At perhaps the classiest Irish pub in town, John Martin’s Pub, hear from UV, a U2 tribute band. Hear hits like “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” so melodic it can withstand the vocal chord distortion of a tribute band, never mind that the lyrics are about the massacre of Irish protesters by…
Charming and humorous Superior Donuts, which opens this Saturday at GableStage at the Biltmore, tells the story of Arthur, a former ’60s radical who operates a rundown doughnut shop in uptown Chicago; and Franco, his young African-American employee. Arthur finds himself reminiscing about his youth and the city he grew…
When the newspaper industry finally crumples, clogging gutters along the road of history, what will people roll up and smack their dogs with when they’re bad? Laptops? No matter, because even when the presses for the last daily (or weekly) choke to a halt, the art of printmaking will live…
Miami art this week: Sweat, politics, and amoebas
Don’t whine about wine, learn about wine. . . at a series of three classes taught by Dine Magazine wine editor Pat Sullivan at Norman’s 180 in Coral Gables. Classes are limited to 20 people and will be held on the second Wednesday of the month from March to May…
We like to make fun of Coral Gables here at Cultist. The ritzy city is an easy target – an affluent, conservative community surrounded by a much grimier and poorer metropolis always makes for some good mean-spirited fun. But even we can’t fault the City Beautiful for its emphasis on…
Do you remember when reality TV used to mean something? If Julie from Alabama had been cast in a recent Real World and not the original season in 1992, she would have had to be a former child porn star with incurable hiccups. But 20 years ago, when the series…
Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.2. Bert RodriguezWhat can we say that December’s 3,600-word feature on Bert Rodriguez hasn’t? Since appearing on the cover of New Times mocking Kim Kardashian’s…
For Octavio Campos, life not only imitates art, but art is a call to action. Campos is a preeminent Miami personality – as a performance artist, dancer, choreographer, activist, and provocateur. This weekend, at the Miami Made festival presented by the Arsht Center Incubator in collaboration with the Miami Light…
Rarely does one encounter an art exhibit where mayhem and merriment combine seamlessly to channel that inner Mad Max. So imagine our elation after stumbling onto “That’s Not a Knife,” an arsenal of functioning homemade weaponry boasting crossbows, cannons, shotguns, machetes and the like.The wicked little show, up at the…
We might be getting a little ahead of ourselves, but it looks like this season of Real Housewives of Miami is actually getting good. Yes, the first episode was boring, but the second really stepped it up. Are we the only ones who feel this way?As an avid Housewives watching…
She’s hard to watch, is a doody-head, and you can smell her B.O. through a television screen. Syke! Okay, now that we’ve got all the third graders’ attention, let’s talk some Wanda Sykes. She looks as cuddly as a koala bear but has a dry, sarcastic comedic timing that snaps…
Fashion Breakdown: Jacket and shirt from All Saints, pants and belt from Express, and shoes from Aldo…
When the MPAA gave Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating, cynics suggested that the so-called “kiss of death” was better publicity for the gently experimental marriage drama than anything famously crafty distributor Harvey Weinstein could buy. Then the rating was reversed–downgraded to an R without a single cut to the film–after…
Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.3. Cristina Lei RodriguezTake metallic, glam, almost glittery paint; add industrial-like structures that stretch in different directions, that form imaginary shapes, almost as if you…
With the Miami International Film Festival, South Beach Comedy Festival, and Fashion Week this weekend, it’s going to be tough to choose which to attend. We thought we’d make your decision a little easier by giving away two free tickets to Mad Cat Theatre’s production of The Preservation Society, part…
Ana Mendieta fell to her death from her bedroom window in New York City one early morning in September, 1985. The acclaimed visual artist was heard crying out “No, no, no” before her body landed on a roof below. Her husband, who was with her in the bedroom, was acquitted…
As the entire city of Miami is aware, Real Housewives of Miami premiered last Tuesday, to well, less than stellar reviews. E! News called it “just bland” and People Magazine gave it one star. We mean, isn’t that a little harsh? But they can hate all they want — we…
Maybe second only to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping in the early party of last century, the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh in South Florida in 1981 was the most infamous case of child kidnapping in US history. It was every parents’ nightmare–one second their child is playing video games…
This weekend’s Miami Comic Con not only provided a chance to spend a lot of money, it also provided us the opportunity to speak with a slew of celebrities. And by slew we mean a handful, and by celebrities we mean “celebrities.”The cool thing about this was noting the difference…
To some the wildly popular Second Saturday Art Walk is resembling Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video more and more. So a group of Wynwood dealers have drawn a line across their broken beer bottle-strewn sidewalks to revamp an event they feel is devolving into a spectacle.Upwards of 30 dealers and gallerists…
Last night’s Oscars was a total snooze-fest. No shockers, all the winners were predictable, and host, Anne Hathaway, stood on stage all night like a jittery but beautiful bobble-head nervously attempting to pick up the charisma-slack for her co-host, James Franco, who was about as exciting as a movie called…
