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Swedish House Mafia Headlining Ultra Music Festival 2013 With Opening, Closing Night Sets

When Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello announced their career-ending One Last Tour, saying goodbye to 26 cities across every continent, we here at Crossfade lamented, "Miami's not included." But we also doubted "a group who had a huge hit called 'Miami to Ibiza' an ... More >>

Pharrell Williams And Chad Oppenheim Want To Redevelop Overtown Into "Ice Cream City"

A hip-hop icon with a knack for post-skater attire and a Magic City architect have unveiled a very imaginative master plan to transform Overtown into a vibrant urban destination for skateboarders, artists, and fashionistas. But turning that dream into a reality is going to require a monumental effor ... More >>

Congorock on Blogging, Hipster Electro, and Whether EDM Is Actually Wimpy

EDM has America by the throat. But how did it get to be this way? Well, we can't say definitively. Although, it kinda started with blogging hipsters in 2006. Hell, some of the DJs making waves on the scene today started out as bloggers, like Italian electro badass Congorock. He remembers the good ... More >>

Congorock Talks Afro-Disco, Record Shopping in Manila, and Collabo Track With Sean Paul

These days, you can't go outside without hearing the sickeningly familiar strains of "Le7els." But before that sweet melody had the scene on fire, the go-to track of the moment was a little edgier. Congorock is the Italian electro monster behind massive anthem "Babylon," which he never even thought ... More >>

The Bourne Legacy Suffers From a Sense of Damonlessness

Filipinos in Miami: Underpaid, Overworked, Underfed

Khalilah Camacho-Ali, The Champ's Ex-Wife, Remembers Angelo Dundee

​Khalilah Camacho-Ali remembers the first time she walked into 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach was during the summer of 1967. Back then she was known as Belinda, the 17-year-old second bride of the man who would go on to become the greatest boxer of all time: Muhammad Ali. At that time, Ali had been ... More >>

Amigo: John Sayles brings the Philippine-American War into the 21st Century

Foodstock: One Night Of Peas and Music Food Truck Roster Announced

HippyHoundDogAll decked out for Foodstock​This past weekend we set back the clock one hour. This coming weekend, we're setting the clock back even farther ... to 1969, a time when hippies chanted "make love, not war," traded love beads and ate street food. Let's put it this way, hippies were the ... More >>

Short Order Presents Foodstock, One Night of Peas and Music

​Break out your love beads and appetite because Short Order is bringing you Foodstock: One Night of Peas and Music in the Wynwood Arts District on November 12.Be prepared to rock out to live bands and DJs, shop for vintage clothing and arts and crafts and eat from 30 food trucks. Foodstock also co ... More >>

Ten Years of Biz Martinez: The Miami Nightlife Maestro Lists His Most Epic Career Moments

​Biz Martinez makes magic happen. And pulling rabbits out of hats is for amateurs. As music director and talent buyer for LIV and Arkadia at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Biz is the ringmaster, drawing big-ticket bookings week after week. Flash back to 2001 and you won't find that superhero stre ... More >>

Overload Extreme Street Food: Consume Mass Quantities at Tropical Park

Overload Extreme Street Food via FacebookOverload Extreme Street Food -- wear stretchy pants.​There are two schools of thought in the eating game.On the one hand, there are the people who want to eat clean and healthfully. Thinking of their bodies as temples, they look for buzzwords like organic, ... More >>

Yo Mama Paella & Seafood Is a Bounty of the Sea; Trucks at BTTR, Tropical Park

Yo Mama Paella & SeafoodYo Mama Paella & Seafood's colorful sea creatures beckon you to eat them.​If you can get past all of the "yo mama" jokes on the truck and on Yo Mama's Twitter page, you'll discover fresh, inexpensive seafood with Caribbean influences. The truck looks like a poster f ... More >>

Slow Food Truck on Leaderboard to Win Title of America's Favorite

Slow Food TruckSlow Food Truck is slowly climbing the charts to win Food Network's $10,000 prize.​Slow Food Truck is in the top ten to win $10,000 and the title of America's Favorite Food Truck in Food Network's Great Food Truck Race.Slow Food Truck is the only South Florida food truck in the ... More >>

DJ Craze and Codes Are Cooking Something Up at Slow Roast Records

There were strange sounds simmering over at DJ Craze's Slow Roast Records earlier this week. The Miami beat maker was holed up in his studio with Codes cooking up some dance beats. Here's how it all came together ... Codes was visiting Miami from New York City to celebrate Gran ... More >>

