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Houston Artist's Sci-Fi Take on Black Culture Comes to North Miami

Lil Wayne Declares War on Miami Heat: "F#$% LeBron! F#$% She-Wade! And I F#$í Chris Bosh's Wife!"

"This ain't no Twitter beefin' or no online beef." Last night at the Beats By Dre's NBA All-Star Game finale party, Lil Wayne officially declared war on the Miami Heat. "You let them niggas know I'm from the streets," the Young Money maniac snarled. "Just take it to the motherfucking streets, nig ... More >>

Miami Named City With Most Attractive Residents Because, Like, Duh

Excuse our beauty, rest of America, but for the first time since 2009, Miami has been named the city with the most attractive residents by Travel Leisure's America's Favorite Cities survey. Which, whatever, no one had to tell us. We already know we're beautiful. Duh. We all wake up and look in the ... More >>

Trap Takes Over! Flosstradamus and DJ Sliink Run Shit at Grand Central Miami

Sorry, Admiral Ackbar. It's too late for your warnings. The kids cannot escape. America's youth is addicted to the drug-dealing music. And they ain't fina stop twerkin' till they dead. Or in jail. OK, it's not that serious. But Friday's performance by Flosstradamus at Grand Central proved that tra ... More >>

Illegal Cambodian Weed Sales: Authorities Are Clueless

The invasive plant water spinach is banned in some states — and essential to Asian cooking. In a small village outside Houston, relocated Cambodians are growing and selling it across state lines, hoping to get rich.

Boys Noize's "First-Ever U.S.A. Live Tour": Fort Lauderdale, NYC, L.A., 13 Other Cities

"XTC" ... The only way to start your beat-freaking day. Of course, we here at Crossfade aren't advocating early-morning methylenedioxy-methylamphetamine. Just the new entactogenically exhilirating single by professional Berlin-based party starter and label boss Boys Noize, AKA Alexander Ridha. It's ... More >>

It's a Trap! An 11-Part History of Trap Music, From DJ Screw to Gucci Mane to Flosstradamus

Trap music. It's superhuge right now with the cool kids and it's overrunning Soundcloud. Yet despite its growing popularity, a lot of people have one basic question ... What the fuck is trap? Because of recent EDM trends, many people would tell you it's the "new dubstep" or the "new moombahton." ... More >>

NASA Mars Mission Menu: Sushi, Vegan Pizza (Video)

Now that the wily scientists at NASA are no longer busy launching shuttle missions, they have time to focus on their inner foodie. At Houston headquarters, they are in the early stages of planning a menu for a team of six to eight astronauts for a planned mission to Mars some time in the 2030s. A ma ... More >>

Three Loco at LIV Nightclub July 18

Meek Mill's Announces Dreamchasers Tour, Show at Fillmore Miami Beach on August 13

To quote a wise man named Meek Mill, "Dreamchasing is an occupation." As opposed to a simple hobby or some shit, the act of hustling after one's essential needs and wildest wishes (e.g. "tryna fix the roof leak," "tryna keep the house warm," "tryna touch a million dollars") should consume every hou ... More >>

Miami-Dade County Just Overtook Brooklyn to Become America's Seventh Most Populous County

Miami-Dade County saw its population grow by 58,331 residents between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2011 according to the United State Census. That adds up to the fourth largest numeric growth by any county in the country. These estimates also make Miami-Dade the seventh largest county by population in ... More >>

Allen Stanford Jury Deadlocked On Charges Against Alleged Miami Ponzi King

​In South Florida, aka Ponzistan, it takes some serious effort to stand out among the Nevin Shapiros and Scott Rothsteins as the most deranged fraudster in town. Allen Stanford worked hard to earn that title, allegedly building an $7 billion scam from Miami and Houston while using the cash to buy ... More >>

Madonna Announces 2012 World Tour With Miami Concert

​For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn't even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna's 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who'd be totally willing to blow their ... More >>

Miami's top ten underground rap and hip-hop acts

Miami's Top Ten Underground Rap and Hip-Hop Acts

​New Yorkers still think they run hip hop. Canadians say, "It ain't dead. It lives in the North." L.A. radio plays more Pitbull than we do. Houston is still leaning off a never-ending cup of codeine. NOLA's doing it in the dark. Philly, Detroit, and Chi-Town are mad because it's winter. In Miami ... More >>

Miami food scene 2011: food trucks, great chefs, and real coffee continue the culinary ascent

Peter Bjorn and John's All You Can Eat tour at Bardot September 23

Jay-Z and Kanye Announce The Throne Tour Stop in Miami November 15

​There's no doubt that Jay-Z -- even as hip-hop's retired-unretired elder statesman -- still balls like the best of 'em. Just last night Hova was makin' it rain at the Fountainebleau's LIV in Miami Beach, dropping more $100,000 on a single bottle of champagne in celebration of the release of his n ... More >>

Now's Your Chance To Own A Very Tacky Piece Of Allen Stanford's Ponzi Empire

Wave goodbye to that $3 million desk, Allen.​You've got to give Allen Stanford credit for thinking big -- instead of sinking his $8 billion Ponzi scheme profits into the usual uber-rich guy stuff, he bought himself the entire Caribbean nation of Antigua, sponsored giant cricket tourneys (despite b ... More >>

Rick Scott Owns the World's Ugliest Custom Cowboy Boots

via The Buzz These boots were made for gawking. ​This isn't Texas, and no one really expects our governor to tramp around in cowboy boots. Maybe wearing the "official" Florida shoe, the flip-flop, would be appropriate, but cowboy boots? Well, it turns out Rick Scott has a thing for boots th ... More >>

