Hecklers, beware. Comedian Martin Lawrence is a knockout performer, and he’s physically capable of kicking your ass. The former Golden Gloves boxing contender is famous for his eponymous hit TV show, his more than 25 film roles, and his lifetime ban from Saturday Night Live, but he also throws a…
Any bar with a rifle on the wall next to some kind of furry decapitated llama head wearing a Dolphins hat is fucking awesome in our book. But Seven Seas, the great Red Road dive has more to offer. Namely karaoke, which the joint does three nights a week. Here…
A few years ago, Jason Handelsman wrote: “The outskirts of Miami’s Overtown hood are becoming a gentrified version of the Sunset Strip in LA.” And now it’s actually happened. New Line Cinema is shooting the film adaptation of a hit Broadway musical called Rock Of Ages entirely in South Florida,…
Who is Mikey Steel, and why should you care about his birthday? He was born in the mountains of Kentucky. His momma was a black bear and his daddy was a mountain lion. They lived off pork fat and whiskey and grew weed by the ton in their backyard. As…
The oldest liquor license in Dade County belongs to Tobacco Road. B.B. King has played there, John Lee Hooker has played there, and more blues legends than you can roll a barrel of whiskey at have too. It’s the type of place where you can swing your wang dang doodle…
The best rum in the world is called Barbancourt, and it comes from Haiti. This top-shelf liquor is so smooth you can pour it in your cereal for breakfast. And did you know the Haitian city of Les Cayes is the world’s number one exporter of vetiver? That plant’s essential…
We’re talking ZZ Top, and you will know them by their trail of beards. They’re from Houston, a city so city full of gold grills, candypaint, lean, slang, and pirates that it might as well be called Miami. And tonight, the Texas blues, rock, and boogie boys, put it down…
If you bring your flask out to the party for Big Night in Little Haiti on Friday, June 17, make sure to fill it with Barbancourt, it’s the best rum in the world, and the liquor will have you feeling right at home.The festivities include a free concert headlined by…
We’d never seen a real-life poet before Will Da Real One. He was not some boring page inside a book, or stale words inside a class room. He was a giant dude using spoken word to grip an audience with the depth and presence of his speech. His lyrical assault…
Pour us another IPA. All this ass kickin’ is making us thirsty. By ass kickin’, we mean basketball. And by thirsty, we mean drunk. What can we say, Miami loves a team that wins, and right now The Heat are putting butts in the seats at bars and clubs all…
Damn near everybody in Wade County knows wassup. It’s time to put Dallas in the furnace, turn the Heat up, and watch em’ burn, baby! Burn!And since we the best and all, here are the five best new fan-made songs and videos rallying for our hometeam to stomp out all…
All of the lights in Downtown Miami are on and a rapper daps up a guy in the audience and goes into his verse:”Another brother got shot dead in the stone, pushin’ the dope, stackin’ the cheese. Now he dead, on the scene, and thass not really how it ‘post…
During Memorial Day weekend in Miami, even if it doesn’t rain, there will be a perfect storm of liquor, music, and dancing from South Beach to downtown, and up I-95 to King Of Diamonds — not to mention every strip club in between. From all-day festivals at Bicentennial Park and…
Memorial Day weekend is officially here. And you know what that means? More ass on the beach than grains of sand, so much liquor you can’t feel your face, and so many parties you can’t even decide where to wild out without help from Crossfade.Kick your Thursday night off proper…
Memorial Day weekend parties in Miami, May 27 to 29
On a scorcher of a day in Miami, voting centers in Miami Gardens, North Miami, South Beach, Legion Park, and Liberty City were hardly a hotbed of activity.Few voters wandered in to the precincts we visited, but we did see quite a few volunteers holding signs up.Here are some photos…
In Trick Daddy’s book about his life, Magic City: Trials Of A Native Son, he talks about the evolution of the urban hustle. Before the dope boy, there was the pimp, a slick talkin’ motherfucker who was cold as ice and could have a ho on the track within ten…
Anger Lives! Miami Cuban hardcore represent. These musical thugs have been beating up the pit for so many years that the first 13-year-old kid who moshed to their music now has grandkids. We’re not saying the band is old, we’re saying they’re a classic. There’s a difference. A classic Miami…
Don’t know local outlaw Americana crew Los Bastardos Magnificos? Well, there were about 100 years between the Civil War and the Mariel Boatlift when Miami was more characterized by its Southern heritage than any worldliness. Those were the days when a cheek full of chewing tobacco, a banjo, and a…
Julio Robaina is like a Cuban Fonzie, the dude stays cool under pressure. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t up to no good.At the liveliest public forum we’ve seen so far in the County Mayor’s race, the NAACP debate at the New Birth Baptist Church, Luther Campbell accused Robaina of…
We usually get so drunk and high on Memorial Day weekend that we forget what happened. We have the odd flashback of doing tequila shots with a stripper from Nebraska and waking up in the fountain at the Fontainebleau. Last year, we think we might have tried doing stand-up comedy…
RIP Montae Talbert (AKA M-Bone), aged 22, and respect to his family. We are sorry for the tragic loss of the talented artist.No matter how smooth he was, M-Bone couldn’t Dougie his way out of two head shots in an Inglewood, California drive by that left him dead inside a…
