Hallelujah! A short workweek. Too bad we still have to cram five days worth of making widgets into the remaining four days. Release some steam without blowing through any cash with the following free events. Party with a Haitian Hillbilly, get high brow at Frost, celebrate hometown literary fiction at…
In the words of Tina Fey from Mean Girls, we hate to have girl-on-girl crime. We really do want to yell “you go, girl!” and support each other’s endeavors, but there are a few women that just make that hard to do. Here they are.1. Angelina Jolie: OK, we’re not…
Dating sites offer participants two things: 1.) the realization of how depressing their lives have become that they have to meet people virtually instead of IRL (in real life) and 2.) the ability to provide hope that they will meet someone ever. Then there’s deciding which site is the best…
Just as we expected, we can blame a lot of our emotional baggage on Disney. In a new web comedy series, Advice to Young Girls From a Cartoon Princess, Second City’s Danielle Uhlarik presents nuggets of wisdom from animated classics, and the films’ creepy messages become uncomfortably clear. In The…
In the classic play The Tempest, an usurped Italian duke uses magical powers to shipwreck his treacherous enemies on an isolated island where he has been stranded himself for 12 years. With the help of a supernatural spirit, he enacts a revenge plot that results in the kind of romance,…
Read part one of Cultist’s interview with Carlos Mencia. Last Friday, we asked him about replacing Dave Chappelle, illegal immigrants, and whether he’s a joke thief. With Mind of Mencia now a four-line note in the bloated history of TV comedy, our boy Carlos is plotting his next career move…
In their heyday in the ’40s and ’50s, newly built Miami motels were ushering in a new era of tourist dollars and modern architecture. But, alas, a life of glamour and decadence seldom lasts. Left with only broken fences, worn facades, and missing lightbulbs where a glorious past once stood,…
Fashion Breakdown: Levi’s jeans, American Apparel tee, and Converse shoes…
Read part two of Cultist’s interview with Mencia. When Carlos Mencia first brought racist road signs, Peter Boyle reading hate mail, and terrorist snacks to the American television audience in July 2005, certain critics slagged him as Comedy Central’s cheap replacement for Dave Chappelle. The formula: Start with a standup-and-sketch format,…
As with most art, a blank canvas is only the beginning of a long challenge. All white just won’t suffice (unless you’re Robert Rauschenberg). So if you’re into the idea of bedecking a pair of all-white sneakers, stop by Buck15 this month to take part in their second Arts &…
FridayThree members of Surfer Blood play Big Black-style bedlam as the band Weird Wives. They have their first Miami show tonight at Guest Lab.The Dogfather himself, Snoop Dog, appears at Mansion tonight. Think he’ll actually perform or just smile, toke, and nod?Josh Blue won the previous year’s Last Comic Standing…
If years of being force-fed Elizabethan English in the classroom has relegated your appreciation of Shakespeare to a reoccurring nightmare in which men in tights attack your grades with swords made out of discarded SparkNotes, allow John Manzelli to change your mind. Trained in classical deconstruction of theatre, which he…
In a few months, Art Basel will swoop into town, and critics will oohh and ahhh over the latest and greatest contemporary art. But in the other 50 weeks of the year, not only do we have a lively Wynwood art scene, Miami has as abundant resource of what the…
We live in a pretty politically correct world. Luckily for us, there are a few people who don’t give shit about the PC police. Josh Blue is one of those men. You might know Blue from the fourth season of Last Comic Standing, where his win was entirely based on…
Attention all culture snobs: Miami New Times is looking for a new assistant calendar editor. Here’s the official posting, but basically, you have to be able to write smartly about culture from Snooki to Sartre.Miami New Times needs a creative, detail-oriented person to write and edit our Night & Day…
Fashion Breakdown: Thrift sequin top, stretchy vinyl slacks, royal blue socks, and black ankle boots…
First, Leonardo DiCaprio started driving a Prius, then M. Night Shyamalan wrote a movie about trees killing people, and now the green movement has finally invaded Miami moviemaking. The cinephiles that founded the Borscht Film Festival are pledging to go green when they start filming their shorts this winter, which…
Last March, a sweaty crew of bicycle folks set forth on a Beer Snob Bicycle Pub Crawl with the intention of enjoying a few brews and a spring afternoon ride. It was the meeting of two wonderful American pastimes, drinking and cycling, both done responsibly, of course. On September 18,…
There’s a 0.0001% chance that you hate laughter. (BTW that’s called gelotophobia.) If, however, you’re normal, Cultist has a bit of good news: We’re giving away two free tickets to this Sunday’s Best of the South Comedy show. OK, we’re not actually giving them away. You have to win these…
Ever since Dave Chappelle abandoned the throne of funniest person alive, comedians from all over the nation have been vying for the crown. This Sunday, catch some of the candidates when the Best of the South Comedy Tour lands at the James L. Knight Center. The show features staples of…
C&C Music Factory once asked: “Y’all want this party started right?” We did and we do. We wanted this gallery season started right, and Dorsch Gallery managed to do it with Bubble Raft. Last night’s season kickoff, with live music and standout sculptures, was much more than just an opening…
Last Saturday was International Read Comics in Public Day. Did you miss it? Do you even know where your local comic books store is? Such stores have gone the way of Blockbusters and dodo birds; they’re practically extinct. Tate’s Comics in Broward gets a lot of love, but what about…
