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Peter Murphy Performs the Music of Bauhaus at Grand Central April 30

What You Need to Know From Sundance

The fest's best are the films to watch in the year ahead.

Matisyahu at the Arsht Center January 18

Matisyahu Doesn't "Really Love Shaving," But He's a Big Fan of Florida

The narrow crevasses between letters on our keyboard are vile, makeshift graveyards of curly black hairs peppered with hints of gray and, occasionally, red too. But these facial follicles tell a story, each a remnant of a stressful day at work anxiously spent twirling the hairs on our chinny chin ... More >>

Ten Best Christmas Gifts For Men Who Love Food & Booze

Shopping for most men is similar to herding cats. While women will drop hints via magazine clippings, e-mails, and the oh-so-subtle just borrowing your credit card and placing a wrapped present under the tree with your best wishes on it, if you ask a man what he wants for Christmas, chances are he'l ... More >>

Satellite Fair Highlights: From Banksy Walls to Spanish Piazzas

Hedy Goldsmith's Baking Out Loud: Book Parties and Video Previews

Baking Out Loud, Hedy Goldsmith's first book is finally coming out in about a month. The 224-page tome features 80 recipes by the talented executive pastry chef at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink and photographs by Ben Fink.Many of the treats featured in Baking Out Loud are upgraded riffs on the ... More >>

Seven Sins: Village Voice Media Releases Our First eBook Anthology

Every week writers for Miami New Times and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Cr ... More >>

Coral Reefs Are Being Decimated, All for a Few Gaudy Trinkets

Sheet Suspenders Inventor Maria Thornhill Claims Ex-Partner Stole Her Business

In 1988, Maria Thornhill invented a nifty gadget called Sheet Suspenders, elastic bands that tuck in bed sheets without having to lift a mattress. By 2008, she'd sold more than $3 million worth of the devices and turned thousands in profits. It was an American success story -- at least until an old ... More >>

Miami Archetypes Missing From Tom Wolfe's Upcoming Novel Back to Blood

​Tom Wolfe has been working on his next novel Back to Blood, an epic concerning race, class, and power in modern Miami, since 2007, and its finally set for an official release in October of this year. Amazon.com's listing has the first official summary of the book, and its basically just a list of ... More >>

Gail Simmons: Let's Try an Eggstravaganza

​Gail Simmons has a lot on her plate, so to speak. She's just added author to her already insane resume as Top Chef judge, Top Chef:Just Desserts host, and special projects director for Food & Wine magazine.Gail's memoir, Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life As a Professional Eater was just rel ... More >>

Party With Porn Stars on New Year's Eve 2012: Abella Anderson, Alexis Texas, and Daisy Marie

​What's the best kind of New Year's Eve porn party? Well, you could always strip naked at your laptop and host a smutty celebration for one by counting down to midnight and popping a nice bottle of spumante as a powdered pair of hairless balls drop on some poor 20-something's pretty face. Or .. ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for TV on the Radio at the Fillmore Miami Beach?

​When Brooklyn's TV on the Radio revealed plans to surf all the way to South Beach upon Nine Types of Light, we  warned all you weak-eyed, sensitive-eared indie kids about arriving unprepared. Next Tuesday's TVOTR blast at the Fillmore Miami Beach will be blindingly brilliant. So if you have ... More >>

The Occupy movement needs you, Miami

Darth Vader Toast, Light Saber Chopsticks: Ten of The Craziest Star Wars Cooking Tools Ever

Today, September 16, marks the release of the eight-disc set of Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Star Wars fans can rejoice in seeing 40-plus hours of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Han Solo and , most importantly, Jar Jar Binks, in spectacular remastered digital film (including thousands of spooling fee ... More >>

Seraphic Fire's Recording of Brahms's Requiem Kicking Ass on Billboard's Classical Charts

​Hey, you totally out-of-control choral music fanatics! Turn down that hyper-climactic fugue for a second and listen up ... Local ensemble Seraphic Fire, fronted by artistic director and conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley, just released its version of Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, a fresh ... More >>

Miamians Shop Online More Than Any Other City

​You might not know it from trying to find parking at Aventura Mall, but apparently Miamians love to do a good bulk of their shopping online. More than residents in any other major city in America, actually, and by a large margin.

