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Barezzito South Beach: We Get a First Bite

Step into Barezzito, Miami's newest late-night eatery and music venue -- and South Beach screams from every neon-hued nook and cranny. The sleek new Collins Avenue outpost is offering up live music, specials every night of the week and Asian fusion cuisine with a Latin flair. The new digs are the ... More >>

Serendipity 3's Gatsby Cocktails: Get Them Free or Make Them at Home

The Great Gatsby is back. The classic F. Scott Fitzgerald tale of beautiful people with first-world problems has been given the Baz Luhrmann treatment. Starring Leo DiCaprio as Gatsby, with music by Beyoncé and Kanye, the movie has received mixed reviews. But who cares? We're watching for the over- ... More >>

Viva Cuba!

Pitbull Drops Rap Response to Jay-Z, Beyonce's Cuba Visit, Offers to Pay for Trip

Senator Marco Rubio suggested that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have "no interest in Cuban People's freedom." And U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart said that the pair's recent visit "funds the machinery of oppression." Pero, their constituent, Miami native, and Cuban-American ra ... More >>

Jay-Z, Beyoncé in Cuba "Funds Machinery of Oppression," Say Ros-Lehtinen, Diaz-Balart

As supercouple Jay-Z and Beyoncé prep for World Humanitarian Day ("I'm doing something good," Mrs. Carter tweets, "somewhere, for someone else. Join me!"), they're also getting slammed by South Floridian members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart for helping to "fund the machiner ... More >>

Conscious Bite Out's 100-Mile Dinner: Elegant, Locally Sourced Vegan Soiree

Yes, glamour-puss Beyoncé recently credited vegan food for helping her get back into red-carpet-ready form, and a slew of other celebrities have announced their vegan allegiance (Brad Pitt, Russell Brand, Jessica Chastain, and Woody Harrelson, to name a few), but the cruelty-free, earth-friendly cu ... More >>

Super Bowl: Six Shittiest Musical Commercials

So the Super Bowl turned 47. And as we all know, the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers in a surprisingly hectic second-half, Beyonce reunited with her Destiny's Child homies, and the game stopped for a full 34 minutes when half of the stadium's the power mysteriously went out. But that' ... More >>

Miami's Best Eats and Drinks This Weekend

Since we can't all be in New Orleans this weekend cheering on our favorite teams (by the way, are you a Ravens or a 49ers fan?) the party is just going to have to come to us. And, sure, we're under a lot of national humiliation right now with Dan Marino's affair and love child gone public and all ... More >>

Super Bowl 2013: Ten Best Free Parties in Miami

There will be bloodshed in New Orleans this Sunday as brother (San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh) battles brother (Baltimore Ravens skipper John Harbaugh) for football supremacy in Super Bowl XLVII. Two white guys move their soldiers on the field of war, and we eat, drink, argue, do the Heisma ... More >>

Super Bowl: Best Deals and Contests for the Big Game (Video)

The big game is only a few days away, and with it comes a host of marketing opportunities, commercials, promotions, contests, and giveaways. Each year, execs at major food and beverage companies wrack their brains for ways to get you, the consumer, to laugh, cry, and pull out your wallet before, dur ... More >>

WSVN Reporter Has a Hard Time Telling Black People Apart at Obama Victory Rally (Video)

WSVN has some rather ambitious coverage of the election last night for a local channel. They even sent reporter Blake Burman to the Obama rally in Chicago. Unfortunately there was a bit of awkwardness when WSVN cut to Burman solely because he was standing in the vicinity of a famous black person bei ... More >>

Obama on Being Homies With Jay-Z: "We've Got a Little Bond There"

He lost "M.J. at Summer Jam" to propofol, but Jay-Z still has "Obama on the text" to keep him company. In fact, they hung out last night. President Barack Obama spent part of the evening with celebrity superfriends Jay-Z and Beyoncé, and about 100 guests of their guests at a $40,000-per-person fun ... More >>

MTV Video Music Awards 2012's Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers

If, last night, you shouted, "Screw crappy pop!" and chose Barack, then you've probably got no effing idea who won and lost at the MTV Video Music Awards. Luckily, we here at Crossfade own a DVR. So while watching Obama goin' hard at the Democratic National Convention, we were also keeping track of ... More >>

