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Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve Parties

Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve 2013 Parties

When Miami throws an end-of-year blowout, it's guaranteed that everyone is going home broke. And drunk. And accompanied by some creepy-sexy stranger who'll ask for money in the morning. So if you wanna wake up in 2013 with empty pockets, a booze-damaged brain, and a bed full of hot mess, check out ... More >>

Bruno Barreiro Wants To Use $110 Million In Bonds To Help Felonious Ex-School Board Member

Back in 2002, Demetrio Perez Jr. had an epic fall from prominence. The then-Miami-Dade Public Schools Board Member was removed from public office following his 21-count federal indictment that he had been overcharging elderly tenants at his federally subsidized low income apartments in Little Havana ... More >>

Vote No on All 12 Constitutional Amendments, the Crandon Park Tennis Center renovation, and These Guys

Election 2012: Just Vote No To These Catastrophes

When you head to the polls this week to cast a vote for the prez or to throw your weight behind Mittens, you might be surprised to find one of the longest ballots ever created. You'd never know it from the nightly news, but it turns out you'll have to decide on much more than just the presidential r ... More >>

Reader Mail: Tony Montana Isn't the Face of Miami

29 Ways for Miami to Celebrate If the Heat Clinch the Title Tonight

If the Heat wins tonight, it will be a citywide fist punch to the fart box of all the haters around the world. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook can go back to wearing their lensless glasses in the obscurity of Oklahoma City. And Charles Barkley can quietly choke on his stupid diet meals.Miami can' ... More >>

Future at Revolution Live May 29

Future Brings Auto-Tuned Southern Rap to Fort Lauderdale on May 29

It took six mixtapes, a fake Cuban accent, and a sizzurp high before Future landed a record deal with Epic. Now the Atlanta-based rapper is one of the Dirty South's most promising artists. "I'm just coming out, but if you go anywhere in the South," he says, "I get that love and respect like I have ... More >>

Gasmy Joseph AKA Mohawk Gaz Advertises On His Hairdo

Thirty-three-year-old Pompano Beach resident Gasmy Joseph wears a supertall Mohawk. About a year ago, an epiphany struck when he wanted to spread the word about a buddy's birthday party: Why not advertise it on the hairdo? In terms of innovation, Thomas Edison's light bulb now looks like a piece of ... More >>

Five Cubans Ozzie Guillen Should Praise at His Press Conference Today

Poor Ozzie Guillen. Baseball season just got started and already the Miami Marlins skipper has inserted his foot in his mouth.The controversial Venezuelan born manager had the audacity to praise Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in an upcoming issue of Time magazine and all hell has broken loose in Miami' ... More >>

Reader mail: Gay-bashing Buju Banton needs to make peace with the Lord

Mugshots Friday: Why is This Man Covered In Powder?

​Your regular Mugshots Friday programming is cancelled because we simply cannot continue when one of the mugshots is of a guy covered in mysterious powder. It wouldn't be fair to the other mugshots. Travis Williams (click photo to enlarge) was arrested on Wednesday for disorderly conduct/breach of ... More >>

Is Emma Stone the New Tony Montana?

​Greed. Corruption. Mountains of cocaine. If you read those three words and the image that pops to mind is of Emma Stone, we are genuinely concerned for you. But we also know you're not alone. Stone recently signed on to play a wild child who travels to Miami to sell a million-dollar stash of coca ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Brings Together Neon Lights, Vaginas, and Big Names

​View more photos from Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 here."I haven't seen this much pussy all year," we told our colleague as we were exiting the Miami Beach Convention Center for Art Basel Miami Beach's Vernissage Wednesday night. There were enough uses of female genitalia to fill The Vagina Monolog ... More >>

Soul Clap at the Electric Pickle July 23

Soul Clap Set Their Fazers on Fun at Electric Pickle July 23

​For a tag team that hails from the city where Puritans landed, where Paul Revere rode his horse, and where tea was dumped in that infamous harbor, Soul Clap knows its roots. Of course, we're talking about the P-Funk Mothership, which Eli Goldstein and Charlie Levin say transported them to Earth ... More >>

Top Five Fiestas de Año Nuevo: From the Catalina to La Covacha

Do NYE 2011 with DJ Le Spam and the Allstars.​Happy New Year! Or, more appropriately ... Feliz Año Nuevo! I love this time of year. There are lots and lots of parties over the holiday season. And who doesn't like to party? No one. That's who. Especially not Latinos. We absolutely love to p ... More >>

