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Urban Beach Weekend: Luke wants the party

Girls Gone Wild To Film at Shaka Jons in Miami Beach: Bartenders Wanted

Shaka Jons via FacebookIf you can't be a drunk co-ed..you can at least serve them the beer​Girls Gone Wild, the series and website devoted to showing wholesome college co-eds drunkenly stripping and making out with each other is coming to Miami Beach to film..and if you've got some mad bartending ... More >>

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Memorial Day Weekend Needs Me

​Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke announces plans to reclaim Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach.Six months ago, a young man died and seven people w ... More >>

Free Pitbull Beach Party Announced for Dodge Half Marathon in Miami December 11

​If you wanna pop your "Bon Bon" on the Beach with Pitbull for free, you're gonna have to pay your way by running 13 miles over a period of several hours in sweltering, heatstroke-inducing SoFla heat. The deal: On Sunday, December 11, Mr. Worldwide will be giving a performance on Miami Beach for ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets to Il Volo's Miami Concert This Thursday?

​We here at Crossfade spend most of our time doing stuff like looking for legit work at Miami Beach megaclubs, making it rain with C. Breezy at the strip club, or waging guerrilla warefare on Biscayne Bay at the AAA. But now and again, we get this undeniable urge to spend an evening with three ni ... More >>

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Korn Announces November 9 Show at the Fillmore Miami Beach

​Topping the list of artists we'd never expect to see at the Fillmore Miami Beach, Korn just announced a November 9 engagement at the house Jackie Gleason Live Nation built. Thirteen years ago, Jonathan Davis and company released its big breakthrough album, Follow the Leader. It debuted atop the ... More >>

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Atmosphere, Blueprint, and Evidence at the Fillmore Miami Beach, September 17

Via facebook.com/Atmosphere​Atmosphere The Family Vacation Tour With Blueprint and Evidence Fillmore, Miami Beach Friday, September 17, 2011 Last night, quintessential emo-rapper MC Slug and his longtime producer Ant brought the latest incarnation of their Atmosphere project to the stage at the F ... More >>

Kelly Rowland and Jennifer Hudson Terrorized by Prankster Jet Skiers on Miami Beach

​Kelly Rowland and Jennifer Hudson were not holding a seminar on how to climb out of Beyoncé Knowles's shadow. While visiting Rowland's Miami Beach home, they were filming a segment for the British edition of Simon Cowell's X Factor, on which Rowland is now a judge. But the shoot w ... More >>

Plum TV: Large Layoffs and Major Restructuring UPDATED

​Just days after the resignation of CEO Jerry Powers, it seems Plum TV is headed for an uncertain future. Plum airs luxury lifestyle coverage on cable networks in a few high-end markets across America, including Miami Beach, Nantucket and Aspen, and recently launched magazines in Miami and the Ham ... More >>

Miami Beach Is the Seventh Least Manly City in America, According to Gross Snack Food

​Sometimes we hate American culture. We hate the gross vending-machine-ready bits of salt and fat we call snack food, and we hate our rigid gender stereotypes. So of course we hate the fact that Combos -- yes, those strange paste-filled pretzel things -- have named Miami Beach the nation's seventh ... More >>

TV on the Radio Announce Miami Show at the Fillmore October 25

​Have you've seen (or, well, heard) Nine Types of Light? It's the new-ish album by Brooklyn's TV on the Radio and it's so blindingly brilliant that if a weak-eyed, sensitive-eared indie kid such as yourself isn't very, very, very careful (i.e. UV-shield sunglasses and silicone), he or she could e ... More >>

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Become a member of Beach Towing's VIP list!​If you've ever had your car hitched by Beach Towing, this one's for you. For years, Banana Republican heard rumors that the notoriously treacherous company handed out special windshield decals to "very important people" that entitled these fine, upstandi ... More >>

Miami Beach City Attorney Says Marijuana Decriminalization Petition Doesn't Pass Legal Muster

​Despite 9,000 Miami Beach citizens signing a petition to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, the city's attorney said that creating such a law is an impossibility. The attorney claims that such an action would conflict with state law.

