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Madonna Announces 2012 World Tour With Miami Concert

​For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn't even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna's 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who'd be totally willing to blow their ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Goes to Amsterdam and Doesn't Smoke Pot (A Recap)

​Last evening, I glued myself to the television in hot anticipation of Anthony Bourdain's newest episode of The Layover: Amsterdam. As Tony lands at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, I picture an hour of pot-smoking, hash brownie-eating, hooker-laden indulgence before Tony wakes up in a pool of his ow ... More >>

Red-Light Strict

​Last evening, I glued myself to the television in hot anticipation of Anthony Bourdain's newest episode of The Layover: Amsterdam. As Tony lands at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, I picture an hour of pot-smoking, hash brownie-eating, hooker-laden indulgence before Tony wakes up in a pool of his ow ... More >>

Norman Doray Talks Strictly Ibiza to Amsterdam and Partying Like a Frenchman

​Frenchman Norman Doray plays with the big boys. Coming straight from Ibiza where he hit up the Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel, Mr. Doray is dropping into Arkadia at the Fontainebleau this Thursday for the weekly Subliminal Sessions party. Co-producer of "Chase The Sun", last summer's epi ... More >>

Miami Herald Hijacks New Times' Fly2Miami Scoop! It's the Wave of the Future!

"Captain, is there someone on our ass?"​What's a crack reporter over at the Miami Herald to do when the news wire stops spitting out 700 words worth of cheap and easy automatic copy every couple of minutes? Read and regurgitate a tabloid rag called New Times, obviously. If, like us, you buy the H ... More >>

Dutch DJ Sied van Riel uses Twitter to score direct KLM flights to Ultra in Miami

"Captain, is there someone on our ass?"​What's a crack reporter over at the Miami Herald to do when the news wire stops spitting out 700 words worth of cheap and easy automatic copy every couple of minutes? Read and regurgitate a tabloid rag called New Times, obviously. If, like us, you buy the H ... More >>

Sied Van Riel on the Fly2Miami Twitter Campaign and Direct Dutch Flights to Miami

Fly2Miami's Sied Van Riel.​How many Dutch DJs, producers, and dance music fans does it take to get a major airline to completely re-route its flight plans? The answer: About 150 of them, plus the power of Twitter and the co-sign of Dutch dance music god Tiësto himself. On the Wednesday of the s ... More >>

Bardot's WMC 2011 Lineup: Eyes Lips Eyes, LazerDisk SexParty, Young Empires, and Others

Jill Weisberg​Speakeasy and small live music venue Bardot has really brought the 'burbs and the beach to Midtown since it opened a few years ago. North of Space and west of South Beach, it's right off the highway, so Winter Music Conference partiers will find their way there easily, with ... More >>

Xperimento Performs Live at Transit Lounge This Saturday

​Naming a band can be a tricky thing. You don't want to get all set to rock the Pit on Saturday in order to save the dorm and put together some upstart, slacker rock band called Everyone Gets Laid, if in fact nobody does. That said, Xperimento didn't seem to have a problem choosi ... More >>

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

image via facebook.com/siedvanriel2Dutch DJ Sied van Riel spearheaded the Fly2Miami campaign. ​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 birthplace ... More >>

Marijuana-Food Pairings: 10 Questions With Denver Pot Critic William Breathes

From Amsterdam​After recently writing a goofy post about imaginary pot-food pairings, I received an email from the pseudonymous William Breathes, one of two medical marijuana critics for our sister paper Westword, in Denver, Colorado. He expressed gratitude for being mentioned in the post and disa ... More >>

Indomania Takes A Vacation

Indomania Shrimp (with rijs & beans)​Pieter and Ineke Both, owners of Indomania Restaurant, are taking their annual "summer recess", presumably to relax in their native Amsterdam. This treat of an Indonesian eatery will shutter up starting Sunday, August 29, and will reopen Thursday, September ... More >>

Sex Shops and Peep Shows

Indomania Shrimp (with rijs & beans)​Pieter and Ineke Both, owners of Indomania Restaurant, are taking their annual "summer recess", presumably to relax in their native Amsterdam. This treat of an Indonesian eatery will shutter up starting Sunday, August 29, and will reopen Thursday, September ... More >>

Dirty Dayglow

Indomania Shrimp (with rijs & beans)​Pieter and Ineke Both, owners of Indomania Restaurant, are taking their annual "summer recess", presumably to relax in their native Amsterdam. This treat of an Indonesian eatery will shutter up starting Sunday, August 29, and will reopen Thursday, September ... More >>

Soul Clap vs. PLOT Showcase

Indomania Shrimp (with rijs & beans)​Pieter and Ineke Both, owners of Indomania Restaurant, are taking their annual "summer recess", presumably to relax in their native Amsterdam. This treat of an Indonesian eatery will shutter up starting Sunday, August 29, and will reopen Thursday, September ... More >>

Six Questions With Music is a Weapon

Jeffrey Delannoy​Music is a Weapon has been making some noise for a couple of years. This coming Saturday they will be rocking the Vagabond alongside local Spanish-language punks G2 and Dutch DJ's Saskia Rocks and Geza Weisz for the big-top party Cirque Excentrique; featuring "Party Monster" ... More >>

