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Last Night: Beyonce at the BankAtlantic Center

Beyonce Cranks Dat

Beyonce Blinds Half Of South Beach With Her Wedding Ring

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demo ... More >>

Viva La Carmen

And let her charm you at the Arsht

Head Spins: DJ Lennox

Kicking hip-hop from Miami to West Palm Beach.

Magic City Kitty Sharpens Her Claws on Internet Dating

Kicking hip-hop from Miami to West Palm Beach.

Two-Day Pretty Party

The one and only Makeup Show rolls into town.

Ladies First

A celebration of women hip-hop heads

A Change Is Gonna Come

A celebration of women hip-hop heads

Dream Works

But it's not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it in a well-worn tale that struggles to transcend the Ray model

Destiny's Child

"Cater 2 U" (Columbia)

BEST PARTY OF THE YEAR

MTV Video Music Awards

Destiny's Child

Destiny Fulfilled Columbia

BEST LOCAL SOLO MUSICIAN

Aaron Fishbein

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Aaron Fishbein

Crazy Right Now

DJ Irie cuts it up on the ones and twos

Beyonce/Sasha Fierce/Foxxy Cleopatra Playing BankAtlantic Center June 29

She of a thousand names and the hypnotic hips is setting out on the "I Am..." tour and making a stop at BankAtlantic Center on June 29. Beyonce is touring behind her third consecutive number one album, this one titled "I Am... Sasha Fierce". In her new bio, Beyonce pretty much admits her schizophren ... More >>

Jim Jonsin Is on Top of Hip-Hop

The South Florida native is the new producer king.

Check Out one of Jim Jonsin's Latest Productions, "Sweet Dreams" by Beyonce

photo by Aaron BristolJim JonsinThis week's New Times includes a feature on Jim Jonsin, the Coral Springs resident who's quickly become a super-producer and is blowing up the hip-hop and pop charts. (You've doubtless heard one of his recent hits, any number of synth-driven tracks like Soulja Boy's " ... More >>

Fancy Boutique That Sells Fancy Clothes To Open with Fancy Party

via The Horror's FlickrNo offense to the sisters Kardashian and their new Dash location, but the biggest botique opening on Miami Beach this season will be the long awaited opening of The Webster's permanent location. The botique has operated out of a temporary location while the three french o ... More >>

Beyonce Loves You, Giving You Cheap Tickets to Adore Her Back

Can't afford to shell out a couple hundred bucks to see the latest hip shaking pop diva play live at BankAtlantic Center on June 29? Beyonce feels your pain, and is actually doing something about it. Beyonce set aside 2000 tickets to each of her non-Las Vegas shows for $20 each, and they go on sale ... More >>

All Hail Beyoncé, AKA Sasha Fierce

Can't afford to shell out a couple hundred bucks to see the latest hip shaking pop diva play live at BankAtlantic Center on June 29? Beyonce feels your pain, and is actually doing something about it. Beyonce set aside 2000 tickets to each of her non-Las Vegas shows for $20 each, and they go on sale ... More >>

Tickets Still Available for Tonight's Beyonce Show

Bored? Money burning a hole in your pocket? Or do you just have a burning urge to see a fading pop icon try to bring the magic back to her act without resorting to public displays of indecency? If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, then there are still tickets available for tonight's ... More >>

Beyonce Got a Cheeseburger, Baby

beyonce-source.com Fresh off of us naming SoBe burger joint the Best Place to Meet (Let's Hope) Single Guys, Beyonce Knowles, pop diva and the (married) queen of single ladies, dropped by to pick up 2 hamburgers, 2 cheeseburgers, and a 6 pack of baby cheeeseburgers. According to owner Stephani ... More >>

Prunk TV: Drew Sidora Plans On Surpassing Beyonce

"Diva is the female version of a hustla." Beyonce Actress and singer, Drew Sidora recently moved to Miami from LA to finish her upcoming debut album for Slip-N-Slide Records. You may remember Drew from a previous episode of Prunk; we met up again over the weekend at a clothing store in West Kendall ... More >>

