Arts & Culture

​Fashion Breakdown: Shoes are Jeffrey Cambell, shorts from American Apparel, Mickey Mouse hand made by a friend’s mom, T-shirt from Dangered, hat from Team Fun Apparel…

How frequently, really, do you stop to smell the roses? Not necessarily literal roses. Though those could work, too, now that you mention it. We’re talking about figurative roses, where a rose and the scent it provides symbolizes a simple, free-to-all pleasure. Steve Hersh, a Librarian Assistant at University of…

Time to set aside that tween novel about a star-crossed necrophiliac /zombie couple (destined to a life of yearning stares thanks to one’s need to be alive and the other’s need for human brains) that you’ve been slaving over for the past five years at your local Starbucks because we’ve…

Ordinarily, Cultist likes to steer clear of government meetings and politicians (we leave that junk for our Riptide brothers!). So you’ll excuse us if we’re a bit late in reporting on an important vote (excuse us, we just threw up a little in our mouth) that happened in the last…

In Sam Lipsyte’s third novel The Ask, a dark look at white-collar loserdom, a character explains his bad behavior with “…because my name is Florida. When I do something shitty, something swampy and wrong, I call that going to my Everglades.” When’s the last time you went to your Everglades…

Fashion Breakdown: Adidas shoes, Urban Outfitters shorts, shirt from Michell’s, self-made Zelda chain (original parts from a Nintendo,) glasses 1980s Gazells,”Lagerfeld Photo” neon green jacket from thrift…

Many of Miami’s creatives are transient, showing up on our shores and disappearing as quickly as the tides. The Art on the Street series will document this overlooked and ever-changing element of South Beach culture.​”Now I say-ay-ay-ay! I serve the most high, Alpha and Omega he is, beginning and end…

Shark Week is like the Black Friday of television programming. It comes around once per year and the people who don’t shut the fuck up about it on Facebook look completely insane to us normals. Women especially seem to love them some Shark Week. Go ahead and search through your…

​Fashion Breakdown: Mad hatter hat from Forever XXI, feather earrings from Bella, gloves We Love Colors, first latex suit ever online at Melanie/e-bay for $80, platform shoes from Fetish Factory…

“East/West: Visually Speaking” at the Frost Art Museum through September 11

“Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other” at MAM through October 16

“Sacred Stories, Timeless Tales” at the Lowe Art Museum through October 23

Four years from now, we will have reached the year Back to the Future II was set. The sequel follows Marty McFly into the year 2015, when he witnesses a depressing, aged version of himself and an unrecognizable world of bleeps and gadgets. The movie correctly predicted tablet computers and…