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Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

When was the last time you got down on your knees and kissed Miami? What, never? Well, get down and start kissing, because this town loves you. Do you understand how lucky you are to be here? Supreme talent comes through this place every day. It's just not natural for a music-lover to have to pick ... More >>

Political Party Music

Panther Coffee Expanding to South Beach, Extra Wynwood Space

Panther Coffee's Joel Pollock is on the move with a second location in the works in a rising South Beach enclave -- and now plans for another coffee-roasting space in Wynwood. "I'll be vague but we do have another roasting machine we're going to hook up. It's going to be not in this building, but v ... More >>

Miami is America's 10th Least Religious City

Good thing we're all so used to warm temperatures, because apparently a lot of Miamians are going to Hell. According to data just released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies and the Association of Religious Data Archives, Miami is America's 10th least religious city.

Miami's Public Transit System Ranked Eighth in the Country

"The bus smells like the bologna sandwiches at DCJ," a friend recently quipped. He was sitting next to a woman who kept shouting about Jesus on a seemingly never-ending bus ride to South Beach. "This is wacky, bro." Indeed it is. But it's that very stench of stale deli meat and those lovable schiz ... More >>

Only 36 Percent of Americans View Miami Favorably; 33 Percent Just Don't Like Us

Miami's polling numbers are almost as bad as Gov. Rick Scott's.Public Policy Polling decided to ask Americans whether they view 21 prominent American cities favorably or unfavorably, and Miami didn't do too well. Only 36 percent of Americans view Miami favorably, compared to 33 percent who view the ... More >>

LeBron James Urged To Join All-Star Dunk Contest By Incredibly Persuasive Kid

​"Don't let my Saturday night go to a waste. Come on man, don't say that if you simply lose it will be a waste of your night. Come on man, you'll be dunking against rookies and stuff. It encourages other stuff, and stuff. All right, man? Come on." Such is the thrust of the argument implored by a ... More >>

Watch Latin Burger on Eat St. Tonight: I Will Appear!

​Latin Burger and Taco's hot-pink and black truck is a permanent fixture on the streets of Miami. Just about any day of the week, you can find a flock of people enjoying the Latin macho burgers and tacos for which the truck is famous.So it comes as no surprise that when Eat St. visited Miami to fi ... More >>

The Taxpayers at Sweat Records January 5

The Taxpayers Bring "Goof Punx, DIY Music, and Jimmy Buffett" to Sweat Records

​Hare Krishna hardcore? Screamo? Whatever-the-fuck-genre-Flogging-Molly-plays? There's no denying it: Punk rock has gone through some seriously bizarre permutations. And in keeping with the big-tent genre's proclivity toward making bedfellows of once-disparate sub-scenes (like suburban US skate-p ... More >>

YACHT at the Electric Pickle December 1

YACHT Kicks Off Art Basel Miami Beach Week at the Electric Pickle on December 1

​Whether you're dropping mad bills on contemporary art at such-and-such satellite festival or stalking celebrity art collectors at the Miami Beach Convention Center, there's one thing about Basel week that everyone can agree on: It's all about the afterparty. Case in point: The Electric Pickle. N ... More >>

Check Yo' Ponytail tour at Grand Central November 5

Miami's Slashpine Makes the Pilgrimmage to Meet Olympia's Wolves in the Throne Room

Photo by Chris BeugThese are Wolves in the Throne Room.​Slashpine Travelogue Wolves in the Throne Room The Chop Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, September 23, 2011 It's hard to reckon the episode we experienced in Florida's backwater over the weekend. It was was meant to be a quick detour on ... More >>

Last Saturday's Wynwood Food Truck Meetup Drama Free

All photos by Laine Doss Kristi, Allesandra, Jackie, Jav and Ben enjoying the evening.​After last week's City of Miami press release and statement, as well as various emails and rumors that Wynwood art gallery owners might be less than thrilled about food trucks serving on the streets durin ... More >>

Five Weird Fruitcake Recipes: Whiskey, Spam, and More

yarntomato.com​Tis the season to give, and what better gift to give than a good ol' loaf of brick-like fruitcake? We all know how much people love to receive these little gems, don't we? If you are stumped on what to give to the host of your neighbor's holiday party, why opt for a fruitcake that t ... More >>

Miami's Vegan Pizza Options Are Limited

​The coolest thing I heard this week is that Bill Clinton is now eating a mainly vegan diet. Not only that but he's doing it right -- vegan protein shakes in the morning and a eating well-balanced, colorful range of foods. You go, Bill, the whole vegan community is rooting for you.The second best ... More >>

