To quote No. 36 in our list of 50 reasons to love living in Miami, “Ain’t no party like an Art Walk party.” On the Second Saturday of every month, from 7 to 10 p.m., we throw our own mini Art Basels — that’s why we’re so good at it…
With the Miami Book Fair within reach and fresh off being named the ninth dumbest city in America, we feel compelled to wear our literacy on our sleeves — as in shoulder to elbow ink. In case you haven’t noticed, pop culture is riding a wave of lit tattoos, and…
Literary wunderkind behind the book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, the publishing house McSweeney’s, the magazine The Believer, and the literacy project 826 Valencia, Dave Eggers will roll into the Miami Book Fair this Saturday. At 11:30 a.m., he’ll discuss his latest, Zeitoun, his account of a true story…
Now that Art Basel is a mere three weeks away, we should all link up in a human centipede chain and get protective of our local art scene. We’re all for the hoity-toity art fair and the strange spin off events (Alexander McQueen-designed rug anyone? Hello Kitty pop-up shop? Why…
Oh, Miami. We’ve been adulterous with our thoughts. We’ve been secretly pining for other cities, romanticizing their street markets. When the lights go off, we dream of going in and out of the aisles of London’s Spitalfields Market and running our fingers over smooth ceramic jewelry at Brooklyn Flea. A…
Caught up in the whirlwind of Art Basel is a traveling rug exhibit that involves the late, great Alexander McQueen – the David Foster Wallace of the fashion world. The British designer took his own life last February after an extended battle with depression, and haute couture suffered a huge…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
Out of the half a million soldiers who passed through Miami Beach before shipping out for World War II, hundreds were stationed at the Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive. Of course, this was long before the South Beach strip was one big, booty-shaking, dance party, so the they actually got…
Now that Art Basel is a mere three weeks away, we should all link up in a human centipede chain and get protective of our local art scene. We’re all for the hoity-toity art fair and the strange spin-off events, which follow it around like a piece of TP stuck…
Seeing Jerry Seinfeld’s stand-up is like having Tom Brokaw come over to your house and read you the evening news. It’s something you’ve willingly enjoyed with the masses, but there he is, just 15 feet in front of you, trying to make the smallest of chortles rupture up from your…
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.82. Colin Foord This December, when a giant, purple coral…
Ira Glass was just telling us about psych experiments where baby monkeys were smacked around and rejected by fake moms and then the young primates became obsessed with winning back their robot mother’s love. It was the “Unconditional Love” episode of This American Life and, much like the others in…
This weekend marks Wynwood’s last Second Saturday Art Walk before Art Basel. At Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts (2043 N. Miami Ave., Miami), Brooklyn artist Michael Scoggins taps into the playful doodling from school days via his enlarged notebook paper pieces in “#1 Fan.” Using bubble-letter scribbles and exaggerated exclamation points,…
The 27th annual Miami Book Fair International begins this Sunday and runs through November 21. Though most of the big names make appearances late next week, there are a few highlights on the festival’s front end too. Perhaps the strangest choice in the author lineup is George W. Bush, who…
No Miami graffiti column would be complete without this highly-visible mural on 37th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. Miami’s Daniel Fila has been adding and subtracting from this wall over the years, with the approval of building owner Chad Oppenheim. First it was a 13-foot-tall naked woman viewed from behind. But…
Brace yourselves: We’re about to broach a topic rarely, if ever, discussed on a culture blog: rugs. And we’re not talking double entendres here, but the actually floor coverings bought and walked on. Caught up in the whirlwind of Art Basel is a traveling rug exhibit that involves the late,…
Ballet fans and indie heads often sit on opposite sides of the aisle. But this weekend, they’ll be tempted to mix company when Miami City Ballet performs The Golden Section, choreographed by Twyla Tharp and scored by David Byrne. A couple of years after founding Talking Heads and a few…
Sad news, guys. One of our favorite art shows during Art Basel is a no-go this year. A month shy of their press preview on November 30, Photo Miami has announced that the art fair has been canceled. Last year, we swooned over their “A Year of Magical Thinking,” and…
Ballet dancers and indie heads often sit on opposite sides of the aisle. But this weekend, they’ll be tempted to mix company when the Miami City Ballet performs The Golden Section, choreographed by Twyla Tharp and scored by David Byrne. A couple of years after founding Talking Heads and a…
