Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, a magnificent finale for this beloved billion-dollar fantasy franchise. Before that confrontation can take place, though, David Yates’s epic must first chart Harry’s attempts alongside best friends Ron…
Art Walk reactions.Art is one of those subjective things pretentious people love to circlejerk around. Some of it is straightforward and simple to appreciate and understand. Like Piss Christ, for example. It’s just Christ submerged in piss. Simple. Elegant.Then you get the weird shit that you’ve gotta nod your head…
The explosive and provocative stage play Masked — which opened last night at the GableStage — skillfully manages to plumb the depths of the raw emotions of the divisive Israeli-Palestinian issue with honest story telling and aggressive, brooding and sobering performances from its three stars.Written in 1990, three years after…
Face down, butt up. That’s the way we like to… plank? Yeah, plank. In case you live IRL (in real life, as opposed to online), planking is a recent Internet meme where folks lie down — stiff as a board — in random/usual places and share the photos online. The…
Most of us spend our days caged in a cubicle glaring at a computer screen or fielding calls from unappreciative pricks. But at least work can be a break from some of the other headaches in life: a sanctuary from bad relationships, family problems, and bills, and an opportunity to…
Does Basketball Wives portray minority women as materialistic gold diggers? It’s often the first dis about the show from critics. And the blogsphere seems more than a little disgusted that Evelyn Lozada would turn a hurtful insult into a bestselling T-shirt just to make a buck. Then there’s the multiple…
Miami is quiet this weekend. We can only guess it’s because everyone is either knee deep in Harry Potter fandom in NYC, gawking at royals Will and Kate in Los Angeles, or still have their toochises parked outside the Casey Anthony courtroom. (You can come home now. They’re not going…
Annie Vazquez guest blogs on fashion for Cultist. Visit her blog at TheFashionPoet.com.Some gals turn up their noses at knockoffs, but for the rest of us cheapos who can’t afford to fork over lots of dough to look good, we welcome them with open arms. Gracias to Forever 21 for…
The “dog days” of summer is a period of time from July to September marked as the hottest, most humid time of the year. It’s name is derived from the ancient Roman practice of sacrificing a dog to appease the weather gods. But just because it’s warming up in Miami…
Summer is here and along with it a surfeit of group shows featuring the region’s top artistic talent. Corralled in exhibits rife with multimedia works during this Saturday’s culture crawl beginning at 6 p.m., visitors can expect one-stop showcases of the ingenuity elevating Miami’s thriving art scene to the international…
Fashion Breakdown: Neon green plaid pants and combat boots from thrift, rainbow suspenders from eBay, white mesh shirt was a gift, and wig from store in downtown…
Horrible Bosses, directed by Seth Gordon, is an ensemble comedy about how our tough economic times have destroyed white-collar, white-male masculinity. Three high school friends–weakling dental hygienist Dale (Charlie Day), chemical company accountant Kurt (Jason Sudeikis), and unspecified corporate drone Nick (Jason Bateman)–are, at 40-ish, each facing intractable career obstacles…
We’re big fans of all kinds of communication, not only the written word. We like facial expressions, all kinds of silly sounding noise (fake fart sounds are our favorites), and especially hand gestures. Everybody knows the classics like the bird and “L” for loser, but we’ve found that in order…
First God. Then Michael Jackson. from Stretch Ledford on Vimeo. When veteran photographer, grad student, and university professor Stretch Ledford moved into the Palm Plaza Motel on 14st and NW 1st Avenue, he’d already been producing short video docs in Overtown since 2009. It was when he moved in, though,…
Opening this Saturday at the GableStage at the Biltmore, and running through August 7, the provocative and explosive stage play Masked is a candid depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a village on the West Bank, three Palestinian brothers are torn between their obligations to family, ideology, and survival as…
Fashion Breakdown: Dress by Diane von Furstenberg, shoes by Yves Saint Laurent, and bag designed by Adriana Castro. …
Page One: Inside the New York Times, which opens Thursday at O Cinema, will mean different things to different people.The people whom it would most benefit will not see it. The people who are offended by the notion that a newspaper should charge online readers, the people who think The…
Graffiti artists are frequently locked up on vandalism charges, so it’s critical that murals be painted as quickly as possible during fly-by-night operations. This emphasis on speed and efficiency led to some of the key elements of the art form, such as long lines and letters that flow into each…
During a new exhibit at the Miami Art Museum, Rivane Neuenschwander will re-create the mug of your youthful source of ardor with the help of a police sketch artist. Neuenschwander’s First Love, an installation inspired by Samuel Beckett’s novella of the same name, is on view as part of “A…
There’s something magical about Seven Seas Bar. Something more magical than David Blaine but a little less magical than a three-breasted mermaid whose third nip squirts out the cure for cancer. Perhaps it’s the cheap drinks, the ceiling tile plastered in random shoes, or the broken-toilet garden on the back…
Wynwood’s July 9 art walk sells lamps and chairs
Horrible Bosses: White man’s lament
