In Cuban Ballet, author Octavio Roca utilizes words and lush photographs to tell the story of Alicia Alonso, Cuba’s most prominent prima ballerina and choreographer (and also one of the most powerful women aligned with the island’s government). The author, son of a former Havana ballerina, also explores the lives…
Choo! Choo! That’s the sound of the No Shave November train, and we’re riding it all month long. Last week, we met a dude who’ll outfit your cerveza bottle with a mini mustache, and today we’re testing your beard and/or mustache knowledge. The above four are no brainers, right? There’s…
In honor of our People Issue, which will hit newsstands and computer screens November 25, 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. 78. Agustina WoodgateAgustina Woodgate is a true mixed-media artist…
When you meet Jim Drain, make sure to look up. Not just at his height, but at the lofty accomplishments he’s made in the contemporary art world. The Cleveland-born artist has lived in Miami since 2004, after receiving an invitation to exhibit alongside Ara Peterson at the Moore Space (it…
For what would turn out to be one of his last multidisciplinary productions, the late, great modern dance innovator Merce Cunningham tapped the then-24-year-old artist Daniel Arsham to create the sets for eyeSpace in 2007. The result was a delicate, ephemeral work that was visually stunning and that would tour…
Unbelievably dramatic story lines and offscreen scandals keep WWE’s chairman and CEO, Vince McMahon, high on the list of douchiest people on the planet. Former wrestling superstars have accused him of sexual harassment, strong-arming business deals, and not giving a shit about employees. But he has also built a multibillion-dollar…
Life on the road is often brutal, yet the idea of surviving on the edge of society has always fascinated artists. Case in point: Miami Contemporary Dance Company opens the season with two works inspired by wandering people. The troupe brings back a crowd favorite with “Black,” a movement from…
Tamara Drewe and the comedy of going plastic in a rustic world
Morning Glory: Rachel McAdams is married to her job and loving it
Edwidge Danticat moved from Haiti to the United States when she was 12 and draws on that immigrant experience, filled with history, suffering, and love to portray the complex realities of past and present Haiti. At 41 she has written more than ten books and dabbled in several different genres,…
Out of the half a million soldiers who passed through Miami Beach before shipping out for World War II, hundreds were stationed at the Betsey Hotel on Ocean Drive. For Veterans Day, the Betsy Hotel is again catering to service men and women with “Honor Our Veterans” and “Nothing Can…
The old adage that it’s hard for a team to win if it can’t score has become something the Florida Panthers have taken seriously this season. Led by Marty Reasoner, Mike Weaver, and Dennis Widemen, the Panthers’ stifling defense has allowed only four goals on power plays this season. That’s…
Yeah, you probably have your own ideas about what a NASCAR race is: 40 cars making left turns for three hours. Right? Not quite. Well, there can be as many as 43 cars on the track, and the Ford 400 is no ordinary race. The stakes are much higher this…
Meghan McCain loves punk rock, supports environmentalism and gay marriage, and thinks the government should stay out of people’s lives. And she maintains she’s a Republican, all while calling Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, and Christine O’Donnell a bunch of dumbasses. Could the next wave of the Grand Old Party…
Screw Cee Lo Green; Buika is the real soul machine. Of course, she’s not actually a soul singer or even a neo-soul vocalist. She’s not a jazz singer or a flamenco singer. She doesn’t do copla (a form of Spanish popular song). Nor is she, strictly speaking, a Latin singer…
“We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed,” Patti Smith writes in her memoir, Just Kids, chronicling her life with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. They were the perfect punk-bohemian power couple, and they lived a…
When your kicker is the team’s MVP, you know something is wrong. Yet it’s been that kind of season for the Miami Dolphins. It’s been that kind of decade, actually. The Fins are ranked 28th in the league in scoring this season. They have no problem moving the ball into…
In 2008, a mountain of a man with a thick, frightening beard went viral on YouTube by pummeling similarly sized and equally scary men in Perrine. That man, Kimbo Slice, gained a cult following and eventually headlined a mixed martial arts fight card at the BankUnited Center on the University…
A few years ago, porn-seeking perverts with colonialist ambitions began stumbling onto the wrong mail-order bride website. Presenting itself as a “source for meeting a nice, subservient Asian bride,” BigBadChineseMama.com proceeded to break down sexual politics, racial stereotypes, and power structure via pictures of ass-kicking females above testimonials such as,…
For all the glittering Hollywood names attached to blockbuster hit The Social Network, its millions of fans are absorbing a story first told by one man: author Ben Mezrich. Mezrich’s best-selling tome about Facebook, The Accidental Billionaires, casts the story of the über-popular site — from founder Mark Zuckerberg’s lady-hating,…
When Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections was published in 2001, the literary world treated him like a god. Author Bret Easton Ellis declared the novel “one of the three great books of my generation.” It won the National Book Award and was shortlisted for dozens of other literary honors. Nine years…
“What is this shit?” That’s how rock critic Greil Marcus opened his review of Bob Dylan’s album Self Portrait in Rolling Stone 40 years ago. Marcus has since become one of America’s premier cultural critics and has penned much prose that is both probing and poetic, but those four words…
