Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Justin Bieber Grabs Fan's Boob at Miami Meet-and-Greet! Plus Six Other Celebrity Gropers

Justin Bieber loves his fans. He's also big on tits too. This past weekend in Miami, Bieber got a little handsy with a fan girl during a meet-and-greet event at the American Airlines Arena when he awkwardly grabbed her left breast in what appears to be the world's most uncomfortable celebrity enco ... More >>

Country Music Cruise Announced for 2014 With Kenny Rogers, Vince Gill, 12 Others

Go ramblin' with the Gambler on a boat! Or as Kenny Rogers himself might croon: "On a warm summer's evenin' on a huge ship bound for paradise ..." The Country Music Cruise has announced its maiden voyage and initial lineup, including Rogers, Vince Gill, and a dozen other high-seas high rollers. S ... More >>

50 Cent Calls Rick Ross a "Fat Boy," Says Early-Morning Shooting "Looks Staged"

Case of the Mondays? At least you're not being ridiculed by 50 Cent on social media for crashing a $300,000 Rolls Royce into a building on your birthday after a failed attempt on your life. The G-Unit capo thinks that Rick Ross' early-morning brush with death was little more than a publicity stu ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 2 Lineup: Alesso, Eric Prydz, Snoop Dogg, Tons More

Just when you thought the party couldn't get any better, Ultra Music Festival has announced its Phase 2 lineup. So let's not bother with the formalities. Here's who's been added: Alesso, Benny Benassi, Dirty South, Dog Blood (Boys Noize & Skrillex), Eric Prydz, Fedde Le Grand, Hardwell, Loco D ... More >>

Top Ten Pop Twitter Twats: From Bruno to Britney and Bieber

The battle of the mindless pop star drones is real and gory, and the bloody fields of war are found on constantly refreshing Twitter feeds. Lady Gaga and her little monsters have just been unseated as the most obnoxious and numerous fans on the planet. Justin Bieber and his army of Beliebers have s ... More >>

Zach Braff's All New People at the Arsht Center Is Full of Quirky Characters

Screw Spike Lee

Art on a Boat

Spike Lee Is No Quentin Tarantino

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke reviews the controversy surrounding Django Unchained. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)Screw Spike Lee. Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchain ... More >>

Tarell McCraney's Hamlet, Now With Explosions

Freeway Ricky Ross vs. Rick Ross: Trial Date Set in Ongoing Trademark Infringement Fight

Long before the rapper Rick Ross allegedly started "selling dope straight off the iPhone," the drug dealer Ricky Donnell Ross, a man the Wall Street Journal called "a mastermind of the crack-cocaine trade," was pushing 100 kilos of Nicaraguan blow per day and building a $600 million criminal empire ... More >>

Scarlett Fever

Step Right Up

Leonard Cohen Announces Old Ideas Tour 2013 Dates, Coming to Miami on March 20

He's gotten "head on the unmade bed" in the Chelsea Hotel. He's smoked a million cigarettes. And he's written dozens of perversely profound songs about love, sex, religion, and other dangerous habits. But over a period of several years leading into 2004, Leonard Cohen was also robbed of approximate ... More >>

Eric Clapton Announces Two South Florida Shows at Hard Rock Live in March

He's a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. But in the restaurant business, Sir Eric Clapton is Hard Rock Café. Throughout the 1970s, Clapton was a regular patron at the first Hard Rock in London. But by 1979, the restaurant ... More >>

2012 Village Voice Film Poll Results

Everglades Airboaters' Nasty Battle Over Big Bucks

Future, T.I., and New Year's Eve 2013 at Cameo on South Beach

Future With T.I. and B.o.B. Cameo, Miami Beach Monday, December 31, 2012 Future was slated to go on at midnight. But Cameo is a long way from Pluto so his landing got delayed. In the meantime, Baltimore club legend DJ Class's "I'm the Shit" remix dropped over the club speakers, with Kanye braggin ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino Emerges With His Most Ambitious Film, Django Unchained

Will the Academy really, really like it?

Les Miserables Doesn't Dream Daringly

B.B. King's New Year's Eve at Broward Center for the Performing Arts December 31

In 2012, Miami Proved It's a Year-Round Arts Powerhouse

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Beat It, Jr.

Festival of Laser Lights

Dumbest Shit in Music 2012!

