Miami’s Best Albums of 2011: Pitbull’s Planet Pit

To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Pitbull Planet Pit (Sony) If you grew up in Miami, it’s absolutely impossible not to like Pitbull…

the end/SPRING BREAK Top Cultural Events of 2011

As 2011 comes to an end, we’re getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we’re not alone. So we’ve asked some of Miami’s top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories…

Miami’s Best Albums of 2011: Spaceghostpurrp’s Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6

To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Spaceghostpurrp Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (Self-Released) Spaceghostpurrp (AKA Muney Jordan) is a dark ass, blaspheming, postmodern motherfucker. Tracks off 2011’s Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (or Blackland Radio…

Bleeding Palm Launches New Site, Florida Turnpike

​Bleeding Palm is again turning Miami upside down, chopping it up, and making it do funny, flashy things. Their latest brilliant jab at the Magic City: the new, Internet-based South Florida fantasy world that is the Florida Turnpike website.You’re familiar with Bleeding Palm’s crazed animated images on Cultist, but do…

Better Than Fruitcake

What’s the best thing about Christmas? Is it the family gatherings or the roast meats? Is it the presents or that it’s Jesus’ birthday? God forgive us, but no. Friends, it’s the Christmas lights. Those wonderful glowing buds of hope that light our way in the darkness of winter and…

Fresh, Aged Cheese

Watching Air Supply videos with a hangover is not advised. The powerfully emotional ditties will draw the weepiness out of any living, breathing human. The band’s “All Out of Love” is still heavy on easy-listening radio rotation across America. The Australian duo can and will bring you to tears with…

Getting Nutty Live

One is the loneliest number, especially for a nut. Thankfully, Yamil Piedra and Johnny Trabanco are a perfect pair of nuts. The comedy duo has been sweeping the U.S. for months, performing A Pair of Nuts Live 60 times from sea to shining sea. They’ve warmed the heartland with their…

Miami’s Magical Holiday Gift Guide: Navarro Discount Pharmacy

Your kids, mom, the dog, they don’t care if you’re using pennies collected off the floor of your car to buy a $0.49 cheeseburger for dinner. They want presents this Christmas.But where are you going to buy gifts for your loved ones and the people you don’t really like on…

Mark Derr’s How the Dog Became the Dog Inspires Ridiculous Canine Gifts

​Dogs are not only man’s best friend, but also man’s most alive accessory. Walk down Lincoln Road and you see an assortment of unnatural relationships people have with their four-legged beast companions. Why are we so in love with our canine pets? Mark Derr, a Miami Beach resident, asks this question in…