Shaq went on a laser blasting rampage at the upscale Fontainebleau club Arkadia Saturday night. The guy’s a prankster, and no one can stop him.His platinum selling All-Star Comedy Jam was in the house with Courvoisier to celebrate a successful year of touring.Comedians Lavar Walker, Capone, and Finesse Mitchell cracked…
Motorcycles, excepting steam powered and diesel fuelers, were invented in Germany in 1885. The Reitwagen housed an internal combustion engine that burned petroleum fuel. Hot chicks have been attracted to them ever since. So it’s only right that Hamburg, Germany’s Erik Vauth and his House Of Thunder dealership moves into Wynwood…
Hec One Love is a Miami graffiti pioneer who started bombing the streets in 1983.His main stomping grounds were the southwest area of Miami-Dade, and he ran with a crew, Alive 5, that claims Miami’s first wall of fame, and first graffiti art gallery show.Today, Hec is still heavy in…
Wynwood got wilder than a thousand hungry lions at a zebra convention. And SPIN magazine’s Art Basel Miami Beach week party at new club Gramps offered plenty of great music for the soundtrack. We got drunk and took pictures of it all between repeated food truck visits, and trips around…
Graffiti art is de facto legal in Wynwood, where there are more square feet of “permission-walls” in one compact area than almost any other city in the world. Property owners agree the art work is a positive addition to the neighborhood, and allow artists to express themselves out in the…
What’s warm, and wet, and makes the world go ’round? Vaginas!And artist Allison Kotzig, American native and part-time Slovakia resident, has several on a wall in Wynwood’s Hangar space, which gives a hole new meaning to art opening. (See what we did there?)The surprisingly realistic, yet creepily detached sets of…
Theaster Gates isn’t trying to sell you anything. And that’s why his work, a labor performance called Soul Manufacturing Corporation, at Locust Projects in Little Haiti is worth so much money. The Chicago based artist is involved in a “poetic contemplation” on the intrinsic value of skilled labor in emerging economies. So…
Crackhead Katana is the story of a drug-addicted vigilante who finds a samurai blade and a bunch of self-defense manuals in a dumpster next to a dead body. He’s a natural with the sword, and soon takes to the streets to unleash bloody vengeance on Miami.We caught up with the…
Last night, Gary Nader, the world’s top collector of Latin American art, opened his gallery to Portuguese billionaire Joe Berardo, who received a key to the City of Miami for making it rain $500 million worth of masterpieces in one big room. The top floor of the Nader space is…
Jahfe is the greatest reggae band in South Florida. When the group’s in show mode, it gigs about 17 nights a month at venues throughout the tri-county area. The crew also tours internationally, playing some of the biggest festivals around the world. And Jahfe takes the sound of Miami everywhere…
Like most Americans, we Miamians don’t know shit about Hawaii. But luckily, we met John “Prime” Hina, a guy who started doing graffiti in Oahu in 1983, and is now in Miami working on a Heineken Mural piece with fellow Hawaiian graffiti pioneer Estria Miyashiro, and Miami’s own Trek6. Prime…
If art is electricity, then Wynwood is a nuclear power plant, and millions of extra-thorough watts of creative energy are already pumping through the streets. Sunday afternoon we saw the rising tide of pigment rolling through the mainland in a tidal wave of paint. Here are a few of the…
Hated for Trying’s Punk Comp “Cadence to Valor” Honors Local Fallen Soldier
You’re going to need a 10-gallon bucket of colada and at least three pallets of cocaine to keep up with Aholsniffsglue’s Art Basel Week. He’s launching a show called “Snipers” at the Gregg Shienbaum Gallery in the heart of Wynwood. The show opens November 29, and features tons of peluches,…
Overtown, 1950. Henry Stone sits in the lobby of the Mary Elizabeth Hotel, a classy joint with a lounge, several bars, and a concert hall. He’s chopping it up with his buddy Sam Cooke, whom he’s known since his gospel days with the Soul Stirrers. They’re sitting at the bar…
If a girl looks at your shoes and smiles, plays with her hair while checking you out, and then makes physical contact, it usually means she wants to fuck. So Kanye West may have some competition from the Sons of Mystro, who caught Kim Kardashian’s eye during a performance at…
What’s up with the Kardashians? They show up in our county, start a business, spend money, and use their expensive camera crew to record their own hot asses in the sunshine for a hit television show. They take bikini pics on our beaches, smile for their stalkers in the media,…
Ice “Billion” Berg ain’t got no time, he’s chasing money. The only thing on his mind is stackin’ those gotdam hundreds. He told his “bitch” he’s on his grind, she says she understands, and even if she don’t, then she gon’ need another man. ‘Cause he ain’t got no time…
The Road is 100 fucking years old! There’s never been a better time to get wasted, eat great, and have consensual drunk sex in a parking lot than tomorrow’s big birthday bash. Here are the top ten reasons Tobacco Road should live another hundred years. See also: -Graham Wood Drout…
Printmaking’s been going on since ancient Mesopotamians used round cylinder seals on clay tablets. Later, Asians innovated woodblock prints on silk and fabrics. Then, Europeans got in on it. Today, there’s etching, engraving, monotypes, lithographs, mezzotints, aquatints, screenprints, and more. Plus the cranking gears and crushing force of a steel…
Metro Zu is high above Miami on a cumulus of kush. They’re dropping acid rain on the people in the streets. They’re surfing through the County on a tidal wave of bass. They’re wide awake, they’re making tracks, they want to blow your mind. See also: -Metro Zu, O’Grime, and…
House rose from the cracks of Chicago’s warehouse disco scene to be a global force in music. But just because billions of ears dig this stuff and it changed pop history … Sometimes, it still sucks. As proof, we here at Crossfade dug up some examples of how stupid it’s…
