Adapted for the stage by Patrick Barlow, and directed by Jim Helsinger, a talented four-member cast playing 150 different characters delivered a satisfyingly witty and fast-paced version of one of Alfred Hitchcock’s first masterpieces at last night’s Actors’ Playhouse opening production of The 39 Steps.Hitchock’s original 1935 film set the…
Maybe it’s out Catholic upbringing, but Cultist has been feeling a bit guilty over all the coverage we’ve been giving Exxxotica Miami Beach lately. Sure, we might not be responsible for the smut, but we’re helping to spread it like a bad case of the Clap. So the least we…
Damn you, Jillian Mayer. Your Borscht Film Festival entry, I Am Your Grandma, still has us talking. In fact, we already know it word for word. We seriously think you should consider becoming a musical performer. It worked for M.I.A.If you haven’t seen Mayer’s I Am Your Grandma, you are…
Miami is getting another chance to move beyond the onscreen branding of Miami Vice and Scarface. The Paperboy, a new film by Precious director Lee Daniels, follow a Miami Times (no, not Miami New Times, but close) reporter who gets wrapped up in a homicide case. Adapted from a Peter…
There is a tiny little space on the Buena Vista Building’s first floor that was just begging for someone to plug it full of funny art work. When artist Justin Long of More Funner Projects exhibited in the Bas Fisher Invitational’s “Weird Miami,” he saw it as an opportunity to use a…
Huzzah! The weekend’s here. But roh-roh, tonight’s also Friday the 13th — the only one in all of 2011. We’re like Michael Scott, the former boss on The Office, who said “I’m not superstitious. I’m just a little stitious.” No matter where you fall on the stitious spectrum, make the…
Film Fiend is a new series featuring dispatches from Miami International Film Festival Director, Jaie Laplante, as he scopes flicks on the indie film festival circuit. Cannes is hot this year. The venerable Grand Dame of film festivals worldwide is buzzing with an upswing of stars and a recently re-energized…
Last February, acclaimed performance artist Xavier Cha held mysterious auditions at the de La Cruz Collection, where she was artist-in-residence. Perhaps you sent in your headshot, killed it at the audition, but never heard back. Now you’re wondering what happened? Who won while you lost? Sorry to disappoint, but we…
Miami-born international fetish superstar Rubber Doll has, over the past year, realized a difficult feat: Crossing over into the mainstream. Kind of. By the time she appeared on New Times’ cover back in 2008, she had already become one of the world’s most in-demand rubber models and performers. But her star was…
Last night the Light Box, Miami Light Project’s new intimate theater space at Goldman Warehouse in Wynwood, popped it’s cherry with an hour and a half of delightful ridiculousness care of comedian/musician/acid-flash-back-inducer Reggie Watts. And what exactly is a Reggie Watts? He’s hard to define (so read our Q&A with…
A Latin lover, a mysterious coven of wild women, a frolic in a candy-colored fun house, and an all-female group show riffing on how the unseen can powerfully shape perception, are just a few of the offerings making this weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk. It’s a sizzling ticket before the…
Fashion Breakdown: Lace gloves and thigh-high stockings from Leg Avenue, burgundy tank, leather boots, cincher was a gift, and shorts from Roxy…
Led by Cuban-born and trained stars of international repute hailing from top-tier companies including the San Francisco Ballet and the English National Ballet, the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (CCBM) presents traditional ballet at its most grandiose. The Cuban-flavored classical ballet takes the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach at…
There’s all kinds of porn out there: barely legal, BBW, S&M, midget, puffy nips, Japanese rope bondage, furry, pegging, bukkake, and twink. Alt-pornographer Bruce LaBruce kick-started skin flicks for counterculture with movies like the Melbourne International Film Festival-banned L.A. Zombie (plot: a homeless schizophrenic thinks he’s a alien zombie who…
Unfortunately you’ll have to travel up to Toronto, Canada to catch the latest work by Miami’s favorite artistic rainbow warrior and New Times MasterMind winner Jen Stark. Her two person show, “Double Rainbow Rainbow,” with the equally vibrant Maya Hayuk will bring some color to the great white north tonight when…
The aquatic spectacle, a glimpse into Florida history, featuring Marina Anderson, AKA MeduSirena.
The Victorian age was a confusing time. The Industrial Revolution sprung up many technological innovations, people figured out the importance of clean water (like that it’s important for not dying), and medicine proposed new solutions to everyone’s problems. But lost in all the progress were some less positive developments. Like,…
Sure, any movie that has at its heart doodie is bound to get some cheap laughs. But don’t think the team that made the Wall of Shame short as part of the 24-Hour Film Race was only interested in toilet humor. A cast and crew of 20 actors, cinematographers, and…
Dexter, the Showtime series that glorifies brutal murder in Miami, just may peak in its sixth season. Rumor has it that Mos Def just signed on a deal to play a reoccurring character. He’s cast as a tough ex-con who’s found religion but can’t seem to extricate himself from a…
Ass your only asset? Check! Spoiled princess? Check! Have a slutty celebutante friend you can use to get in front of paparazzi lenses? Check! Now all you need to complete your transformation into a mindless sex object is finding a washed up pop star’s little brother to piss on you…
From Daphne Guinness to Karen Elson, everyone hauled out their vintage McQueen couture in celebration of the late designer last week at the MET Costume Gala. The party auspiciously launches “Savage Beauty,” a retrospective of Alexander McQueen’s functional art, now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute…
For more than two decades, the South Florida Cultural Consortium has been a trend guru, recognizing local artists who are leaving deep footprints. Each year the alliance awards $7,500 to $15,000 grants to top talent in the Sunshine State. It also offers winners of the juried South Florida Cultural Consortium…
