Next time your art school nemesis gives you grief for staying put in your hometown while he racks up student loans at Pratt, force him to do a Google search on Miami-based artist Jillian Mayer. In her short career, the Florida International University grad has given birth to herself on…
Forget strawberry fizz, orange sherbet, and piña colada. This Jelly Belly comes in flavors such as asphalt, gun smoke, and cocaine. Presented by the African American Performing Arts Community Theatre (AAPACT), this gritty play, written by Charles Smith and first produced in 1985, centers on a newly released ex-con named…
The country’s fascination with Scarface runs deep. Maybe it’s Al Pacino’s over the top Cuban accent, maybe it’s the allure of the city’s drug running culture, or maybe it’s a young Michelle Pfeiffer slinking around in sequin dresses. Who knows, the point is America loves Scarface and will show its…
With Britney Spears’s recent revelation that she would want to be a teacher “specializing in history and reading” if she couldn’t sing, we were intrigued enough to ponder what lives our favorite and not-so-favorite celebrities would live out in an alternate universe. From the depths of fast food management to…
“Where my money? I need, I need, I need cash!” – Rick Ross. 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’,”…
Courtney Stodden, the child bride of 51-year-old Doug Hutchison (who played the gross correctional officer in The Green Mile, Toons from The X-Files, and Horace Goodspeed from Lost) just celebrated her 17th birthday this week. And as you piece together the blown bits of your mind in order to fully…
From Cain and Abel to the dudes from Oasis, brothers have a long history of fighting and generally acting like pricks with one another. Sometimes it’s jealousy. Other times it’s because they simply have nothing in common. In The Brothers Size, which opens this weekend at GableStage, two male siblings…
Fashion Breakdown: Top bought at A Nose For Clothes, shorts by Bulldog from Urban Outfitters, shoes are Sam Edelman, watch by Michele both from Nordstrom, bag from Free People (the store in Boston), and ring and bracelets by David Yurman…
Having been spirited out of Havana while still in cloth diapers, way before Cuban mothers had discovered disposables, I was eager to catch Sandra Ramos’ “90 Miles: Living in the Vortex” at Dot Fiftyone Gallery.The Havana-based artist’s solo show features a 32-foot walkway of 12 light boxes in the shape…
If it makes you nervous to hear the words “surreal” and “sex objects” in the same sentence, relax; Cuban artist Alejandro Galindo’s uh, penetrating and imaginative depictions come in non-threatening 2-D form.They’re far from impotent, however. His “phallo-centric” oil paintings all feature penis portraits that vary from “peek-a-boo” to “in…
Just to be clear, the best theater news we could get would be if The Book of Mormon swooped into the Arsht Center in the next couples of months. But no, the new musical from the creators of South Park (and winner of nine Tony awards) is not (yet) coming…
Twenty years ago, Miami was getting to be a frigging weird place, and if you went to José Martí Park on any given Sunday, it might not have surprised you to see a bunch of maniacs riding in circles on bicycles, screaming and swinging sticks. Today, the city has cleaned…
With kids going back to school this week, we adults have one, and only one thought: We hope you’re learning something because traffic totally sucks. And it doesn’t just suck because there are more parents out on the road, it also sucks because there’s more teen drivers out on the…
Djenaba Gregory-Faal wants to school kids in African folklore. To achieve this, she is trying to raise money to produce Sundiata, a theatrical piece about Maghan Mari Djata Keita (AKA Sundiata Keita) — a crippled youth who overcame adversity in order to rule the 13th century Mali Empire.Her goal is…
According to Deadline, singer-actress Christina Milian is in negotiations to star in a new ABC Family sitcom set in South Florida. Titled Maid in Miami, the new show is in development by Rita Rocks creators Stan Zimmerman and James Berg, and Glee executive music producer Adam Anders. Millian will play…
One of the best things about writing for the New Times and Cultist in particular is they let you write curse words, like a motherfucker. But we try not to abuse the privilege. We respect. Fucking-a we do. But still, it’s pretty great to know that unlike the rest of…
This year, Optic Nerve was chosen the Miami New Times’ Best Film Festival in the publication’s mega issue highlighting the 305’s finest offerings.But it should have come as no surprise that MOCA’s vaunted showcase of short, homegrown experimental films running under five minutes would end up muscling its way onto…
My existence stings. Yes, I’m pretty. Hypnotic even. Lucid and beautiful. Yet no one appreciates me. The real me. I’m just a nuisance! Do you ever feel like that? Is your prettiness also a poison? Do people look at you and run away? Are they scared of your beauty? It…
We all know what she looks like, but the only way to see La Joconde (that’s the Mona Lisa for those of you who are Italian or art impaired) is to take a trip to the Louvre in Paris. But naturally, the most famous painting in the world has been…
By now most of you all have seen Jim Carrey’s love letter to Emma Stone. Creepy, right? At first we were hopeful that he was just introducing a new character, the earnest old guy talking about a girl not quite half his age. Perhaps everybody needs to lay off Jim…
One day, in an effort to Google Peaches, a magical YouTube video appeared. It featured two goddesses of ‘tude, Miss Piggy and Peaches. Some genius had taken moving pictures of the Kermit-loving muppet and edited it to make it look like she was singing “Fuck the Pain Away.” This genius…
Fashion Breadown: “Most of what I have on including the shoes are from the thrift stores. The sleeves were long so I hemmed them.” The bag is from Pacific Sun, the flower in hair from Claires, the nail sticker polish from Sally Hansen. Earrings are two-gauge plugs…
