Think the cast of Cirque du Soleil battles urban street dancers and you have Cirque Éloize iD. Contemporary cirque director Jeannot Painchaud brings the production to the Ziff Ballet Opera House starting Tuesday for an unusually long run that lasts until September 4. Sixteen artists hailing from seven different countries…
Do cool things happen in Miami? Yes. Simply click “more” to read the ten best things to do this weekend. For more in depth proof, though, read the Atlantic’s “In Miami, an Alternative Cultural Renaissance” by frequent Cultist contributor Liz Tracy. It surveys how our city has emerged into a…
If you’re not Cuban, you probably have a Cuban friend who keeps you in stitches with his or her unique observations and off-color comments. Enter Pepe Billete. Pepe has become the 305’s favorite Cuban puppet gone viral. Billete takes songs you know and love, such as those by Rick Ross,…
Fashion Breakdown: Top and earrings bought on her last NYC trip, shorts by Holister, belt by Diesel, sneakers Adidas, and bag by Michael Kors…
El Malentendido, the International Hispanic Theatre Festival’s Spanish-language version of Albert Camus’s dipped-in-irony-titled play The Misunderstanding, opened last night at the Arsht Center. The production, translated into Spanish and directed by Mario Ernesto Sanchez, is awash in melodrama and overwrought performances. But that’s a good thing. Led by the electric Neher Jacqueline…
From our time in Miami, we’ve learned that if your place of business lasts more than six months, you’re doing pretty well. And really, it’s the same way in reality TV. If you last one season, well, you’re doing better than most shows that come out of the 305. (Miami…
As if we weren’t already choking on pseudo-reality television, executive producer Jennifer Lopez has decided to throw another reality series into an already inundated TV line up. South Beach Tow, which premiered last night, chronicles the profession of the Ashenoff family: Robert Sr., his daughter Christie, and son Robert Jr.,…
The Miami City Ballet is enjoying its biggest success in 25 years — or so artistic director Edward Villella told the Miami Herald this past week. He was responding to fantastic reviews of MCB’s three-week season in a historic Parisian theater, where –according to international dailies Le Monde and Financial…
We just finished with Swim Week. Fashion Week comes at the end of winter/start of spring. And everyday in the Magic City seems like an exercise in a city-wide catwalk – what with all the fashionistas strutting around with mostly ridiculous duds. But what if you’re a regular Joe who…
Magnus Sigurdarson has always been a bit of a maverick in his multi-varied art practice, creating works ranging from photography exploring notions of identity to massive installations employing eight tons of salt and industrial fans to recreate an Icelandic tempest. In recent years we have seen imagery of the conceptual…
Just as during Art Basel Miami Beach and Ultra, thousands of non-Miamians descended on the 305 for this past weekend’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim. Our city’s street fashion got a sudden injection from the trends popping up all over world. But there were not a ton of surprises. The well-dressed…
Miami is more than a sum of its parts. It seems that the guys from Mupalia Pictures, Alexander Jaramillo and Joaquin Escobar, intend to reveal that truth to the world.Sick of Hollywood’s trite depictions of our sweltering city, Jaramillo and Escobar want to give voice to all the unique stories…
Artist Rivane Neuenschwander flows into MAM
Ribbons From Brazil
A new MAM exhibit artfully presents tradition and flowing water.
Captain America ignores its roots for easy money
The Big Uneasy: New Orleans’s enemy wasn’t Katrina
Passione: John Turturro’s Neapolitan musical adventure
El Malentendido at the Arsht Center through July 24
Masked at GableStage through August 7
See Jane Run at Actors’ Playhouse through August 14
Leave it to Miami Beach to have its own sex museum. OK, fine, erotic art museum. The World Erotic Art Museum sits in nondescript brilliance, ensconced in the surrounding South Beach splendor. Beginning Monday, the museum will devote space to artist Norman J. Olson for the exhibit “Nudes: Erotic, Poetic,…
There’s nothing like finding love in a laundromat. Especially when it’s set to snazzy dance moves and oldies music. Suds, which is launching the opening of the new Miami Beach Stage Door at the Byron Carlyle Theatre in North Beach, is a bubbly musical comedy about three teenage girls trying…
Nickelodeon is bringing back the ’90s. TeenNick’s new “The 90s Are All That” series begins this Monday at midnight and will run until 4 a.m. We haven’t been this excited over TV news in years. The channel is resurrecting shows like All That, Kenan and Kel, Double Dare, Rocko’s Modern…
