Drake is perhaps the only rapper on this planet who walks such a thin line between cool and sad. Often, sometimes within the same song, he’ll brag equal parts about bedding women and getting his heart broken by them. When cracking open a new Drizzy album, there’s always a moment…
This isn’t good. The S.S. Groot — David Grutman’s $1.7 million VanDutch yacht, a black beast that looks less like a boat and more like a spaceship one would take to travel to a planet reserved for very important aliens — is broken. Normally, this would be just an inconvenience,…
Back in April, a line wrapped around the block when Drake Tweeted a random address in Wynwood. After over an hour of waiting in line, we learned it was all just for a T-shirt. When Bieber was in town in July, he took over a space at the top of…
Drake will be returning to E11even in two weeks to host two consecutive after parties at the 24/7 downtown mega-club, August 30 and 31. This won’t be Drizzy’s first E11even experience. Last New Year’s Eve, Drake hosted a party at E11even, and whatever happened that night must have left a…
Back in April, thousands of floatie-wielding Miamins stormed South Pointe Park for a Miami Beach gathering known as Floatopia. The event did not originate in Miami, but people embraced it nonetheless as a welcome excuse to bob around in the surf like a drunk pelican. But sadly — and not unsurprisingly…
Ever since its initial lineup announcement back in May — where we learned we’d be treated to LCD Soundsystem, M83, Flying Lotus, and more in October — III Points has been steadily tweaking its lineup. Two months ago we learned Machinedrum was leading another wave of added acts. Then it was Vince…
Wes Anderson’s 2004 flick The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was a film full of memorable performances that changed the way we saw red beanies forever. But perhaps no one in the movie was a more efficient scene-stealer than Brazilian musician Seu Jorge. Jorge appears throughout the film as the dutiful and…
Life’s hard in between seasons of Game of Thrones. Luckily, South Florida fans of the show will have something to quench their thirst while we wait for our Sunday night programming to return to its former glory. A Game of Thrones concert will be touring the states, coming to 28…
A blown up poster of the Port of Miami album cover was wedged in the corner of Komodo’s top floor. Rick Ross, at our request, took a moment to glance back at it and reflect. There he was: somber, looking down at a shiny medallion with the words “Carol City Cartel” carved…
For the very first time in the history of vaguely orange sugar drinks that turn your heart into an 8-volt battery, Red Bull Sound Select is coming to Miami. The concert series, which pairs national names with local up-and-comers, will host three days of music with headliners A$AP Ferg, AlunaGeorge,…
I remember the first time I saw DJ Khaled in person. It was in the small auditorium of Citrus Grove Middle School, just a few blocks west of Marlins Park, where, six months later, he’d open for Beyoncé at one of the biggest concerts Miami’s seen in decades. But back…
Just when you thought they were done, III Points slaps you with another lineup update. Today, over 30 artists joined the three-day lineup, with the biggest name among them being Vince Staples, who’s quite possibly the most hyped rapper of 2016 — and for good reason. Keeping the rich tradition…
On May 24, 2006, former Vice President Al Gore debuted a 118-minute documentary that would introduce a new term to the American vocabulary: global warming. Somewhere, presumably on an island sponsored by Bacardi, sitting on a couch stuffed with used bikinis and frozen margaritas, Armando Christian Pérez, a then-25-year-old rapper…
For many of Disney’s 90-plus years, diversity came only with respect to species. Sure, you could watch a crab share a scene with a mermaid, but good luck finding a black person. Luckily, that changed in 2009 with the release of The Princess and the Frog, a film featuring Disney’s…
Just under a year ago, Florida made its relationship with Pitbull official. Visit Florida, our state’s private/public tourism promotion group, struck an undisclosed deal with the Miami native to make Pitbull Florida’s official tourism ambassador. So far, his relationship with Visit Florida has been most visible through social media, where…
Now in its sixth year, the Overtown Music and Arts Festival is one of the city’s biggest gatherings of art and culture outside of the annual Calle Ocho Fest. The free event holds blocks worth of local art, food, and music — with this year’s headliners including Estelle, Jeremih, Kelly Price,…
I remember sprinting into Toys “R” Us as a young tot and barreling towards the Pokémon cards, stabbing anyone who dare obstruct my path with a mechanical pencil. I was obsessed. The world was obsessed. And, within the last week, that obsession that gripped so many millennials tightly in its little yellow…
Today, III Points’ single-day passes went on sale. A limited number of single-day tickets went live at 11:11 a.m., starting at $70 plus fees. General admission three-day passes are currently on sale for $155. A few weeks ago, the Wynwood festival heading into its fourth year introduced its Foresight pass, a sort of…
“How Pitbull Went from Miami Street Rapper to Global Brand Ambassador.” That was the headline for Vanity Fair’s recent profile of Armando Perez, which will run in the magazine’s April issue. But, sadly, over the course of 2,396 words, the magazine fails to deliver on its promise. What it gives…
Miami’s annual Swim Week is both an international celebration of the latest in swimwear fashion and the plot of a 13-year-old boy’s erotic novel: A sunny city awakes one morning to find it has been invaded by models in…bikinis. But if you’re not interested in runways or fashion or bikinis,…
Founded in 2007 by the acclaimed DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs, Fool’s Gold Records is known as one of the most exciting incubators of hip-hop and electronic talent this world has to offer. With a roster of dozens of artists — both well known and underground — and a rolodex…
One of the most recent posts on Trick Daddy’s Twitter feed is a retweet of @SquashBeef305. The Tweet promotes a Miami conflict resolution hotline. “…The media promotes violence but not ?#StopTheViolence?. It’s up 2 us,” it reads. But this morning, nobody needed some conflict resolution counseling more than Trick, which…
