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…
Everybody wants to get shit done. Every day, people are buzzing about like busy little bees trying to get shit done. Our lives revolve around getting shit done. Or trying to. Sadly, almost nobody gets as much shit done as they’d like. Enter Niall Harbison, an Irish author and entrepreneur…
The O, Miami Poetry Festival has dreamed up dozens of creative ways to expose Miamians to poetry: flying banners in the sky, sewing verses into thrift store clothing, marching through the streets dressed as dead poets. But during O, Miami 2014, artist and writer Elena Errazuriz took a more straightforward…
Book-lovers, rejoice! Bookleggers is celebrating its two-year anniversary this Saturday, and to show how much they love people who love books, they’re giving everyone who goes to their birthday party two free books. “Everyone gets two books free,” says Bookleggers co-founder Nathaniel Sandler. “Free, flat out. Don’t bring ’em back…
Like many children, when Chris Colfer was a wee lad, he would doodle silly characters and write passages to his made up stories. As he grew up, he kept adding to those stories that once helped him get through adolescence. And now as an adult, he’s able to share those…
Can you write a complete story in just six words? The Miami Book Fair International has put out a unique challenge called #6WordsMiami. If you can master the challenge, your story could be an official selection at the fair this November. The contest reflects Miami’s literary creativity, said Lissette Mendez,…
It’s the Fourth of July a time to think about the economic policy of the United States and our nation’s position in the world. Or you could just get really drunk, eat a pack (or five) of hotdogs and watch fireworks blow up in the sky. Yeah, everybody is probably…
