Michael Jackson

Dana Schutz's MAM show: Politics turned upside down

Dana Schutz's Peculiar Brand of Absurdity Inspires Wonder at MAM

​Near the entrance of the Miami Art Museum, a self-portrait depicts artist Dana Schutz wide-eyed and gazing heavenward. Traffic-cone-colored locks frame her gray, wrinkled face. Her nose, rendered in slashing brush strokes, looks like an elephant's trunk. It juts out from the canvas in a bubbled w ... 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 >>

Janet Jackson Gets 100-Percent "Nasty" With Number Ones Tour at Fillmore Miami Beach

Photo by Sayre Berman​See the full 20-photo Janet Jackson at the Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. Janet Jackson Number Ones: Up Close and Personal Tour Fillmore Miami Beach December 5, 2011 Better Than: You could imagine. All throughout Art Basel Miami Beach week, musicians of varying talent lev ... More >>

Five Freaky Good Songs by Dead Musicians

The Cramps are scary awesome.​Death is scary. It's actually the scariest thing ever. It's even more frightening than roaches or abject poverty. And what better way to to honor those who've already crossed over to the other side than enjoying their songs about the most horrifying holiday, Halloween ... More >>

Five Male Pop Star Offspring We Wanna See Play in the Lingerie Football League

Paris Jackson is down with the Lingerie Football League. But what about her bros? As her father's manslaughter trial continues to wallow in spectacle, celebrity, and drug abuse, the 13-year-old Princess of Pop (that is, Michael Jackson's daughter), Paris Jackson, has announced a new partnership wit ... More >>

Das Racist at Grand Central October 9

Paris Jackson is down with the Lingerie Football League. But what about her bros? As her father's manslaughter trial continues to wallow in spectacle, celebrity, and drug abuse, the 13-year-old Princess of Pop (that is, Michael Jackson's daughter), Paris Jackson, has announced a new partnership wit ... More >>

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 >>

Top Five Most Annoying Pop Star Pets

Crossfade is sick and tired of Ice-T and Coco's overly pampered pooch.​The only thing more annoying than pop stars and their lavish lifestyles ... The lavish lifestyles of their freaking pets. Yeah, while plebs like us spend our downtime shuffling kitty litter that sears our nostrils and looking ... More >>

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Naked! Plus Five Other Arty Moments Inspired by Pop Stars

Photograph: Daniel Edwards/Cory Allen Contemporary ArtJustin and Selena as One by Daniel Edwards. ​Artist Daniel Edwards is best known for casting a life-sized sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth on all fours, hunched over a bear skin rug. (As if Brit were that earthy!) But now Edwards has sh ... 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 Super Bowl Halftime Moments That Totally Sucked

Steven Tyler and Britney Spears ... That totally sucked.​We know you're gearing up for the big game this Sunday. Maybe you're actually washing your Ben Rapistburger jersey for the first time all season, or polishing your cherished wedge of cheesehead. Whatever you're doing, you're getting pumped ... More >>

Moose, Pigs, a Phillies Fan and Grandma: Let's Tase 'Em All!

Alvaro Diaz-RubioLast week was a busy one for Taser-toting police officers in South Florida. First, Key West cops used their stun guns on a local luminary armed with a ninja sword and a baseball bat who was ranting about a dude who owed him $160. Then, our sister paper in Broward reported that Holly ... More >>

Top 10 Moments of the BET Awards 2010: Chris Brown, Drake, Rick Ross, and More (With Video!)

We love music awards season this year, largely thanks to Twitter -- the real-time discussion and dissection of the county's pop-stars makes for an entertaining way to spend a few hours "working." (Plus, some of you all on our Twitter feed, at @Crossfade_SFL, are hilarious).Anyways, we glued ourselve ... More >>

More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others

Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

Concert Review: Blowfly at the Monterey Club, January 2

photo by John Twomey​Blowfly With Jacuzzi Boys and Mr. Entertainment and the PookiesmackersSaturday, January 2, 2010The Monterey Club, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Rotten fish cunnilingus.The Review:Happy New Year! Out with the old, in with the new. Right? Not at the Monterey Club Saturday night. T ... More >>

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores.Top Five Albums for the Week of November 8 - 15This ain't your kid sister: Kid Sister climbed Radio-Active Records charts with her new hip hop/electro debut, Ultraviolet.​Uncle ... 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 >>

