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Netherlands

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Madonna Announces 2012 World Tour With Miami Concert

    ​For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn't even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna's 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who'd be totally willing to blow their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Anthony Bourdain Goes to Amsterdam and Doesn't Smoke Pot (A Recap)

    ​Last evening, I glued myself to the television in hot anticipation of Anthony Bourdain's newest episode of The Layover: Amsterdam. As Tony lands at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, I picture an hour of pot-smoking, hash brownie-eating, hooker-laden indulgence before Tony wakes up in a pool of his ow ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2011

    Red-Light Strict

    ​Last evening, I glued myself to the television in hot anticipation of Anthony Bourdain's newest episode of The Layover: Amsterdam. As Tony lands at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, I picture an hour of pot-smoking, hash brownie-eating, hooker-laden indulgence before Tony wakes up in a pool of his ow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Eight-Foot-Tall Lego Man Washes Up On Florida Beach

    ​In Florida we're used to things like whales, cocaine and various human body parts washing up on our beaches, but sun seekers on Siesta Key were in for something of a surprise this morning when they discovered an eight-foot-tall Lego man had mysteriously wound up sitting in the sand.

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Norman Doray Talks Strictly Ibiza to Amsterdam and Partying Like a Frenchman

    ​Frenchman Norman Doray plays with the big boys. Coming straight from Ibiza where he hit up the Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel, Mr. Doray is dropping into Arkadia at the Fontainebleau this Thursday for the weekly Subliminal Sessions party. Co-producer of "Chase The Sun", last summer's epi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2011

    Luke Makes House His Home

    ​Frenchman Norman Doray plays with the big boys. Coming straight from Ibiza where he hit up the Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel, Mr. Doray is dropping into Arkadia at the Fontainebleau this Thursday for the weekly Subliminal Sessions party. Co-producer of "Chase The Sun", last summer's epi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Berlin EDM Sensation Steffi Talks Her Klakson and Dolly Labels

    ​DJ-producer Steffi's ascent through the international EDM ranks this year has been nothing short of meteoric. And it's thanks in no small part to Yours and Mine, her mega-charted debut long-player on Berlin's Ostgut Ton label. It's a sonic tour de force harking back to the vocal soul and euphoric ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2011

    Fedde Le Grand Rocks Like a G6 at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day Two, March 26

    ​​So, Fedde Le Grand rocked the hiz. Back in 2006, homie exploded out of the Netherlands with "Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit" and landed loads of worldwide awards, including several International Dance Music Awards. He released his debut, 2009's Output, on his own Flamingo Recordings imprin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Miami Herald Hijacks New Times' Fly2Miami Scoop! It's the Wave of the Future!

    "Captain, is there someone on our ass?"​What's a crack reporter over at the Miami Herald to do when the news wire stops spitting out 700 words worth of cheap and easy automatic copy every couple of minutes? Read and regurgitate a tabloid rag called New Times, obviously. If, like us, you buy the H ... More >>

  • Music

    March 17, 2011

    Dutch DJ Sied van Riel uses Twitter to score direct KLM flights to Ultra in Miami

    "Captain, is there someone on our ass?"​What's a crack reporter over at the Miami Herald to do when the news wire stops spitting out 700 words worth of cheap and easy automatic copy every couple of minutes? Read and regurgitate a tabloid rag called New Times, obviously. If, like us, you buy the H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Sied Van Riel on the Fly2Miami Twitter Campaign and Direct Dutch Flights to Miami

    Fly2Miami's Sied Van Riel.​How many Dutch DJs, producers, and dance music fans does it take to get a major airline to completely re-route its flight plans? The answer: About 150 of them, plus the power of Twitter and the co-sign of Dutch dance music god Tiësto himself. On the Wednesday of the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Bardot's WMC 2011 Lineup: Eyes Lips Eyes, LazerDisk SexParty, Young Empires, and Others

