It’s hard not to love a Jersey/Miami-brewed comedian. Especially one that makes jokes about white people’s response to his black family skiing (“Are those bears?”) and being mistaken as smart because of his glasses (“You look like you went to college. No, I went to Pearl Vision.”). And after years…
We all grew up with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Whether we read the book, watched the movies, or caught a theatrical production of the age-old story, a holiday season didn’t get by us without Ebeneezer Scrooge making an appearance. And whatever your preferred method of dosing on Dickens was,…
FGO’s Turandot: Ridiculous and beautiful
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,…
When Miami Contemporary Dance Company artistic director Ray Sullivan decided to research the life of migrant workers for his new piece, Harvest Voice, he was more interested in the workers’ dreams than in the working conditions in the Homestead fields. “As we know there are no borders for dreams,” he…
This weekend, the Florida Grand Opera opened their season with Turandot. As the plot goes: In Peking, there’s a princess named Turandot who will wed the first royal suitor to answer three riddles correctly. Suitors who fail will be beheaded. The iffy cost-benefit analysis has, alas, not dissuaded many suitors. …
From Les Cage Aux Folles to Urinetown, Actor’s Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre puts on some pretty varied fare. Starting November 17, the theater is going old-school with Oliver!, a Tony Award-winning musical about that lovable little scamp, Oliver Twist. Stealing hearts as easily as he picks pockets, Oliver could…
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…
The House of Yes and No Exit depict two versions of hell
Merce Cunningham was hip before his time. The choreographer’s spectacular collaborations with off-the-mainstream-grid musicians and artists such as John Cage, Bruce Nauman, and Sonic Youth, broke all boundaries and changed dance forever. In one of his last multidisciplinary pieces before his death, Merce tapped Miami visual artist Daniel Arsham to…
In the Cirque du Soleil production Kooza, an extremely naive, melancholy character known as the Innocent finds himself unable to launch a kite. Instead of giving up, he initiates a Fight Club-esque mental illusion in which a trickster appears in a box and begins to command the world using a…
Maybe the name Godfrey doesn’t immediately ring a bell (and no, it’s not Gilbert Godfrey). Ever seen Soul Plane? Phat Girlz? Zoolander? Cheslea Lately? We’re going to guess to answer “yes” to at least three out of the four. Well, the sexy comedian himself that has been featured in all…
Lisa Lampanelli, the insult comic dubbed “The Lovable Queen of Mean” and the belle of many celebrity roasts, is performing tomorrow night at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Cultist caught up with Lampanelli, as she lounged on a swooning couch at home in New York, to ask her a few mind-numbing/profound…
You can view Lewis Carroll’s classic story Alice in Wonderland through many different lenses. There’s the Disney scope, which renders it an innocent, happily ending tale; the acid-laced goggles that focus on Alice’s trippy hallucinations of grinning cats and anxious white rabbits; and the philosopher’s view, which sees the deep…
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…
When we heard that Miami comedian Daniel Reskin (of Casa de Ha-Ha) was headed to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington D.C., we strapped a mike on him and equipped him with a head cam. OK no, not really. We just asked him to tell us what…
The folks at Naked Stage are always trying to one-up themselves. First, they held their innovative fourth annual 24-Hour Theatre Project, in which local thespians had 24 hours to write, rehearse, and present a play. They followed with the recent premiere of Flashlight Tales — an open-mike night for scary…
A Behanding in Spokane at GableStage: Violence is all that matters
via russellandrews.comDirector Russell Andrews”Yeah, I bet I disgust some of you black women out there, but every boy out there on them streets wants to be just like me. A player. An entrepreneur of bodies.” That’s a line from the pimp character in the Diary Of Black Men: How to…
It used to be that if you lived in Miami-Dade, you better get to downtown if you wanted to get some culture in you. Even much of the recent growth has been central, with the Design District, Wynwood, and Coral Gables the main beneficiaries. But those days will soon be…
We would call New Times Best Comedian of 2010 Jessica Gross and Borscht Film Festival braintrust member Andrew Hevia a power couple in the Miami arts scene if we weren’t above such crass labeling. Luckily for us, their union has finally produced a creative endeavor: the hysterically raunchy Gross-produced, Hevia-written/directed…
MTT and Ted Arison lighting the Lincoln’s marquee in 1989.Think before you snub classical music. Researchers tracked a group of dementia patients and as their gray matter went limp, their musical tastes jumped from Beethoven to Beiber. Digging symphony is not only proof that have brains, though, it may also…
