How did Cinco de Mayo, a historical date relevant to only one small town in Mexico, get confused with the country’s real independence day? Perhaps because Dieciseis de Septiembre didn’t fit as easily on a beer label. It’s all the more reason to catch the Miami debut of Tania Pérez-Salas…
Us saguesera kids usually get left out of all the cool, hip cultural events going on in Miami due to our geographical disability (not living on the East Side). Lucky for us, with the Bird Road Arts District making a comeback and events like the Hell Yeah Open Mic, it…
Oprah recently made a plea to Jay-Z to stop using the N-word. Jigga Man refused, and comedian Eddie Griffin has the rapper’s back. When it comes to the comic’s very R-rated comedy, you can’t help but notice his love for the term. But when someone is making you laugh that…
ArtSpoken’s Yoshvani Medina.When you think about Latin theater in Miami, productions tailored to your parents and abuelitos probably come to mind. Yoshvani Medina, the director of Artspoken, wants to change that. Medina has dared to fully invest himself in establishing a performing arts center in the middle of Little Havana,…
Flickr CC CowbiteSpin the bottle? Or ghost story time?Remember the nights when you would sit around a campfire with your friends, holding a flashlight under your chin and tell ghost stories? You don’t? True, we don’t usually come across many marshmallow-roasting opportunities in Miami. Well, not to worry. The Naked…
There’s nothing quite as unsettling as a pair of nuts in a pink thong. Well, nothing except two pairs of nuts in two pink thongs.Miami comedy duo, A Pair of Nuts, bravely showed America their man parts while appearing on VH1’s Money Hungry. The sketch duo — Yamil Piedra and…
Photo by Dan Forer via gusmancenter.orgGusman’s starry-skied, gilded interior.The old lady needs some help.The historic Gusman Center for the Performing Arts is in a real bind. And it’s up to the City of Miami (gasp!) to get it out of the fix. Or maybe it’s the City of Miami that…
via faceboookLost and Found OrchestraPandemonium is the symphonic equivalent to Glee. Instead of teenie-boopers breaking out in spontaneous Broadway musicals, this show has pedestrians blowing on traffic cones like they were makeshift French horns. We’re giving away two tickets to opening night of the U.S. premiere of Pandemonium, but you’re…
Rat-a-tat-tat! Crash! Boom! No, it’s not a ten-car pileup on I-95. It’s the latest ear-candy extravaganza from the creators of Stomp, who have put together another show full of inventive uses for everyday stuff. This time, instead of using regular objects to make beats, they use regular objects to create…
If you happen to be clubbing on South Beach this weekend and notice an abnormally high percentage of graciously elegant foreigners on the dancefloor, it might be because the International Ballet Festival of Miami is in town. Dancers from 18 of the world’s most famous ballet companies have descended on…
They’re going to build a international-level performing arts center where? South Miami-Dade County? Yes, specifically in Cutler Bay, formerly Cutler Ridge (before that known as the sticks or boonies). That’s right. It’s coming. And even if the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center is several years behind schedule, county officials are…
In the classic play The Tempest, an usurped Italian duke uses magical powers to shipwreck his treacherous enemies on an isolated island where he has been stranded himself for 12 years. With the help of a supernatural spirit, he enacts a revenge plot that results in the kind of romance,…
Read part one of Cultist’s interview with Carlos Mencia. Last Friday, we asked him about replacing Dave Chappelle, illegal immigrants, and whether he’s a joke thief. With Mind of Mencia now a four-line note in the bloated history of TV comedy, our boy Carlos is plotting his next career move…
Read part two of Cultist’s interview with Mencia. When Carlos Mencia first brought racist road signs, Peter Boyle reading hate mail, and terrorist snacks to the American television audience in July 2005, certain critics slagged him as Comedy Central’s cheap replacement for Dave Chappelle. The formula: Start with a standup-and-sketch format,…
If years of being force-fed Elizabethan English in the classroom has relegated your appreciation of Shakespeare to a reoccurring nightmare in which men in tights attack your grades with swords made out of discarded SparkNotes, allow John Manzelli to change your mind. Trained in classical deconstruction of theatre, which he…
We live in a pretty politically correct world. Luckily for us, there are a few people who don’t give shit about the PC police. Josh Blue is one of those men. You might know Blue from the fourth season of Last Comic Standing, where his win was entirely based on…
There’s a 0.0001% chance that you hate laughter. (BTW that’s called gelotophobia.) If, however, you’re normal, Cultist has a bit of good news: We’re giving away two free tickets to this Sunday’s Best of the South Comedy show. OK, we’re not actually giving them away. You have to win these…
Ever since Dave Chappelle abandoned the throne of funniest person alive, comedians from all over the nation have been vying for the crown. This Sunday, catch some of the candidates when the Best of the South Comedy Tour lands at the James L. Knight Center. The show features staples of…
The lights dim. A couple dressed for a black-tie affair intensely embraces. As the bandoneon hits a sharp note, they quickly turn and gracefully march across the dance floor. It’s easy to imagine that the sensuously elegant dance of tango originated on a high-society ballroom floor in a sophisticated corner…
We all know that local independent theater usually translates to epic fail. Occasionally, though, we are astounded to find that our $20 didn’t go to waste. And ArtSpoken, a new performing arts venue in Little Havana, really delivers with Ulises Cala’s Los Dictados del Fuego, turning its small stage into…
50 Words at GableStage explores ordinary tragedies
In part one of Cultist’s interview with Demetri Martin, you learned the salacious truth about the Jersey joker and his young, eager groupies. “The closest thing I have to a groupie is a teenage guy who wants to be a comedian and wants to talk about being a comedian,” Mr…