Body Washes Up on Miami Beach, Police Investigating Possible Suicide

photo by Jessie LuttmanDetectives work around a body on Miami Beach this morning.​An early-morning beachgoer called Miami Beach Police shortly before 7 a.m. today to report a disturbing find: a body lying near the sea around 68th Street.The dead man had a gunshot wound to the head, Det. Juan Sanch ... More >>

America's Third Most Popular Beach: 14 Million Visited the Sands of Miami Beach Last Year

​It's the summer months which means two things: Americans are slathering on the SPF, and websites are hungry for listicle traffic. So, obviously, The Daily Beast has decided to calculate America's favorite beach. Miami Beach came in third, but wasn't even the highest ranking Florida beach on the l ... More >>

Atmosphere Announce Miami Show at the Fillmore September 16

​And the live show announcements just keep pouring in. Early yesterday, Sweat Records announced that Ted Leo and the Pharmacists will be performing at Churchill's Pub. And word on the street is the Junior Boys will be making their first stop in the Magic City since they played the Vagabond in Oc ... More >>

Brazilian Rapper Marcelo D2 Rips Into the Fillmore Miami Beach July 22

​They say that music is the universal language. And it's a damned good thing. Because otherwise, you might miss out on Brazilian rapper Marcelo D2. Unless, of course, you happen to speak Portuguese. In any case, it'd be a shame if you missed the opportunity to be exposed to this hip-hopper's ste ... More >>

Benzino, Former Source Magazine Co-Owner, Arrested in Miami Beach

​The last time rapper and former co-owner of The Source magazine Benzino was arrested in Miami Beach in 2001, he threatened to boycott the city. Of course, he didn't, and Benzino (AKA Raymond Scott) was back in SoBe last week and was arrested for erratic driving. Police also found in his car a spe ... More >>

Philippe Chow Moving to SoFi and Boca Raton; Taverna Opa Closing

Philippe Chow is moving to SoFi and Boca Raton​Philippe, chef Philippe Chow's high-end Chinese restaurant, has closed its Gansevoort Miami Beach location. Fans of Chef Chow's lettuce wraps and Peking duck need not despair -- the restaurant will reopen with two new locations ... More >>

Decriminalized Pot Headed To A Vote In Miami Beach, Petition Gatherers Say

photo by Michael McElroyPetition gatherers say they've netted enough signatures to put pot decriminalization on the ballot.​Miami Beach voters might just get a chance this year to decriminalize pot, making it the first city in South Florida to let small-time tokers off the hook with a $100 fine in ... More >>

Video: Lil' Wayne is Hot, New Miami Beach Wedding Accessory

​If you've gotten married on Miami Beach, and you haven't had Lil' Wayne drop by your ceremony to pose in your wedding pictures, well its almost like you haven't gotten married at all. A promo for an upcoming MTV2 series follows Wayne as he walks through the streets of Miami Beach and causes mass ... More >>

Poll: Miami Beach Has The Worst Behaved Beach Goers in America

​You just want to zen out and listen to the waves crash against the sand as the sun's rays shine down on you. Don't count on it in Miami Beach. There's the asshole from Kendall blasting Power 96 from his radio, the guy playing bongos, and the idiot who gets a kick out of throwing corn chips at ove ... More >>

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Urban Beach Weekend, Facebook, and the Age of the Ignorati

The Committee to End Urban Beach Weekend on Miami Beach.​Almost a month after the ignominious conclusion of Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach, ignorance is still flowing strong on a Facebook group page calling for an end to the controversial week-long unofficial party.No matter how many tim ... More >>

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Memorial Day Weekend Fiasco Could Have Been Avoided Long Ago

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times.This week, Luke explains how his efforts to organize Memorial Day Weekend festivities in Miami Beach were thwarted by cit ... More >>

