Miami Beach

Matti Bower Needs To Do More For African-American Tourists

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 says African-Americans may find a new vacation spot unless attitudes change on Miami Beach.Note to African-American tourists ... More >>

South Beach Will Be a Police State this Weekend: Here's What to Expect

In a $1.8 million effort to control crowds (and, lets be honest, discourage Urban Beach Week festivities from happening in the future), South Beach will resemble nothing short of a police state this weekend. Though, The Miami Herald's Miami Beach reporter David Smiley tweets that "projected Memorial ... More >>

Memorial Day Weekend On Miami Beach Is a Gangsta's Paradise

Luther 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. In this special edition of his column, Luke explains the new security measures for Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach.This is a public serv ... More >>

South Beach Tow Renewed for Second Season for Some Awful Reason

South Beach Tow must be one of those shows that is so unbelievably stupid that the only reason people watch it is because they mindlessly stare at their own television screen wondering how crap like this is actually broadcast before falling into a deep depression while mulling ov ... More >>

Exxxotica 2012: Top Ten Porn Parties in Miami This Weekend

Under normal circumstances, partying with a porn star might mean all kinds of DP, TP, ATM, RTF, and money shots. It would also require a clean STD test, fresh bikini wax, and 60ml tube of spermicidal lube. But this weekend, the Exxxotica 2012 adult entertainment expo has come to town for three full ... More >>

Surfing, Pinball, and Weed: Perry Farrell on His Teen Years in Miami

See also "Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell Comments on Tom Gabel's Transgender Announcement." When Jane's Addiction brings its rock party to the Fillmore Miami Beach tonight, it will be a homecoming show for the band's frontman, Perry Farrell. "I moved to Miami Beach when I was about fourteen, sho ... More >>

Whiskey Dick: Bourbon-Flavored Lube In Time For Exxxotica (Video)

The brains behind Epic Meal Time have taken a page from their YouTube videos and figured out the only thing missing in our consumer-addled-slightly-alcoholic society was bourbon flavored lube.Whiskey Dick Old No. 69 is totally real and totally available for $11.99 a bottle. It is a water-based, booz ... More >>

Miami Beach Has Banned Plastic Straws

Sorry sippers, Miami Beach has banned plastic straws from the beach. Yes, to cut down on litter on the beach, the city commission amended an ordinance last week that could result in fines of $50 to $500 over straws. Don't worry though, the ban is aimed at beachfront hotels who serve drinks with stra ... More >>

Nine Best Miami Beach Gay Pride 2012 Parties

Fly that rainbow flag! Over the next three days and nights, Miami Beach is gonna be totally flooded with gay pride as bears, twinks, lovely les ladies, trans babes, and legacy couples -- not to mention grand marshal Chaz Bono, one of the Pussycat Dolls, and futuristic pansexual divas on stilts -- c ... More >>

Seven Miami Beach Code Inspectors and Firefighters (Plus a Dade Cop) Busted for Nightclub and Cocaine Shenanigans

Seven Miami Beach employees and a Miami-Dade cop found themselves hit with public corruption charges today in two separate cases. In the first, code compliance officers and firefighters allegedly accepted cash payoffs from South Beach nightclubs to ignore code issues that might have closed the estab ... More >>

Miami Beach Forms Unhealthy Alliance With The Coca-Cola Company

​In a shameless act of pure greed, the City of Miami Beach has formed a beverage sponsorship agreement with the Coca-Cola Company.This does not mean that when exiting the MacArthur Causeway onto Fifth Street that you will drive past a sign that reads Welcome to Coca-Cola Miami Beach. It does mean ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival: Be fair to African-Americans

Treat Memorial Day Weekend the Same as Spring Break and Winter Music Week

Luther 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 wonders when Miami and Miami Beach city officials will crack down on rowdy ravers.The video shows a large crowd gathering ar ... More >>

Purim is Today: Get Your Hamentashen Here

​Who says Disney has all the stories about powerful princesses overcoming evil? Long before Cinderella and Ariel, Queen Esther defeated the evil Haman, saving her people and being one general bad-ass young lady.To celebrate and remember this victory, every year Jews (and everyone else who likes a ... More >>

Miami Beach Is Effin’ Gay

SoBeWFF: The Festival Beyond Famous Faces

​You might not recognize them yet, but their names should already be on your radar. These chefs are in the kitchen every day, building the culinary foundation for future success. They bring a newfound creativity to comfort foods that we traditionally consider less than great cuisine. Meatballs, sp ... More >>

It Takes History to Tango

Dead Cats Found Possibly Poisoned in Miami Beach

​In a gruesome act that certainly can't be attributed to a dog, Miami Beach found four dead cats shoved into a bag last night. One cat was found alive. The feline was taken to a local animal hospital, but it too later died.Update: The cats may have been poisoned. And it seems they weren't in a bag ... More >>

Miami Beach Misses Out on Hosting Miss USA

​Miss USA was hosted in Miami Beach for over decade between 1960 and 1971, but America's second most important beauty pageant won't be coming back to this year even after a strong push from the city's tourism and cultural development. Looks like we'll have to make do with all the non-competing you ... More >>

Boucher Brothers enrages SoBe surfers with no-bid board-renting contract

NostalgiaFest

Boucher Bros. Expands Beach Monopoly With No-Bid Contract for Surf and Paddleboarding

