Green Machine Tattoos is the slime-green painted shop neighboring a psychic adviser and a lingerie shop between Miami Twice and A&M Comics on Bird Road at 67th Avenue. Owner James Rossi says “The place was already green, so I figured it would be a good name, just call it Green…
Imagine being handed a VIP card to every major circle of the art world. Then try to convince yourself whether or not you can withstand the pressure, the glamor, the expectation, the academia, and the absurd amounts of money being spent. Art historian and sociologist Sarah Thornton goes on safari…
CBS Broadcasting IncBrenda Lowe, Miami gal on SurvivorWhen you think of Survivor you think of extreme weather, heat, beaches, and pure drama. Kind of sounds like a normal day here in Miami. Which is why we know our hometown girl, Brenda Lowe, is going to absolutely kill it this season…
“Scenic Jogging”CBS News reports that a video by our hometown heroes — Borscht filmmakers and performance artist Jillian Mayer — has been shortlisted for the Guggenheim’s YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. That means that out of 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, their short film was among the 125…
via abc.comYep, this was the scene that finally got us weeping.The Event, which premiers tonight, has been marketed as the next Lost. So what is The Event about? If you’re asking yourself that question, the powers that be already have you by the balls. Let us save you six years…
Photo by Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images for Mercedes-BenzCross-eyed on the runway.On Friday, New York Fashion Week came to an end and London Fashion Week began. While our British counterparts are causing a sensation with spray-on clothing and the like, New York fashion week was a slightly more subdued affair, flaunting classic…
Flickr CC CowbiteSpin the bottle? Or ghost story time?Remember the nights when you would sit around a campfire with your friends, holding a flashlight under your chin and tell ghost stories? You don’t? True, we don’t usually come across many marshmallow-roasting opportunities in Miami. Well, not to worry. The Naked…
Flickr Alan LightThere are a few names that if mentioned anywhere in the world, people will know who you are talking about: Jesus, Madonna (both the mother of Jesus and the music artist,) George Bush, Michael Jackson. And let’s not forget the Queen of Daytime TV: Oprah Winfrey. As her…
Some words — I love you and you won — so beautifully alter the course of our lives that we wish we could enshrine them, bathe in them, and take them to bed at night. Others — you’re fired and it’s over — we’d like nothing more than to destroy,…
[jump] Name: KissilaOccupation: Hairdresser and fashion addictDescribe your style: Whatever I like at that momentFavorite bar: VagabondHow many tattoos do you have? I stopped counting…
The Muvico theater in Hialeah, a 14-screen place that’s been around for 14 years, will close for a multimillion renovation. The dowdy building on West 49th Street has long been a draw for Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens residents. The new design, according to CEO Neil Bretan, will include “more than…
Static, deep silence, and the sound of thought waves wind and rush through Serge Carrefax. A boy raised on an English estate where his radio-obsessed father ran a school for the deaf, Serge watches his teenage sister Sophie die, serves as a radio operator during World War I, becomes a…
There’s a huge chunk of the country that looks at California and tearfully asks, “Why not us? Why can’t they legalize marijuana in our state?” Since the mid ’70s, Big Tobacco has been planning for the widespread legalization of pot. Those evil barons already have all the different brand names,…
via YouCallThatArtMiami and New York City have always been awkward step-siblings. New Yorkers sweep into town, buying up our bad art, visiting grandparents, and pretending like Art Basel was their bright idea. On the other hand, many of Cultist’s writers and readers have spent at least part of their 20s…
In 2009, a group of South Florida friends embarked on a philosophical journey to change society’s perception of clock-time and created a watch company based on four principles: perception, interconnectedness, illusions, and universal alignment. Long story short, these enterprising hippies wanted to remind people to live in the present. With…
In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of the classics shot right in our own backyard. Oh, those Farrelly brothers! They do love to shoot in our fair city, don’t they? Five years after filming There’s Something About Mary, Bobby and Peter came back and brought Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon with…
via newyorkerhotelmiami.comThe MiMo stretch of Biscayne Boulevard has seen its share of shootings and prostitution. It’s not uncommon to find used condoms and crack vials on its sidewalk cracks, just outside dozens of by-the-hour motels. Only a confused tourist with some lackluster web-research skills would book a Miami weekend in…
Life on these subtropical shores is dangerous. Maybe you’re saying, “Dude, that’s the past. I got a place out on the Beach. And I go walking barefoot down back alleys at midnight. Nothing happens. It’s totally safe.” Wrong, goof. Like staff writer Tim Elfrink points out in this week’s cover…
[jump] Name: Jeliza RoseOccupation: Property manager, photographerDescribe your style: Alternative, versatileWhat’s happiness? Freedom of expressionHow many birds on your shoulders?…
photo by Ivon David Rojas Contemporary art openings in institutional settings tend to be very solemn, approached with a sort of silent reverence for the works on display. Sure, the casual conversations between the white walls may be upbeat, but the atmosphere often seems leadened with a library-like respect. Nothing…
Upon first entering the plaza on our way to the Miami Art Museum for Afterhours, we encountered the smell of burnt barbeque chicken, the sound of nasal country twang, and found ourselves unwittingly surrounded by a crowd donning cowboy hats and lassos. Alas, we’d wandered into the wrong celebration–a Cattle…
When we compiled a list of ladies appearing in Miami’s graffiti (“Whores to Shrews: A Guide to Graffiti’s Female Archetypes),” we assumed that all that T&A was painted by dudes. We were wrong. We recently spoke with the artist of our Bimbo and Hooker with a Heart of Gold picks,…
