Michael Jackson

Six Florida History Myths That Won't Die: Everglades Suicide, Al Capone and Castro's House

Last week, T. D. Allman sent Florida the worst birthday card ever. The author's widely shared column in the New York Times trashed Ponce de León and bemoaned celebrations of his "purported discovery" of the peninsula in 1513 as a "fiesta of illusion." OK, so Ponce was a racist, imperialist dunderhe ... More >>

Miami Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton Gets Traded to Devo for ESPN The Magazine's Music Issue

Sure, the Miami Marlins might've been passive-aggressively shopping slugger Giancarlo Staton to any MLB team prepared to spend an "overwhelming" amount of cash. But trading the last star in the Marlins' clubhouse to a New Wave art-punk band from Akron, Ohio that's best known for singing "Whip It" w ... More >>

Chris Brown Turns to Jesus, Frank Ocean Wants to Press Charges

Chris Brown's "not working on negativity" anymore. Instead, the Grammy-nominated hothead says he's turning to Jesus and Michael Jackson for inspiration to help get him through his latest public display of douchebaggery: Sunday's parking lot scuffle with Frank Ocean. However, Brown may also need h ... More >>

Justin Bieber Grabs Fan's Boob at Miami Meet-and-Greet! Plus Six Other Celebrity Gropers

Justin Bieber loves his fans. He's also big on tits too. This past weekend in Miami, Bieber got a little handsy with a fan girl during a meet-and-greet event at the American Airlines Arena when he awkwardly grabbed her left breast in what appears to be the world's most uncomfortable celebrity enco ... More >>

EDM Becoming a Cirque Du Soleil Production: Five Reasons It's Gonna Suck

The world of EDM is basically one giant circus. You've got Steve Aoki doing acrobatics; David Guetta is running around in clown shoes; and Tiësto's striking Jesus Christ poses as the most self-righteous ringleader ever. But all that's been merely metaphorical until now. Cirque Du Soleil has team ... More >>

Ten Craziest Fan Cults in Music: From the Beliebers to the Wacko Jackos and the Juggalos

Music fans can be really devoted. But it takes a special breed to join a crazy fan cult. And yet, music has exactly that kind of power over some people. It's a fine line between in love and psychopathically obsessed. But whose fans are the freakiest? Who is the government watching? Who might sn ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Best Thing I Ever Ate Serves Late-Night Munchies (Photos)

All photos by Laine DossGetting down at SoBeWFF.​It's a fact. Most nights spent dancing and partying wind down in the local diner or coffee shop. Over some soggy fries and a tepid greaseburger, you wish that there was some place open where you could get some stone crab claws ... or Peking duck ... ... More >>

Freak Show: Celebrity Myths, Deformities and Birth Defects

​Popular opinion suggests that celebrities are perfect, even superhuman. Take Angelina Jolie's flawless figure or Brad Pitt's Christ-like abs, for example. This Hollywood powerhouse pair is often heralded as the sexiest couple in the world. But what if Brad had webbed feet or Angelina was a herm ... More >>

Artist Dana Schutz Drops Her All-Time Top Ten Pop Songs for Miami Playlist Party

The Breeders as seen by Dana Schutz.​If you say you've never bought an album because it had a sweet cover, you'd be a giant, fake-cool liar. The saddest part of downloading music isn't just the demise of the music industry. It's that we no longer get to enjoy amazing cover art or oddly personal ... More >>

Miami Herald Puts Jimmy Kimmel's Fake Michael Jackson Fan on Front Page

​Despite the fact you probably read about it online yesterday afternoon, The Miami Herald decided to go big on their front page with the story of Dr. Conrad Murray's guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson. The Herald illustrated the story with a picture of fans outside the Los ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic's Five Most Hauntingly Bizarre Videos

​If you were a kid in the 1980s, Weird Al Yankovic was the funniest guy ever. "Fat" would come on as you snarfed cookies and soda, leaving a burning in your nose. To watch his knockoff of Michael Jackson's hit "Bad" in 2011 isn't the same exactly. But it's still good and definitely not unfunny, ... More >>

Chris Brown at American Airlines Arena October 5

Should We All Forgive Chris Brown for Slugging Rihanna and Spewing Homophobic Slurs?

​Team Breezy isn't just a gang of crazy wife-beaters and delusional, masochistic teenaged girls. All types -- tweens, thugs, and grandmas alike -- revel in Chris Brown's immense talents, even after he slugged Rihanna, trashed Good Morning America's studio, and spewed homophobic slurs at the papara ... More >>

Motown Brunch Brought Soul and Quiche to the Design District

Compliments to the chef!​Motown and brunch, together, are the perfect elixirs for any Sunday morning hangover or soul sickness. Leonardo Valencia revived a musical brunch this weekend, which he started years back in Brooklyn when he had both money and cooking skills, and his friends didn't. And y ... More >>

Ciara at Malibu Rum's Radio MaliBoom Boom Tour, July 16

Photo by Gaby Izarra​Ciara With DJ Skribble Finnegan's on the River July 16, 2011 Better Than: Any other night at any other Finnegan's. Remind me to hit up every Malibu-sponsored event for the rest of my life. Watching Ciara for free was already a sweet deal. But free booze, t-shirts, and guac ... More >>

