E11even Miami: A Photo Tour of the New Nightclub and Nude Cabaret

Since November of last year, we here at Crossfade have been scratching our heads, wondering, “What is 11?” Last night, all of the mystery was unveiled at E11EVEN Miami’s media opening, where we got to experience firsthand the “upscale nightclub, meets Cirque du Soleil, meets international cabaret.” While not a…

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

When you live in the 305, there’s never such a thing as “partying too hard.” I mean, with an endless supply of nightly bashes attracting world-class DJs, A-list celebrities, and drop-dead-gorgeous creatures, how can you party too hard? Just check out the six best South Beach bashes going down this…

Super Bowl: Eight Epic Fails

When you’re up against Peyton Manning and the (no longer?) best offensive team in NFL history, the odds might seem slim when it comes to winning the Super Bowl. But not for the Seattle Seahawks. With a final score of 43-8, not even Manning, with his all-time touchdown skills (55…

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

Car horns frantically beeping during rush hour, neighbors yelling greeting each other at 8 a.m. on a Sunday, and hits of uhntz-uhntz blasting from the strip of clubs that line Washington Avenue till the wee hours of the night. That’s the distinct sound of Miami. But every now and then,…

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

So what if it’s only Tuesday? We can still daydream about the weekend. And since we live in the Magic City, it’s not like we have to wait till Friday to rock our stilettos, pop Dom, and get our dance on anyways. Just check out the six best SoBe bashes…

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

Without music, those eight hours spent in a cubicle, the bumper-to-bumper traffic on your commute home, and life alone would be an unbearable nuisance. Good thing we never lack any good vibes in the Magic City. Just check the five best concerts going down this week from indie rock with…

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

In Miami, we don’t have to wait for the weekend to rock our stilettos, put on our little black dress, and party. That’s because star-studded, vodka-fueled bashes seem to appear out of nowhere almost every night of the week. Guess that must be why they call us the Magic City…

Five Bros You Meet at Beer Pong

Before we could afford to drink Lion Stout from Sri Lanka and craft beers at the Democratic Republic of Beer, we, like most college kids, would spend our Saturday nights talking shit and playing beer pong till we got piss drunk. And from the looks of this past weekend, not…

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

Feeling refreshed this breezy morning? Well you should be ’cause it’s a short work week! And what’s better than having to wake up at an ungodly hour just to sit through bumper-to-bumper traffic, as you head to your dark cubicle to respond to countless emails and deal with pesky co-workers…

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

When Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler set about creating Miami, they wanted one thing and one thing only: for the 305 to be the best fucking party city in the South. They envisioned a place where DJs from all across the globe would pack the streets of South Beach and…

Lube Sour and Five Other Drinks for Drag Queens

Don’t be a drag, just be a queen … Or a male bartender dressed up as Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy, Ivanna Shaker, Roxy Rodriguez, and the rest of the fierce bitches at Blackbird Ordinary’s Speed Drag. Male bartenders from the Broken Shaker, Haven, and other local watering holes unleashed their inner…

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

Music is what makes the world go ’round. And when you have jazzy tunes by bebop legend Ira Sullivan, soulful brass from the New Orleans Soul Rebels, and EDM from beat masters DJ Craze and Kill the Noise, music is what makes the work week fly by. Here are the…

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

Nothing stops us from partying in the Magic City, not even a little chilly weather. All we have to do is slip on our faux fur coats and knee-high stiletto boots, and we’re ready for a night of hardcore uhntz-uhntz and smooth Jameson to keep us warm. Here are the…

Miami’s Ten Most Hated Songs of 2013

It was the first weekend of 2014. Dudes in handlebar mustaches and bushy beards and ladies in beanies, combat boots, and plaid skirts crowded the back patio of Gramps. With a glass of Penicillin on one hand and a cigarette on the other, the (mainly) hipster crew in the Wynwood…