Christmas

South Florida family sues over "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"

Will Dubstep Finally Die in 2012? Five Signs the End Is Near

​For all the hype still surrounding it, dubstep won't be popular forever. From collaborations with Korn to Christmas carol remixes, signs of its imminent demise are springing up all over the place. But will 2012 be the year that dubstep finally dies? Or will it desperately cling to life and linge ... More >>

A South Florida Family Is Suing Over Rights To "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town"

​You've probably never heard of J. Fred Coots, but damned if his ditty hasn't been blowing up your car radio for the past month. Way back in 1934, Coots co-wrote a little tune called "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" -- a track that cracks the ten most played songs worldwide almost every year and ha ... More >>

Miami's five best Christmas parties

​You've probably never heard of J. Fred Coots, but damned if his ditty hasn't been blowing up your car radio for the past month. Way back in 1934, Coots co-wrote a little tune called "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" -- a track that cracks the ten most played songs worldwide almost every year and ha ... More >>

A Skrillex Christmas and Ten Other Outrageous Light Displays Synched With Crappy Music

​For Crossfade, Holiday spirit consists of little more than a pair of reindeer boxer shorts and a couple of gag gifts. Decorating? That's an upper-middle class game, the type of shit you find in gated communities 'round suburbia. It's for people with way too much free time on their hands and a h ... More >>

Christmas vs. Hanukkah: Which is the Better Foodie Holiday?

via SodaHeadFire burns tree. Fire wins?​The other day in a meeting, the Short Order bloggers got into a tizzy about which holiday had the better bites: Christmas, AKA Santa's birthday -- or is it Rudolph's? -- or Hanukkah, the eight days of lights not being turned off or something. This actually g ... More >>

Get Drunk and Jolly With Miami's Five Best Christmas Parties

Art by AholsniffsglueHave a very Merry XXX-Mas with (((Shake))) at The Vagabond.​Oh, Christmas! It's that feel-good time of the year that's filled with good friends, close family, pretty lights, big trees, strong egg nog, huge yule logs, nice carols, sweet hymns, odes to Jesus, and all kinds of ... More >>

Hard Rock Holiday

Art by AholsniffsglueHave a very Merry XXX-Mas with (((Shake))) at The Vagabond.​Oh, Christmas! It's that feel-good time of the year that's filled with good friends, close family, pretty lights, big trees, strong egg nog, huge yule logs, nice carols, sweet hymns, odes to Jesus, and all kinds of ... More >>

Better Than Fruitcake

Art by AholsniffsglueHave a very Merry XXX-Mas with (((Shake))) at The Vagabond.​Oh, Christmas! It's that feel-good time of the year that's filled with good friends, close family, pretty lights, big trees, strong egg nog, huge yule logs, nice carols, sweet hymns, odes to Jesus, and all kinds of ... More >>

The Incredible Edible Vegetable Christmas Tree Snacker

Laura Nessler​Chocolate Santas, candy ornaments, gingerbread houses and Christmas trees. Foodies behold, you may now add a tannenbaum to the list of conquered Christmas icons of culinary proportions.You might not care much for eating healthy during the holidays. But once the reality of your midsec ... More >>

Nadia G's Bitchin' Christmas (Video)

Nadia G. FacebookIt's Christmas Time...show me your ding dong!​Everyone loves to get into the act for Christmas.  For some reason, snowmen and brightly lit trees make everyone want to record a song. Adam Sandler, Paul McCartney, and David Bowie among those who have felt the need to share the ... More >>

Sweat Records' Black Friday Garage Sale Promises Deep Discounts and No Stampedes

Oh, Black Friday! Every year after Thanksgiving, a shopping warzone breaks out as holiday cheer and good tidings soon give way to flying elbows and weeping grandmothers who scream in the deep-throated, craggy, ten-packs-a-day roar of a truck driver at a strip club, "Christmas shopping season is fuc ... More >>

Dr. Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson Killed by Neck Massager