Miami is One of the Angriest Cities in America

You wouldn't like us when we're angry. ​Nothing pisses us off more than these statisically-flawed, silly little city rankings lists. Just in the past few weeks we've learned that Miami is one of America's most rude, vain, and miserable cities. Fittingly, Men's Health now tells us that when it come ... More >>

Less Than Six Degrees to Holland's Chef Rudi Sodamin

Photo by Riki AltmanDid you miss the first part of our chat with Rudi Sodamin, Holland America's consulting master chef? Read it here to discover the celebrity circles this guy travels with.Who is the most famous chef you've ever worked with?Twenty years ago, when I was with the QE2, I worked with t ... More >>

Allen Stanford's Ponzi Trial On Hold While Court Decides If He's Too Crazy To Continue

Stanford at one of his cricket tournaments.​Not to say, 'we told you so,' but when a guy's behavior leads us to write about his similarities to maniac SNL character Bill Brasky, there's a good chance he's got some mental issues. Before he ever got arrested for running an $8 billion Ponzi out of a ... More >>

Miami Needs Indie Food Shops and Restaurants

Lee Klein​Fries. Cupcakes. Cocktails. You won't find that trio at any chain restaurant, be it fast food, fast casual, or whatever the latest corporate cookie cutter term for frozen food is these days. China Grill Management isn't interested in covering such eclectic territory, nor is Houston ... More >>

Karen Hanlon: restaurant designer extraordinaire

Restaurant Designer Karen Hanlon Talks Sugarcane, YOLO, and More

Yesterday we met Karen Hanlon, a restaurant designer whose work can be viewed as dining art. Today she talks Sugarcane, Houston's and sphinxes.Vibe Lounge​New Times: What is the most extravagant design you have worked on?Karen Hanlon: I designed the Hard Rock Cafe in Myrtle Beach, SC.  It was ... More >>

Arturo Carvajal, Miami Doctor, Sues Houston's Restaurant For Not Teaching Him How To Properly Eat Artichoke

Your average person knows how to eat an artichoke: Using your teeth, you scrape the meat from the bottom of each leaf. But Miamian Arturo Carvajal, a doctor with a family practice in Hollywood and litigant in one of the stranger lawsuits we've ever seen, was mystified by the vegetable.

Five Wackiest Electronic Music Genres You've Never Heard Of

myspace.com/anamanaguchiAnamanaguchi is freaking us out!​The best thing about electronic music is its limitlessness. Having thrown aside the sonic limitations of rock's overdone guitar-bass-drums combo, synthesizer music can sound like virtually anything. And it does. Electronic music has spaw ... More >>

Crocodiles Cancel Its November 3 Show at Grand Central and Rest of US Tour

Photo by Alexandra Kacha​Only this morning, Crossfade hyped the upcoming Crocodiles concert at downtown cool kid club Grand Central with a hyperactive blurb about the San Diego band's recent single "Kill Joe Arpaio" and the Arizona sheriff's angry, Twitter-driven counterattack. This evening, thou ... More >>

Glaciers That Won’t Melt

Chino y Nacho at Grand Central for the Premios Juventud VIP Tour Tonight

​Are you literally giddy with excitement over Premios Juventud tomorrow, and tickets to the show be damned? Or perhaps all Spanish language tunage isn't necessarily your thing, but you do like to get down to the dulcet ghetto-tones of reggaeton. You know, do a little perreando. Get your boricuada ... More >>

Mixtape Of The Week: Layce & Chingo Bling - 305 To 713

​North Miami and Houston join forces for the sake of a brand new mixtape that mixes the flavors of two distinct artists. On one hand there's Layce, a multifaceted rapper/producer/engineer and overall good businessman who's representing Miami. Then on the other, you have Chingo Bling, a very anima ... More >>

Morons of the Week: Murderer Haunted by Text Messages, Tea Party Protesters, and Cesar Carasa

We had some strange and creepy ones this week. Let's get down to it: Isn't Google image incredible?​5. Paul Edwards, busted for murder by his alleged victim's beyond-the-grave text message. So cops investigating a missing female sent their top suspect, her boyfriend and Miramar reside ... More >>

Jacobs Ladder Tour Diary, Part Three: The Austin, Texas Chronicles

​Jacobs Ladder is almost at the end of their national tour. Click here and here to read past installments of the band's tour diary -- and to hear their music, check out their MySpace page. These installments were penned by the band's bassist, Sammy Gonzalez.Wednesday, September 2: General Thoughts ... More >>

Pitts' Theory that Conservatives Think They're Oppressed Black People Immediately Confirmed by Conservative

Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. was in fine form this morning with a column plundering a particularly troublesome line of thought amongst many conservatives that they're now basically an oppressed minority.  Indeed, sometimes [the Conservative movement] feels as if it is no longer ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of August 14, 2008

"Anyone who claims to play poker for a living in this state is a wannabe, a jerk-off, and, furthermore, a degenerate."

No Time to Cool Down

We need the Heat to blaze it up

Could Be Betta

Barchetta may leave you fishing for flavor

Vegetarian Valhalla

On South Beach, something new, something Guru

A Grill with Cheap Thrills

Scorch Grillhouse and Wine Bar is a good neighborhood restaurant

The Empire Strikes Back

You can’t keep a good Max down

Another Prime Spot

Legend-to-Be

Mr. Haka brings Latin rap to a bus stop near you

On a Fishy Mission

The Young Man and the Sea

Reel in a great deal at Pilar, and enjoy your catch

The Top Texan

Houston's is brash and fresh and delivering it up your way

Letters from the Issue of November 7, 2002

In Denmark we really know how to get stoned

Paint Pink, Eat Blue

The Delano's Blue Door goes to New York, Mary Brickell Village goes CocoWalk

Lawnboy's Own Story

The Miami Book Fair International

A Real Jah-Breaker

Reggae messiah Bob Marley gets two 50th birthday parties here in Miami