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Umek Talks Eastern Bloc EDM and Party for a Cause Music Festival

The breadth of DJ-producer Uros Umek's achievements during the course of his two-decade career simply cannot be overstated. Not only did he help kick-start the local electronic dance music scene in his native Slovenia after the fall of the Iron Curtain but he went on to conquer the global techno sce ... More >>

Dennis Rodman Is a Genius

Beyonce Announces Mrs. Carter Show World Tour 2013, Coming to Miami on July 10

Bey is back. After a publicity tour touting her hot post-Blue Ivy bod on the covers of dudely mags like GQ (and despite scandalizing America by lip-syncing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Obama's inauguration), Beyonce made her big return last night at Super Bowl XLVII. She rocked a supertight, swe ... More >>

Richter Redux

Post-Basel, Miami's Museums Offer First-Class Exhibits Into the New Year

Miami Oktoberfest Roundup: Grovetoberfest, The Federal, Fritz and Franz Bierhaus

Don some lederhosen and fill your stein, Oktoberfest 2012 is here. The Bavarian autumn holiday began several days ago but the fever is rising like the head of a freshly poured beer. And lucky for Miami, we all get to take the proverbial first chug at several locations around town in the following we ... More >>

Celebrate Oktoberfest With Pop-Up Beer Garden, Munchen Brunching

Oktoberfest, that 200-year-old celebration that sees lederhosen and dirndl-clad lads and lassies turning the German town of Munich into a giant month-long frat party, is drawing near. But with flights to Europe pricing out at around $1,000 these days, you might want to plan your beer buzz a little c ... More >>

Lanzallamas Monofonica's European Tour Kickoff at Tobacco Road May 25

Lanzallamas Monofonica Launches Three-Month European Tour at Tobacco Road

The fiery musical spearchuckers of local big band Lanzallamas Monofónica will soon take their Afro-Latin superfusion sound to the Czech Republic. They've recently lined up a three-month residency at Prague's Retrokafe, a so-called "salsoteka" that may be ground zero for the exploding Latin dance ... More >>

Kraftwerk as part of Ultra Music Festival 2012 at Bayfront Park March 23

Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter on Ultra Music Festival, New Music, and the MoMA Retrospective in New York

​The excitement of talking with Ralf Hütter, the man behind legendary krautrock crew Kraftwerk, proved overwhelming. An interview seemed like a long shot, especially considering the fact that the last thorough press clip I could find was a June 2009 chat with The Guardian's John Harris. And my ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys Headed to Europe for 26-City Tour

​Admittedly, we were nervous about Jacuzzi Boys' upcoming European tour. But we quickly changed our tone when Hardly Art assured us it'd be a land-based trek. Phew, what a relief. European tours can be a real bummer. Shitty guides recklessly leading you into dangerously shallow waters, shoddy sa ... More >>

tINI on DJ Gender Divide: "The House Scene Is Not Defined by Gender, Everyone Is Welcome"

​Miami, meet tINI. Who is she? Only one of the transtlantic tech-house scene's most accomplished female DJ-producers. It helps that she's a card-carrying member of Loco Dice's beloved Desolat family, which means regular headlining slots at EDM hostpots from her native Berlin to Ibiza. Then there ... More >>

U2 Releases Last-Minute Block of Field Tickets for Miami Show June 29

via U2.com​Do you love U2 so much that you've been seized by sweaty nightmares of getting stuck outside Sun Life Stadium's gates on the evening of June 29, ticketless and tearful? Well, Bono heard your midnight screams! Tomorrow morning at precisely 10 a.m., a last-minute block of general admi ... More >>

Hans Viertl Makes Sauerkraut Even the French Love, Part 2

​Hans Viertl owns a few breakfast/lunch restaurants around Miami that have a comfortable yet classy New York/Euro flare. In the first part of our interview, we spoke with him about getting home to his family for dinner and his former life with Club Med. In this, the second par of our interview ... More >>

Oktoberfest Lederhosen Faux Pas

Get your mugs ready because Oktoberfest has started. Contrary to popular belief, this 16-day festival starts at the end of September and culminates in an all-out beer and sausage blow-out on October 3. Oktoberfest dates back to 1810 when the public celebrated the marriage of King Ludwig I and Prince ... More >>

Zuma's Chef Bjoern Weissgerber Brings German Precision to Miami

photo by Christina Staalstrom​When we first met Bjoern Weissgerber, executive chef at Zuma Miami, he wasn't what we expected. The young, charismatic German with Swedish roots is more reminiscent of a hip, energetic artist than a top toque at one of Miami's finest Japanese restaurants. Then ag ... More >>

U2 Postpones Its Sun Life Stadium Concert Originally Scheduled For July 9

CC by 2.0, via r_w_h on FlickrHe'll be back to otherworldly shape soon.​U2 fans the world over can rest easy knowing Bono is on the road to recovery. The iconic frontman has been discharged from a Munich hospital where he underwent emergency back surgery this past Friday. The procedure was success ... More >>

Meet DJ Contra, resident DJ at LIV on Wednesdays and Purdy Lounge on Sundays

WMC 2010: Danny Tenaglia, Victor Calderone, Austin Leeds On Board for Pacha Miami

Austin Leeds​Here in Crossfade we may always hype up the new or up and coming, but plenty of people come to Winter Music Conference to listen to the old standbys, and we don't blame 'em. It's perhaps the only week in the United States you can catch them all back to back. And if anyone knows how to ... More >>

Young Artists: Miami and Harvard's Lily Erlinger Wins Money, Makes Movie

Erlinger on the set of "Jesse's Tracks"​This profile is part of the Culture Blog's series on young Miami artists. For more, stay tuned to Riptide 2.0. Lily Erlinger was born in Munich, Germany, but moved to Miami when she was 6, attending the Cushman School, Ransom Everglades, and, briefly, ... More >>

Hanging Tough

Pool Party Wut! for Real, PS14 July 31

 Forget about the Aqua Girl thing and that Just Add Water party. Don't think about the Standard and that rad view of the bay they have.This is the real Pool Party.  The last time Pool Party played was at Sweat Records' COLTOBERFEST 305, last October. No one has seen or heard hide nor hair ... More >>

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Laughing Pains

Last Night: Louis XIV, Hot Hot Heat, and Editors at Culture Room

Letters from the Issue of June 7, 2007

"It’s always easier to keep your mouth shut and pull the trigger"

Schnitzel and Quiche

Can’t we all just get along? Now, on South Beach, we can

Stop the Cat Box

The Delano tanked by technicality, defaulting through duplicity

MAM's New Visionaries

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Beauty at Buchenwald

DVD releases for the week of May 9, 2006

Glamour, Grit, and Gall

Miami International Film Festival goes for the big picture

Mistress of All

Tragedy Re-Revisited

Spielberg's Munich rehashes a tale we've heard before

Everybody Chi Kung Tonight

Bavaria Beckons

From the Cradle to the Rave

Etiquette for the glow stick set

Chicks on Speed

99 Cents (Chicks on Speed)

Max Factors

Writer-director Menno Meyjes asks, would Jew help Hitler?

Happy on the Outside

Everglades National Park's sub-surface tsuris

Heavy Hop Fest

How the Germans do keg parties

Blood Sport

The Oscar-winning One Day in September tells the brutal story of an Olympics massacre

Letters

Kulchur

Something Wicked Your Way Comes

The Reich Stuff

Going Deutsch with Tycoon Thomas

A German millionaire concedes a colossal case of tax evasion -- and says he's the man who bankrolled Thomas Kramer's South Florida real estate spree

Dances with Schnitzel