Email Author Arielle Castillo

Awards

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published February 17, 2009

  "Black Metal Titan Satyricon Plays Club Cinema"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ

  "Taking Back Screamo"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published May 28, 2009

  "Iggy Pop: King of the Dogs"

More

2011 Stories by Arielle Castillo

• Food Trucks Unveil New Vegetarian Options For This Saturdays' Wynwood Truck Roundup

  published Jan 21, 2011

  Those averse to hot, griddled flesh and feeling left out of the food truck trend would do well to head to Wynwood this Saturday. The latest edition of this new weekly street food court, organized by R... More >>

• Culture Klatch

  published January 20, 2011

  First, an obligatory reference to the old glory days of South Beach: Sandra Bernhard totally hung out there in the ’90s and —... More >>

• Culinarium Tonight is the First Food Truck Round-Up With a Full Selection of Booze

  published Jan 20, 2011

  Another food truck round-upr You don't say! However, Culinarium, launching tonight, seems to be the first mobile food event in Miami to combine a food truck rally with live DJs and bands (which a few ... More >>

• Garcia's New Track "Black on Black" Takes a Different, Darker Tack

  published Jan 20, 2011

  In the past, Miami rapper Garcia's image has often been playfully and shamefully lascivious. (It's no secret he boasts some adult-industry alliances.) But after he took some time outside of the music ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  2 Girls and a Cupcake Rep Hialeah on Next Week's Episode of Cupcake Wars

  published Jan 20, 2011

  Food Network's series Cupcake Wars pits four sets of cupcake makers against each other in a series of off-the-dome creative baking challenges.Bakers are eliminated in a series of rounds. A final chall... More >>

• Weekly Pinecrest Food Truck Rally Continues Tonight Sans GFTA

  published Jan 19, 2011

  When the city's most popular food trucks started disavowing the now-defunct Gourmet Food Truck Association last week, the reaction from customers was mostly confusion. What exactly was it, anyways, an... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Pop Culture Fun With Custom Cakes From Sweetness Bakeshop

  published Jan 19, 2011

  Local food truck aficionados by now are likely well aware of the Sugar Rush truck, now a happy aqua-blue fixture at pretty much every local street food court. So far, it's the only all-dessert truck o... More >>

• Two MP3s From Athens, Georgia's Witches, Playing Sweat Records This Sunday

  published Jan 19, 2011

  rIgnore the one-word, menacing-sounding name and the Georgia provenance, because Witches, performing this Sunday at Sweat Records, are not a doom or stoner-metal band. Those kinds of bands are general... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  No Age at Grand Central, January 18

  published Jan 19, 2011

  View photos from No Age's performance at Grand Central here.No Age With Beings and Rene Hell Grand Central Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Better Than: The outcome of the Heat game a couple blocks away. No... More >>

• Stream the Latest Record By Rene Hell, No Age's Opening Act Tonight

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Regular Crossfade readers will recognize the name Beings, a local heavyish-arty-fuzzy group with a kickass female drummer. So who the, uh, hell, is this Rene Hell character sandwiched between them and... More >>

• Pasion Del Cielo Supplies Discerning Gables Caffeine Addicts With Quality Product

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Panther Coffee is definitely a welcome addition to Wynwood, and discerning caffeine addicts (ourselves included) patiently wait its arrival. In the meantime, though, it may be worth heading southwest ... More >>

• Four Awesome Covers by No Age, Playing Grand Central Tonight

  published Jan 18, 2011

  It's no secret that Crossfade loves L.A.'s best scrappy lo-fi punk duo, No Age. Luckily for us, No Age seems to love our hometown right back -- or at least have booking agents who do. No seriously, th... More >>

• Miss Kittin DJ Set at the Vagabond, January 14

  published Jan 15, 2011

  View the photos from Miss Kittin at the Vagabond here.Miss Kittin DJ SetFriday, January 14, 2011The VagabondBetter Than: Reliving the electroclash era through its unfortunate haircuts and makeup. ... More >>

• Dutch DJs Use Twitter To Score Direct Flight to Ultra Music Festival on KLM

  published Jan 14, 2011

  The Netherlands may be pretty tiny in actual land mass, but its influence on dance music has been outsized. The country represents a disproportionate influence on the trance scene -- it's the birthpla... More >>

• Garcia Drops Trailer, Hints About His Upcoming "Rebel" Film, and Tobacco Road Show This Friday

  published Jan 13, 2011

  When local MC Garcia does something, he always does it big. For years with their Crazy Hood Productions group, he, DJ EFN, and a tight-knit family of collaborators have been proving that "independent"... More >>

• Black Bobby's "The Prince Akeem Theory" and "6'7 Flow (Indie Wayne)"

  published Jan 11, 2011

  The last time we checked in with Black Bobby, he was celebrating Lebron James in song and getting ready to release his latest album, Presidential Shit. Shortly after, though, he announced he was takin... More >>

• Vagabonds Music Group's "Here We Go," Featuring Dynas

  published Jan 10, 2011

  Much talk is being made in local hip-hop circles of the "new Miami," a widening circle of not necessarily similar-sounding, but similarly minded hungry local MCs. Among some of these diverse rising ar... More >>