Although only a third of the galleries showing at last night’s Miami International Art Fair were local, the hometown work clearly stood out amongst the rows of booths. As fair director Aldo Castillo told our art critic: “I think it’s important to support the galleries developing in your different art…
In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.35. David Josef TamargoIf you are into Miami’s art scene, you would be hard pressed to not have…
Former JFK Secret Service Agent Gerald Blaine is certain that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone on November 22, 1963, when he gunned down the president. But everything that happened since then has been considerably less certain for Blaine and his brethren.When your job is protecting the most powerful man on…
Many of Miami’s creatives are transient, showing up on our shores and disappearing as quickly as the tides. The Art on the Street series will document this overlooked and ever-changing element of South Beach culture.On the northwest corner of the sidewalk outside Walgreen’s on Lincoln Road, a woman’s lanky body…
Fashion Breakdown: 1960s original cat-eye glasses, yellow leopard sweater from Forever21, shirt from Satan’s Youth Ministers band, jeans from Dickies, and One Star Converse shoes…
In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.36. Jillian MayerPerformance and multidisciplinary artist Jillian Mayer had a pretty awesome 12 months. It started with her…
Kiwi Farah, Domingo Castillo, and Patti Hernandez, are space scavengers. These organizers of the progressive nomadic culture-producing project The End/Spring Break, will take your venue, use the crap out of it, make it special, and bring around a rowdy art crowd. This weekend, Miami International Art Fair (MIA) is providing Spring Break with…
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…
Those charged with protecting the President of the United States know that if it comes down to it they must take a bullet to save his life. But what if that bullet comes from the 6th floor of a book depository? And there’s no chance to even make the ultimate…
First there was Marge’s Playboy spread and Simpson’s erotica spoolged all over the internet (who knew Bart has an Oedipus complex or Lisa has a landing strip?). Now LFP video (Larry Flynt Productions) — the same company that brought us the fine cinematic trilogy Inside My Panties 1, 2, and…
Sister duo Vanessa and Jacqueline Barrantes are the Miami/NY masterminds behind Shumaq, a four-year-old successful fashion line inspired by the sisters’ native Peru. While Vanessa works on the creative design aspect of Shumaq, Jacqueline applies her background in economics and international relations to build the brand and assume the role…
Can we talk about boomboxes for a minute? We miss them. We miss the dent they left on our shoulders. We miss how mobile they were while also making a statement. When we walk into a room with our iPod, no one seems to realize that we’ve come to party…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is next Monday, and we want to help you plan the perfect long weekend: Take a trip to the Everglades with Dave Shealy, director of the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters. It’s in Ochopee, a small town just 60 or so miles west of Miami, which…
“The Visionary Eye” Through January 15 at O. Ascanio Gallery, 2600 NW Second Ave., Miami; 305-571-9036; oascaniogallery.com. Thursday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Visionary Eye” features the work of eight contemporary and modern masters, including Jesus Soto, Carlos Cruz Diez, Alejandro Otero, Victor Lucena, Francisco Salazar, Carlos…
Generously bankrolled, then shelved, by an imperiled Weinstein Co. and peopled with Oscar nominees, All Good Things might be called an upscale version of straight-to-cable true crime crap — only that would make it sound more entertaining than it is. The fiction feature debut of Andrew Jarecki, director of 2003’s…
Derek Cianfrance’s divorce drama Blue Valentine is the story of how a couple (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) travels from too-cute introduction to irreconcilable differences in just over half a decade. Starting with the present-day married-with-kid Dean and Cindy, Cianfrance weaves long flashbacks of Dean and Cindy’s early days through…
New look + new chef + new menu = grand opening party for W Wine Bistro. On Saturday the reconstituted Design District wine bar will celebrate all that’s new—like Moorish-style pinchos with cilantro-peanut dip and lime-coconut shrimp with red curry sauce from chef Alvaro del Busto—with DJ Luv. Get a…
The holidays may be over the but the credit card bills and 10 extra pounds remain. If you’re dead broke and fat, you’re pretty much SOL. . . except at the South Beach Whole Foods Market, where chef Sheryn Abalos of the vegan and raw food restaurant, T.H.R.I.V.E. will be…
On January 12, 2010, Haiti was devastated by an earthquake that left 220,000 people dead, 1.5 million homeless, and 19 million cubic meters of rubble and debris in Port-au-Prince. The earthquake also brought people of all kinds together to raise money and contribute man power for relief efforts. One of…
Think before you snub classical music. Researchers tracked a group of dementia patients, and as their gray matter went limp, their musical tastes plummeted from Beethoven to Beiber. Beyond IQ calisthenics, there’s another reason to head to the symphony this week: the New World Symphony’s Opening Concert at its new…
Things have gotten so bad in Eastern Europe that countries such as Moldavia and Albania don’t even have feature-length films anymore. It’s true. The bread lines may be long, but the films are all short. Nah, actually, thanks to the Euro and booming real estate markets, the former Soviet Bloc…
We’ve all seen the grainy and morbid Zapruder film of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963. Imagine what it must have been like to be an actual witness. Now, imagine you were one of those responsible for safeguarding JFK. “There are not many jobs where you can be…
