Amanita muscaria are magic mushrooms with red caps and white spots, the same ones that transported Alice to Wonderland. The technically poisonous fungi are eaten worldwide, rarely cause death, and pack more psychedelic punch than a Ken Kesey uppercut. The friendly fungus is native to Siberia, where the ancient shamans…
Workshop Collective’s Pop Up Record Store at Workshop Collective January 14
“You never get too old to fuck,” says 72-year-old R&B singer Benny Latimore. “In case they take me for granted, I may be an old dog, but I still know how to bury the bone.” You may or may not know his name. But Latimore’s been in showbiz for half…
Spend Friday the 13th in Key West. But don’t go to sleep. Machete clawed janitors in Bermuda shorts could creepsurf your dreaming brainwaves. You might wake up next to a she-crab full of hot, musky soup. You will miss out on the party at a musiholic paradise called The Green…
Dancing like a star can be dangerous. The proof: Miami’s own R&B crooner Jason Derulo fractured his neck practicing acrobatic tumbles for his Future History world tour. Derulo could have been paralyzed, but luckily avoided that fate. His tour, however, is canceled for the moment and Derulo (real name Jason…
Before there were 8-tracks, cassette tapes, compact discs, or MP3s, vinyl ruled Miami. Throughout the 1950s, Dade County’s coin-operated juke boxes were run by the Mafia. Old-school Minneapolis gangster Sam Taran was a key figure. He and his cronies set up shop in every hotel lobby, shine shack, whorehouse, and…
Miami’s top ten underground rap and hip-hop acts
DMX may be the Marion Barry of the rap game. Like the former Washington D.C. mayor, Earl “DMX” Simmons has overcome drug charges and prison time to remain a fan favorite in the world of urban entertainment. He proved it on New Year’s Day at LIV when he shared the…
Deadmau5’s New Year’s Day Pool Party With Stephan Luke, Troy Kurtz, and Damaged Goods Fontainebleau Miami Beach Sunday, December 1, 2012 Better Than: A night without a jillion jiggawatts of bass. Trillion dollar hotel, international DJs, good-looking people getting wild and out of control? Whatever. Nothing beats standing in front…
New Yorkers still think they run hip hop. Canadians say, “It ain’t dead. It lives in the North.” L.A. radio plays more Pitbull than we do. Houston is still leaning off a never-ending cup of codeine. NOLA’s doing it in the dark. Philly, Detroit, and Chi-Town are mad because it’s…
You have to suck the hardwood reed, get it hot and wet, before you can hit those high notes on your alto. And the spit valve on a trombone gets so thick with juices that you have to clean the pipe regularly. Wanna play the flute? Gotta finger the right…
Five Miami Beach bars with no cover on New Year’s Eve 2011
Buffalo Brown’s been playing the guitar so long that he can hold his ten fingers in a bonfire, press them in a cactus patch, dip them in bubbling fry grease, hold them on a power sander, and run ’em cross a razorblade without breaking the skin. That’s callous. But the…
Like tattoos? Get your single needle guns, sharpened guitar strings, and professional gear ready for Ink Masters, a new tattoo reality competition series where contestants battle for $100,000.We caught up with judge Chris Nuñez, who was on Miami Ink, about why Ink Masters is better, truer to the game, and…
There aren’t many restaurants on Miami Beach that have been around since 1920. The Forge is one of em’, and its storied past swims in local history like a mangrove snapper in the salty waters off the south coast. Owner Shareef Malnik’s steady hand on the tiller, and Chef Dewey…
Fact: You don’t need to go inside of any building to party this New Year’s Eve on South Beach. You can get wild, weird, and wasted in the middle of Ocean Drive. Another fact: You can’t buy beer inside a store on South Beach after midnight. No matter what day…
We could write a book about Henry Stone’s musical contributions. The dude is a legend. Based in Miami since about 1948, he was good friends with Sam Cooke. He cut some of Ray Charles’s earliest recordings out of a little studio on Flagler Street in Downtown Miami. And he personally…
Sure, you could celebrate New Year’s Eve and ring in 2012 by paying $100,000 to sit next to Rick Ross at Cameo. But there are plenty of cheaper places to get drunk near a fat guy in Miami.Here are the top five New Year’s Eve 2012 parties in Miami that…
Last month, Agnostic Front punched us in the throat and it changed our life. The New York hardcore crew and Churchill’s Pub shook Little Haiti harder on a Tuesday night than anywhere else in America any night of the week. Now, it’s Madball’s turn to take a whack at Wednesday…
Art Basel Miami 2011 may be over, but reliving it through photos, videos, text messages, status updates, tweets, and old school real life conversations has only just begun. Here’s some of what we saw, including Ron English, Mr. Brainwash, SCOPE art fair, Design Miami, the Neckface movie, Salem at the…
Oye, Miami, you hot, wet, beautiful, lady. Thank you for attracting all the art world with your charms. There is no shortage of great work to experience and the atmosphere is unparalleled. We rolled through the city yesterday and had a lot of fun. Here is some of what we…
Somewhere in Eurasia, an old lady cries because she has no grandkids and then dies alone. But that’s not the case on mainland China, which has grown faster than the biceps on a major-league steroid junkie. Since 1980, Shenzhen, a city in China’s Guangdong Province, has gone from 20,000 farmers…
