Miami’s Upper Eastside has been slow to break free from its red-light-district past, but that hasn’t deterred some locals from trying to shift its transformation into high gear. Nightlife newcomer Patrick Walsh, along with Animals of the Arctic’s Alex Puentes and Ricardo Guerrero, has given the area its first weekly…
If there is one party you must never, and I mean never miss, it’s Berlin-label Get Physical’s Winter Music Conference party. For the last two years, Studio A has served as its venue, so we were a bit worried about where the party would move to this year. We finally…
Kid Sister and FlosstradamusWednesday, February 26, 2009LIV at the Fontainebleau, Miami BeachBetter than: Getting your toes done up.When I got the invite for LIV’s newest party, Dirty Hairy, I was sort of skeptical that it was actually going to happen. I mean, the party’s whole concept is better suited for…
Mention the name Diplo and most people would probably respond with a blank stare. But Wesley Pentz, the man behind the digital-chic moniker, has had more influence on dance-floor music than your average DJ/producer. After creating tracks for cutting-edge artists such as M.I.A. and Santogold, he scored his first multiple…
Yesterday, 24/7 Wall Street released its list of the 25 Most Valuable Blogs, and local gaming blog Destructoid came in at number 16 with a value of $2.5 million (full disclosure: Prior to working at New Times, I was a blogger/editor for Miami Nights, which is owned by Destructoid’s parent network, Modern…
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is already in full swing, and last night, everyone’s favorite quasi-cook and abbreviator, Rachel Ray, hosted the third annual Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. Our cameras caught all the beefy action, including celebrity chefs Bobby Flay and Michelle Bernstein.However,…
Can you believe it? Winter Music Conference is only five weeks away! We are already putting together our WMC Guide, which at this point seems a little, er, overwhelming to say the least. So many parties that we are having a hard time deciding what to do when the week…
Call us nightlife anthropologists, because our assessment of downtown’s nightlife set being courted by glitzy South Beach continues to be reinforced. We wonder if we can present this as a thesis for our doctoral research?The ever-expanding Poplife, plus Overthrow (Alexis Mincolla and Sam Baum) and Vice Versa (Xavier Burt), have…
A few week ago we issued a new trend alert for downtown Miami’s hipsterati being asked to host and promote parties at the usually uptight South Beach nightclubs. But this week we are uncovering an even newer trend, former Miami nightclubs moving north to Broward County.Remember crobar? The infamous Chicago…
Note to self: Valentine’s Day on the weekend sucks. At least we can avoid the shitty corporate holiday when it falls on a weekday, but it’s a little hard to do on a Saturday. The only thing we felt a couple of days ago was the urge to punch everyone…
Now that Ultra’s lineup has finally been unveiled, it’s time to move on the what the local clubs will be putting on. There are certain things we are concerned about for this year’s Winter Music Conference: Are there going to be enough people in town this year to support all…
So in addition to yesterday’s news of the unexplainable choice of booking the Black Eyed Peas for next month’s Ultra Music Festival, the final phase of the lineup has been announced. Notable additions include Rinton, Rye Rye, Surkin, Para One and Shiny Toy Guns to Day 1, and MSTRKRFT, BT…
There are some things in this world better left unexplained, but this is definitely not one of them. It’s been confirmed that the Black Eyed Peas (yes, the very same ones that created the weapon of mass destruction called “My Humps”) are set to perform at Ultra Music Festival next…
Really, we don’t know why are shocked anymore. It’s getting obvious that clubs are grasping anything in order to stay afloat. But during our daily Pitchfork read, we stumbled upon the news that M.I.A./Santogold producer/DJ Diplo would be spinning at LIV alongside Dave 1 of Chromeo Wednesday, March 4.LIV is…
The Scion A/V Tour is coming back to Miami for the millionth time March 8. This time its to celebrate the CD release Pioneer, a Scion A/V mix by French record label Kitsuné. The tour’s first stop is Miami at The Vagabond and will feature L.A. DJ duo Guns ‘n’…
If there are two prominent figures in South Florida’s small blogosphere, they are definitely former Stuck on the Palmetto, current South Florida Daily Blog blogger Rick, and Val Prieto and company at Babalu. And they couldn’t be more polar opposites: Rick is decisively liberal, while Babalu’s anti-Castro rhetoric keeps them on…
If there is one guide to Winter Music Conference (other than our own, of course), it’s definitely The List. It’s the official guide to everything WMC, and while it’s obviously still incomplete, there are a lot of interesting events already listed.Most of the list so far compromises the downtown clubs,…
Wanting to get in the mood for Valentine’s Day, our cameras ventured out Monday night for Dream’s Chat Noir party. If you haven’t been, you are missing out on one of the hottest parties on the beach that features sexy burlesque dancers and brave clubbers that still want to keep…
We definitely had a good weekend filled with penthouse parties and plenty of booze. Sadly, most talk was about whether we still had jobs. That made us wonder if this would be the newest pick-up line:”Hey, babe, do you still have a job? You do? Want to come back to…
We are hungover today for a reason. Good Clean Fun at Rokbar is what happens when you pair downtown party promoters Poplife and South Beach’s only rock lounge. We caught a few snapshots last night in hopes of remembering what happened. Our heads are throbbing, so please view in silence…
Last night, it was unusually cold for South Florida but things got hot over at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach where Designer Drugs spun at the venue’s Flaunt party. Our cameras made it out to catch half of the DJ duo in action…
With the economy going way south, it seems like the nightlife industry is starting to implement new business tactics. Bottle service is surely going the way of the dinosaur, and the industry knows if it’s going to survive its got to find untapped market.Enter in the downtown hipster promoters.Often relegated…
