Feels like just yesterday we were passing out during a Chuck Palahniuk reading and listening to Michael Moore daydream about his fantasy Florida documentary. But the last edition of the Miami Book Fair International was, in fact, way back in November 2011. And according to organizers, the 2012 event will…
Erica Kennedy, author of the novels Bling and Feminista and an inspiration to thousands of Twitter followers, was found dead in her Miami Beach home on June 13, according to reports. She was 42.Kennedy’s work spanned several fields: fashion publicist, journalist, blogger, novelist. But she may be best remembered for…
Sixty-four years! My gosh! Where does the time go? Seems like the ’50s were only yesterday. What an era! So golden. Oh, son. What these fins have seen. Where this blow hole has been. I was so young, hungry and filled with life. Now I’m the oldest manatee in the…
Ray Bradbury was a man who hated the media. So it’s with a sad irony that, we at Cultist offer a tribute to the author of our favorite seventh-grade mandatory read, Fahrenheit 451. We dug his brutal truth-telling, his words of wisdom, his work ethic.Sadly, Bradbury moved on to that…
It is hard to believe that Marilyn Monroe would be 86 years old today if not for her mysterious death in 1962. After all these years, the world’s fascination with the life of the blonde starlet lives on.Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Marilyn’s death, film director, author, and photojournalist…
Feel like buggin’? Then this Thursday promises to be a special night in Wynwood. Lester’s is hosting Dave Tompkins, national musical journalist, and author of How to Wreck a Nice Beach, who will present a multi-media slideshow on what else, the history of the vocoder. The vocoder, created by AT&T’s…
A brand new newspaper is about to be born in Miami, and you are invited to the christening.The launch party for the Miami Rail, taking place at Lester’s this weekend, will be your first chance to check out the South Florida counterpart of New York’s non-profit culture journal the Brooklyn…
Karen Russell has plenty to be grateful for. Her novel, Swamplandia! — the first one she ever wrote, by the way — enjoyed widespread popularity, critical acclaim, and was even picked up by HBO, which plans to turn it into a series. Oh, and that same novel was a finalist…
Before I became the president of Miami’s only fake university, I wrote for the Miami New Times, where I learned there were certain key words that dramatically increase the readership of any blog post — words like “iPhone,” “lesbian,” “LeBron,” etc. “Poetry” wasn’t one of them.So to let you all…
Sure, everyone knows Brad Goreski as the bow-tie-wearing, pop-of-color-loving former assistant (and later style director) to Rachel Zoe on The Rachel Zoe Project.He loves prints. He loves anything bold. But now the stylist-cum-editorial columnist has a new job title to add to his resume: book author.Appearing at Books & Books…
Collagen injections. Corrupt politicians’ promises. Back-room strip club blowjobs. When it comes to lip service, Miamians have an array of temporarily thrilling options to choose. But these widely available “services” all have one sad characteristic in common: They eventually leave you feeling… deflated.Thank goodness for Andrea Askowitz and Esther Martinez,…
The term “coffee table book” typically conjures images that delve into either insufferably dull or insufferably cute territory — things like the evolution of American coinage, or little puppies dressed up in Halloween costumes.However, with TASCHEN books proliferating tabletops nowadays, you’re more likely to set your cup of tea on…
The highly anticipated anthology Best Lesbian Erotica 2012 was just released a few weeks ago. We’re pretty sure you think you have lesbians all figured out. Then again, right now some of you may be thinking, ‘What’s erotica?” Heck, some of you may even be wondering what an anthology is.Do…
Miami native and Florida State University law professor Wendi Adelson isn’t in the law game just for the money. At Sweat Records on Dec. 27, she’ll present This Is Our Story, her novel about human trafficking that draws on her experience and knowledge as a public interest lawyer. She writes…
The Knight Foundation Arts Challenge has a simple mission — to bring the community together through the arts. With a goal of transforming Miami into an arts mecca, the challenge has funded a series of groundbreaking and crucial arts projects in South Florida. All in all, the challenge — which…
Miami New Times has published me at least a couple hundred times these past few years, and you’ve been kind enough to read along. Here’s hoping you can sit through another interview, because, while this might be the biggest asshole I’ve interviewed yet, I confess I’ve grown rather attached to…
We understand that Dickens intended A Christmas Carol to be, in part, a critique of class power dynamics. And that the reprehensible-but-ultimately-redeemed Ebenezer Scrooge is supposed to symbolize some kind of hardened capitalist. But no matter how totally 1% the dude was, he had a point when it came to…
Dogs are not only man’s best friend, but also man’s most alive accessory. Walk down Lincoln Road and you see an assortment of unnatural relationships people have with their four-legged beast companions. Why are we so in love with our canine pets? Mark Derr, a Miami Beach resident, asks this question in…
If you have never been to the Miami Book Fair, may we suggest you do. Not a huge fan of books? Neither are we. We CliffNoted our way through college. And if it isn’t written by a celebrity, we probably want nothing to do with it. Which is exactly why…
Michael Moore closed out the 28th edition of the Miami Book Fair last night with a standing-room-only discussion promoting his new book Here Comes Trouble. The book is a collection of non-fiction stories and anecdotes from the filmmakers life. The event started 30 minutes late. The crowd was surprisingly older…
Chapman, the biggest auditorium on the Book Fair grounds, was packed. It was a young crowd, pretty white for Miami, one might think they were in Austin or Portland. In Hipster-biblio-ville, there’s plenty of plaid and an army of bespectacled soldiers. Chuck Palahniuk walked on stage to a thunderous cheer. Wearing…
As much as he loved visiting Hogwarts, something always bugged author Lev Grossman when he worked his way through J.K. Rowling’s epic.”I found it really odd that Potter never seemed to have read C.S. Lewis growing up. No one in his world seems to have ever read any fiction at…
