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…
How awesome would it have been if comedian Demetri Martin were our fifth-grade teacher? Maybe then we would’ve grown up to be entertaining, witty, and interesting. But instead God gave us Mr. Wiener, some bald jerk with a lazy eye who seemed to hate children almost as much as he…
Whether you’ve seen her on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Chelsea Lately, or VH1’s oddly addictive I Love the ’70s/’80s/’90s series, comedian Loni Love has been part of your pop culture channel surfing. And Love’s signature, smart-ass stand-up recently landed her a one-hour Comedy Central special called America’s Sister,…
Cultist recently asked veteran comic Paul Mooney about what he thinks about the dreaded n-word. A few days later, Dr. Laura used it on her radio show, citing that black comics use it all the time. Today, it was announced that Dr. Laura is losing her show over her n-word…
Most people associate open-mike poetry nights with tie-dye, sneaky hits from Pyrex bowls, crusty flip-flops, and the stink of patchouli. But the Bohemia Room at Vlada Lounge is the “Boom Boom Pow” version of those hippie nightmares. Sure, there’ll be some political ranting, but it’ll likely be followed by Marvin…
You motherfuckers should be ashamed of yourselves. A 69-year-old demigod of comedy comes to town and stages a four-day hostile takeover at the Improv, but still you can’t find the time or energy to step away from your reality TV and Twinkies? Shit … Seeing Paul Mooney — in person!…
Like a cackling alarm clock, Paul Mooney really knows how to wake a motherfucker up. On page seven of Mooney’s memoir, Black Is the New White, about his 40 years on the outer edge of Hollywood, he recalls: “I’m sliding into a booth in a coffee shop on Santa Monica…
Have you ever wondered what your parents were up to while you were away at sleepovers? If you haven’t even considered the thought, lest it involve disturbing images of blindfolds and whips, consider your parents among the fortunate ones. Because often, in those rare moments of calm between washing crayon…
