You can take the lawyer out of law school, but you can’t take law school out of the lawyer. Attorney-turned-artist Ellen Harvey puts art cliché on trial. She infamously took the idea of landscapes to task when she painted oil pastorals among NYC’s graffiti tags and concrete pylons. Next she…

As Duke Ellington said, “Jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.” This weekend, WDNA 88.9 FM has dedicated a whole film festival to such characters hopped up on hooch and horns. The 14th annual Miami Jazz Film Festival will open…

The last thing you wrangled was probably a TPS report, but it wasn’t so long ago that most Floridians made their living on steeds and heifers. HistoryMiami just opened “Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition,” which is infinitely more interesting than it sounds. Turns out Florida was the first…

Spotted over on 24th Street and NW 1st Court, this big boy dwarfs the surrounding Wynwood neighborhood. Have a graffiti tip for us? Send addresses and descriptions to cultist@miaminewtimes.com…

Kanako Sasaki’s Yellow Leotard​Like Alice in Wonderland fallen down the rabbit hole, artist Kanako Sasaki finds herself alone in beautiful spaces. The Japanese artist is often the subject in her photo exhibit “Wanderlust,” showing through October 30 at Dina Mitrani Gallery. It’s easy to imagine her in pursuit of a…

via YouCallThatArt​Miami and New York City have always been awkward step-siblings. New Yorkers sweep into town, buying up our bad art, visiting grandparents, and pretending like Art Basel was their bright idea. On the other hand, many of Cultist’s writers and readers have spent at least part of their 20s…

​When we compiled a list of ladies appearing in Miami’s graffiti (“Whores to Shrews: A Guide to Graffiti’s Female Archetypes),” we assumed that all that T&A was painted by dudes. We were wrong. We recently spoke with the artist of our Bimbo and Hooker with a Heart of Gold picks,…

Here’s something to chew on: Know why the murder rate took a sudden dip in the 90s? No, it wasn’t stricter gun control laws or more police presence. The lower murder rate was a direct result of legalizing abortion in 1973. According to the authors of bestseller Freakonomics, criminals are…

Screw graduate degrees and career ladders. Everyone knows the best way for a lady to make real cash is to dress tarty and swindle her suitors. But leave it a writer from The Simpsons, David Mirkin, to make this classic plot device more perverse. In his 2001 film, Heartbreakers, a…

Don’t be afraid of “Mörker” — darkness in Swedish and also the name of a new exhibit on display through November 19 at Wynwood’s Calix Gustav Gallery (98 NW 29th St., Miami). There you’ll find Sweden’s Johan Björkegren, whose work is a real palette-cleanser for the Miami art scene. Although…

​Look at you. All this time, you’ve just been subtly snapping at your waiter when impatient for the check. Back in the 90s, though, there were actual video tutorials, complete with slow-mo shots, to teach folks how to take snapping to the extreme. And by extreme, we mean snaps named…

Model Tara Ryze/MLMLME.comFetish Apocalypse on Saturday.​Don King once said “You don’t get nothing from sleep but a dream.” So stay up late this weekend and get up early. There’s lots of merrymaking to get into.FridayThe 305 will be drowning in consumerism and aspiring fashionistas tonight. Check out our guide to…

Centuries before Brad Pitt led a vengeful army of jews onscreen in Inglourious Basterds, rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel hatched a monster avenger to protect Prague ghettos. As the legend goes, he molded clay from the Vltava River, spoke in tongues, and gave life to an angry golem. This big-fisted…

Amid the cries of Team Jacob and Team Edward, there’s a faction of tweens chanting Team Vlad. That’s right — young adults have come to battle over who has the best vampire books. Stephenie Meyer is charged with making Twilight bloodsuckers too damn emo. There’s way too much talk about…

If Miami had a French Quarter, it would be Stiltsville, the colorful houses built one mile off the coast of Cape Florida. Safely off the grid, girls got naked, men got boozy during Prohibition, and everybody lost a lot of cash at illegal craps tables. But beyond the lewd and…

Just as we expected, we can blame a lot of our emotional baggage on Disney. In a new web comedy series, Advice to Young Girls From a Cartoon Princess, Second City’s Danielle Uhlarik presents nuggets of wisdom from animated classics, and the films’ creepy messages become uncomfortably clear. In The…