Ten Best Things to do This Weekend in Miami

Oh hello, payday. We’ve been waiting for you all week, itching to burn through two-weeks worth of employer compensation on relevant arts and culture events, dance parties and all the other fun shit Miami has to offer. From communal, cultural celebrations in Little Haiti to Jewish girls gone wild in…

Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do This Weekend Under $10

Whoa, this week totally flew by. Granted, it was a four-day workweek. But shit, where’d the time go? It seems like only yesterday we were bashing Nickelback, pushing Armand Van Helden’s January 27 gig at Arkadia and getting down with Travis Barker’s pee-pee. But that’s old news. It’s Friday, you’ve…

Grand Central Park Opens Tomorrow With Cherry-Popping Concert by Elastic Bond

Let’s get high with a hobo. Grand Central Park’s having its proverbial cherry popped tomorrow night with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and inaugural concert by bilingual alt-electro group Elastic Bond. The five-acre, multi-use recreation space was designed to generate a pedestrian-friendly environment in Overtown. But when the Bond hits the stage…

Is Tiësto the Led Zeppelin of Electronic Dance Music? Take Our Poll

Bold beats and even bolder statements — that’s the product of Tiësto’s new web series, In the Booth. From his arena shows to outdoor festivals, college tour and beyond, the online, HP-backed and Intel-sponsored reality mini-series is yet another example of how EDM has gone mainstream. In the Booth premiered…

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

You’re not going to spend your Saturday night watching South Carolina Republican Primary results on CNN, right? Of course not, the Grand Old Party’s an elephant-sized waste of time and Calvin Harris is playing LIV. Peel yourself off grandma’s plastic-covered sofa, take some ecstasy, and get your ass to la…

Jewish Girls Know How to Party

First kiss? Jewish girl. First cigarette? Jewish girl. First bong rip? Jewish girl. Seemingly every “bad” thing we did as a kid was in cahoots with a Jewish gal named Sarah we’d met in third grade. She was a real badass, the first girl in our school to develop boobs…

Electro Goes Orchestral

Contemporary metal, R&B, and country have all done it: blending old and new music via symphonic rearrangements and backings. S&M, Metallica’s 1999 live album with the San Francisco Symphony, went platinum five times. John Legend teamed up with the KIPP Academy Orchestra a few years ago at the Teach for…

Grand Central Park’s Opening Night Set for Friday

Pop-up shops are all the rage, but what about a pop-up park? On Friday, January 20, Omni Parkwest Redevelopment Association Inc. will formally unveil Grand Central Park, a five-acre, multi-use recreation space designed to generate a pedestrian-friendly environment in Overtown Miami, the city’s first Instant Park. “We took a piece…

Jacuzzi Boys Headed to Europe for 26-City Tour

Admittedly, we were nervous about Jacuzzi Boys’ upcoming European tour. But we quickly changed our tone when Hardly Art assured us it’d be a land-based trek. Phew, what a relief. European tours can be a real bummer. Shitty guides recklessly leading you into dangerously shallow waters, shoddy safety regulations …..

The Ten Best Things to Do This Weekend in Miami

Happy three-day MLK Weekend, y’all. How’s everyone going to celebrate Dr. King’s legacy? Like Christmas, the true spirt of the holiday is often overlooked. People forget that the good Doctor dedicated his life to civil rights and died in the name of equality. We’ve compiled a list of some of…