​In early January, Miami Beach lifeguards suddenly began ordering surfers, paddleboarders, and kitesurfers to ditch their local haunts and move south of Third Street. City officials had supposedly just rediscovered an obscure 1964 law banning the sports from guarded beaches.But while the media foc ... More >>

Miami Beach Launching Car Sharing Service on Tuesday

​It's a slippery slope down the path of transportation socialism, ain't it? First it starts with public buses, then the City of Miami Beach got a taste of bike sharing with DecoBike, and now the city is about to launch a car sharing service. The city has partnered with Hertz on Demand, and residen ... More >>

Hang Ten: Miami Beach Decides to Ignore 1964 Surfing Ban Again

​Back in 1964, the Miami Beach City Commission decided to be a total bummer and banned surfing and other similar water sports from all but two spots on Miami Beach. The ordinance, which could put offenders in jail for 30 days, had largely been ignored and all but forgotten until the city begin enf ... More >>

Santigold Announces Concert at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on January 19

​When Santigold called to tell Crossfade that she'd be in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, we squealed with delight like the Disney-fied version of those piglets penned outside Primary Flight. But after about 15 minutes, we got sad, thinking, "Well, she hasn't hit the Beach since ... November 2009 ... More >>

Deadmau5's New Year's Day Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach

​Deadmau5's New Year's Day Pool Party With Stephan Luke, Troy Kurtz, and Damaged Goods Fontainebleau Miami Beach Sunday, December 1, 2012 Better Than: A night without a jillion jiggawatts of bass. Trillion dollar hotel, international DJs, good-looking people getting wild and out of control? What ... More >>

Five Miami Beach bars with no cover on New Year's Eve 2011

Lenny Kravitz Announces First US Tour in Five Years, (Funk) Rocks Miami Beach February 25

​Christmas came early indeed. According to a press release sent moments ago to Crossfade, Lenny Kravitz "is pleased to announce dates for his first American tour in five years!" Best of all, dude's got a gig in the Big Mango. The "nearly 20-city tour" kicks off at New York City's Radio City Mu ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2012: Miami's Guide to Partying Too Hard and Drinking Too Much

Photo by JipsySeize New Year's Eve!​Wanna know the truth about New Year's Eve? Well, it ain't the kickoff to a fresh, 365-day fiesta full of fun and promise. Quite the opposite -- this end-of-year holiday is your absolute last chance to overspend and overindulge before suppressing your natural ur ... More >>

Some Like It Outdoors

New Year's Eve 2012: Deadmau5's Rat Riot at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach

Via facebook.com/deadmau5​Where will you be when the Mau5head drops on 2012? Well, if you happen to be a club rat worth his or her weight in gourmet cheese and all-you-can-drink champagne, then you're gonna be holed up at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach ordering entire wheels of Roquefort and endle ... More >>

Jay-Z And Beyonce Moving to Miami? World's Most Important Couple Toured Ricky Martin's Mansion

​Will the Beyssiah be raised amongst us?A very pregnant Beyonce and Jay-Z have been spotted house hunting in Miami Beach a few times over the past month, and TMZ reports that world's most important couple was in town last week to tour a mansion currently owned by none other than Ricky Martin.

Clubber Crime: Five Types

Campositions

"Shake Shack Cater My Wedding (Please)" UPDATED

Over the weekend I received an email from Simon Ho that read:"A good friend of mine did the unthinkable...managed to convince his fiancé to have burgers at their wedding. Not just any burger will do, so they created a video and sent it to the CEO of Shake Shack. He responded in minutes. Now let's h ... More >>

Boucher Brothers Pickup Truck Hits Two Sunbathers on Miami Beach

​Before yesterday afternoon, the biggest danger Boucher Brothers posed to sunbathers on Miami Beach was charging them an arm and a leg for beach chairs and umbrellas. Now, the company is just cutting to the chase and actually running over sunbathers' arms and legs.An employee of the beach concessi ... More >>

Sleepless Night Miami Beach: A Foodie's Guide

The Catalina HotelThe catalina Hotel will host nonstop performances from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m.​Sleepless Night is the answer to an insomniac's prayers. Spanning much of Miami Beach, Sleepless Night will offer free music, art, and entertainment November 5 to 6 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sleepless Night is mo ... More >>

Sleepless Night Miami Beach November 5

Blow Up

Your Riptide Guide to Today's Elections (With Help From Mickey Rourke)

​Hey, it's your favorite morning of the year! The one where you stumble out of bed to realize you spent the night next to a stranger dressed like Muammar Gaddafi (too soon?), scrape the caked zombie makeup off your face and stumble to work through a grade-five hangover. But then on the way, you ge ... More >>

Sleep When You're Dead

Pass the Basel

Collins Avenue Slated For $2.5 Million, 240-Day Upgrade, But Still No Bike Lanes

via Miami Bike SceneDon't expect to see one of these badboys on Collins anytime soon.​Miami Beach traffic is already hell -- especially on Collins Avenue, where the lack of left-turn lanes combined with miles of buses and cabs waiting to get into tiny art deco hotel driveways equals nightmarish gr ... More >>

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 >>

Amaze Us

Joy Rides

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 >>