Scarface Chainsaw Scene Location On Market For $9 Million

​Tony Montana was one bad dude. But he's no match for gentrification. 728 Ocean Drive in South Beach was once a location seedy enough that Colombian gangsters dismembering a dude with a chainsaw didn't seem like much of a stretch. Today, the building that hosted one of Scarface's most notorious s ... More >>

Mugshots Friday: AARP Tony Montana, The Neverending Fu Manchu, and The French Detective

​Can it really have been only a week ago that The Man With The Dented Head exploded the internet and sent our switchboards into hyperdrive? We'll have an update on him -- and how he got his injuries -- next week. In the meantime, Miami-Dade's jails have netted a far more mellow crew this week. Sti ... More >>

Scott Storch's Old Palm Island Mansion on Market Again for $20 Million

​This 20,000-square-foot, Tony Montana-esque mansion at 70 Palm Island is Miami embodied. It's been bought for a lavish price during boom times, foreclosed on during lean times, seen monstrous amounts of cocaine snorted within its walls, swapped between new money, and now, with the real estate ... More >>

Gino Cabanas's work of genius doesn't pay

Around Town This Weekend: Instruments of Torture, Venus Williams, and DIY Soundtracks

Friday​As if five days of torture, we mean work, weren't enough, today is the opening day of the "Instruments of Torture Through the Ages" exhibit at the Freedom Tower (oh, the irony!). One look at the spiked collars, knee splitters, and genital mutilators, and you'll realize you don't have it so ... More >>

Latin America's Top Ten Lady Drug Smugglers: An Illustrated Guide

Police are after a former beauty queen who's accused of being the ringleader of a gang of pinups who also work as international drug smugglers. Angie San Clemente Valencia is a bosomy 30-year-old Colombian who's accused of paying her merry band of strumpets $5,000 for carrying pounds of blow from Me ... More >>

Scarface: The Elementary School Play is Staged, Really

Take that, you cockaroaches!​TMZ reports the little-tyke production of Tony Montana's spiral descent into Miami's cocaine-fueled underworld is the brilliant work of director Marc Klasfeld and Rockhard Films, which did the video for Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." It was produced in Los Angeles usin ... More >>

Scarface: The Elementary School Play

This is wrong on so many levels. Anyone who can tell me where this little tyke production was staged gets a limited edition DVD of Scarface, a Tony Montana action figure, and a used coke vial. Scarface School Play - Watch more Funny Videos

A Prophet: The "French Scorsese" Jacques Audiard arrives with his '70s-style gangster epic

Gangster's Paradise

Silicon Beach: Spend New Year's Safely and Frugally With Social Media Tools

Image via Wikimedia Commons​Ah, New Year's Eve in South Beach -- pocketbook gouging at its finest! Club buzz says Lady Gaga is the hottest sold-out party in the nation this New Year's Eve. LIV at the Fontainebleau Hotel is charging $800 general admission -- drinks, food, and party favors not inclu ... More >>

Halloween costumes based on Miami's spookiest celebrities

How to Make Costumes Based on Miami's Spookiest Celebrities

​Between the state of the condo market, parking on South Beach, and the final price tag for the new Marlins stadium, Miamians have suffered through plenty of real-life horrors. So for Halloween parties this year, Riptide is going to put away the Freddy mask and show up in homemade costumes inspire ... More >>

Best of Miami 2009

It's a steal.

Yawn, More A-Rod Controversy

As a wee boy my baseball hero was Kirby Puckett. I know Marlins fans may not be able to comprehend the idea of a star player staying with a single team his entire career, but Puckett did, and racked up two World Series championships for the Twins and an impressive batting average. Then, a few years ... More >>

High Fidelity

FIU theater never backs down from controversy.

StreetWorks - Toe Jam Backlot's Famous Monsters

Chi Chi Steals The Show at Scarface's 25th Anniversery

Scarface in Miami

Twenty-five years ago this month, the gangster epic caused a local stir.

Kendall Ale House

This Is Their Brain on Drugs

Cassavetes Jr. and Justin "In a Box" Timberlake team up for real-life tale of killer potheads

Coke Dreams

In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game

Portrait of a Dealer

He's young, lives in Kendall, has a day job, and sells blow at a reasonable price

Sashay, Shante

CUT!

The 25 Most Unbearable Miami Movies Ever Made

Letters

Letters

Swelter 9

Balsa Wouldn't

The Pitt and the Pendulous

Stone Crab

Al's Way