Dance Like a Zombie! Best of Miami 2011 Has Risen

Photo by Michael McElroy​Have you ever seen a zombie shake some ass? Well, it happens more often than you'd think. And surprisingly, when they're not humping each other silly in the club, the undead go all Wacko Jacko for the choreographed dance steps from "Thriller." In this particular case, ... More >>

Break Out The Mojitos: Mango's Tropical Cafe Turns 20

All photos by Laine Doss Mango's Dancers in all their neon splendor.​If you've ever entertained someone visiting Miami Beach, chances are you've been to Mango's Tropical Cafe -- the ultra-cheesy, neon-colored nightclub where girls in fishnets and leopard-print costumes shake their butts for ... More >>

Five More Bizarre Dance Styles of the 21st Century

Move it like Berney!​Crossfade loves a good laugh at the wonderful, weird range of human expression. Hence, last week's deep anthropological studies on the phenomena that are these five crazy dances. Or the amazingness that is Mexican tribal guarachero and its related fashion. But that wa ... More >>

Symphonic Siesta

Diana Ross at Hard Rock Live November 21

Seu Jorge plays the Fillmore Miami Beach Friday

Thank Ya, Anka

A look at 2009 in dance music

Miami Book Fair: David Hajdu

​Take a look at the biographical blurb and accompanying author photo on the back cover of David Hajdu's latest book, Heroes and Villains, and you'll discover that not only is Hadju a professor, but he looks like one. Smiling wryly behind frameless spectacles, the 54-year-old prof (and music critic ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: Top Ten Halloween Songs (Sort Of)

​The season for spooking is here, and to help awaken your inner ghoul who's been lying dormant, here is a list of ten songs to celebrate the holiday. Some are obvious, some have loose, vague, or quirky affiliations with Halloween themes (you'll be hard-pressed to find some of these on other Ha ... More >>

Flyer of the Week: Pay Your Final Respects to PS14 October 28

​Maybe it's bad taste to get on some kind of eulogy bender before the corpse is even cold, but the diagnosis is terminal and it's only a matter of time ... Your favorite hipster bar, PS14, is dying. So say goodbye, Miami, and make amends for all the wrongs you've committed against this party spot ... More >>

Flyer of the Week: Fancy Me Yet Gets Wily at White Room Tomorrow Night

​The pitfalls of teen stardom are legend -- sex, drugs, burnout, overexposure, the dreaded 20th birthday, or even a simple case of the incurable crazies à la Wacko Jacko. Way back in '79, Leif Garrett hit the 'ludes, crashed his car, and almost killed his friend while, more recently, we've seen B ... More >>

Brett Ratner Invites You to Bask in His Greatness with a Retrospective DVD

​Miami Beach's own Brett Ratner holds the questionable distinction of being Hollywood's reigning hack director. Critics abhor the filmmaker for brining an unsatisfactory ending to the X-Men trilogy, stretching racial stereotypes into the three-film Rush Hour series, and helming Red Dragon, the mos ... More >>

The Re-Rebirth of Soul

Saturday Afternoon: Danny Tenaglia at the IndepenDance Pool Party at the Surfcomber

Danny TenagliaIndepenDance Pool PartySaturday, July 4, 2009The Surfcomber Hotel, Miami Beach  Better Than: Any other Fourth of July pool party in South Florida.  If dance music happens to be your thing, then the place to be this last Saturday was the IndepenDance Pool Party, hosted by Spac ... More >>

Get Your Red, White and Blue on With Huma Rojo

Let's say tomorrow rolls around and you finally manage to tear yourself away from CNN's round-the-clock coverage of all things Michael Jackson to celebrate the birth of our nation and the day Will Smith freed us from alien annihilation. You find yourself on South Beach for some Fourth of July fe ... More >>

Was Michael Jackson's Thriller Actually Shot in Coconut Grove?

Apparently there's been a rumor going around that the graveyard portions of Michael Jackson's Thriller (aka the best music video ever) were shot at the Charlotte Jane Cemetery in Coconut Grove. The Herald, CBS4, and various blogs have all mentioned it. Never having heard that before, we ha ... More >>

Saturday Night: Holy Ghost! at The Vagabond

Holy Ghost Saturday, December 13, 2008 The Vagabond, Miami Better than: 100% of the godless ultra-commercial dance crap polluting the Beach.  It's past midnight and I'm at the Vagabond sipping my whiskey straight and waiting for Holy Ghost! to start their DJ set in the main room. It's my ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Miami Gridlock Dance Off

Crack Yourself Up

Let’s hope tonight won’t be a Katt-astrophe.

Happy Kwanzaa!

Time to light a new set of candles.

T-Pain's Bartender Ft. Akon. Happy Humpday Video

Heart to Heart

Dr. Agatston cares for the achy-breaky

The White Stripes

Get Behind Me Satan (V2/BMG)

MU

Out of Breach (Manchester's Revenge) Output

Set List

Ryan Evans

Just Like Heaven

The Cure kicked off its Curiosa tour with a mixed bag of delights

Sexless Beast

Celibate celebrity stays south for the season

Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of Sad White Guys

Twentieth-century Song

Workers of the world, reunite to celebrate your song in a TV documentary

Letters

Why the Tabs are Fab

Swelter 28

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