Istanbul

Eve Sussman's Stunning Video Work at the Bass

Party With Porn Stars Abella Anderson and Diamond Kitty for New Year's Eve 2013

Ball drops and champagne facials ... Who's ready for another New Year's Eve porn party? Yep, it's already been 365 days since we here at Crossfade taped down our ever-lasting boner, squeezed into some lightly soiled pants, and "dragged our Pornhub-addicted asses" to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &am ... More >>

Taken 2: Hurtling Narrative Illogic Resumes

Girls on Film

Madonna Flashes Nipple in Turkey and Makes Creepy Old Lady Face (NSFW)

Madonna really ripped the tits off Turkey last week. She also showed 'em. During "Human Nature," the 53-year-old pop star teased the crowd with flirty eyes and exhibitionism, publicly tweaking her nipple on stage and intentionally exposing her right breast for about two seconds. While it may hav ... More >>

Cipriani, La Cantina No. 20 to Open in Brickell

Tony restaurant chain Cipriani and Mexican chain La Cantina No. 20 have leased space at Icon Brickell.According to the South Florida Business Journal, the restaurants struck a deal with the building's owners after being on the market for nearly four years. The leased space encompasses three stories ... 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 Hit Harder By Recession Than Almost Any Other City On Earth

​Next time someone tells you, "Eh, this recession hasn't sucked that much in Miami," whip out this interactive economic graphic report that the Brookings Institute just published. The think tank's conclusions are stunning: Of 200 global cities they analyzed, Miami's economy was harder hit by the r ... More >>

Deniz Kurtel on Her LED Installation at Get Lost Art Basel This Sunday

​With all the world-class concerts and dance parties complementing the art fair and gallery action, Art Basel Miami Beach is becoming the perfect marriage of art and music. And none of the myriad international luminaries visiting Miami this week embody that more than Deniz Kurtel. She might be be ... More >>

Moby Gets Hyperactive at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day Two, March 26

When Moby took over the pixelated DJ pod in the Carl Cox and Friends Mega Structure last night, I wonder if he was saying to himself, "This audience is going to fucking love my set tonight... whether they like it or not!" He immediately began egging the crowd on, pumping his arms skyward, begging ... More >>

Traverse

Nino Pernetti's Caffe Abbracci Cookbook

​Nino Pernetti graciously sent me a copy of his then just-published cookbook after I'd done a short interview with him about it for Short Order  in 2008. The subtitle, His Life Story and Travels around the World, pretty much describes the narrative, in which Nino's co-authors Ferdie Pacheco a ... More >>

Chef Jeff McInnis Interview, Part One

How many pecks of pickled peppers... ah, forget it. ​Some of us have a big crush on Chef Jeff McInnis, partly because of his boy-next-door good looks, partly because he's just so damn down-to-Earth (is he so polite because he was born in Niceville, Florida?). But the number one reason is tr ... More >>

ZUMA at EPIC Debuts May 24

ZUMA, London's enormously popular "authentic, nontraditional Japanese" restaurant, has announced May 24th as its official opening date at the EPIC Hotel & Residences in downtown Miami. German chef Rainer Becker created ZUMA based on the informal Japanese dining style called Izakaya as well as on ... More >>

WMC 2010: Q&A With King Britt, Playing His Album Release Party at Electric Pickle Tonight

Photo by Pier Nicola D'Amico​King Britt has never been an easy talent to pin down. The main common thread, perhaps, throughout the career of the easy-going Philadelphia artist is one of experimenting. In every genre he tackles, he's always been a little out in left field. That's been true from his ... More >>

Pisco Bus goes wild in Miami

Top 10 Weird Donuts From Our Global Donut Tour

via Neil T​Donuts, donuts, they're the bestGive me pain inside my chestHope to donuts I don't dieFrom their skin: fresh, hot, and friedHere are our Top Ten Weirdest Donuts from Around The World.

Video: Pitbull Performs In Istanbul, Turkey

Here's video of Pitbull's recent performance in Istanbul, Turkey, where he's famous, and where he claims he had the album of the year for 2009, "Not 305. Not Miami. Not Dade County. Not none of that shit. Turkey. Pa que sepa. Internacional."

Frequent Flyer

They fly. You pay.

Head Spins: DJ Ipek

The Turkish-German culture clasher does White Room.

Spin For Us

London's Zuma and NY's Shake Shack to Arrive in Miami 2010

New York's Shake Shack arrives to Miami at 1111 Lincoln Road in 2010.​After facing success in London, Hong Kong, Istanbul and then Dubai, where does a contemporary Japanese restaurant go to continue on it's golden culinary path? Why Miami, of course! At least that's the way German chef Rainer Beck ... More >>

Natacha Seijas and Audrey Edmonson: Luxury Travel on Taxpayer Dime in Tough Times

​Every so often, Banana Republican daydreams of traveling the world with Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas, serenading her with the sweet sounds of the toot flute in Peru. I also fantasize about not spending a dime to visit Macchu Pichu and the like. I mean, while services are being wh ... More >>

Five reasons Miami will never host the Olympics

Five Reasons the Olympics Will Never Come to Miami

Dave Landsberger Can we change all those rings to gold and stick a cigar in there?​Last week, Rio de Janeiro beat Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio and Miami share many things, including tourism, beaches, and lots of South Americans. But here are five reasons the Magic City coul ... More >>

Sozen's Organic Farmers Market of South Florida

Jacob KatelJackson Hospital Volunteer Buys Lunch Hakan Sozen's Organic Farmers Market is a storefront operation located in Oakland Park, Fl that also sells out of booths at outdoor farmers markets to drive customers to their store. Hakan says, "I do the vegetarian food from the Middle East, organic ... More >>

Hakkasan's Haute Hong Kong Cuisine at the Fontainebleau

These Cantonese crowd pleasers can't be beat.

Q&A With Peter Murphy, Playing Tomorrow Night at Respectable Street!

After a final album together, 2008's Go Away White, Peter Murphy and his former bandmates have finally hammered the last nail in the Bauhaus coffin. But that's actually good news for the group's rabid fans. Its erstwhile frontman is finally comfortable performing these songs on his solo tours, which ... More >>

Hakkasan Open for Business

Hakkasan, a Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant with locations in London and Istanbul, held quite an opening bash Saturday night at the Fontainebleau. Three quick impressions:1. The decor, much like the Hakkasan in London, is exotic, romantic, stunning -- long, creatively lighted bar and a serie ... More >>

A New Mythology

Cuban duo Guerra de la Paz turns trash into a funky otherworld.

Alphabet Soup

The ABCs of TMBG.

The Joy in the Bubble

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

Greek Independence Day at Ink

New Times's Top DVD Picks for the Week of September 19, 2006

This Might Be Cool

They will be waiting in Istanbul

A Couple of Kebab-eries

Rice and kebabs are immersed in Persian influences -- or at least sumac

Dead Again

Gothic pioneers revive themselves for one more tour

X Marks the Crosswalk

Back to Basic Beirut

Graze at the Lebanese lounge at South Pointe

Fast Food for Smart Parents: Exhibit A

Load up on gyros and falafel at Pasha's

All Over the Plate

Something for every taste, from world-beat canvas to small portraits to tongue-licking china

Playing Is Praying

Omar Faruk Tekbilek finds the divine in the downbeat

Burhan Öçal and the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble

Caravanserai
Network

A Life in Jeopardy!

Ever dreamed of being on the brainy game show? Think you could sweep the board? Yeah, Ted B. Kissell did too.

Halvah Turkish Bite

Second Coming

Rotations

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