Going green with a cricket star. The next time you throw a cigarette butt out your car window or leave a Styrofoam cup on the sidewalk, beware. The greenest man in the world lives in South Florida and he could be anywhere. Htesh Mehta, a leading authority, practitioner, and researcher…
Maybe the name Godfrey doesn’t immediately ring a bell (and no, it’s not Gilbert Godfrey). Ever seen Soul Plane? Phat Girlz? Zoolander? Cheslea Lately? We’re going to guess to answer “yes” to at least three out of the four. Well, the sexy comedian himself that has been featured in all…
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.81. Farley Aguilar Farley Aguilar’s natural gifts as an artist…
Fashion Breakdown: Slight mohawk, Ray-Ban sunglasses, gray top with detail, Urban Outfitters’ girl pants, and caramel Adidas Silas Shoes. …
There’s no better guilty pleasure then Comedy Central Roasts. Comedy Central took the tried and true format of the roast, popularized by the Friars club inductions of celebrities, and made it palpable for modern audience. The jokes stayed the same, but the roast subjects went from Sammy Davis and Dean…
Seeing Jerry Seinfeld’s stand-up is like having Tom Brokaw come over to your house and read you the evening news. It’s something you’ve willingly enjoyed with the masses, but there he is, just 15 feet in front of you, trying to make the smallest of chortles rupture up from your…
hen you think of Ricky Martin, you probably think, “hubba, hubba!” The former boy-band hunk of singing love is no longer just a pretty face and vibrating glutes, he’s also a deep and thoughtful author of a new autobiography. The singer is coming out of the dark, as Gloria Estefan…
Lisa Lampanelli, the insult comic dubbed “The Lovable Queen of Mean” and the belle of many celebrity roasts, is performing tomorrow night at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Cultist caught up with Lampanelli, as she lounged on a swooning couch at home in New York, to ask her a few mind-numbing/profound…
Nothing like some badmouthing to get a dead non-profit breathing again. Gen Art, that do gooder non-profit organization for emerging artists that suddenly closed up shop in May, including their Miami offices, might still be on life support after all. There’s a New York benefit for the organization we thought…
Obviously, we’re hooked on the Bad Girls Club Miami. We’ve been interviewing them left and right, and writing our weekly show recaps, which bring us pure joy. And when a show is about misbehaving women, you’re going to eventually get news such as this: Season five’s Catya “Cat” Washington just…
We love that new art cinemas are opening in Coral Gables and Wynwood. It helps feed our burgeoning film scene and, let’s face it, gives us options besides the mega-plexes that dominate the movie venue scene. But there was a time when smaller movie theaters dominated the Miami cinescape. We…
Some books make really bad movies — take Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch. While others, such as There Will Be Blood, havemade really, really great movies. Luckily, the students at New World School of the Arts have good taste in both lit and flicks.At the end of October, NWSA and Centro…
You can feel it in the air, across Facebook, Twitter and all of your favorite websites: Conan O’Brien’s rebirth is upon us. After an 11-month, boob tube exile, which included a country-wide tour, a stop at Bonnaroo, and recording his own set of Jack White-produced seven-inch records,O’Brien returns to late…
With the overturning of the gay adoption ban in Florida and Proposition H8 in California, the momentary repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy (for shame, Obama), and Pink’s new music video, it’s a great time to be gay. Celebrate your fabulousness by embarking on the new Gay and Lesbian Walking…
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.82. Colin Foord This December, when a giant, purple coral…
Fashion Breakdown: Dress and earrings bought at Blush Boutique, Express clutch, Gucci sandals…
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 Lera, I met this chick who says she’s polyamorous. I’m not savvy when it comes to stuff like…
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.We are very, very excited about I Love You Phillip Morris. First, it has Jim Carey in it. Who, when he is…
There’s only one place in Miami to find Games! Food! Show! Nativity! and that’s at Santa’s Enchanted Forest at Tropical Park. The amusement park fun starts at 5 p.m. tonight, and runs through January 2, but we’re not going. A few years ago, four carnies and a security guard escorted…
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.83. Karelle LevyNearly every fashion designer will profess that their…
All season long, we’ve watched the ladies of the Bad Girls Club Miami drop like flies. First, it was Morgan who bit the dust. And slowly but surely, four other original castmates have followed a similar fate. The house received three other ladies to fill their places, and only two…
Amy Glazer, a true homegrown talent who grew up with fellow Beach High alums Mickey Rourke and writer/producer brother Mitch Glazer (The Recruit, Great Expectations, Scrooged), remembers the “old bubbies and zehties along Washington Avenue pushing their way through the Thrifty market” when Miami Beach was “a bucolic, magical playground.” Her…
