White Hot

With six days of round-the-clock events, you’ll have trouble staying awake or, God forbid, have to skip a few parties during White Party Week. What began in 1985 at Vizcaya as a massive celebration to raise money for HIV/AIDS research and awareness has turned into a global phenomenon drawing participants…

Weekend Brunch at Sugarcane

One of Midtown Miami’s sweetest new restaurants sweetens its culinary pot with the addition of weekend brunch. Whole wheat pumpkin pancakes with housemade vanilla bean ricotta, steak ‘n’ eggs Benedict and waffles with duck confit and mustard maple syrup are just some of the tapas-style brunchables at Sugarcane Raw Bar…

Corsages, Kings, and Queens

Before you stuff your face with turkey and mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving, try to fit into that Day-Glo polyester dress you bought at Goodwill but never thought you would get a chance to wear. It’s that time again: ’80s Prom! Already in its eighth year, the bash, put on by…

Three Kings: Eggers, Marcus,Talese

Literary wunderkind behind the book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, the publishing house McSweeney’s, the magazine The Believer, and the literacy project 826 Valencia, Dave Eggers will roll into the Miami Book Fair this Saturday. At 11:30 a.m., he’ll discuss his latest, Zeitoun, his account of a true story…

Eat Cake, Starving Artists

How boring is the overly romanticized idea of a starving artist? Very. There’s really nothing sexy or inspirational about being hungry, unless it involves a waifish Kate Moss. Artists don’t just like to make things, they also enjoy eating and wearing clothes and stuff. Besides, it’s much easier to buy…

79. Tarell Alvin McCraney

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.79. Tarell Alvin McCraneyThere are certain things you can be…

Paper Magazine Talks With FriendsWithYou About Pharrell Williams

FriendsWithYou’s budding romance with producer/musician Pharrell Williams isn’t exactly news. They haven’t exactly been keeping it under wraps lately. But in this month’s Paper magazine, the publication does a nice job of talking with Sam Borkson and a super-slim Arturo “Tury” Sandoval about how the superstar is helping them grow…

From Haiti with Love: Q&A with Author Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat moved from Haiti to the United States when she was 12 and draws on that immigrant experience, filled with history, suffering, and love to portray the complex  realities of past and present Haiti. At 41 she has written more than ten books and dabbled in several different genres,…

Bad Girls Club Miami, Episode 13: Punch and Nudie

Lea had quite a bit of confidence in last night’s episode of Bad Girls Club. And let’s be honest: It’s legit. She wanted those four ladies to go home, told the ladies how much she wanted them out, and they did in fact leave … coincidence? We think not. But…

Daniel Arsham Evokes Merce Cunningham in Replica at Arsht and MoCA

Merce Cunningham was hip before his time. The choreographer’s spectacular collaborations with off-the-mainstream-grid musicians and artists such as John Cage, Bruce Nauman, and Sonic Youth, broke all boundaries and changed dance forever. In one of his last multidisciplinary pieces before his death, Merce tapped Miami visual artist Daniel Arsham to…

Sheryl Is Pleated and Ringed at Kill Your Idol

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Five Celebrities Who Would Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

AMC killed Mad Men and rising from it’s corpse of a time slot is The Walking Dead, a show based on the comic series by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore. Last Sunday’s episode was super helpful as it showed us how to escape a mall that’s surrounded by flesh-eating “walkers”…

Wynwood Walls Expands with Ron English and Dearraindrop

December is almost here. That means Art  Basel is coming to town. Just like everyday life, though, the action isn’t happening in the halls of some lame convention center. It’s on the streets of Miami. This year, Wynwood Walls, the public mural park established by Tony Goldman to help him…

80. Jennifer Kronenberg

​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.80. Jennifer KronenbergThis season, Miami City Ballet will be presenting…

Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza Opens Friday at Bicentennial Park

In the Cirque du Soleil production Kooza, an extremely naive, melancholy character known as the Innocent finds himself unable to launch a kite. Instead of giving up, he initiates a Fight Club-esque mental illusion in which a trickster appears in a box and begins to command the world using a…

Conan Plays It Fast and Loose in His TBS Debut

How great was Janet Jackson on Lopez Tonight last night? Miss Damita Jo proved once why she is one of the true awesome forces of entertainment. Beyond that, some goofy Irish Catholic guy launched a new talk show on TBS. Yes, after ten months in television absentia, the Team Coco…

GQ Ranks the Webster Fourth Best Indie Men’s Store

Who knew they even ranked independent men’s fashion stores? But they do. And The Webster is number 4 in the country, according to GQ Magazine. But whereas independents movies are usually shot on a shoe string budget, mostly by unknown directors and featuring even less famous actors, independent fashion stores,…