Lewis Black is a hilarious dude. And not just in his stand-up — though as you’ll see when he hits town for the South Beach Comedy Festival 2012 March 1st, he’s hilarious on stage too. But he’s also funny (and unexpectedly patient) in one-on-one conversation.See, when we heard the perpetually…
It’s Cultist’s favorite February holiday: The Oscars! (Sorry, Presidents Day.) And boy have we been getting prepared. Because no Academy Awards season is complete without a stellar viewing party, we have been racking our movie-lovin’ brains for the best dishes, clothing, and party favors for you to foist upon your…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…
Fashion Breakdown: Top and ring by Rachel Roy; shorts by Anthropologie; stockings by Calvin Klein; booties are Madison Harding from Urban Outfitters; necklace by Betsey Johnson; bag by Envelope Design from Etsy; cell phone case by Kate Spade…
It’s hard out there for a loose lady.Religious leaders and Republicans have once again joined forces against birth control, in in apparent effort to ensure heterosexuals across the land will forever fear unplanned pregnancies, or cease fornicating altogether.Earlier this year, right-wingers put Planned Parenthood in jeopardy, and they’re now making…
Indie rock. Modern dance. Original, immersive theater. These are just a few of the exciting, home-grown talents on display at this year’s Miami Made Festival, taking place March 1-4 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. The best thing about the festival (aside from the performances themselves, of…
Lately, we have been reminded that dance is a fragile art form, as fleeting as life itself. Merce Cunningham’s company disbanded at the end of 2011, a year and half after his death. And Pina, Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated documentary about famed German choreographer Pina Bausch, is a memorial to the…
Remember when the reality TV phenomena was just hitting the scene back in the early 2000s? There was a group of adults surviving on an island, plus those seven strangers still living in a house — and then MTV did something no one had really seen before: brought a real…
This week, Miami promises a number of music, movie, and art events that will keep you entertained and allow you to spend the night out without spending any money. From Miami Beach to Wynwood, South Florida gives you more than enough reasons to take some time off and unwind…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…
Fashion Breakdown: Pants from Top Shop; the rest of the outfit is all from thrift, including the shoes, bow tie, jacket and hat…
Forget those pretentious whispers that SoFi — the area south of Fifth Street — is the chicest neighborhood in South Beach. There’s a fashionable, earthy, and hip crop of local shops emerging on 6th St. between Euclid and Meridian Avenues in “NoFi” (north of Fifth), in what used to be…
View more photos from the grand opening of Art Wynwood here.The inaugural edition of Art Wynwood opened last night and featured some arresting work to celebrate President’s Day weekend. In the newbie fair’s Art Video New Media Lounge, housing 11 works in eight screening rooms, Lindsay Scoggins ranked in at…
Local choreographer and performer Heather Maloney likes to disassemble the ways that we think, see, feel, and move through space. Lately, she and her collaborators Joanne Barrett and Shaneeka Harrell have been conducting experiments in memory. They are deep in the process of building In This Place, a new physical…
For the fashion-minded, today kicks off perhaps the most blissful week of the year. New York Fashion Week is over, having filled our minds with trends and styles of all sorts. And the next big fashion event is right around the corner: The Oscars.Sure, it’s technically Hollywood’s biggest night. But…
Maya Rudolph is returning to Studio 8H to host Saturday Night Live this weekend. It’s the first time the Bridesmaids star will host since her run as a cast member — and the first time she’ll appear on the show since the death of Whitney Houston. And plenty of people…
Loverboy said it best: “Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend/Everybody wants a new romance/Everybody’s goin’ off the deep end/Everybody needs a second chance.” It’s true, y’all. As society, we really are just “workin’ for the weekend,” clocking it at 9 a.m., punching out at 5 p.m., and counting down the minutes…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…
Here’s the United States weather forecast today: It’s raining in Las Vegas, 44 degrees in Chicago, and the East Coast is about to be hit by a snow storm. Now look outside, kids. It’s 77 and sunny. Yeah, this is a pretty great place to live. So instead of leaving…
“Dancer” is a loaded word. It brings to mind images of borderline anorexic women with great posture and mutilated toes, or hyper-sexual booty-licious music video girls, or strippers. But Pina, German director Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated tribute to daring choreographer Pina Bausch, undermines all the stereotypes. And it opens at the…
Have you wondered what J Lo is up to lately?Of course you haven’t. The woman is everywhere: judging American Idol contestants, shilling for Fiat, posing for naked photos with her boyfriend on Twitter. But if you think we’ve hit the Jenny From the Block saturation point, think again. FOX has…
Wynwood pa la pinga!Artist Aholsniffsglue was born in Hialeah. Artist and New Times art critic Carlos Suarez de Jesus was born in Habana. The two Cuban-Americans have forged an alliance based in Little Havana’s Mercenary Square studio gallery that’s exploding onto the scene with Ahol’s first solo show of new…
