If December is a perfect storm of tourist money, then November’s Wynwood Art Walk was a busy, local scene. A bustling NW Second Avenue hosted thousands of pairs of feet tromping through the city, spending dollars, and soaking up the creative atmosphere. The streets were a canvas for manic expression,…
The American cigar market is a multi-billion dollar industry, the largest, and most lucrative in the world. And Miami is set to take its piece of the action with nationwide distribution of limited production runs of high-end rolls by the Wynwood Cigar Factory, manufacturing right in the heart of the…
Cypress Hill With Action Bronson at Grand Central November 13
If you’re ever in Amsterdam, cop a slab of paper-flat hash, palm the sheet, and breathe hot air on it. Once the sheet becomes pliable, load it up with OG Kush, roll it like a blunt, and smoke up till society melts. That’s what Cypress Hill’s B-Real calls “the giggle…
Obama wins everything. Game of horseshoes in the backyard? Obama wins. Beer Pong with the Prez? Barack is the champ. Play HORSE at the neighborhood park? Victory to the O-man. Rock, paper, scissors? Freestyle cypher? Shot slamming? Uno? Dominos? Breath holding? Lap swimming? Tecmo Bowl? Mario Kart? Staring contest? Obama…
On a corner in Wynwood, a man and leopard hang out and get high next to women and roses in meditative poses.It’s one of several Miami-based artworks by 2Square, a nomadic free-expression camp that hit town last year for Basel and decided to stick around. In their wake, dozens of…
Pop music celebrities are sex-drenched, weapon-obsessed, drug-addicted, angry, deranged, and sometimes criminal. In short, they’re unconventional, always-entertaining personalities who may or may not have politically valid opinions. But let’s face it, celebrity endorsements are cultural collateral, and politics is bloodsport. Here are the top ten musical endorsements in this presidential…
Whether they’re dropping a Baumgartner from the edge of space, or launching duct tape airplanes into Biscayne Bay, Red Bull throws one hell of a party. Tens of thousands of spectators hit Bayfront Park Saturday to watch teams of amateur engineers push their homemade aircrafts off a thirty foot platform;…
If Mitt Romney smoked a joint, nothing would happen. Because robots can’t get high. But Crossfade’s backing Obama. Like most Americans, we’ve smoked marijuana. And we’re not afraid to admit it. We also recently spoke to B-Real of Cypress Hill about why weed’s a good thing, why voting is important,…
Miami Live Music Month Kickoff Party at Grand Central November 3
Askultura Album-Release Party at Churchill’s Pub November 3
The Swedish electro chicks of Icona Pop sing: “I crash my car into a bridge. I don’t care. I love it,” to a floor-smashing dance beat. They are the perfect example of a species that one of their songs terms the “90s Bitch.” Who is this bitch? She’s a wild…
Candye Kane is a tough chick from Cali who came up playing country, blues, and rock on the L.A. punk scene in the ’80s at the same time as she stripped to pay the bills. Later, she became a porn star, beat an abusive relationship, and survived cancer, all while…
Ascolta is Italian for listen, and that’s exactly what local punk crew Askultura want you to do. “Listen to the culture,” says the band’s founder Andrew, a Lakota Nation warrior poet. He and his nine cohorts — two chicks, six dudes, and a beast named Captain on the washboard –…
The savage lands of Dade and Broward counties can be a wild place at times. The Chevys roar like lions, and bass pounds from their trunks like a foot drop from an elephant. Nigerian-American rapper Uzi was born and raised in South Florida. And all his life, he’s had to…
Ky-Mani Marley’s first name means “Adventurous Traveler.” He is the son of Bob Marley and Jamaican table tennis champion Anita Belnavis. He was born in Jamaica. But he grew up in Liberty City. The new label that he’s created is Konfrontation Muzik, and his album of the same name is…
Tryouts for the Miami Spice bikini basketball team were held Saturday.Did we attend? Of course we did.See also: – Bikini Basketball Exists, and It’s Coming to MiamiThe event brought out women of all kinds, from experienced athletes (including at least one former Lingerie Football League player) to newbies with plenty of…
Matt & Kim work so hard … They got too sick to play Miami. Last night, the perpetually psyched indie duo canceled their show at the Fillmore Miami Beach because Matt lost his voice. But opening act Oberhofer’s still ready to rock, playing a last minute booking at The Stage…
131 is a Wynwood artist whose real name you will never know that you know, and whose face you will never see. His work covers more warehouse walls than there are particles in a microbe. His chaotic explorations of subatomic energies through paint appear in solo outdoor pieces and in…
Diego Garcia is a first-generation Latin kid who grew up in Florida. Now he’s touring the world’s stages and playing tiny desks for NPR. On Wednesday night, he’ll be at the Fillmore Miami Beach, opening up for Jovanotti. And he says that if the maladies of love have taught him…
Locos por Juana Releases New Album, Somos de la Calle
Gucci Mane is one of the greatest rappers of the past ten years. But his performance at the Sex on the Beach convention, witnessed by no more than 60 people, looked like a scene out of Spinal Tap, except instead of an outdated rock band in a bowling alley, the…