Let's face it. The world of music is a really dumb place, and we should know. Here at Crossfade, we spend the majority of our time sifting through the deserted wasteland of pop culture, and it ain't lookin' too good out there. This year felt like a particularly dumb year too. Maybe it was all this ... More >>

Pop Gossip: Ten Hottest Messes of 2012

Pop gossip. Most of us want to believe that we're too intelligent and cultured to be fascinated with such gutter-trash information, but the reality is we all love to sniff the dirty underwear of the stars. Whether it's a child star blossoming into a full-fledged sex symbol, a battered woman who can ... More >>

Punisher Talks EDM, Gender Stereotypes, and Moving to Miami

"The Endless Renaissance: Six Solo Artists Projects" at the Bass Museum of Art Through March 17

World Music Awards 2012 in Miami: Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Jimmy Buffet Nominated

That $515 million ballpark in Little Havana that Miami-Dade taxpayers helped build for Major League Baseball's biggest joke, Jeffery Loria's Miami Marlins, is finally being put to good use. For only the third time in its 23-year history, the World Music Awards are coming to the United States. And ... More >>

Holiday Nuts

Pig Destroyer at Churchill's Pub December 15

Post-Basel, Miami's Museums Offer First-Class Exhibits Into the New Year

Ne-Yo and Monica Added to Lineup for Jazz in the Gardens 2013

Got your "I Love JIG" tees? Well, looking deliver on their promise of an "an all the way live weekend," Jazz in the Gardens and mayor Oliver Gilbert have just added human "Stress Reliever" and pop-hop loverboy Ne-Yo as well as R&B diva Monica (AKA "Miss Thang") to JIG's 2013 lineup. Check the ... More >>

Pig Destroyer's Blake Harrison on Grindcore: "You Gotta Have a Fire in Your Belly"

After a few months spent dabbling in bottom-heavy sludge and tension-and-release death metal, South Florida extreme music promotion powerhouse Speedfreek is living up to its name like never before. Six days before the alleged Mayan Apocalypse ends the world as we know it, Richmond, Virginia grind f ... More >>

Cannibal Corpse at Grand Central Miami, December 6

Cannibal Corpse Grand Central, Miami Thursday, December 6, 2012 Better Than: Cardboard gun shop. Stuck precariously in the middle of Miami's yearly ascension to the international spotlight of artistic and cultural relevance (AKA Art Basel Miami Beach week) was a Cannibal Corpse tour date.

Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

Most art is silent. Even during Basel week. That's why we here at Crossfade -- an admittedly hopeless gaggle of noise junkies -- just can't get through the week without offsetting our 12-hour days at the art fairs with 12-hour nights at Miami's hipster bars, rock dives, and downtown concert hall ... More >>

Satellite Fair Highlights: From Banksy Walls to Spanish Piazzas

Miami's Museums Up the Ante for Basel Week

Navigating Basel: From Melting Snowmen to Arty Cocktails

With Her First Basel Exhibit, Agustina Woodgate Is Poised for a Global Breakout

Basel Tov!: Miami New Times' Guide to Art Basel

See also: Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 Art Fairs and Gallery Guide

Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

Grammy Awards 2013 Nominees: From Frank Ocean to Black Keys and Rick Ross

Grammy-tastic! Last night, amid goofy, sexually tense intergenerational banter between co-hosts LL Cool J and Taylor Swift, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States announced the nominees for its 54th Grammy Awards, airing Sunday, February 10, on CBS. Genre-bending ... More >>

Rick Ross and MMG Tour With Meek Mill and Wale at Fillmore Miami Beach, December 5

Rick Ross With Meek Mill and Wale Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Better Than: A Wednesday night devoted to making nonstop prank calls in which you pretend to be DJ Khaled. See also: -Becoming the Bawse: Eight-Part History of Rick Ross -Rick Ross Officially Recognized as "Bawse o ... More >>

Ryan Heffington of RuPaul's Drag Race Talks KURT and Chez Deep Drag Sisterhood

The Chez Deep drag showcase at Villa 221 last night demonstrated that shaven eyebrows are actually a good fashion move. The small back room -- where ambiguously gendered performers threw themselves on the floor, climbed speakers, spit out fake blood, and smooched those in the front row -- was pack ... More >>

Pitbull a Diva? Joins Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Metric for VH1 Divas Special

He's known as Mr. 305, Mr. Worldwide, and Dat Lil Chico ... But a diva, he is not. However, Pitbull is teaming up with VH1 Divas to help raise money for the network's Save the Music Foundation, as well as pay tribute to two of music's biggest deceased divas, Whitney Houston and Donna Summer. The ... More >>

Beers for Basel

You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

Scenes From a Marriage