    Jill Weisberg​Speakeasy and small live music venue Bardot has really brought the 'burbs and the beach to Midtown since it opened a few years ago. North of Space and west of South Beach, it's right off the highway, so Winter Music Conference partiers will find their way there easily, with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    The Strange Boys Talk Bruise Cruise, Urinating in Public, and Future Plans

    Photo by Jose FloresStrange Boys, bred in Austin, Texas.​When the Strange Boys played Churchill's last September, our review was, well, a bit harsh. "The band appeared to be catching a cold," we wrote, "seemingly disinterested in their songs, and even less interested in the crowd." But in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Chocolate Wine: Uh-Oh

    Lee Klein​When I first espied the bottle of ChocoVine on the shelves of Publix -- "The taste of dutch chocolate and fine red wine" -- I just had to try it. I mean, as the company website puts it: "The right chocolate paired with the perfect wine can create a near-orgasmic taste experience." So thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Five Wackiest Electronic Music Genres You've Never Heard Of

    myspace.com/anamanaguchiAnamanaguchi is freaking us out!​The best thing about electronic music is its limitlessness. Having thrown aside the sonic limitations of rock's overdone guitar-bass-drums combo, synthesizer music can sound like virtually anything. And it does. Electronic music has spaw ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 21, 2010

    Click, Share, Done

    myspace.com/anamanaguchiAnamanaguchi is freaking us out!​The best thing about electronic music is its limitlessness. Having thrown aside the sonic limitations of rock's overdone guitar-bass-drums combo, synthesizer music can sound like virtually anything. And it does. Electronic music has spaw ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 9, 2010

    Ghosts of NYC

    myspace.com/anamanaguchiAnamanaguchi is freaking us out!​The best thing about electronic music is its limitlessness. Having thrown aside the sonic limitations of rock's overdone guitar-bass-drums combo, synthesizer music can sound like virtually anything. And it does. Electronic music has spaw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Indomania Takes A Vacation

    Indomania Shrimp (with rijs & beans)​Pieter and Ineke Both, owners of Indomania Restaurant, are taking their annual "summer recess", presumably to relax in their native Amsterdam. This treat of an Indonesian eatery will shutter up starting Sunday, August 29, and will reopen Thursday, September ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2010

    Sex Shops and Peep Shows

    Indomania Shrimp (with rijs & beans)​Pieter and Ineke Both, owners of Indomania Restaurant, are taking their annual "summer recess", presumably to relax in their native Amsterdam. This treat of an Indonesian eatery will shutter up starting Sunday, August 29, and will reopen Thursday, September ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Dirty Dayglow

    Indomania Shrimp (with rijs & beans)​Pieter and Ineke Both, owners of Indomania Restaurant, are taking their annual "summer recess", presumably to relax in their native Amsterdam. This treat of an Indonesian eatery will shutter up starting Sunday, August 29, and will reopen Thursday, September ... More >>

  • Music

    May 20, 2010

    Soul Clap vs. PLOT Showcase

    Indomania Shrimp (with rijs & beans)​Pieter and Ineke Both, owners of Indomania Restaurant, are taking their annual "summer recess", presumably to relax in their native Amsterdam. This treat of an Indonesian eatery will shutter up starting Sunday, August 29, and will reopen Thursday, September ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Six Questions With Music is a Weapon

    Jeffrey Delannoy​Music is a Weapon has been making some noise for a couple of years. This coming Saturday they will be rocking the Vagabond alongside local Spanish-language punks G2 and Dutch DJ's Saskia Rocks and Geza Weisz for the big-top party Cirque Excentrique; featuring "Party Monster" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    Thanks to the Crotch Bomber, Cubans Now Get the Full-Body Airport Pat-Down

    Last week, the U.S. narrowly avoided a terror attack from a Nigerian man flying from Holland and acting on orders from Yemen-based terrorists. Thanks, Fidel. Now you've ruined flying, too.​For counterterrorism experts, there was only one logical response: ironclad new security rul ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    The Next Big Thing