Fedde Le Grand

Jeffrey Delannoy​Music is a Weapon has been making some noise for a couple of years. This coming Saturday they will be rocking the Vagabond alongside local Spanish-language punks G2 and Dutch DJ's Saskia Rocks and Geza Weisz for the big-top party Cirque Excentrique; featuring "Party Monster" ... More >>

MP3 of the Day and Miami Music Festival Preview: "Bam in Amsterdam" by Music is a Weapon

​When New Times featured Music is a Weapon over the summer, the Magic City hustlers were giddy with go after a 7-day Netherlands stand that saw the band treated like the rock stars they're destined to become. You could see the sparkling stars in their eyes, refracting back from the gilded mirrors ... More >>

Miami Music Festival Previews: Liset Alea, Feneiva, The Monas

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you've never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Oth ... More >>

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top Five Albums for the Week of November 16 - 22 Sweat Records, MiamiThe first release from rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, made up of members of Queens of the Stone Age ... More >>

Derick G. Makes Documentaries for Cash Money Records and Lil Wayne

We last spoke to local hip-hop shooter Derick G. back in June when he had just leveraged his still image work into the world of moving pictures, in high definition.Derick recently hit a new phase in his career when he gained unprecedented access to roll with Cash Money Records as a documentarian ... More >>

Wednesday Blog Watch: Off the Radar Looks Across the Pond, Derick G. Does Amsterdam

via the305.comThe305 is relaunching its print magazine!​*Off the Radar is pretty much the only locally based blog that keeps up with all the international bloggy MP3 stuff, while providing some decent writing that explains why the hell we should care. You won't find too much coverage of the local ... More >>

Art Capsules

via the305.comThe305 is relaunching its print magazine!​*Off the Radar is pretty much the only locally based blog that keeps up with all the international bloggy MP3 stuff, while providing some decent writing that explains why the hell we should care. You won't find too much coverage of the local ... More >>

Run, Don't Walk

The Wynwood season began fast, with larger spaces and some sizable sales.

Talavera, Indomania, Daniel Boulud, Chocolate and Marijuana

Indomania Will Take August OffPieter Both, proprietor of Indomania Restaurant on Miami Beach, will be taking his annual vacation back home to Amsterdam -- meaning that, as per usual, the restaurant will be closed for the month of August. He also wrote to remind me that ever since I mildly mocked Ind ... More >>

Friday Food Funnies: Restaurants

I went to a fancy French restaurant called 'Deja Vu'. The headwaiter said, 'Don't I know you?' ~Rod SchmidtHave you heard about the new restaurant on the moon? Great food, but no atmosphere. ~UnknownA cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. ~Morey AmsterdamA gourmet res ... More >>

Mad Decent, Turntable Lab and IHEARTCOMIX to Take Over O.H.W.O.W. For WMC

Diplo returns to Miami for WMC.Just got word that Our House West of Wynwood will be hosting a party during Winter Music Conference. The Allapattah gallery hasn't been open for long, but it's quickly becoming a favorite. It's already hosted numerous parties, include a string of them during Art Basel ... More >>

Memo from Caracas: Venezuelan Jews, Democracy Are In Trouble

It was a damn good weekend for the vanguard of the Bolivarian Revolution, Fidel Castro's BFF Hugo Chavez.courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAbout 54 percent of Venezuelans on Sunday voted to remove term limits so that Chavez can run again for president in 2012 -- and presumably well beyond, if Castro is real ... More >>

Rick Ross and the Triple C's Love Amsterdam's Finest

It was a damn good weekend for the vanguard of the Bolivarian Revolution, Fidel Castro's BFF Hugo Chavez.courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAbout 54 percent of Venezuelans on Sunday voted to remove term limits so that Chavez can run again for president in 2012 -- and presumably well beyond, if Castro is real ... More >>

Booze Hound - BYOBooze

It was a damn good weekend for the vanguard of the Bolivarian Revolution, Fidel Castro's BFF Hugo Chavez.courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAbout 54 percent of Venezuelans on Sunday voted to remove term limits so that Chavez can run again for president in 2012 -- and presumably well beyond, if Castro is real ... More >>

Behind These Gates

Peek inside Miami Beach’s most infamous mansion.

The Booming System

Junkie XL channels feedback into bass.

Missed Opportunities

Kick yourself for not seeing these 10 movies.

Dutch Treat

An attractive little neighborhood restaurant with a fetching, quirky personality

Indomania Takes a Vacation

An attractive little neighborhood restaurant with a fetching, quirky personality

Indomania Takes a Vacation

An attractive little neighborhood restaurant with a fetching, quirky personality

Paul Oakenfeld is One Busy DJ

An attractive little neighborhood restaurant with a fetching, quirky personality

Stage Capsules

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DJ Rap and Junkie XL

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Art Flicks

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The Camera's Weeping Eye

A photographer visits an Indian brothel, where heartbreak finally meets hope

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Meaner Streets

Martin Scorsese looks at the roots of New York's violence, with mixed results

Planet Versace

So much more than a meal

Holy Rollers

To keep X-craved Miami Beach raving, Hasidic teenagers smuggled in pills by the hundreds of thousands

News of the Weird

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Rotisserie Chic

To keep X-craved Miami Beach raving, Hasidic teenagers smuggled in pills by the hundreds of thousands

Swelter

To keep X-craved Miami Beach raving, Hasidic teenagers smuggled in pills by the hundreds of thousands

Swelter

To keep X-craved Miami Beach raving, Hasidic teenagers smuggled in pills by the hundreds of thousands