Cranky New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay has embarked on a Nutcracker marathon across the United States, pledging to see as many productions as he can of this classic ballet this holiday season. Well, we have one for him to attend in Miami this weekend. Save room for sugarplums…
With Fizz, the New Theatre is rehashing one of the worst moments in our nation’s history. No, it’s not a play about 9/11, Watergate, or Vietnam. It’s a Rogelio Martinez-penned dramatization about the day the Coca-Cola company launched New Coke. On April 23, 1985, the soft-drink giant altered its 99-year-old…
In 2004, 21 clam diggers, who were also illegal Chinese immigrants, drowned at high tide off the coast of England. Known as the Morecambe Bay Tragedy, the deaths symbolized the grim exile experience in Britain because language barriers or xenophobia might have contributed to the mass drowning. When artist Isaac…
First there were the roosters in Little Havana. Then came the peacocks in Coconut Grove. And most recently, it was the pink snails slugging around Miami Beach. Eye candy or eyesores? You decide, but regardless, they could use some pointers from the French husband-and-wife art team of Claude and François-Xavier…
There are few brands that evoke haute and glamour better than Vogue. But what’s better than Vogue? (Cover your eyes, Anna Wintour.) Italian Vogue, of course! Even an egomaniac like Tyra Banks knows it. That’s why she upgraded her prize package on this season’s America’s Next Top Model from a…
We all know what LMFAO means. If you don’t, refer to Urban Dictionary. What that helpful website won’t tell you, though, is that the laughing-my-fat-a**-off acronym is also the name of an electro-hip-hop duo from Los Angeles. The group’s dance hit, “I’m in Miami Bitch” (clean version: “I’m in Miami…
When you think Hello Kitty, the mental montage probably goes something like this: Hallmark, eight-year-old girls, white cat with no mouth and exactly six whiskers, Mariah Carey, toilet, beer, douchebags, and this gun. Notice that nowhere in that sequence are the words art or basel. Well, all of that is…
Over the years, Miami has served as the backdrop for hundreds of Hollywood movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of the classics shot right in our own backyard. In 1999, Oliver Stone went on a road trip chewing on ‘shrooms to scout locations for his football saga, Any Given…
In honor of our Mastermind genius awards (we’re accepting submissions until January 7), Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.69. James Anthony James Anthony creates screen-printed apparel and housewares using images culled from science…
Another Bad Girls Club Miami reunion has come and gone. Wow, what a ride. What a drunken, slutty, violent ride, right? Last night’s Part 2, much like the first, was truly epic. Our favorite little convict made a serious appearance again, and Morgan came back … for a little bit…
Thinking about skipping out on the Basel pretension by spending a few days submerged in mud at the Standard Spa? Well, look for an escape elsewhere, because the boutique hotel is just as infected with the Basel bug. There’ll be floating boob sculptures in the pool, art porn in the…
Abby Manock has a rather unconventional take a very old riddle. To safely take a chicken, a fox and a bag of grain across a river without the grain or chicken becoming breakfast, you would take the chicken in your boat with you as you transport the fox and then…
Fashion Breakdown: Dress from Astoria Boutique, LAMB by Gwen Stephani shoes, and Marc Jacobs bag…
Some people would argue that Design Miami/Art Basel itself is the cure for insomnia. But we don’t subscribe to that theory. Not totally. Or even mostly. Okay, not at all. But you have to admit some of the exhibits elicit some serious z’s. And that’is most true of the “Once…
This current exhibit at the University of Miami’s Wynwood Project Space is Ricardo Zulueta’s “Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa 21st Century.” Basically, that means blown-up photos of people in their underwear. And these are the kind of people you don’t usually see in magazines and maybe don’t even want…
Just off shore, miles past South Beach’s glowing neon marquees, there are graceful and ethereal creatures, pulsing with their own natural fluorescence. These jellyfish, zoanthids, and corals, which pirouette and sway out on Miami’s reefs, are the muses of art/science duo Coral Morphologic. Colin Foord and Jared McKay filmed these…
We bet you’ve been a little worried about how you’d be able to track down some skull accent pieces now that Alexander McQueen’s line has been taken over by Sarah Burton. And if you’re like us, you probably like your kitsch right where you can see it: On your wrist.You’re…
In honor of our People Issue, which will hit newsstands and computer screens November 25, 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. 70. Jim Drain Artist Jim Drain’s unique work has…
On July 26, 1990, Howard Stern called his show producer, Gary Dell’Abate, into the studio, to discuss animation art collecting. Dell’Abate was interested in the growing 90s fad and contemplated buying a Hanna-Barbera piece–either Quick Draw McGraw or his Mexican donkey pal, Baba Looey. However, Dell’Abate didn’t say Baba Looey on…
It’s a rather difficult task for Francesco Lo Castro to describe his steadily growing success. After all, he admits he was nearly dead a year ago from the strain of being a curator. “I really almost had a heart attack,” Lo Castro says. “I left that line of work to…
Don’t know which hand to hold the whip in? Get sex, love, relationship advice from Mistress Lera by emailing askadomme@miaminewtimes.com. Read more about Mistress Lera at Notes From a Miami Dominatrix.Dear Mistress,I’m totally obsessed with retro pin-up Bettie Page and have been sporting her blunt bangs for years. But when…
Miami Book Fair or WWE Survivor Series? Intellectually stimulating discussions or cheap recurring story lines? That was the dilemma we faced last night, but ultimately chose wrestling as a sort of sociological experiment. And watching grown men pretend-beat the shit out of one another proved quite telling about the current state…
