With the Miami International Film Festival, South Beach Comedy Festival, and Fashion Week this weekend, it’s going to be tough to choose which to attend. We thought we’d make your decision a little easier by giving away two free tickets to Mad Cat Theatre’s production of The Preservation Society, part…
Think back to the last day of fifth grade before summer hit. You were so delirious with joy you chewed through the pink erasers on your no. 2 pencils, practically pulled out your pigtails from your pre-pubescent cranium, and ripped tiny tears in your Mead composition book. Adults rarely get…
Who doesn’t all want another excuse to go drinking and misbehaving during the work week? Such is the allure of kickball leagues in Miami and across the country. That and finding intelligent women! The sport is thriving and there are several leagues in Miami-Dade sponsored by World Adult Kickball Association…
One day, you wake up and realize you’ve done nothing creative since writing that love poem to your college girlfriend, that your current relationship is codependent, and that you hate your parents even though they seem to like you enough. What separates the successfully creative from yourself? Pretty much nothing…
Miami has given burlesque a bit of a bad name. So thinks Erika Moon, who has arrived from France to show us a thing or two about how it’s done in a “classy, elegant way,” she says. Moon is inaugurating the Evolution of Burlesque tonight and Friday at the Colony…
Sex in Miami is a lot like the city’s heavy humidity. It’s omnipresent, suffocating (if done right), and always leaves you sweating. So when we found out that local porn studio Reality Kings filmed a porn movie on Monument Island, home of the Henry Flagler Memorial — well, we weren’t…
If there’s one constant to the responses in our ongoing list of Miami 100 Creatives, it’s that the urge to create is a compulsion and not a choice. Video artist Cristina Molina referred to her motivation as a dark undercurrent, a tugging. Artist Jim Drain mentioned that without his artistic…
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Valentine’s Day is two weeks away. Good luck getting dinner reservations this late in the game. And those online gifts you bought, chances are they won’t arrive until February 15. But before you buy roses and cheap chocolates like every other amateur Casanova, Cultist is here to help stoke the…
Don’t get us wrong, we think creating bike lanes on any street is a smart and safety conscious decision. But Washington Avenue on South Beach? Lord help us! If there’s one street that attracts the I-just-popped-three-bottles-at-LUX Nightclub-set, then it has to be Washington Avenue. Perhaps city officials believe that a…
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Some of us are really attached to our astrological signs. We’re proud of being majestic Leos, stubborn Tauruses, and extroverted Aries. However, according to astronomer Parke Kunkle (yes, that is his real name), you may be fronting the wrong sign.Kunkle has declared that there are actually 13 zodiac signs instead…
Dan Savage is known for being, well, a dick. Week after week his column “Savage Love” (featured in the New Times), tells confused advice seekers to DTMFA (dump the mother fucker already). From his advice to people with cheating spouses, sexual kinks, STDs, and so on, you really would think…
The session is over. You smile and promise to come regularly. She puts on a tight grin waiting for you to get out of her space. You try to start a post-session conversation hoping the next time she’ll give you a big discount, because you were such a great pet…
Dear Kim Kardashian: There’s something that’s been bothering us about you lately. No, it’s not your budding “music” career, your fragrance, diet pill endorsements, or the fact that you’re famous for getting manicures, lunch, and having a nice ass. Nor is it because you’re such a shamless media whore that…
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The Fort Lauderdale drag queen scene is putting Miami’s to shame lately. (Seriously, where are Miami’s drag shows? Where is our Lips?) So we were pleased to see so many queens at last night’s Lords Hotel opening. In case you’ve been snoozing on your LBGT news, this is the only…
There’s nothing quite as titillating as indulging your base instincts in the name of art. When high brow and low brow mix deliciously nobody knows exactly where the night will end. We believe in the notion some much that we’ve even devoted a special party to the concept and this…
When describing her seemingly unglamorous and difficult job — maintaining Wynwood’s streets — Glendina Roseborough said, “it is rewarding, because it gives me my independence back.” Before last year, she struggled to find employment and soon found herself without a home. Now, only a year later, she’s thriving, along with Shawntina…
Just a small town girl. Living in a lonely world. She took the midnight train going anywhere. Just a city boy…Don’t stop believing. Despite the fact that your hair band days are now 20 years behind you, you can cling to your Freebirding glory days with the touring arena-rock love…
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Last night, cyclists, business owners, and party crashers enjoyed drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and a floating bike at the pre-launch party for DecoBike, a new bicycle sharing program. The green carpet event at the Shore Club offered a first look at the two wheels that will be the newest way to get…
