drive past Miami International Airport, know that there is much more going on over there than arrivals and departures. Just blocks from MIA, there is magic being made. We are talking about the set of Starz’s soon-to-be hit show, Magic City, written, created, and directed by Miami…
Disgusting is a new video series in which interviewing is only half the fun (trying not to vomit is the other). All interviews take place in a disgusting, Miami environment from public bathrooms to the underbelly of urban living. The below episode features writer Liz Tracy, founder of The Heat…
You’re slowly sinking under the water’s surface, eyes open, watching the aqueous mirrored ceiling slip further and further away. Citrus-colored angel fish flit to your left and sea anemones cast out spindly appendages to your right. A marlin with a halo-like glow swishes past, grazing your skin with its slippery…
We thought maybe they had decided to move Tough Love to Miami because of our great beaches and beautiful weather. Well, that might have had something to do with it, but Steve Ward had something else in mind: a city of non-English speakers all in one place. The ladies first…
Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez is a multimedia artist working with expanded cinema, experimental film, video art, installation, and public intervention. Last year, she created a site-specific film installation projected onto foliage of Miami-Dade Parks in “Elusive Landscape.” Recently, she completed a Kickstarter campaign to fund her new project, Ruins: Haunting…
If you think that a simple trip down to Party City will be good enough for a night out in Miami on Halloween this year, you’re wrong. Sure, it’ll get through the door at your neighbor’s lame boo bash, but if you really want to make statement this year, Cultist…
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Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, which opened Thursday at the New Theatre as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, is the latest proof that there are infinite variations on how parents can fuck up their kids. The play, as directed by Ricky J. Martinez,…
The Mark Morris Dance Group made a long-awaited return to Miami in front of a spirited and chatty crowd. Not that the audience was distracted. There were frequent outbursts on the beauty of the performance. Like when dancer Michelle Yard, back turned toward the audience, squatted above her partner, who…
[jump] Matthew Ragas, who played Link Larkin, Tracy’s love interest, seemed to have been born to play the delicious crooner heartthrob. Handsome and coordinated, he came pretty close to actually making us swoon when he strutted out in his sexy fitted silver-gray polyester suit, electric guitar slung over his shoulder…
For the next month or so, you can wake up every Monday morning to enjoy our review of Vh1’s third season of the show Tough Love Miami. Not only will you be delighted by our wit and humor, but you can look forward to reading about one of the castmates…
‘s execution in the Spanish Civil War. Lorca was a man comprised equally of progressive social values and untameable passion. And accordingly, one of his greatest tragedies is not only a harsh critique of custom, decorum and values, but also a raw depiction of the intense emotional responses produced by…
Tigertail releases a print poetry publication annually, each with a different guest editor. This year’s annual, the ninth in their series, was edited by Lynne Barrett, Professor of English at Florida International University, and has moved into prose. Authors submitted prose poetry, flash fiction, and flash nonfiction with a word…
Spooky Miami is a four-part series featuring supernatural, paranormal, and otherwise unexplained phenomena throughout Dade County.”Miami is my hometown,” Sandy Walker says with pride. “I’ve always known it to be haunted.” For six years, Walker has led the Coconut Grove Ghost Tour, a two-hour walking survey of one of South…
After you’ve taken it to the man at Occupy Miami this Saturday, you’re going to need something to do to unwind. After all, you deserve something rewarding after protesting corporate greed and economic inequalities. Lucky for the 99 percent, there’s Cultist, Miami’s premiere source for snarky reality television recaps, cultural…
Fashion Breakdown: Bullet chain from costume store, the hat she made herself, corset and boots from friend’s closet, panties from Forever XXI, black belt from France, gloves from Halloween store, and nails done in a spot on Brickell. …
Dangling down here like the neglected foreskin of America, we’re expecting Saturday’s Occupy Miami protest to spiral out of control. Mark our words: There will be food trucks. There will be reggaeton blaring. Someone will bring up Fidel or Chavez. Yes, the Everglades need to be saved and the Port…
Hairy crazy ants are on the move in Florida. In record hordes, they’ve invaded homes, federal complexes, and public spaces in urban areas. These ants are crazy because they move fast; hairy due to the density of skin. For weeks, the ants have bewildered people and scientists alike. What do…
“Where my money? I need, I need, I need cash!” Maybe Rick Ross wasn’t singing about the everyday grind of paying bills. But there once was a young Rick Ross, who struggled to find a way to balance his creative ambitions and cash flow. In “Everyday Hustlin’,” we talk with…
FOX’s cult-hit-turned-fan-favorite, Arrested Development, is returning to the airwaves for a victory lap season leading up to the grand finale feature film. Word of an AD movie has long been buzzing on the interweb, so the added bonus of a full-season’s worth of Bluth family catchphrases has us boiled over in…
If you’ve ever played the game Telephone, in which a person whispers a message to another and then it passes on down the line successively until the last player announces the message out loud to the entire group, you know it makes for a great metaphor for cumulative error, the…
Most love stories follow a familiar narrative. Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, then boys wins or loses girl. Samuel Beckett however, was known for turning common situations on their head. In First Love, Beckett writes a tale about a homeless man in love with a prostitute, and MDC Live!…