    Last week, the U.S. narrowly avoided a terror attack from a Nigerian man flying from Holland and acting on orders from Yemen-based terrorists. Thanks, Fidel. Now you've ruined flying, too.​For counterterrorism experts, there was only one logical response: ironclad new security rul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Family Food Fun: Metrozoo Kids' Cooking Class and Crazy Pianos Shake-a-Leg Fundraiser

    Jackie Sayet My adorable cousin Nicole Rubin, here with her take on brownies (there are secret ingredients added, people!), will probably kill me for grouping her in the kid category!​Back-to-school doesn't have to mean an end to fun.  It's time to play with your food, and we don't mea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Crazy Pianos Grand Opening

    image via miami.crazypianos.com  Crazy Pianos, "The world's most famous duelling piano entertainment concept," opens today in the Grove. The original location is Holland, so that roughly makes Crazy Pianos Miami the world's second most famous place of its kind, even if you've never h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Republican House Leader Welcomes Bleach Blonde Anti-Islam Dutch Politician To Florida

    screenshot from floridasecuritycouncil.org/The Security Council of Florida's website proudly heralds the key speaker of its upcoming Free Speech Summit as "Banned in London, Indicted in Holland, Guilty in Jordan, Welcome in Florida." Charming. Geert Wilder has indeed been banned in London, indicted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Thanks For Ruining the World Baseball Classic, Netherlands

    Here's something you don't know: In the Netherlands, professional baseball is called Honkbal Hoofdklasse.   Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsSomething else you don't know? A single player on the Netherland's World Baseball Classic team, which shocked the honkbal world by somehow taking down a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 25, 2008

    Hit the Decks

    Grammy-nominated turntablist Tiësto is in an Asian mood.

  • Calendar

    August 28, 2008

    Behind These Gates

    Peek inside Miami Beach’s most infamous mansion.

  • Culture

    May 8, 2008

    The M Ensemble's Mastery

    From the Mississippi Delta is the troupe's top show of the season.

  • Music

    February 7, 2008

    Black Sun Empire

    From the Mississippi Delta is the troupe's top show of the season.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2007

    Gay Marriage Amendment Debate Gets Noisy

    From the Mississippi Delta is the troupe's top show of the season.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2007

    Another DJ Mix: deep house and soul!

    From the Mississippi Delta is the troupe's top show of the season.

  • Dining

    September 6, 2007

    Dutch Treat

    An attractive little neighborhood restaurant with a fetching, quirky personality

  • Music

    October 19, 2006

    NODUS Ensemble

    An attractive little neighborhood restaurant with a fetching, quirky personality

  • Music

    September 28, 2006

    Nicolay

    Here (BBE)

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    A Poverty of Yachts

    This town ain’t deep enough for the big boys

  • Music

    November 24, 2005

    Chris Liebing and Speedy J

    Collabs 3000: Metalism (Novamute)

  • Music

    May 19, 2005

    Quantic Soul Orchestra

    Pushin On (Ubiquity)

  • City Life

    May 12, 2005

    BEST NEW TREND

    Pugs in public

  • Music

    December 9, 2004

    Quantic

    Mishaps Happening Ubiquity

  • Dining

    January 22, 2004

    Pass the Dutchie

    It's not really Dutch, but it's pretty good

  • Dining

    March 15, 2001

    The Beef on Tainted Bovine

    Mad cow disease, part 3

  • Dining

    April 13, 2000
  • Dining

    April 2, 1998
  • News

    February 12, 1998
  • News

    July 24, 1997

    Diplomatic Impunity

    Wouldn't you love to rub shoulders with a man who has been knighted by the Queen of England, honored by the Pope, and appointed our local Liberian ambassador? Of course you would!

  • News

    June 8, 1994

    Swelter

    Wouldn't you love to rub shoulders with a man who has been knighted by the Queen of England, honored by the Pope, and appointed our local Liberian ambassador? Of course you would!

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