Around Town: ANR, MillionYoung, Dave Barry, Art Walk, and Yo' Mama

Chicken for dinner: Just a glimpse of the fare at this Sat's Art Walk. ​We don't know about all of you but we're exhausted from busting homophobic hypocrites and providing fodder for unfunnyman Jay Leno and funnyman Stephen Colbert. What have you accomplished this week? No matter. Everyone deserve ... More >>

Miami Free Times: Beauty Advice, Southern Gothic Fiction, and David Frankel

"You Like Everything About Me, Except Me" by Tawnie Silva​Monday: Sometimes it feels like we need a flux capacitor just to get through Mondays. Continue with that theme at Buck 15's Buck to the Future party for some Rum and Tab soda. No cover!Tuesday: It'll be strange to see her without Stacey and ... More >>

There is Enough Content: How to Decentralize South Florida's Radio Markets

Photo by Stephanie Rae Berzon​Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small democratic strategist with no party affiliation. From time to time, we will surrender our space for his thoughts on t ... More >>

Of Pythons and Poems

Head Spins: Dubstep ambassador the Reazin plays the Vagabond

Head Spins: The Reazin, Playing at the Tenth Get Low at the Vagabond This Thursday

courtesy of Tara Ink​Who'da thunk they'd even heard about dubstep up in West Palm Beach, let alone been in on the action? But it's true. The U.K.-birthed electronic music phenomenon is alive and kicking up in South Florida's third county. That either means those folks are hipper than we think, or ... More >>

Y Not MCA?

That Red Balloon Over Collins on the Weekend? Part of a DARPA Contest

via djuggler's FlickrAn example of one of the balloons. ​That giant red weather balloon hovering over Collins Avenue this past weekend wasn't some sort of Art Basel-related installation. It was part of a U.S. Defense Department Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contest. DARPA set& ... More >>

YACHT

Vivian Girls, Exene Cervenka, The Blow at Pulse Miami Art Fair in December

Vivian Girls​The Art Basel Miami Beach music news just keeps coming. This time we've received word that the Vivian Girls, Exene Cervenka and the Blow will be performing at Pulse Miami Art Fair, which moves to Ice Palace Studios this year. Their performances are part of the fair's Pulse Miami Perfo ... More >>

YACHT Docks at Electric Pickle November 14

Photo by Sarah MeadowsAll that glitters is gold in YACHT's universe.​If anyone has had an amazing year, its definitely been the quirky electronic duo from Portland YACHT. After being relegated to relative obscurity since its inception in 2003, their breakthrough came after Claire Evans joined Jona ... More >>

School of Rock: Glass Candy 101

Ida No and Johnny Jewel of Glass Candy.​If you're planning to stop by the Vagabond tonight to check out Portland duo Glass Candy, you are definitely in for a disco-laced treat. But if your knowledge on the pair is pretty much equivalent to your knowledge of quantum physics, let us give you the cli ... More >>

5 Guys, Table 8, Bond Street, Waxing On Waxy, and A Diss At The Polls

​Bond Street, one of our best sushi establishments, is opening a branch in the tony Thompson Beverly Hills hotel (the flagship Bond Street is in NY - SoBe's opened in 2001). One of the cooler treats at the new place will be soy sauce "caviar", tiny dots of the dark liquid encased in thin-skinned m ... More >>

MDC to Return to South Florida, at Churchill's on April 11

M.D.C., a.k.a. Millions of Dead Cops, a.k.a. Multi-Death Corporation, a.k.a. Millions of Dead Children, a.k.a. Millions of Dead Christians, a.k.a. Millions of Damn Christians, a.k.a. Magnus Dominus Corpus, a.k.a etc., etc., return to Miami on April 11. The hardcore punk originators hail, origin ... More >>

Art Basel Week: "The Gossip After Dark," Dec. 4

This isn't a live performance by the Gossip per se. But the band will most certainly be in the house at O.H.W.O.W. tonight, for a party following the opening of Portland Now, a group show at the Bas Fisher Invitational space. (It's curated by the band's guitarist, Brace Pain, a.k.a. Nathan Howdeshel ... More >>

Sports Illustrated: Fair Chances for a Miami MLS Team

Last Night: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone at White Room

Glass Candy

Last Night: Josh Smith at the Poorhouse

Gee, Wiz

If only Arenas could come every night

The Meters Are Coming

The Decemberists

Picaresque Kill Rock Stars

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

M. Ward

Electric & Eclectic

Music and art merge for the night

Loser in Love, Winner at PopLife

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone wishes the Piccadilly indie night many happy returns

Rush the Gates

Miranda July pries open the profound tyranny of doubt

Best Pint-Size Newsletter

Urban Forum

Various Artists

Safarini: In Transit (Smithsonian Folkways)

Rotations

Rotations

Virtual Woodstock

The X Generation takes culture by the throat

Boise Will Be Boise