She’s the Best Kind of Trouble

"Diva is the female version of a hustla." Beyonce Actress and singer, Drew Sidora recently moved to Miami from LA to finish her upcoming debut album for Slip-N-Slide Records. You may remember Drew from a previous episode of Prunk; we met up again over the weekend at a clothing store in West Kendall ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: David Hajdu

​Take a look at the biographical blurb and accompanying author photo on the back cover of David Hajdu's latest book, Heroes and Villains, and you'll discover that not only is Hadju a professor, but he looks like one. Smiling wryly behind frameless spectacles, the 54-year-old prof (and music critic ... More >>

Get Your “Phil” of Israeli Musicians

​Take a look at the biographical blurb and accompanying author photo on the back cover of David Hajdu's latest book, Heroes and Villains, and you'll discover that not only is Hadju a professor, but he looks like one. Smiling wryly behind frameless spectacles, the 54-year-old prof (and music critic ... More >>

A look at 2009 in dance music

​Take a look at the biographical blurb and accompanying author photo on the back cover of David Hajdu's latest book, Heroes and Villains, and you'll discover that not only is Hadju a professor, but he looks like one. Smiling wryly behind frameless spectacles, the 54-year-old prof (and music critic ... More >>

Cirque du Soul

​Take a look at the biographical blurb and accompanying author photo on the back cover of David Hajdu's latest book, Heroes and Villains, and you'll discover that not only is Hadju a professor, but he looks like one. Smiling wryly behind frameless spectacles, the 54-year-old prof (and music critic ... More >>

Concert Review: Aretha Franklin Performs Short, Occasionally Sweet at Hard Rock Live on March 16

Photo by Tom Craig/Seminole Hard Rock ​Aretha FranklinHard Rock Live, HollywoodTuesday, March 16, 2010What doesn't become a legend the most? Well, for starters, a certain behavior pattern that leads the public to wonder if an artist has dived face-first off a 12-story balcony without considering a ... More >>

Meatless in Miami: A Master Cleanse Diary, Part One

​After years of tossing the idea around I've decided to stop being a nancy and do the damn Master Cleanse.  You may be asking...what is this Master Cleanse?  Well, it's a 10-day (minimum) detox developed in the 1941 that's still being used today.  Also called the "Lemonade Diet", yo ... More >>

Cazwell: Your Favorite Gay White Rapper From Massachusetts

​Let's play a game: Meditate on the word "hip-hop." Um ... Is "gay white rapper from Massachusetts" the first thing that comes to mind? Probably not. In some ways, Cazwell, who performed at Lux over the weekend, is the complete opposite of what we typically see in the rap game. But he keeps it r ... More >>

Shaquille O'Neal Had A Better Halloween Costume Than Dwyane Wade

Yes, we know it's a week after Halloween. But as a Miami blog with a taste for the ridiculous we just couldn't sleep with ourselves if we didn't post the following video of Shaq channeling Beyonce in his "Shaquita" Halloween get-up -- which, by the way, is worlds funkier than his former teammate's w ... More >>

Soulja Big Top

Yes, we know it's a week after Halloween. But as a Miami blog with a taste for the ridiculous we just couldn't sleep with ourselves if we didn't post the following video of Shaq channeling Beyonce in his "Shaquita" Halloween get-up -- which, by the way, is worlds funkier than his former teammate's w ... More >>

Betty Wright Preemptively Rips Black Eyed Peas Terrible Super Bowl Halftime Show

​Betty Wright is a legendary, Grammy-winning,  Miami-based singer-songwriter who has released 16 albums.She scored her first big hit in the '70s at the age of 17 with the million-selling "Cleanup Woman." Later, she became the first black woman to release a gold record on her own label. In hip ... More >>

Beyonce, Chris Bosh, and Three Other Secret Celebrity Juggalos

Are you down with the clown?​​The Insane Clown Posse is the most successful DIY b(r)and in the history of independent music. They move merch like bona fide hustlers, tour like Black Flag in the '80s and serve as the centerpiece of a million-dollar Dark Carnival of spin-off artists and related pr ... More >>

