Coconut Grove Art Festival Comes Back Bigger Than Ever This Weekend

Miami’s longest-running art showcase is back and bigger than ever. The 51st-Annual Coconut Grove Art Festival opens this weekend, and they’ve been busily preparing to welcome 380 local, national, and international artists, plus an expected 150,000 attendees. Not bad for a gathering that started as a “clothes-line” show. This is…

Lose Yourself in Your Madness

“Joni Mitchell said singing, crying, and laughing all come up out of the same need, so I think that’s what art is for,” Erykah Badu muses before the emotional music cues. It’s all part of the moving trailer for Red Bull’s latest feature film, What Difference Does It Make? It’s…

MVP of the MPC

Modern dance music is plagued with hacks. Some of the biggest DJs in the world play to crowds of tens of thousands and bring home even more in greenbacks, and they aren’t even doing much but pressing Play. The forums and blogs are full of whispers of ghost-writing and other…

Artopia 2014: Limited-Time $12 Tickets via Voice Daily Deals

We here at Cultist are running around the editorial floor raving mad with preparations for the sixth annual Miami New Times Artopia celebration. Our yearly bash brings the brightest stars of the Miami art, fashion, music and performance scenes together for one fabulous night of decadence and entertainment. Tickets are…

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

This week was hard. You started with a hangover the size of the Super Bowl, but you trudged through and finally, you’ve made it to the Promised Land. The weekend is upon us! This weekend, the whole world assembles upon Sochi, Russia for what the next icy edition of athletic…

Art on the Macro and Micro Scale

This Friday, the Coral Gables Museum (285 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables) is proud to unveil two new exhibits: one that takes a close look at our own city, and another that focuses on something that matters to everyone worldwide. “Marking the Millennium: 21st Century Miami Architecture” turns a figurative microscope…

Winter Has Never Been Hotter

Friends of Dorothy, stop clicking your heels. Miami Beach is your home sweet home all week long, because Winter Party is back. If you missed the kickoff Wednesday, don’t fret. The festival is packed with official events through Monday. Whether it’s cultural events, wild nightlife, foodie gatherings, or just plain…

Taste of the Town

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is right around the corner, but aren’t you hungry now? Miami has so many great tastes to offer without a slew of out-of-towners clogging our streets. We can throw our own delicious celebration right now, and that’s exactly what the Palette Miami Festival…

Songs in the Key of Cole

It’s almost Valentine’s Day. Do you know where you’ll take your sweetheart? If you’re still scrambling for the perfect plan, consider celebrating early with a romantic serenade by contemporary R&B diva Keyshia Cole. Let your girl know she’s “Heaven Sent” with a night of musical merriment she won’t soon forget…

Cabaret Culture

Some people say life is a cabaret, but who knows what those wild ruffians are talking about? Our lives are way more mundane, and most employers don’t appreciate if you show up to work in late-19th-century French garb. Luckily, Coral Gables Art Cinema (260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables) is helping…

III Points Festival Announces Dates for 2014

III Points is coming back. Yes, 3P Productions had so much fun with this past year’s inaugural three-day celebration of art, music and technology that a 2014 edition’s already in the works — but not without a few changes. Instead of Thursday to Saturday, the fest will span the weekend…

Ten Best Female DJs

We here at Crossfade recently got all up in the EDM scene’s face about its lack of respect for the ladies. And part of our argument was that women who rave don’t get the love they deserve, even though some of the finest talent in the game comes equipped with…

Red Bull Guest House Announces Label Showcases for WMC and MMW 2014

Brace yourselves, a hurricane of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week posts are coming. We’re kicking off the season with an announcement from one of the newest yet most critically acclaimed events of March’s musical madness. The Red Bull Guest House premiered last year in a big way when…

New Theatre Moves into New Home at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center

There’s a new theater in town. No, really. New Theatre just moved into the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, and the multi-cultural, progressively-minded camp is more than ready for the inaugural production in its new home, David Caudle’s Visiting Hours. Not actually “new” at all, the theater has entertained Miami…

Disclosure and Nine Other Acts That Could Save EDM

Listen up, people. If you still think EDM is exciting and fresh, that’s a sign you’re a newb. The rest of us have been at this party way past our bedtimes, and we keep checking our watches like, Are you done yet? But just when we were about to pay…

Miami’s Five Best Electronic Music Labels

Are you tuned in to the constant hum of these streets? It’s steady bass pounding into the night. It’s a tinny hi-hat on repeat. It’s the indefinite groove of Miami. But who’s supplying the rhythm that our city dances to? Who’s carving a giant 305 into the side of the…