Here’s the good news: One University of Miami sports team is currently ranked among the best in the nation after a dominating win at a regional tournament this weekend.The bad news: It’s the UM Quidditch team, so you can’t exactly trash talk about it.In Gainesville last weekend, Muggle Quidditch of…

When we heard that the Virginia man who put a Cheeto that looked like a seahorse on eBay had actually sold the thing — for $100! — we had the following reactions, in the following order:1. This is an Ultra-related hallucination, right?2. Sobriety? Check. Okay, so this happened.3. Gawd, of…

When you think of runway models, you typically think of frosty, detached, starving women stomping confidently/angrily down the catwalk. But that’s not what we saw at last night’s Miami Beach International Fashion Week pret-a-porter (translation for the un-haute: “ready to wear”) designer showcase, particularly during Rosario Vargas Tibubay’s show.As winner…

Look, we’re not endorsing the use of any illegal substances, especially not at Ultra, the city’s most hallucinatory music festival of the year. We’re certainly not suggesting you might need a little something to take the edge off after three days of wandering around in your furry boots listening to…

It sounds like something out of a child’s fantasy in a Spielberg movie: An amusement park that’s laid abandoned for decades, suddenly rediscovered. Its statues rise above encroaching trees. Greenery grows over the rails of its roller coasters. Modern graffiti covers its retro facades. It’s a hidden world just waiting…

Yes, it’s Spring Break. Yes, it’s WMC week. Yes, it’ll all culminate in the annual, three-day raver-fest that is Ultra this weekend. And yes, getting around town is going to suck. A lot.But that’s no excuse to stay home and do something crazy like read a book. As we documented…

Remember the days before the real estate bubble burst? Our economy was at peace. The citizens walked arm in arm, in harmony with nature, with each other, and with themselves. The skies were blue and cloudless, sunny but not oppressively so, and whenever a rainbow appeared (which was not uncommon),…

Have you seen Victory? Of course you have; it’s the quintessential European sports-meets-Nazi fighting genre film classic. But let us refresh your memory: There’s Sylvester Stallone, in the hilariously unbelievable role of prisoner of war-turned-soccer player, Capt. Robert Hatch. He and a team of other POWs agree to play against…

Hear ye, hear ye: The Florida Renaissance Festival returns to South Florida this month, giving all you knaves and wenches the opportunity to get dolled up in corsets and chain mail and participate in bawdy songs, dances, and other faux-historic revelry. If you’re the kind of person who spends your…

Ah, the many cliches of St. Patrick’s Day: the wearing of shamrocks, the jaunty Irish music, and of course, the drinking of green beer. We have nothing against tradition, but isn’t it time for a few new tricks? Green beer has been done to death. And frankly, we’re tired of…

They say that in times of economic hardship, fashion trends skew toward nostalgia and tradition. If that’s true, then yesterday’s Miami International University of Art & Design showcase of student work, presented at the Moore Building as part of Funkshion, is a sign of national recovery.Some designers went all-out wacky…

Oh em gee, you guys. Guess what we just found. A bacon-flavored candy necklace! Isn’t that great? It’s so terribly hip and ironic and just what the world needs!Wrong. Beyond wrong, actually. For us, this candy necklace is the last straw. In recent years, the tastemakers of the world have…

If people-watching is the unofficial sport of South Beach – and we can all agree that it is, right? – then Wednesday kicks off our own personal Olympics. Miami Beach International Fashion Week brings faaaah-bulous fashions from around the globe to our shores – as well as plenty of designers,…

Ever notice how the Irish are the one ethnic group that embraces all the stereotypes about themselves? Ask any die-hard from the Emerald Isle, and he’ll tell you that he and his 26 brothers and sisters are a bunch of jolly drunks fueled by Guinness and Jameson, all seeking that…

When Crossfade gave us 10 Reasons to Not Hate Skrillex earlier this month, it got us thinking: Who’s the Skrillex of the art world? Who’s the blatantly successful, divisive creative force in visual media? What artist of our time is simultaneously so loved and so hated by so many? Obviously,…

Can you hear it? The rhythmic chugging, the clanking on the tracks, the screech of a frost-covered whistle? That’s the Silver Bullet, and it’s coming to Miami.Yesterday, we reported that MillerCoors, which brings the world such boozy swill as Miller, Coors, and Corona beers, is moving its Latin American headquarters…