Holy time-lapse! Where’d January go? February seemingly came out nowhere and that silly little groundhog’s predicting another six weeks of winter. This has been a really crazy week. Oh, and happy Black History Month. Plenty of gnarly shit’s going down this weekend en la playa. And per usual, Crossfade’s wrangled-up…
Nicki Minaj is too hardcore for BET. Viacom-owned Black Entertainment Television is refusing to air the rapper’s “Stupid Hoe” music video. Evidently, naked Barbie dolls and fishnets are far too risque for the network. We’ve embedded the 210-second, Hype Williams-directed video below. You’ll notice the most offensive element of “Stupid…
Prediction: Pinball, a seemingly forgotten pastime once enjoyed by children, teens, and adults alike, will see a worldwide resurgence, particularly a spike among the hip, 15- to 55-year-old demographic, by the end of 2012. We’re basing this forecast entirely on SoundScape Cinema Series’ showing of Tommy this Wednesday at 8…
After more than half a century and over two dozen Saturday Night Live cast members, Second City continues to celebrate 50 years of improvisational comedy—three years late—with a premeditated tour. Ironic, eh? Founded by Paul Sills, Howard Alk, and Bernie Sahlins, Second City opened its first theater on a “snowy”…
Steve Angello at LIV February 3
Legendary Soul Train creator and longtime host Don Cornelius has died of an apparent suicide. He was 75 years old. According to the Los Angeles Times, police arrived at Cornelius’s Sherman Oaks home around 4 a.m. PST and transported the Soul Train producer to an area hospital, where he was…
Germans are notoriously kinky. But when it comes to watersports, at least 12 Deutsches are drawing a hard line at simulated restroom piss play. According to TMZ, several women have complained about mouth-shaped urinals inside a Rolling Stones memorabilia museum restroom in Germany, calling the porcelain novelty toilet demeaning and…
LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy makes “a lot of coffee.” Just how much? Enough to develop a gourmet espresso brand. According to New York Magazine’s Grub Street blog, the semi-retired 41 year old is teaming up with a New York City roaster who’ll tweak beans and temperatures to create the…
Kanye West’s ex-girlfriend and Wiz Khalifa’s current girlfriend Amber Rose was struck by lightning on Saturday night at Cameo. The 28-year-old bald supermodel was in Miami over the weekend with Wiz and she was spotted sporting a lighting bolt face tattoo.. TMZ broke the story, questioning whether or not the…
Wow, where’d the week go? We were having so much fun blogging that we nearly forgot about the weekend. Turns out, there’s a lot of cool shit going on. Did you know that Miami’s one of the few places where marathons are run in the winter? No, we’re serious. Just…
Taking a page out of the Shit Miami Girls Says…and guys video, “Bro, we’re getting bottles, bro.” OK, not really. We’re broke. So broke, in fact, that we can barely afford a bottle of beer. The thought of dropping mad loot on a bucket of Goose is ludicrous, especially since…
The English Department at Florida State University was a really neat place to meet some gnarly characters. That’s where I met Michelle Sicars, one of the stars of Shit Miami Girls Say…and guys. I remember thinking, this girl’s really out there, after reading a short, quirky story she’d written about…
Odd Future? Snow Patrol? Now Rusko? Holy shit, the Fillmore’s like Miami’s United Nations of live music. Moments ago, Crossfade’s inbox was slapped with a show announcement: Dubstep disc jockey and record producer Rusko is headed to South Beach in May! Following the commercial and critical success of his 2010…
Have y’all gotten a head start on this year’s tax return by filing early? How much money are you getting back? Got enough cash to pop bottles with The Boss and party with “The Big Bad Wolf”? Check out Crossfade’s guide to this weekend’s best parties on South Beach. Whether…
. Dude could probably whoop your ass, most certainly bench-presses more than you, and is undeniably a better hockey player. The 68-year-old Massachusetts senator rocked two black eyes and a broken nose to the State of the Union address this week, the result of a recent pick-up hockey game. Despite…
If you didn’t catch Theophilus London last summer at the W South Beach’s two-year anniversary party, that’s a shame. If you couldn’t get into the Bing party at the Shelborne during Art Basel or his intimate gig at midtown’s Ricochet Lounge with Nas, double and triple shame. Surely you’ve learned…
Believe it or not, before we started down the journalism path to Alt-Weekly Land, rodeo clown struck us as a glamorous occupation. It was the early ’90s, career day at our elementary school. Firefighters, doctors, and even an embalmer shared their respective lines of work, up-selling their job descriptions to…
Armand Van Helden at Arkadia January 27
Miley Cyrus is proving she’s a gangster, a down-for-whatever type of Disney-princess-gone-wild. Over the weekend, the 19-year-old daughter of country music legend Billy Ray Cyrus went down on a massive cock cake during boyfriend Liam Hemsworth’s birthday party at an L.A. club. Photos obtained by TMZ show Miley seductively posing…
The life of migrant farmers and Mexican immigrants are topical subjects often overlooked by the American music industry. But those issues weigh heavily on Los Tigres del Norte. The norteño group is considered one of the most influential acts of all time. On record, Los Tigres share the plight of…
The nationwide comedy tour known as the Republican presidential race is in Florida this week. Over several months, rich candidates have perfected the game of politics in their quest for the Republican Party’s nomination and the chance to go up against President Barack Obama in November. Promising horseshit disguised as budget…
Sticks and stones may break their bones, but words really hurt Nickelback. According to a recent article on rollingstone.com, Nickelback is “annoyed with all this constant ridicule.” They’re sick of taking cheap shots from critics for their lame brand of mainstream radio rock, and they’re especially pissed off about petitions…