MTV Announces Video Music Awards Nominees, Snub Rick Ross

Like the History Channel, MTV is lying about itself. Despite their respective names, programming is anything but historical or musical. For example, Teen Mom and Snooki and JWoww are reality-ish shows, and they're light-years away from MTV's traditional business model built around a 24-hour music ... More >>

Daddy Rap! Ten Hip-Hoppers Who've Gone From Bitches to Babies

Being a famous rapper is awesome. You get all the fancy cars, expensive champagne, and bad bitches your icy heart desires. It's all part of the job description. And for once in your life, you're doing it wrong if you don't brag about it to everyone! So what happens when shit gets real and a hip-hop ... More >>

Jay-Z, Beyoncé Join Chris Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow for Florida Trip: A Family Fun Guide Featuring Miami Zombie Tour!

Jay Z and Beyoncé love Florida. So much, in fact, they're planning to spend their family vacation exploring the 65,755-sqaure-mile peninsula that 19 million of us call home. According to Contact Music, after Jigga and Coldplay wrap their respective world tours, the hip-hop power couple is teaming ... More >>

The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre

Forbes just released its list of the "World's Most Powerful Celebrities," a somewhat arbitrary compilation that ranks everyone from athletes to movie stars to radio personalities "based on entertainment-related earnings plus media visibility (exposure in print, television, radio and online)." Acco ... More >>

Five most expensive New Year's Eve celebrations

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 >>

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.

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 >>

Lady Gaga and Obama! Five Presidential Meetings With Musicians

​Lady Gaga wants to meet with President Obama. Following the news that 14-year old Jamey Rodemeyer committed suicide after years of bullying, Gaga tweeted, "The past days I've spent reflecting, crying, and yelling. I have so much anger. It is hard to feel love when cruelty takes someones [sic] l ... More >>

Serendipity 3 Plans To Open In South Beach

Serendipity 3 plans to bring its over-the-top treats to SoBe.​Iconic Manhattan ice cream restaurant and celebrity hotspot Serendipity 3 plans to open in South Beach, bringing Frrrozen Hot Chocolate and sundaes priced like mortgage payments to the rich and beautiful of South Florida.Serendipity 3 h ... More >>

Six Greatest Weirdo Pop Queens of All Time

Last.fmRolling Stone created a Queen of Pop Index, ranking the top 16 female pop recording artists of the last two years by examining, according to them, "album and digital song sales, Hot 100 rankings, radio airplay, YouTube views, social media, concert grosses, industry awards, and ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Tonight, Kill Your Idol Hosts the Best Cheap, Easy Ladies' Night on Miami Beach

​New Times recently gave Kill Your Idol, the new bar occupying the old Blue space, the nod for Best Jukebox. It's true -- the venue is part of the extended Vagabond / Lost Weekend / Respectable Street / et. al. galaxy, and as such there are some seriously music-minded people behind the venture. As ... More >>

Where Are They Now? The Chonga Girls

Photo by Ivylise SimonesLaura Di Lorenzo and Mimi Davila, AKA the Chonga Girls.​Apparently, still making song parodies. You might remember the Chongalicious Girls from their 15 minutes of YouTube fame. In fact, we even did a cover story about them at the height of their popularity in 2007. After t ... 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 >>

Cirque du Soul

Books That Suck

A look at 2009 in dance music

Get Your “Phil” of Israeli Musicians

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 >>

She’s the Best Kind of Trouble

Jim Jonsin Is on Top of Hip-Hop

The South Florida native is the new producer king.

Viva La Carmen

And let her charm you at the Arsht

Head Spins: DJ Lennox

Kicking hip-hop from Miami to West Palm Beach.

Ne-Yo, Minus the Oracle

Except this matrix is purely musical

Beyonce Cranks Dat

I've Got Hos...

A Change Is Gonna Come

Ladies First

A celebration of women hip-hop heads

BEST PARTY OF THE YEAR

MTV Video Music Awards

See You

On a busy VMA weekend, Miami raised the art of celebrity worship to new heights

Lesbian Nation

Girls, grrrls, and more gyrls

BEST LOCAL SOLO MUSICIAN

Aaron Fishbein

Second Act

Baryshnikov goes it alone onstage

The Write Stuff

For two whole weeks Miami gets literate