Red State Activists Call For End to the Entire City of Miami Beach

​In reaction to the last 30 years of crime, drug trafficking and sexual provocativeness within the City of Miami Beach, a coalition of good, white Christian activists from a collection of Red States plan to send a letter today to local, state and federal leaders demanding that the entire city be b ... More >>

Mayor Bower: Miami Beach Can't Do Anything About Urban Beach Weekend

Miami Beach is largely helpless to stop Memorial Day partiers from coming to town for Urban Beach Weekend, which saw seven injured and one killed in police-related shootings this year, city Mayor Matti Herrera Bower said Tuesday afternoon. According to police, more than 400 were arrested."There is n ... More >>

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Pictures: Anna Kournikova Puts Her Miami Beach Mansion on the Market for $9.4 Million

​Anna Kournikova, who turned a somewhat successful tennis career into a much more successful career of being a professional blonde sexy lady, has put her Miami Beach home on the market for $9.4 million according to AOL. The seven bedroom, 6,630-square-foot mansion located on the Sunset Islands boa ... More >>

Joe Allen in Miami Beach Closes UPDATED

​After more than a decade, Joe Allen has closed its Miami Beach doors.Managing partner Mario Rubeo confirmed the news by phone saying that the bottom line was that the restaurant wasn't "financially feasible" anymore. The restaurant, which also has outposts in New York, Paris and London, open ... More >>

Red Light Ban Passes in Florida House, But May Falter in Senate

​Red light cameras are the absolute worst. Defenders says they make intersections safer, though study after study shows that lengthening yellow lights is actually much more effective. Though, yellow lights don't bring in money. (And lets be honest, for many local governments the red light cameras ... More >>

The Moon Is Out! Live Nation and Embrace Team Up for the Honeymoon Series

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezThe neo-raver, grandchild of the hippies.​The Honeymoon Series begins this Saturday with Datsik, continuing with Zeds Dead May 5 and Borgore June 17. Back in the LSD-soaked '60s, a big boxy San Francisco building named the Fillmore Auditorium was routinely overrun by l ... More >>

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Girl Talk Announces Second Gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 20

​A month and a half ago, hyperkinetic copyright prankster and Illegal Art label boss Girl Talk (AKA Greg Gillis) revealed that he was "extending his pheremone-soaked North American spree by scheduling another 38 sweaty encounters, including a gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 19." Immediately ... More >>

The Royal Palm, Miami Beach's First Black-Owned Hotel, to Become Yet Another Fancy Chain Hotel

​The Royal Palm hotel was the first black-owned hotel in all of Miami Beach, and as our Francisco Alvarado once put it, "was supposed to be a beacon of atonement for Miami-Dade County's racist past." After it re-opened on 16th and Collins in 2002, a string of bad business calculations and bitter d ... More >>

Closets are for Clothes

Video: Crowd Goes Nuts Outside Oversold Swedish House Mafia Show

via YouTube​The online uproar over a clash between Miami Beach cops and Swedish House Mafia fans all started when thousands of ticket-holders were denied entrance to the group's show. Tensions skyrocketed as at least two thousand people who'd paid stood in the sun for hours, until they eventually ... More >>

Epicure for The Exorcist

Love Bites is a regular column on Short Order. Find other installments here.In any relationship, there comes a time when one half of a couple is victimized for a few low-down, embarrassing, horrific, pitiful, flat-out disgusting days. You just want to die. Some people call it the flu. I call it The ... More >>

First Ever Miami Beach Truck Stop Saturday at Miami Beach Botanical Garden

Laine Doss Face sculpture at Miami Beach Botanical Garden​Miami Beach residents who love food trucks have had to trek to the mainland for their favorite delights, with a few exceptions. This Saturday, Beach residents can rejoice because food trucks will take over Miami Beach Botanical ... More >>

Steve Berke: Comedian for Miami Beach mayor