Unleash the Beasts

Zoo Miami is not quite like other zoos. These are some party animals, and Halloween season is no different. They’re calling all witches, vampires, and ghouls to hang with the tigers, turtles, and kangaroos for a very special Monster Masquerade. The event boasts creepy fun along the zoo paths. You…

Porter Robinson on Debut Album, Worlds, and Outgrowing “the DJ Thing”

The electronic dance music world wasn’t always so obsessed with the age of its DJs. But Chapel Hill, North Carolina native Porter Robinson, who hit the international scene at 17, may have started an industry-wide mania for the so-called “prodigy.” Even tweens are getting record deals in 2014. But how…

Duke Dumont at III Points 2014: A Video Interview

Serious props to III Points. The fest has done an impeccable job of booking world-class musicians and DJs alongside local favorites. But no doubt, one of the biggest names to grace the Mainframe stage this past weekend at Soho Studios was London house hero Duke Dumont. He’s a Grammy-nominated producer…

III Points 2014’s Five Best Miami Acts

We want to give a big fat congrats to everyone who participated in this year’s second-annual III Points music, art, and technology festival. It was a wild few days and nights, and there were a lot of great strides made between this year and the last, one of those being…

III Points 2014 Fashion: Goth Kids Are the New Cool Kids

Fashion isn’t an official thematic prong of the III Points music, art, and technology festival, but it is something to be taken seriously when on festival grounds. Every hipster, scenester, freak, geek, and beauty queen is out to impress, or maybe just to get as weird as possible. We saw…

Kaytranada: “Free Music Runs the World”

There aren’t too many musicians left like Kaytranada, not in the big leagues, anyway. His sound is hard to classify as anything more than head-knockin’, and he loves to break the rules. He makes headlines for his noiseless drops, like the Whatever project, when he just dumped a file of…

A Cancer-Free Phi-LOL-sophy

Cancer sucks, and laughter is the best medicine. The self-billed “breast show you’ll see all year” is set to combine the fight against the deadly disease with top-quality laughs and beer — basically the best idea ever. Drink for a good cause this Saturday at Artistic Vibes Studio (12986 SW…

Nerd Nite at Gramps Is Like TED Talks With Beer

Are you tired of the same old ignant party scene? Do you long for more intelligent conversation while you blast back the brew? Do you dream of the day you can spark up a bar conversation about advancements in biotech with someone who actually gets it? We’re not ashamed to…

The 10 People Who Won’t Make It in Miami

Someone once said, “You go to New York to become someone, you go to L.A. when you are someone, and you go to Miami when you want to be someone else.” We like to think we’re somebody, but it would totally make sense if we found out we had been…

Welcome to the Jungle

Ever get the feeling you’re haunted by Aztecs? No? Do you want to know what that feels like? Of course you do, and Jungle Island (1111 Parrot Jungle Trail, Miami) is giving you that sixth sense just in time for the Halloween season. For 20 nights, the family-friendly ecological park…

Mansion Opens New ’80s-Themed Cocktail Bar

When you think South Beach megaclub, you think excess, sexy dancers, hand-crafted cocktails … Wait, do you? This weekend, SoBe’s Mansion will unveil the Cocktails & Dreams bar as part of its new weekly Mansion Made Me Do It party. The bar is all ’80s wham and glam. And yes,…

Five Ways to Reinvent the Miami-Dade Public Library System

We here at Cultist looooooove libraries, but we’d be lying if we said we stepped foot in one more than once in the past year. Because we are learned, we can identify that as a problem. We’re not really alone. Of the 2,496,435 people in Miami-Dade, only 1,084,841 are registered…

Ultra Music Festival 2015 Tickets on Sale Now

On your mark. Get set. Go score some rave tix. Ultra Music Festival 2015 tickets are officially on sale. So for all those party people who qualify under UMF’s new 18-and-over policy, it’s time to camp in front of the computer and secure a spot at America’s longest-running dance fest…