Hell and Oates

Daryl Hall & John Oates are going to Hell, weekly, to pick up their royalty checks. Satan is their CEO, and they’ve made him so much money that last year they earned a sacrificial tabernacle made of platinum, covered in goat’s blood. Sure, now they’re riding high on the waves…

Top Ten Thanksgiving Songs About Your Screwed-Up Family

Adam Sandler is right. Thanksgiving is a special time of year. But we’re already sick of his song and dance, and the last movie he made was so terrible that even turkeys begged for a trip to the ovens rather than watch it. So here are the true top ten…

The Villa by Barton G at the Versace Mansion In Pictures

You won’t be running into any of your friends from Occupy Miami at the Villa by Barton G. The one-percenter stronghold is heavily secured, full of Versace’s original designs, and marked in more gold, mosaic, and fresco than the palace of a Russian Czar. If anybody in Miami could take…

Photos: (((SHAKE))) at The Vagabond’s Rockers vs. Bros Pre-Basel Bash

Last night, (((SHAKE))) at the Vagabond’s Rockers vs. Bros party featured live punk rock from The Getback, Otto Von Schirach’s journeys into bass, and Aholsniffsglue painting the outside of the club, roof to floor, before Art Basel hits town. The band had a clean live mix. There was tremendo subwoofing…

Occupy Miami’s March On Brickell In Pictures

Hundreds gathered in Jose Martí Park yesterday in Little Havana, tromped east on Calle Ocho into Brickell then paraded through downtown Miami in a protest march that heard just as many “Sak ap fets?” as “Que bola aseres?” alongside chants of “End The Fed,” and “If you can hear my…

November Second Saturday Art Walk in Pictures

Northwest Second Avenue was looking like the Great Barrier Reef Saturday night, with millions of organisms interacting symbiotically, and consuming the multitudinous works of art of all varieties. We flowed through the current like a tiny plankton on a mission, avoiding hungry whales, and laughing at the sucker fish who…

Cultura Profética Talk Weed, Love, and Sex in Bayfront Park

Cultura Profética don’t mind if you smoke a spliff, bone your chick, or fight oppression while they beat up the speakers at the Bayside Rocks Festival.They record with Bob Marley’s engineer, tour the world spreading conscious music, sing in Spanish, and rep Puerto Rico to the fullest.We spoke to guitarist…

Sleepless Night 2011 in Pictures

Wynwood may be the heart of the art scene in Miami, but South Beach is still the place where all the people are at on a Saturday night, which means hundreds of thousands got to enjoy the many and varied happenings for Sleepless Night 2011. Hours of subtropical ministorms, and…

Rich Black History

Henry Flagler was a Rockefeller boy with so much Standard Oil money to burn that he paid out of his own pocket to construct a railroad to Key West. Many of his workers were Bahamian fellas who had immigrated to Miami, where they started families and built businesses in the…

Rola Music Festival Rafts Into Miami With Latin Music’s Heavy Hitters

What do you call a rowdy bunch of Latin Americans showing up in Miami to work for your dollars?The Rola Music Festival, a three-day concert event featuring some of the biggest music names in the world that end in Gonzalez.Representatives include Venezuela’s Patafunk, Spain’s Jarabe De Palo, Puerto Rico’s Jerry…

Smash Face, Repeat

Joey “Twinkle Fingers” Hernandez is a true Miami brawler and the world junior middleweight champion. He’s also Don King’s newest knuckle scientist, he throws a left hook like a Mack truck, and this Saturday at 6 p.m., he’ll defend his belt against Mexico’s Elco “the Animal” García. Don King Presents…

Wynwood Art Fair in Pictures

You can’t spell “heart of the city” without “art.” And the inaugural edition of the Wynwood Art Fair proves it. We know the Lotus House women and children’s shelter, which all proceeds benefit, but so will all the people who flocked to NW Sixth Avenue to get in on the…

Ragganga Artist Bélo Talks Tonight’s Big Night in Little Haiti Bash

The third Friday of the month is here. And if you don’t what that means, it’s Big Night In Little Haiti. Everybody raise your cannons and bayonets for liberté, égalité, fraternité.Tonight, world festival circuit rock star Bélo will fire up the city alongside Miami’s own Lanzallamas Monofónica with a free…

Joy Rides

Trying out a new car is as easy as slipping a slim jim in a lock, hacking a keyless entry, busting a window with a spark plug, using a dent puller to trigger an ignition, cracking a steering column, swerving around town, and dumping some schmuck’s whip in the Miami…