Hey lady, you’ve been working hard. Don’t you think you’ve earned a night out with the girls? A night on the town doesn’t have to be expensive, especially not with the Voice Daily Deal on the South Florida Women’s Expo, on sale now for your enjoyment Friday, May 9. There’s…
It was a big night for South Florida theater as a year’s worth of blood, sweat, and tears paid off at the 38th-Annual Carbonell Awards, held at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. All in all, Miami-Dade County ran the show with a total of nine awards, but it…
We’ve all seen them. They’re gorgeous, perfectly unattainable beauties with grace, poise, and loads of talent. They’re the go-go dancers of Ultra Music Festival, and they’re dressed in fantastic costumes, floating from the rafters, and charming the crowd from lofty pedestals flanked by fire and lasers. But who are these…
A pent-house suite, half-drunken champagne, and dildos greet you on stage before the performance even begins, and the first word of the play is a four-letter word for sex. No, this is not just any play, it’s Clark Gable Slept Here, a lively, scandalous peek into the dark and seedy…
What is it about Ultra Music Festival that makes the young kids go crazy? Can this year’s UMF top the twin weekends of 2013? Does it live up to the hype? What’s better: PLUR or molly? These are the hard-hitting questions that we asked the brave souls of Ultra 2014…
Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival have always been the place where new dance music records, artists, and genres are broken and made. If your track catches fire at Ultra, you’re guaranteed to have the best year of your career so far. Play your cards right, and you’ll definitely…
Beats, beauties, bass, booties, brawn, bras, and some valuable life experience. That’s what it takes to make an Ultra Music Festival, as far as a fashionista is concerned. You’ve never seen anything like the get-ups these people wear for their get-down. Luckily, you don’t need to go to Ultra to…
Ultra Music Festival is nothing if not gnarly. The beats are gnarly, the people are gnarly, the portable toilets are gnarly. It’s stank-face city, bro. But even more than the sight of no toilet paper, it’s those dirty beats — dutch, dub, or otherwise — that make us twist our…
We all know the words to the song. But is Rihanna telling the truth? Is it really possible to find love in a hopeless place? Ultra Music Festival can sometimes seem to be as hopeless a place as any for finding a true connection. You’re lucky just to find toilet…
Hey! We know you’ve likely been partying for days on end, but don’t go to sleep just yet. It’s Friday, and with it comes the final weekend of Winter Music Conference 2014. Plus, it’s the official kick-off of Ultra, and that noise is going to keep you up regardless. But…
Q: What’s the best part about Twitter? A: It’s not Facebook – or is it? A little birdy over at Business Insider told us the social media giant is considering doing away with the beloved “Retweet” in favor of a very Zuckerbergian “Share” option, and we think that’s just kind…
Will robots be the undoing of humanity? Will our technologic tools turn us into mindless drones? Are robots already hiding among us, making legal decisions in our Supreme Court? We here at Cultist love our robot overlords, so we’re going to say that everything will be just fine. Of course,…
The 305 helped invent modern dance music. In the late 1970s, Henry Stone’s TK Records, headquartered in Hialeah, pumped out disco hit after disco hit from KC & the Sunshine Band, even introducing the word “booty” into the pop lexicon. Today, Miami party music is still making asses shake. And…
And the award for best new event at Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week goes to… OWSLA’s new Good Times, a two-day backyard bonanza smack dab in the middle of Wynwood, featuring once-in-a-lifetime collaborative sets from the most exciting names on the dance scene. WMC and MMW is exciting…
It’s not unusual for a stand-up comic to put himself down, but no one has really taken an audience through their entire life story – ups and downs, and drunken nights, and regrettable mistakes, and evil encounters with others – quite in the way John Leguizamo is about to on…
No, it’s not a dream. You’ve made it to another weekend. The forecast, according to our window, is bright, blue, and brilliant. Let’s soak up the sun with some fun outdoor activities. At night, there’s plenty of cultural offerings this Saturday and Sunday, from plays to orchestral performance, and more…
The Caribbean has given the world many cultural wonders — bright and colorful patterns, frenzied dance moves, jerk seasoning — but it’s uniquely laid-back and fun-loving dub and reggae musical styles have taken hold of the world in ways most genres never can. Reggae is international, and part of the…
When you hear “family reunion,” you might imagine a barbecue in a park attended by dozens of screaming children and an uncle who drinks too much. Some crappy boombox blasts radio tunes, piercing the boredom like a plastic spork through mac ‘n’ cheese. But what if we took away the…
For true 305ers, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week can seem like tourist hour. Oh, so you wanna come to South Beach, watch a bunch of national acts, and then go home to the shitty snow and talk about how much you “love Miami”? But if you’re lookin’ for…
They say winter is depressing and spring is the season of love, but it seems Florida’s endless summer keeps the fire burning a little too hot for any passions to run wild. According to datA collected by the American Community Survey and calculated by the Daily Beast, four of the…
After a whirlwind week and a half, the 31st Miami International Film Festival is in the can. We enjoyed tons of great films from the 97 features screened. We helped shine a spotlight on some local talent, attended some world and regional premieres, even snagged some red carpet chats with…
If everybody’s working for the weekend, then these are the moments we live for. Thank goodness it’s Friday, and with that comes another action-packed weekend of free and fancy events alike, because this city knows how to make the most of a couple days off. While the rest of the…
