The litany of gay and lesbian writers is practically endless. From Plato, to Proust, Wilde, Ginsburg, and Capote, there seems to be an inordinate number of gay scribes relative to the number for straight writers. Their mastery of language, coupled with a unique, and non-heteronormative view of the world prompted…
Anyone who’s ever felt they were on the fringes of society knows what it’s like to be marginalised and shunned for not fitting in. Richard Blanco experienced that feeling while growing up, and although his popularity as a poet and storyteller allowed him to finally realize his dreams, the road…
Perhaps one of the creepiest things about scary movies is when they are based on real events. There’s nothing more frightening than seeing a horror flick and realizing that art, indeed, imitates life. As a culture, we’ve always been fascinated with all things supernatural. Heck, even the word itself sounds…
Mwahahahaha. It’s a very spooky edition of free events in Miami. Actually, all this stuff is pretty fun and it’s cheap. Nothing too scary about that. There is free food and candy galore, especially if you’re a kid in a cute costume. That doesn’t mean there aren’t a few tricks…
There’s no better way to describe our aquatic metropolis than in the words of the ancient mariner: “Water, water every where.” Here in Miami, water is kind of our thing. It washes up on our shores, soaks us from above, floods businesses on Alton Road. And eventually, we’ll be under…
As if the line-up for the Miami Book Fair International wasn’t already exciting enough, another announcement on the roster was made last night. Actor, writer and musician Jason Segel, mostly recognized from his long career in both television and film, will be attending the fair on Saturday, November 22, at…
Poetry has long been a vehicle for voicing unrest, from the words of Maya Angelou to Nikki Giovanni. A new series, “Poetry for the People” Read-Outs, is using the words of poet-activists like Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton and more to add Miami’s voice in the fight for justice for Michael…
The world only gets one Everglades. Let’s appreciate it whenever possible.III Points is over. Did you make it out alive? Even if you weren’t taking part in the massive Wynwood music, art, and technology fest, chances are you went and spent a load of cash trying to forget the work…
We here at Cultist looooooove libraries, but we’d be lying if we said we stepped foot in one more than once in the past year. Because we are learned, we can identify that as a problem. We’re not really alone. Of the 2,496,435 people in Miami-Dade, only 1,084,841 are registered…
The official DWNTWN Art Days have come to an end, but that doesn’t mean the well of creativity is dry. Miami’s galleries continue to open their doors to art lovers looking for interesting perspectives on the world around them, and a lot of those doors don’t come with cover charge…
What do Questlove, John Cleese, and Judy Blume have in common? One’s the hip-hop leader of the Roots. One’s the British comedian who rose to fame with Monty Python. And one’s the beloved author of young adult classics like Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Their careers and lives…
Get ready, Miami word nerds. The Miami Book Fair International is just two short months away. But you won’t have to wait until November to start planning your literary itinerary. Tonight at 6 p.m. the fair is throwing a kickoff party at the Freedom Tower to celebrate its 31st year…
It’s a great time to be a book lover in South Florida. Popular literary destination Books & Books will once again expand its reach when it opens another location in the former Sears Tower on the campus of the Adrienne Arsht Center. The new location, set to open by the…
As a renowned yoga teacher and media darling, Cyndi Lee seemed like the poster child for confidence and self-acceptance. Yogis are supposed to be radiant avatars, after all. But beneath the Namastes and Lululemon she was hating her body, just like (most of) the rest of us. This realization led…
Football is back with a vengeance (or a misleading win, in the Dolphins’ case), and thanks to Sunday Funday, Mondays are dragging more than ever. This whole five-day workweek thing has jumped the shark, wouldn’t you say? We feel your Monday through Friday pain, so here’s a list of stuff…
Amanda Keeley has always found inspiration in artist’s books. Now, the 2014 Knights Art Challenge finalist is readying her longtime project, Exile Books, for its Miami debut this weekend at Locust Projects. Exile Books is a traveling pop-up store installation dedicated to selling, supporting, and promoting publications produced by artists…
TERFs (or trans exclusionary radical feminists) are men and women that do not consider male-to-female transexual women as victims of patriarchal society as biological women, and therefore excluded from the feminist struggle for sociopolitical equality. It’s a mouthful, but it points to an important cleave that’s receiving more and more…
Summer is often associated with a boom in big-budget film releases — plenty of movie choices to satisfy those lazy, hot days. When school’s out, the superhero, action-heavy flicks come out swinging. And when the wind starts to cool, the movies with a little more heft and brains graze the…
On Saturday, Miami’s first gay literary festival, Reading Queer, hosted its headlining event at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, where poet and scholar L. Lamar Wilson read selections from his award-winning collection of poems, Sacrilegion. A Marianna, Fla. native, Wilson’s poems have appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, jubilat, Los…
This week in South Beach, artists and guests will take part in an interactive artistic and philosophical expression in the Reading Queer Series, which aims to inaugurate Miami as a center of queer literary culture. The series kicked off at the Betsy Hotel in South Beach last Saturday, and continues…
The concept of “Creole” is far more complex than most people who only had a passing interest in their 8th grade history courses might recognize. To most Miamians, it’s a language spoken in Haiti and among the burgeoning Haitian population of the city. That’s far too much of a simplification,…
Alice Walker. John Updike. Susan Sontag. Jonathan Franzen. Joyce Carol Oates. What do these authors have in common? For one, they’re all National Book Award winners. They’ve also all appeared at the Miami Book Fair International. The book fair, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, has ensured that tradition…
