Lit Nerd Gift Guide: Ten Presents for Bookworms

‘Tis the season of consumerism — two weeks of frantic shopping and searching for the perfect gift to prove to your loved ones that you care. In that spirit, Cultist presents a series of holiday gift guides for the cultured snobs on your list. Read on, buy things, and thank…

Tom Tom Magazine’s All-Star Art Basel Showcase at Churchill’s Pub

The crowd at Churchill’s Pub for Tom Tom Magazine’s Basel showcase wasn’t all chicks with drumsticks. But there certainly were many of both. The night opened with an all-female percussion group, Gainesville’s Cave Rave. A cave rave is apparently the opposite of a sausage fest. The place was pleasantly packed…

Nick Cave Comes to Miami with Beats by Dr. Dre and Fendi Casa

​This Art Basel, sound, art, and design are coming together in a fantastic way. Artist, dancer, performer Nick Cave is most well known for his Soundsuits, hypnotic creations that stimulate both visually and aurally. Cave is collaborating with Beats by Dr. Dre and Fendi Casa to showcase the power of…

Everyday Charms Shows the Magical Lives of Female Artists

Artist ​and curator Jillian Hernandez is showing how women take the ordinary and make it extraordinary at her group show Everyday Charms screening at O Cinema. Though, she says there’s no specific gender component to the exhibition, all the artists happen to be women. The videos she’s chosen to screen will…

Janet Jackson at Fillmore Miami Beach December 5

Your nasty ass can call her Ms. Jackson. Offstage, she’s a soft-spoken, seemingly genteel lady. But onstage, she’s a sassy little powerhouse who is every straight (and gay) man’s wet dream. The youngest of a nine-child talent tribe, Janet Damita Jo Jackson went from being a sweet, smiling schoolgirl on…

Art Basel Events You’re Not Invited To, Sorry

Art Basel not only offers an overload of visual stimulation, it also presents a time to dredge up any tragic feelings of rejection you experienced in your youth. Sure, there are like 300 openings and parties each and every night of next week, but there are only like three you…

Fashion Freakouts at the Black Eyed Peas’ Final Concert in Miami

Last night, Sun Life Stadium was packed with thousands of people under the age of 45. Most of them were actually little children, up late for a night to watch the Black Eyed Peas’ final concert before taking a nice, long break from each other. Though fans sported fairly conservative…

Sonic Purrs

After you jog through the so-called high culture of Art Basel at the Miami Beach Convention Center and bask in the glow of curator masturbation material, your eyes and paws will need a break. Your ears, however, could use some stimulation. Cashmere Kitties is a mind-expanding, consciousness-warping Basel satellite music…