Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Dirtybird Players BBQ With Claude VonStroke, De La Soul, Justin Martin at Villa 221 March 21

Carl Cox at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Snoop Lion at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week 2013

Leonard Cohen at James L. Knight Center March 20

Steve Aoki: The Neon Punk of EDM

Once an indie darling, he has coasted to superstardom on a wave of pure showmanship.

How Russell Faibisch Built Ultra Music Festival -- and Whom He's Battled Along the Way

Babyface on Current R&B: "We've Gone for the Trend... Just Keep Giving the Same Thing"

From jamming with funk forefathers to helping break New Jack Swing and cofounding legendary '90s R&B label LaFace Records with partner Antonio "L.A." Reid, the man known as Babyface has spent three decades creating and shaping pop music. Now 53, Kenneth Edmonds is working on a new album by Are ... More >>

Marco Rubio Takes Rap Obsession to Senate Floor, Quotes Wiz Khalifa, Jay-Z in Filibuster

Marco Rubio has never been shy about his rap fandom, telling GQ that Tupac's "Killuminati" is among his favorite songs and offering Spotify playlists packed with Kanye, Pitbull, and Flo Rida.But last night probably marked the first time Rubio took his hip-hop love to the Senate floor, where he quote ... More >>

Renaissance of Movement

Dirtybird Players BBQ WMC 2013 Lineup: Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, Special Guests De La Soul, and More

These days, Dirtybird Records is almost as famous for its grilled meats as its ass-clapping beats. Blame a successful ten-year run of the San Francisco crew's infamous renegade Golden Gate BBQ parties, not to mention last year's inaugural WMC installment which broke the party concept to Dirtybird's ... More >>

David Bowie Marks His Return With The Next Day

From the album's title, The Next Day, to the (mostly) straight-forward nature of the 14 tracks that compose it, David Bowie's new album declares itself a reboot. The songs shine with ferocious life, even if they follow a simpler structure than one would expect from Bowie. Guitars by Earl Slick and G ... More >>

MIFF's Jaie Laplante Talks Cinema at the Intersection of Hollywood and Latin America

Chris Brown Kills Rihanna in Law & Order: SVU Episode

Our nation loves a good cause, and we seem to have made Rihanna one of them. This whole country is just one bad-gal Instagram photo away from a million-man march to raise awareness and call for an end to the singer's tumultuous relationship with Chris Brown. Never mind that the pair is "in love" an ... More >>

Culture Club

Senator Marco Rubio Takes Subtle Jab at Lil Wayne, Still Thinks Tupac is the Greatest (Video)

Cottonmouth king and Miami-born U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is a sucker for good hip-hop. And as such, he thinks Lil Wayne Lame is simply a vehicle of mindless entertainment with little substance. TMZ caught up with the republican senator at Washington D.C.'s Reagan National Airport this morning and ... More >>

50 Cent Rejected by Erin Andrews at Daytona 500, Tweets "I Don't See No Black People"

He may have the "Magic Stick," but 50 Cent couldn't find an opportunity to "hit once" nor "hit twice" while kicking it NASCAR-style at the Daytona 500 yesterday. Before the start of Sunday's "Great American Race," FOX reporter Erin Andrews was working the pre-race beat when she spotted the G-Unit ... More >>

In Defense of New Girl (Hear Us Out...)

Bachaco at Jazid February 23

Geoffrey Zakarian Talks Star-Studded Radio Show, BBQ, and a Miami Restaurant

Chef, restaurateur, and Food Network personality Geoffrey Zakarian is working hard -- and playing hard at this year's South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Zakarian, who makes the trip to Miami each year with his wife, Margaret, is appearing at multiple festival events, hosting a magnificent A-list i ... More >>

Homecoming Dance

Rapper Cam'ron Says "My Man Had Bosh Wifey" Too, Proves He's Classless as Lil Wayne

Whether or not Lil Wayne is actually persona non grata at the American Airlines Arena remains a mystery. What is certain, however, is that Weezy's a classless, kiss-and-tellin' fool who has fallen so far off the cultural relevancy radar that only a childish rant about a professional basketball tea ... More >>

Hey! Ho! Naughty by Nature Marks "Hip Hop Hooray" 20th Anniversary With U.S. Tour

Has anyone seen the '90s? What about the '00s? Somehow, those two decades simply came and went, taking pagers, the newspaper industry, and record stores along with 'em. On the bright side, however, Father Time spared Naughty by Nature's enduring 1993 hit, "Hip Hop Hooray," which turned 20 years ... More >>

It's Time Miami Stops Being Lil Wayne's Bitch

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 explains why Lil Wayne is a dick.Miamians are mad as hell at rapper Lil Wayne because he said fuck the Heat, LeBron James, Dwyane ... More >>

When Die Hard's John McClane Lost His Family, the Movies Lost Much of John McClane

Marco Rubio Loves Tupac and Terrible EDM

Art Wynwood Returns

Ride That Pony

Ten Reasons the Grammys Actually Didn't Suck

We're experiencing a lot of weird feelings right now. We're not exactly sure how to cope with these emotions. But they say the first step to getting over your problem is admitting you have one. So deep breath ... Here we go. We actually enjoyed the 55th annual Grammy Awards. OMG, please don't ju ... More >>

Rick Ross: Calm Down or End Up Like Biggie

Victoria Jackson Thinks Beyonce is Part of a Satanic Cult

We momentarily break our unofficial moratorium on Victoria Jackson-related content to bring you the very important news that Victoria Jackson thinks Beyonce and Jay-Z are part of some sort of secret illuminati Satanist cult. 

Rick Ross: Calm Down Before You End Up Like Biggie

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 writes an open letter to the Bawse. Dear Rick Ross:As someone who survived several rap beefs, I'm going to give you some adv ... More >>

Bachaco Talks Miami Music Scene, Trends, and Legal Weed: "Hell yeah, We Say Yes"

What do you get when you combine eight guys from across the Caribbean and Latin America with a passion for creating sazón? Bachaco. Named after the leafcutter ant in Venezuela, an insect that's used to make salsa picante, the Afro-Caribbean-roots-rock-cumbia-reggae-ska band recently released its f ... More >>

Who Spends $20K at Art Walk?

Artists and dealers gauge the climate of Second Saturdays.

Nun's Sense

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 >>