Our mamas always told us, “Don’t judge someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” So, when we heard the news of Chad Ochocino being dropped from the Miami Dolphins for an alleged domestic violence dispute with wife Evelyn Lozada we went to someone who has been there, experienced…
While the words “Miami” and “literary” are two words you see infrequently in the same sentence (except, maybe, in a joke), there are increasingly frequent glimmers of hope for the city’s word-lovers. The latest example: the return Thursday night of Bookleggers, an event that began, ostensibly, as a one-off last…
As a contributor to the Miami New Times for the past few years, I’ve learned a few things. And I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others so that they too can obtain a modicum of success.Aside from my continued contributions to New Times, I am also an editor, a publisher,…
American writer Gore Vidal, whose work spanned the fields of literature, theater, politics, and beyond, died of complications from pneumonia in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 86.In his writing, Vidal embraced controversial topics. His second novel, The City and the Pillar, was the story of an openly gay man. Published…
The last time Tony Kapel appeared within the virtual pages of Miami New Times, writer Abel Folgar proclaimed him a sun bathed Renaissance man. Now, nearly one year later, Kapel holds the title firmly with the release of his fourth book, The Hall Ways.The Hall Ways is a novel about…
Have you grown accustomed to staring at your computer screen this summer? It is, after all, where you get all of your news, information, pictures of what your friends ate last night under an Instagram filter.But have you been so tied down to your computer that you’ve forgotten the wonderment…
The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare! Hooray, hooray! No more giving fake names at emergency rooms and trying to set broken arms with a tree branch and duct tape! Though we’re thrilled to get affordable health care, we can’t help but wish that Obamacare had been passed years and years ago. Just…
Tom Wolfe’s newest book, Back to Blood, is set for publication in October. But you won’t have to wait for the satirist’s Miami Book Fair International appearance in November to get to know the stories behind its creation.Blood Lines, a documentary tracing Wolfe’s steps as he researched the book around…
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…