​Dr. Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson, a radiologist at Jackson Memorial Hospital, met her untimely end last Christmas Eve. After an eight-month investigation, officials have found that she was killed by a neck massager. The doctor was using a ShoulderFlex deep-kneading shiatsu massager that became twis ... More >>

State Senator Wants to Make "Merry Christmas" the Official Greeting of Florida on December 25

​Well, the holidays survived yet another "war on Christmas" and no lives seemed to be lost or adversely effected by people saying "happy holidays" or other secular greetings instead of "Merry Christmas," but up in Tallahassee the fight may carry on. In a last minute volley, state Senator Gary Sipl ... More >>

Eight Random Hipster Holiday Songs

Spend Christmas on Mars with Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips.​Holiday music, ugh. There's nothing festive about reindeer trampling grandmothers, little drummer boys, or catching your mother making out with Santa. In fact, it sucks. But for some reason, it's the type of shit music big-box retailer ... More >>

You're a Mean One, Mr. Black

Spend Christmas on Mars with Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips.​Holiday music, ugh. There's nothing festive about reindeer trampling grandmothers, little drummer boys, or catching your mother making out with Santa. In fact, it sucks. But for some reason, it's the type of shit music big-box retailer ... More >>

Christmas Dinner in Miami: Scarpetta, Gotham Steak or Norman's 180

Photo by Sarah TylerDrunk Santa doesn't feel like cooking this Christmas.​Some of us like to stay home on Christmas Day and enjoy a home cooked meal, maybe some hot chocolate or eggnog, and some chestnuts roas.....wait, for a second there I forgot that we live in the most glamorous city in the cou ... More >>

Ex-mayor Kevin Burns's Xmas tree war

Photo by Sarah TylerDrunk Santa doesn't feel like cooking this Christmas.​Some of us like to stay home on Christmas Day and enjoy a home cooked meal, maybe some hot chocolate or eggnog, and some chestnuts roas.....wait, for a second there I forgot that we live in the most glamorous city in the cou ... More >>

What Would Jews Do?

Photo by Sarah TylerDrunk Santa doesn't feel like cooking this Christmas.​Some of us like to stay home on Christmas Day and enjoy a home cooked meal, maybe some hot chocolate or eggnog, and some chestnuts roas.....wait, for a second there I forgot that we live in the most glamorous city in the cou ... More >>

Noche Buena, Rumbero-Style

Photo by Sarah TylerDrunk Santa doesn't feel like cooking this Christmas.​Some of us like to stay home on Christmas Day and enjoy a home cooked meal, maybe some hot chocolate or eggnog, and some chestnuts roas.....wait, for a second there I forgot that we live in the most glamorous city in the cou ... More >>

Top Five Edible Stocking Stuffers From Chocolate to Liquor

photo kitten via Flickr​Who doesn't like to receive sweet treats in their Christmas stockings? They  should taste right and embody Christmas cheer.

Xperimento, Radioboxer, and More! A Local Music Guide to the Twelve Days of Christmas

Photo by Lizzie EastonLatin reggae soul crew Xperimento.​As you prepare to celebrate with massive amounts of alcoholic nog, hours of lyrically inaccurate Christmas caroling, and some very drunken, dirty dancing, Crossfade has been busy making helpful, funny, and seasonally appropriate lists. Today ... More >>

Brunching at the Setai

Photo by Lizzie EastonLatin reggae soul crew Xperimento.​As you prepare to celebrate with massive amounts of alcoholic nog, hours of lyrically inaccurate Christmas caroling, and some very drunken, dirty dancing, Crossfade has been busy making helpful, funny, and seasonally appropriate lists. Today ... More >>

Five Latin Albums That Might Ruin Christmas

​With the holiday season in full swing, it's a great time for music. And in particular, Latin music. Because nothing says SoFla holidays better than a nice little salsita. Maybe something by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico or Jose Feliciano. But glaringly absent from the music out this holiday season ... More >>

