It’s bad enough the Miami Dolphins are mired in a giant shit sack of mediocrity year after year. But the dudes who decide who plays whom in the NFL have also decided to dookie all over our football team by saddling it with a crap-tacularly difficult schedule. The Fins have…
If you still relish the memory of that middle school dance where your classmates crowned you ruler of the dance floor based on your unusually low limbo or stellar steps in the conga line, you might not want to attend the So You Think You Can Dance live show. Watching…
Celebrate the grand opening of the Pinecrest Total Wine & More or just celebrate drinking some good wine for free at a tasting of Martin Ray family wines set for Friday, September 16, through Sunday, September 18. Two Chardonnays, two Pinot Noirs, a Sauvignon Blanc, and a Merlot will be…
Have you been around the world? Are you looking for your baby? Are you not sure where he is or why he’s gone away? Are you even aware of this Lisa Stansfield reference? Whatever. It doesn’t matter. We’re talking about travel writing, one of the most cathartic fields of composition…
Model and wannabe mogul Tyra Banks worked really hard to be noticed for more than her ample bosom and expansive forehead. With her once popular reality show, America’s Next Top Model, she brought competitive posing and strutting to reality TV. And her Tyra Banks Show added to the questionable good…
In 1992, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder pulled Selene Vigil, lead singer of grunge band 7 Year Bitch, from the water after she drunkenly slipped off a dock. If this small tidbit excites you, you’re the prime demographic for Pearl Jam Twenty, a Cameron Crowe rockumentary about the Seattle band. In…
Though you’re supposed to always claim a book is better than its resulting movie version, that might not be the case with the 1976 cult flick The Man Who Fell to Earth. Sure, the source material, a 1963 novel of the same title by Walter Tevis, is a decent read…
Tacos build strong bodies 12 different ways, and at Mercadito Taqueria Midtown, 12 different tacos have built up a nice little nest egg for Share Our Strength as part of the restaurant’s Tacos for Strength benefit. Each month, the eatery gets a different chef to create a special taco for…
Ten years ago this Sunday, Americans woke up to the terror of a World Trade Center in flames and a smoking Pentagon. A decade later, the Wolfsonian examines how disaster and tragedy have been interpreted by art and technology. “Reflections on Loss and Commemoration,” an exhibit of material culture that…
Some artists like to create works from scratch. Others prefer destroying what already exists to imbue the resulting detritus with new life. At Primary Projects, “His Wife & Her Lover” is a new exhibit based on the premise that damaging something redirects its existence. The group show features work by…
Hear the term Latin American art and you might expect bright paintings of tropical landscapes, bull fighters swirling their capes, and maybe even a sultry mulata casting a fetching glance. But then you’d be dead wrong and oblivious to the world-class art talent from the southern half of our hemisphere…
You know how the skin’s pores open up in the extreme humidity, like in saunas. Well that must be where all the sex is coming from in Miami. Because it’s literally pouring out of the city. Need proof? Check out our sex survey. Or, just look toward Hollywood. We produce…
Newsflash: Cultist is guilty of watching reality trash television like Jersey Shore and Real Housewives. But what y’all don’t know about us is that we’re also die-hard Jeopardy fans. Not only does is our DVR programed to record new episode of Basketball Wives, it’s also programed to record America’s favorite…
Cristina Garcia – prominent Hispanic novelist, creative writing professor, and founder of Las Brujas Writers Workshop – is all over the map these days. A quick glance at the Miami literary scene places Garcia, if not at the helm, then certainly among the best-known writers in the city. Invited to…
Miami Dade College’s new exhibit “Mona Lisa Unveiled,” at the Freedom Tower, ranges from the plain silly to the sublime. There are variations of the Gioconda’s enigmatic, smiling puss ranging from Romero Britto’s eyesore Mona Cat to Marcel Duchamp’s sight for sore eyes, Mona Lisa L.H.O.O.Q. readymade hanging nearby.Duchamp’s famous…
Is anyone else feeling freaked out by East Coast earthquakes and hurricanes the size of Europe that reach all the way to Canada? Not to be alarmists or anything, but maybe it’s time to stuff our belongings into our hybrids, pack a year’s supply of organic trail mix, and navigate…
Annie Vazquez guest blogs on fashion for Cultist. Visit her blog at TheFashionPoet.com.Fashion’s Night Out is baccccck, and this time it’s bigger and better in the 305. The third annual global shopping event takes place tomorrow, uniting legions of shopping addicts and fashion fiends. Of course, FNO in the Big…
Fashion Breakdown: Top and shorts from H&M, shoes from Steve Madden, and purse from thrift…
If you’ve been putting off taking in a show at Coral Gables’s New Theatre under the assumption that the venue ain’t going anywhere, you may want to bump your night at the theater up on your priority list. The theatre is going somewhere — namely, to pieces.The Laguna Street location…
At last count, the PostSecret web site had counted 466,771,333 visitors. Chances are, you’re one of them. But the site has only received a measly half million postcard contributions! That means only .11 percent of PostSecret’s trollers have had the burning desire to publicly share the shameful secrets of their…
We veered east of North Miami Avenue in Wynwood this week to track down street art in the few block towards the railroad tracks. Although it’s not as wallpapered with paint as the blocks to the west, we stumbled upon a trifecta of awesome murals at Northeast First Avenue and…
On the first Labor Day Weekend we can remember sans Jerry Lewis’s fat face simulcast across network television, the other Nutty Professor, Eddie Murphy, was blowing up the Internet rumor mill. No, the 50-year actor didn’t give some street walking tranny a ride home, nor did he impregnate another Spice…
