Mexico City

Alejandro Sanz: "I Always Wake Up Thinking, One More Day to Conquer"

Among the most commercially successful and artistically respected Latin pop artists in the world, singer, songwriter, and composer Alejandro Sanz has sold more than 22 million albums over the last two decades while also becoming the most Grammy-winning Spanish-language artist in history, with three ... More >>

Los Enanitos Verdes at Fillmore Miami Beach August 19

Mexicans Pay in Blood for America's War on Drugs

La Gloutonnerie: Expensive, Expertly Precise French Cuisine in South Beach

Los Autenticos Decadentes at Grand Central Miami July 15

Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?

Korean Artist Kimsooja Turns Heads at MAM

A World in One Room

Dominique Bistro Brings High-End French Cuisine to Brickell

It's a warm, humid day in May and the Brickell area is buzzing. There are plenty of high-end dining options: Italian, Chinese, of course Cuban and everything else -- except French.Enter Dominique Bistro co-owners and brothers-in-law Jose Sigona and Gerrardo Barrera. We know what your thinking, "they ... More >>

Latin House Grill to Open Restaurant: Are Food Trucks Turning to Brick and Mortar?

​Is the new food truck trend to turn in the wheels for a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant? We've already seen restaurants such as Sakaya Kitchen, La Camaronera, Red Koi, Sweetness Bake Shop, and Islas Canarias roll out mobile versions of their brick-and-mortar establishments.We're seei ... More >>

Gloutonnerie to Open in Former Pied de Cochon Space

​A French restaurant from Mexico, Gloutonnerie, will be taking over the former Au Pied de Cochon venue in South Beach. I heard this news from my source, Strep Throat, who reported that it would be upscale, "a Maison d'Azur type situation." I believe I picked up a trace of sarcasm in that descripti ... More >>

Leap on This

MSTRKRFT Reminisces About Four Years at Ultra and Talks Miami Food Favorites

Al-P loves South Beach. ​Last night, MSTRKRFT performed for an enthusiastic group of dancing fans at Ultra Music Festival. It was after ten o'clock and the crowd was in full effect. They played a range of deeply textured electronica and ended with a mix of "It Takes Two" that an older ... More >>

Phallic Panic

Miami DJ Josh LeCash Takes on Tacos, Mexican Tweens, and Katy Perry

It's Le'Cash ... say it right!​Miami isn't a city in need of superstar DJs. On any given night in any given nightclub, big-shot disc jocks flock to this Magic City for hot chicks, endless bottle service, and the best nightlife this side of Ibiza. So what's stopping a 24-year-old Florida native wi ... More >>

The Space Barrier

Latin America Now Officially More Progressive on Gay Marriage than Florida

Latin America celebrated it's first official gay marriage yesterday, as two gay rights activists tied the knot in Argentina thanks to a legal loophole. Argentina's constitution doesn't specifically define marriage between a man and a woman, effectively leaving the interpretation up to local official ... More >>

Nope, Not Cinco de Mayo

Behind the Scenes Photos from Univision's Viva El Sueno

Jacob KatelWalking the red carpet.​ Last week Crossfade got invited to Greenwich Studios in North Miami where Univision is filming their new mega reality talent competition Viva El Sueño. Univision was holding an industry preview of the program for big-wig executives, rich, important and famous p ... More >>

Vivian Girls to Play Propaganda October 21

Mexico City, by Daniel Araujo from their Myspace​Damn Son!  Vivian Girls are playing Propaganda up in Lake Worth in October.  I don't know if Steve is doing these shows or what, but this place is really coming into its own with this booking.  This band is pretty damn good and in my ... More >>

Butane Plays Electric Pickle this Friday

​Midwestern DJ/producer Andrew Rasse a.k.a. Butane is one of the more cerebral and pragmatic figures of contemporary techno. This is a guy who cites the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Thomas Kuhn as influences, and whose new artist album Endless Forms (on Crosstown Rebels) is a self-described h ... More >>

Swine Flu Patient Traveled Through Miami

via FlickrThe fine country of Austria reported its first case of swine flu today according to the World Health Organization. The patient, a 28-year-old woman, who recently returned from a trip to Guatemala to visit her parents, is expected to recover. The woman flew from Guatemala to an airport in M ... More >>

A Room With A View

Parque vía highlights second week of MFF.

Ice on the Decks, Non-Vanilla

Ice has a bit of a bad musical rap ever sense its unfortunate connection with a certain early 90's caucasian rapper, but it's grown musically sense then. While listening to the Merzbox 20 times in a row, it realized there's more to creating sound than ripping of a Queen riff, so it teamed up wi ... More >>

Q&A: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Live Tonight at the Fillmore Miami Beach

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Immigrants Are Superheroes

Kunsthaus celebrates some truly heroic Mexicans.

MTV Pimps its Tongues

Roger Sanchez

Marco Antonio Solis

Mexican Master

MAM opens a new window onto one of painting's most brilliant icons

Contemporary Creations

Arteamericas reveals the best of Latin America

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Instituto Mexicano del Sonido

Méjico Máxico (Nacional Records)

A Little Spice

Molotov

Con Todo Respeto Universal Latino

The New Classics

Celebrating some of 2003's best efforts in Latin music

Doin' Our Own Thing

Styles may change but Café Tacuba remains the same

Molotov

Dance and Dense Denso "Surco/Universal"

Emperors of Ice Cream

South Florida offers a veritable world tour of frozen goodness

Best Film Festival

FIU-Miami International Film Festival

Festival of Mights, II

Headlining the second week of international film, Mexico and France provide some evocative, provocative heavy hitters

Radical Mexican Radio

Café Tacuba

Exile Blues

As a lead singer for Los Van Van, Israel Kantor was a star in his native country. But Miami isn't Cuba.

News of the Weird

Eyewitnesses to History

Marion and Orlando de Cardenas aided Fidel Castro when the Cuban revolution was still a daydream, not a bad dream

Mexican Standoff

Viva Zapata's

The Mysterious Mexican Gorilla Caper

A notorious animal smuggler. Some eager buyers. A bizarre sting operation. A dark and stormy night. No wonder the jurors could hardly believe what they were hearing.

Corazon Del Rocanrol