HIV and AIDS are not pretty subjects. But the way cultures around the world address those subjects just might be. That’s the thinking behind “Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010,” opening Friday at the Wolfsonian-FIU. The museum has rounded up more than 150 AIDS awareness and…
Sean Dorsey is intrigued by tales of love, especially as told by members of an aging gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer (GLBTQ) community. And why not? Those are the stories of people who would have lived through some of the most traumatic, closeted, secretive, and yes, exciting, times in 20th-century…
Jungle Island animal caretakers have proven a suspicion we’ve had all along: Steve Jobs disciples are all just a bunch of trend-happy apes.(That, at least, is what we’re choosing to believe as we type this story out on our slow-ass Dell.)The zoo’s orangutans have been using iPads to learn and…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
Jose Mas, son of the late Cuban exile leader and terrorism supporter Jorge Mas Canosa, will gain a little notoriety the old-fashioned way Friday night when MasTec, the Coral Gables-based company his father started and which he now runs, features on the season finale of Undercover Boss.”Can he live up…
Hello, sailor.The women of the Real Housewives franchise are generally known to be self-obsessed wastes of space whose vanity projects only showcase how talentless they really are. (See Dana Wilkey of the Beverly Hills edition, whose new song is an homage to a pair of sunglasses priced at $25,000. Seriously.)In…
What’s that saying about April showers? Something like “April showers bring hungry undead brain-eaters,” right?That’s how we’ve always heard it. But then, we’re the kind of people who observe Zombie Awareness Month, which just happens to take place in May.We’re already over a week into the month, so that means…
Get ready, hipsters! Tomorrow, RAW makes its Miami debut. No, we’re not talking about professional wrestling. (We learned our lesson on that subject already.) This RAW is kind of like the Avengers, only without the superpowers, assassin-level fighting skills, and flying armored suits. Which is to say, it’s a collection…
Last week, we had to say goodbye to Jaleel White on Dancing With The Stars. Don’t worry Jaleel, you’ve survived this long being a pop cultural footnote, you’re going to be fine! Nevertheless, it’s exciting times here on DWTS as the teams now perform two dances. Plus, this week the…
Last week we asked you, our dedicated Cultist readers, does Royce Reed has daddy issues? Well, after last night’s episode, we think it is safe to say that yes, yes she does. We ended Basketball Wives episode 11 with Miss RR having a severe panic when her father doesn’t approve…
Maurice Sendak was my first real author. Before Dostoevsky and Dickens. Before Fitzgerald and Alice Walker and Hemingway and Lermontov.Now he is gone. And that makes me very sad.Among his last books was The Miami Giant, Written in 1995, it was a send-up of the old people on Miami Beach…
In an age where things like evidence-based medicine and rigorous clinical trials reign supreme, we need something that works. The man known as “European phenomenon” Braco (pronounced Brah-tso) claims to fill that void with the mystical energy of his silent staring.No, really.It was one of the most hilarious things I’d…
View photos of Aqua Girl 2012 at the Surfcomber Hotel here.Anthropologists have long studied the North American lesbian woman, with little to no success in recording accurate data. We at Cultist decided to take to the field and conduct our own anthropologistic-ish study at one of the most popular, well-known,…
While some believe flower children vanished with the advent of the Internet, for many, the Age of Aquarius lives on. Commonly known as hippies, these patchouli-scented throwbacks spread the love wherever they roam. Creatures of the counterculture, they’re most commonly discovered west of the Mississippi — in the streets of…
Quick criticism before we start this Magic City recap: if you’re watching the show for Danny Huston’s insane performance as the Butcher, this episode will be a let down. He’s pretty absent. And sure, all of the other Magic City touchstones are intact: gratuitous nudity, violence, and animal murder. But…
After months of hype, The Webster’s Target collection finally hit stores on Sunday. After the crazy scene that broke out over the Jason Wu for Target collection in February, how would Miami shoppers react to a homegrown collection? We hit the Target at Midtown to see for ourselves.We arrived a…
If you’re a woman who loves women, there’s a good chance you’ve spent the last five days partying your lesbian ass off at the Aqua Girl festivities happening all over Miami Beach. In the same sense, if you enjoy the lady kind, we might also be inclined to think that…
We’re too spent from Saturday night to even attempt clever Cinco de Mayo puns, and you’re probably feeling the same way. Hangovers are still pounding after all the partying, as even people who don’t know or care what the May 5 commemorates were grabbing for Dos Equis. The Most Interesting…
War is the backdrop in Donald Margulies’ stark tale of love and conflict, Time Stands Still, which opened last night at GableStage. The play is ostensibly a study in the impassive cruelty of war through the eyes of a couple drifting towards an uncertain future while fighting to avoid being…
This weekend’s all about winners. Some expensive animal will win the Kentucky Derby. The Miami Vice City Rollers will undoubtedly win their first-ever home game. And as we all send another round of tequila shots into our bellies, we’ll sure as hell feel like winners. Until the next week, anyway…
Roller derby ain’t for sissies, and that applies to spectators as well as skaters (hence the term, “suicide seating”). For most of us, Drew Barrymore’s turn in Whip It is as close to this bad-ass sport as we’ve gotten. But trust us when we say: the Heat’s got nothing on…
One man freed his soul from the prisons of Italian master painters four years ago. One man paints in ribbons and straws and paces by the phases of the moon. One man hijacks Los Angeles billboards to challenge the inane system.All three are featured in an exhibit that made its…