Adieu, PS14

​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 >>

Flash Everyone at Mansion, Michael Jackson-Style

​You know those Michael Jackson tributes that have been popping up on the web recently, where there's a random group of people that randomly bust out with the "Thriller" dance at a random place in a random time? Well, those are called flash mobs, and this Wednesday, Mansion (1235 Washington Aven ... 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 >>

Ryan Seacrest Wants You to Beg for Money

​Want to send your kids to college? Remodel your home as a shrine to Michael Jackson? Fund the first all-hamster space trip to the moon? Whatever your dream, Ryan Seacrest wants to pay for it. Maybe. If you beg for it. Executive producer Seacrest, whose previous producing credits include Keep ... More >>

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

​Want to send your kids to college? Remodel your home as a shrine to Michael Jackson? Fund the first all-hamster space trip to the moon? Whatever your dream, Ryan Seacrest wants to pay for it. Maybe. If you beg for it. Executive producer Seacrest, whose previous producing credits include Keep ... More >>

The Week That Was: Chemical Castration and Self-Immolation

​A woman set herself on fire at the Mall of the Americas, and surprisingly she wasn't exactly the most stable person. Who will be our next Senator? Allan Bense? One of these ladies? The non-Governor Bob Martinez? Lincoln Diaz-Balart? A Miami Beach doctor apparently tried to che ... More >>

PPR101 Miami Rap Music Conference and Showcase In Pictures and Video

PPR101 is a rap industry conference and showcase that tours the country giving paying entrants an opportunity to ask questions of music industry professionals from DJ's to PR experts, to print and web based media representatives. Registered artists also get the opportunity to perform in front of t ... More >>

News Roundup

MDC's Wolfson Campus will hold a public screening of the Michael Jackson Memorial today. [Herald]Someone went on a car vandalizing spree in Hialeah. [CBS4]Charlie Crist has a pretty humble net worth for a high-profile politician. [NakedPolitics]Meanwhile, Marco Rubio is $900,000 in debt. [NakedPol ... More >>

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to view past top sellers.Top Sellers for the week of June 22-26via Amazon.comRadio-Active Records sold out of all Michael Jackson albums on Friday, making his hits the top of ... 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 >>

Lil Wayne's Winter Wonderland

The British tabloids are buzzing this morning that two football soccer stars have been banned by their team's management from attending a huge Christmas week party in Miami held by Lil Wayne and Akon. Whatever to this UK soccer saga, but this is first we're hearing of the party which the tabs (who a ... More >>

Nobody Beats the Wiz

The British tabloids are buzzing this morning that two football soccer stars have been banned by their team's management from attending a huge Christmas week party in Miami held by Lil Wayne and Akon. Whatever to this UK soccer saga, but this is first we're hearing of the party which the tabs (who a ... More >>

Bingo: It's Fun When You're Drunk

The British tabloids are buzzing this morning that two football soccer stars have been banned by their team's management from attending a huge Christmas week party in Miami held by Lil Wayne and Akon. Whatever to this UK soccer saga, but this is first we're hearing of the party which the tabs (who a ... More >>

Blog Rave

The Internet and the rise of the Day-Glo, electro-hipster-house smashup.

An Interview with 50 Cent

The Internet and the rise of the Day-Glo, electro-hipster-house smashup.

Heart to Heart

Dr. Agatston cares for the achy-breaky

Super Bored

How the world's biggest game spawned the world's worst halftime show

Holiday Dysfunction

It's the crap, crappiest season of all

The White Stripes

Get Behind Me Satan (V2/BMG)

Jesus Christ!!

Thirty-one flavors of salvation

Sexless Beast

Celibate celebrity stays south for the season

Wee Aliens

Gen indigo takes over soon

You and Me, Global Brother

Boycott French wines or Asian restaurants? Let's get real, people!

Babies Kick Butt

Speed, not dangling at infant expo

Psychographic Baiting

Rev. Sharpton scolds urban marketers -- and they love it!

Don’t Get Holidazed!

Holiday Gift Guide 2001

Safe Sexuality

The guilty pleasures of 'N Sync and the boy-band brigade

Swelter

The guilty pleasures of 'N Sync and the boy-band brigade

Revue-ing the Situation

The guilty pleasures of 'N Sync and the boy-band brigade

Swelter 37

The guilty pleasures of 'N Sync and the boy-band brigade

Swelter

The guilty pleasures of 'N Sync and the boy-band brigade

Lumps of Coal

Major albums that don't belong in anyone's Christmas stocking.