Five Weezy Slow Jams Better Than "How To Love"

​There was a period of time -- from, let's say, Tha Carter II  to the first few mixtapes after Tha Carter III -- when Lil Wayne was maybe actually for serious The Best Rapper Alive. The second Carter LP is the capstone of the early 2000s tinny, minimal, and dumb Cash Money bling-bling era. ... More >>

Rihanna at the BankAtlantic Center July 14

​There was a period of time -- from, let's say, Tha Carter II  to the first few mixtapes after Tha Carter III -- when Lil Wayne was maybe actually for serious The Best Rapper Alive. The second Carter LP is the capstone of the early 2000s tinny, minimal, and dumb Cash Money bling-bling era. ... More >>

Was Beyoncé's Baby Bump a Hoax?

Getty ImagesBeyoncé's bump: True or false?​Remember when you found out the awful truth about Milli Vanilli? How did we ever recover from learning that neither of those super-'90s hunks on stage could actually sing? After we learned the real Milli Vanilli was a couple of average-looking old guys, ... More >>

Kelly Rowland and Jennifer Hudson Terrorized by Prankster Jet Skiers on Miami Beach

​Kelly Rowland and Jennifer Hudson were not holding a seminar on how to climb out of Beyoncé Knowles's shadow. While visiting Rowland's Miami Beach home, they were filming a segment for the British edition of Simon Cowell's X Factor, on which Rowland is now a judge. But the shoot w ... More >>

Top Ten Romantic Revenge Songs

​Today is Dave Coulier's birthday. And unless you've been hiding out in the Tanner's basement with Jodie Sweetin and a meth pipe for the last two decades, you oughta know that Alanis Morissette's biggest single, "You Oughta Know" is allegedly about Dave Coulier, AKA Uncle Joey from Full House. "Cu ... More >>

Beyoncé's "Countdown" Pairs Internet Quirk With Royal Hip-Hop Badonk

Queen B busts every move possible.​Crossfade remembers exactly where we were when we first saw the video for Beyoncé's mammoth nu-Girl Power single, "Single Ladies." We were at home, on the internet. Similarly, we were at home and on the internet (this is what we do, you see) when we first saw B ... More >>

Beyoncé's Baby Shower: Five Perfect Gifts for Queen Bee's Unborn Little Girl

​The word's out! That bump you first saw on Beyoncé at the MTV Music Awards is the current home of an unborn baby girl. Bee's bigmouth Destiny's Child pal Kelly Rowland spilled the beans. She blabbed to Us Magazine that all she's getting the newborn is love, since her dad's going to spoil her al ... More >>

Jay-Z And Beyonce Moving to Miami? World's Most Important Couple Toured Ricky Martin's Mansion

​Will the Beyssiah be raised amongst us?A very pregnant Beyonce and Jay-Z have been spotted house hunting in Miami Beach a few times over the past month, and TMZ reports that world's most important couple was in town last week to tour a mansion currently owned by none other than Ricky Martin.

Beyoncé Loses $335,000 on Condo Investment; Ricky Martin's Realtor Hangs Up on Crossfade

​Nestled on 500 feet of prime, ocean-front real estate, the Blue and Green Diamond Condominiums are two of the most exclusive residential towers in Miami Beach. And back when the market was stable, only the über-rich -- like Beyoncé Knowles -- could afford to shit and sleep in one of these high- ... More >>

The Forge Miami Beach In Pictures

A laugh in the kitchen at The Forge​There aren't many restaurants on Miami Beach that have been around since 1920. The Forge is one of em', and its storied past swims in local history like a mangrove snapper in the salty waters off the south coast. Owner Shareef Malnik's steady hand on the tiller, ... More >>

Five most expensive New Year's Eve celebrations

A laugh in the kitchen at The Forge​There aren't many restaurants on Miami Beach that have been around since 1920. The Forge is one of em', and its storied past swims in local history like a mangrove snapper in the salty waters off the south coast. Owner Shareef Malnik's steady hand on the tiller, ... More >>