Cox Radio Kills 93 Rock and Institutes 24/7 Holiday Music

Kermit says: "Cox Radio killed 93 Rock for Christmas!"​The suits at Cox Radio finally replied! Read what they had to say about killing 93 Rock for Christmas. (Then take Crossfade's 93 Rock "Radio Sucks" poll.) Whenever Crossfade wants to flood the interior of our automobiles with a non-stop stream ... More >>

Blowfly Does XXX-Mas Is a Timeless Wad of Dirty Cheer

Hoe, hoe, hoes!!!​Blowfly Blowfly Does XXX-Mas (Pandisc Records) myspace.com/blowfly Christmas comes early this year with that thick, juicy, protein-filled wad of Blowfly love that you've tasted so many times over the last five decades. A true visionary, Clarence Reid, AKA Blowfly, decided to ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Tiger Woods Ranks Higher Than Jesus Christ and Santa Claus on Google

Image via Nevada Tumbleweed's Flickr/CC 2.0​Tiger Woods will probably upstage Jesus Christ at every Christmas church sermon this holiday season, if we were to use Google as a gauge of human inquiry. At approximately 7 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve, the world golf champion garnered 50,000,000 return re ... More >>

Santa's gift: a hoochie

Image via Nevada Tumbleweed's Flickr/CC 2.0​Tiger Woods will probably upstage Jesus Christ at every Christmas church sermon this holiday season, if we were to use Google as a gauge of human inquiry. At approximately 7 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve, the world golf champion garnered 50,000,000 return re ... More >>

For the Ungrateful Child in Your Family

Image via Nevada Tumbleweed's Flickr/CC 2.0​Tiger Woods will probably upstage Jesus Christ at every Christmas church sermon this holiday season, if we were to use Google as a gauge of human inquiry. At approximately 7 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve, the world golf champion garnered 50,000,000 return re ... More >>

Put Them on the Naughty List

Image via Nevada Tumbleweed's Flickr/CC 2.0​Tiger Woods will probably upstage Jesus Christ at every Christmas church sermon this holiday season, if we were to use Google as a gauge of human inquiry. At approximately 7 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve, the world golf champion garnered 50,000,000 return re ... More >>

Ten Worst Foodie Christmas Tree Ornaments, Epic Fails

There are a lot of stupid niche markets that get exploited by crafty entrepreneurs come holiday season, but maybe the stupidest one we've seen yet is for foodie Christmas ornaments. They're not cute, or funny, and we don't know what kind of inbred, backwater, shit hole town you grew up in, but food ... More >>

A Quest for Christmassy Drinks Leads to Dada

​Night Watch is a regular column about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Downtown Delray was awash with Christmas lights. They were crawling up tree trunks and stretching across storefront windows; they dangled from awnings and snaked around wreaths at every art gallery, pet ... More >>

Gloria Estefan Grills Obama About Important Santa Claus-White House Policy

​Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not to sig ... More >>

Chill Out, Kids

​Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not to sig ... More >>

This Ain’t No Charlie Brown Christmas

​Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not to sig ... More >>

The Truman Show

​Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not to sig ... More >>

Borscht Belt on the Beach

​Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not to sig ... More >>

One Meeeeeelion Dollars

​Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not to sig ... More >>

Light My Fire

​Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not to sig ... More >>

Tiny Dancers

Holiday fave The Nutcracker unleashes the inner kid.

Forget Stocking Stuffing

Meet Jewish singles and mingle at the Matzo Ball.

Slanted and Enchanted

Make the annual pilgrimage to Miami’s Christmas HQ.

Baby, It’s (Not That) Cold Outside

Make the annual pilgrimage to Miami’s Christmas HQ.

Fill Your Belly

Till it shakes like a bowl full of jelly.

Yay, Santa!

Get your shopping done early

Ha’s to Go with Your Ho’s

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Eat, Eat, and Be Merry

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The Nutcracker

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Kung Pao Christmas

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Saint Juke

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