You Can Now Buy Mike Haridopolos' Crappy Book for $9.99 on Your Kindle

​So, this weekend the Associated Press published a story on some crappy book Florida Senate President and likely US Senate candidate Mike Haridopolos got $152,000 in taxpayer money from Brevard Community College to write. Besides being of questionable quality, only one copy of the book existed. We ... More >>

Jesus Candy Canes, Bacon Candy Canes, And More Xmas Weirdness

thelotusblog.com​Whether you actually like sucking on them or you prefer to dangle them on the tree, the red and white candy canes seem to put you into the Christmas spirit.And then there are the flavored candy canes. Is there really a reason we need to have blueberry flavored candy canes? Not on ... More >>

eMusic Sells Out to Major Record Labels

Jeremy Hall via Flickr​​We're an honest bunch at Crossfade and we do not condone illegally downloading music. It's understood that musicians -- like writers -- struggle financially, and supporting independent music by purchasing records or attending shows is the ultimate display of artistic cama ... More >>

Mad Men Grilling: Vintage Cookbook Love, Part One

Caption: The Master Chef's Outdoor Grill Cookbook is by the Staff Home Economists of the Culinary Arts Institute.​This Mad Men-era book offers the same style deliciousness, combined with quirky datedness, that makes design nerds heart the TV show (besides the engrossing plot, rich characters, etc, ... More >>

Blast From the Past: The Pink Lincolns - Suck & Bloat

​The Pink Lincolns Suck & Bloat (Stiff Pole Records) www.stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard "Big Stiff" Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I'll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, St ... More >>

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

Forget "Miami-Wade": Name the County After These True South Floridians

Midwesterner.​The Dwyane-Wade-please-stay groveling continues with the county commission voting to rename our municipality Miami-Wade County. Ho-hum. It's like Miami officials have observed all of the crazy stunts Cleveland is pulling in trying to persuade LeBron James to stay a Cavalier, and ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Rising Sun" by JESP, Playing at Buck 15 This Friday

Video still from Jesp's music video for "Rising Sun."​The current local buzz about JESP, the new solo project by singer/songwriter/producer Joseph Espinoza, threatens to soon eclipse that of his old band, Outereach. That group, now defunct, never fit into any neat scene categories, floating somewh ... More >>

PG-13 Talks Panther God and the Future of Circuitree Records

Today, PG-13, aka Paul Gaeta, releases his second record into the wild: Panther God (click here for a preview). Really it should be his fourth , but between his 2007 debut, the humbly titled Seven Songs for my Friends and the beginning of God's creation some thieves broke into his apartment and sto ... More >>

Coffee House Gypsies Have a Superfan

I received this encyclopedia length post as a comment to a blog about a blog. Coffee House Gypsies superfan Amanda wants you to know why she loves the Coffee House Gypsies. I caught them once on video. They were playing in a weed-filled trailer park in Wynwood during Art Basel 2008. I didn't get the ... More >>

So Two Rappers and a Video Chick Walk Into A Gay Bar... Which Turned Out To Be Space

via Wikimedia CommonsWhy is it that rappers get into the craziest shenanigans on South Beach? Monday we recounted the magical story of N.O.R.E. and the angry Fatburger encounter. Today let us tell you the tale of Diddy, Xzibit, Superhead and the SoBe Gay Bar. It should be noted, that this ... More >>

Holiday Shopping for Big Shots

Gift ideas for Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter, Mayor Carlos Alvarez, and Related Group chairman Jorge Perez.

Beyond the Ones and Twos

Miami's DJ I-Dee takes scratching past wicky-wicky.

Tupac Shakur Onstage

A Kendall theater company’s new show does the rapper justice.

Q&A with Pink Martini, at the Adrienne Arsht Center this Friday

Rudy Crew’s Crapola

The schools superintendent’s new book is, well, full of baloney

The Prodigy

Still a teen, Jordan Davis has recorded nearly a dozen albums

Michelle Riu

Meta-Rap Flow, Full Blast

Will Power plus a really big band

Serious Black Ink

The Dullness of Being Manny Diaz

Miami used to be a punch line, but now the joke is on bored reporters

Shacking Up with Cher

Reese's Piece

Mira Nair's Victorian England bursts with sensuality, but not impact

Slow Down

After losing their distribution deal, it's back to the drawing board for Jacki-O and Poe Boy Entertainment

Time to Chill

French electro-chic conquers the United States

BEST LOCAL BOY MADE GOOD

Ben Greenman

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Don’t Get Holidazed!

Holiday Gift Guide 2001

Giant Steps

Space Cadette stakes a claim on the Internet

Bryter Now

Nick Drake's sad legacy lives on through Damien Jurado

Dream Weaver

Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place

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