DJ Craze Gets Grilled by Wannabe DJs and Tech Nerds at SAE Institute

​The Nicaraguan-born, Miami-bred super DJ who runs Slow Roast Records with Kill the Noise, DJ Craze, lives right here in the 305. During the week, at least. On the weekends, he's traveling from Vegas to Manila, doing what it takes to keep massive crowds of party people dancing. Recently, administ ... More >>

Clarabelle's Cupcakes Offers New Cool Summer Flavors, Try Some at BTTR

Clarabelle's Cupcakes is offering new summer flavorsNo one will disagree that we've officially entered the unbearable phase of the Miami summer. With temperatures in the 90s and humidity in the same percentage, we need something frosty to eat. Clarabelle's Cupcakes has come up with a line of " ... More >>

Manila Rice Serves Secret Menu Item, Exotic Food At BTTR Tonight

Manila Rice ​If you've been kvetching about the same old, same old night after night, we hear you. Everyone lapses into "food boredom" now and then. If eating the same food all the time has gotten you down, you might want to visit Manila Rice at BTTR tonight for some more-than-authentic Fili ... More >>

Khalilah Camacho-Ali was in the Champ's corner through some of boxing's greatest moments

Manila Rice Food Truck Debuts, Weekend Meetups at Bayfront, on Miller Drive, and at Tobacco Road

Manila Rice Cecille Pangan with her Manila Rice Truck​With a "Miami Vice" color scheme (hot pink lettering on a black background), Manila Rice makes its debut this evening on the corner of NE 144th Street and Biscayne Boulevard from 6 to 11 p.m. Ted Lederman and Cecille Pangan are partners, ... More >>

Opening Dates for Norman's 180, Burger & Beer Brickell Announced

Photo by Jacquelynn D. PowersNorman Van Aken (pictured with Emeril Lagasse) is all set to open Norman's 180 at the end of the month. ​Two new anticipated restaurants are debuting in the next few weeks in Miami.Norman's 180, from famed chef Norman Van Aken, officially launches in Coral Gables on Tu ... More >>

Wynwood Art Walk: David Castillo, Gallery I/D, and Miguel Paredes

Pulgha World mosaic mural by Miguel Paredes.​In this week's art column, we previewed everything from aboriginal reveries to a high-stomping high school girl's drill squad to an orgy of experimental video, which are all part of this weekend's Second Saturday gallery crawl capped by a free concert b ... More >>

Norman Van Aken's New Gables Place: An Exclusive View of the New Menu

Photo by Jacquelynn D. PowersNorman Van Aken (with Emeril Lagasse) is set to open Norman's 180 at the end of the month. ​Next to the Forge's recent reopening, everyone in Miami is buzzing about the debut of Norman's 180. This Coral Gables eatery marks the return of famed chef Norman Van Aken to th ... More >>

Prime Italian Is Prime Turf

The sultan of SoFi's new restaurant succeeds as an all-purpose upscale Italian dining venue.

Grand Illusion

MAM's latest spectacle glimmers, glows, and goads.

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone.

Concert Preview/Interview: Art in Manila Tonight at Revolution

Comfortably Numb

A UM professor gathers an ugly hidden history of rape and forgetting

Choose Your Noodle

SoBe scenesters bring a no-brainer to the Beach

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT

Pao

Not Your Mama's Italian

Escopazzo breaks all the rules, irresistibly

Mistaken Identity

Was the restaurant being reinvented, or was it a printing error?

Side Dish

Choucroute month and menus with meaning

Chino Cum Vino

Your guide to the right wine for the kung pao chicken

Pao Packs Punch

Pao's Chinese is fine feasting

The Great Contender

True fame and hard truth don't mix in the TV-sportscasting biz

BEST MAGIC CITY ICON

Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, "The Fight Doctor"

Tricolore Beach

Specchio Café

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of June 1, 2000

Chop Phooey

When United Way revved up the chainsaw on one of Miami's busiest corners, tree huggers screamed

News of the Weird

Anarchy in Allapattah

Residents of Allapattah have come to fear the boys who hang at 1024, And they have reason to

News of the Weird

Light at the Edge of the World

When Bad Attorneys Get Caught (Don't Hold Your Breath)

Industrious Resolutions

Miami artists share their wry hopes, sly hopes, and high hopes for the coming year

Bad food but Big Tip

A Sea of Trouble

For 66 days Bill and Simonne Butler drifted together on a tiny raft in the Pacific. After they were finally rescued and came back to Miami, they drifted apart.

Price -A-Roni

Bon Voyage!