Miami Dolphins celebrity co-owner and Tom Berenger’s co-star in The Substitute, Marc Anthony, is reportedly fighting for custody of his three-year-old twins. According to US Weekly, the former Mr. Jennifer Lopez is incredibly bitter over that fact that J-Lo’s 24-year-old backup dancer/boyfriend Casper Smart was photographed kicking it with Max…
Miss Jewish South Florida 2011: Babes and matzo balls
For Crossfade, Holiday spirit consists of little more than a pair of reindeer boxer shorts and a couple of gag gifts. Decorating? That’s an upper-middle class game, the type of shit you find in gated communities ’round suburbia. It’s for people with way too much free time on their hands…
High atop the list of shit that South Florida doesn’t need is another tool. The Tri-County Area is littered with them. But come early February, four more will make a pitstop in west Broward. Though Maynard James Keenan and his cronies haven’t released an album in over five years, the…
Tiësto. Unless you’ve lived under a soundproof rock since the mid ’90s, you know that this Grammy-nominated Dutch beat maker is one of the biggest electro acts of the modern dance era. He’s been crowned world’s best DJ a staggering three times consecutively. Dude’s a light-eyed BPM pimp, the 40th…
This time of year, hipsterdom’s virtual playground — i.e. the blogosphere — is littered with arbitrary “best of” indie music lists. Everyone from NPR to Pitchfork, our sister blogs around the Village Voice, and yes, even Crossfade, have declared this year’s alt world favorites. While the lists vary from music…
Cults were one of indie music’s biggest breakout acts of 2011, landing on several Best of 2011 lists and cementing their spot among the blogosphere’s buzz-worthiest bands. But what’s an indie-pop group to do between albums? Sing holiday songs on children’s television. Our internet friends over at Stereogum posted a…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. You know, in the sense that people look mad stressed at the mall; Coast 97.3 FM changed its format to all holiday tunes, all the time; and local news stations are littered with segments on how to stay safe during the holiday…
While we’re stuck blogging about Miss Jewish South Florida and Beyonce Knowles’s real estate blunders, thousands of college students around Miami are spending the next three weeks freeloading off their parents and living the dream that is Winter Break. Unfortunately for many of them, the Bright Futures scholarship money has…
Howard Stern is the new judge at America’s Got Talent. The self-proclaimed “King of All Media” made the announcement this morning on his Sirius XM radio program and quickly became one of Twitter’s trending topics. While the reaction’s has been generally positive around the web, one conservative buzz killer’s not…
Christmas. To some, it represents the birth of Jesus Christ, the immaculately conceived love child of a Galilean woman named Mary and a theistic being referred to as God. But for 18 Jewish gals aged 17 to 26 from the South Florida metropolitan area, December 25 will be a day…
Though making weird faces is commonplace among singers, awkward facial contortions and bizarre muecas are critical elements of Albert Vargas’s creative process. On his website, the Miami-based, indie-alternative singer/songwriter describes how he writes his music: “Making weird faces, whispering out the side of my mouth, saying what’s in my head,…
Skateboarding is not a crime — not even in Cuba. In fact, it’s encouraged by Amigo Skate Cuba, a Miami-based non-profit whose mission is to enhance the lives of skaters, artists, and musicians living in Havana. “Last year we went to Cuba three times,” says Amigo Skate founder Rene Lecour…
Sandwiched somewhere between prescription pain medication and supersize value meals, reality television is one of those addictions Americans can’t seem to shake. What started innocently on PBS with An American Family, subsequently morphed into MTV’s exploitable hit Teen Mom, and beyond. Seemingly every network on television has dipped their grubby,…
Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band at Fillmore Miami Beach December 20
Twin Sister at Bardot December 15
UPDATE R. Kelly has cancelled his Love Letter Cruise. Pitchfork stepped all over Crossfade’s toes today, jumping onto our musical vacation beat and scooping us on the Love Letter Cruise. Hosted by R. Kelly, this slow-jammin’ cruise is a romantic five-night getaway aboard the Carnival Destiny, setting sail on October…
If we had to live anywhere outside of Florida, the fine land of Louisiana would certainly creep its way into our list of top ten prospective states. Why? Zydeco indie pop. Channeling the spirit of Paul Simon circa 1972, Lafayette quintent Givers proved that American music is world music with…
Nestled on 500 feet of prime, ocean-front real estate, the Blue and Green Diamond Condominiums are two of the most exclusive residential towers in Miami Beach. And back when the market was stable, only the über-rich — like Beyoncé Knowles — could afford to shit and sleep in one of…
In addition to luggage, American Airlines has now added its own sense of humor to the list of shit they’re losing. Last week, Alec Baldwin was kicked off a flight because the actor allegedly refused to turn off his mobile phone while the plane sat idle. He tweeted, “Flight attendant…
It felt like an eternity — 35 months between Fleet Foxes’ 2008 self-titled debut and their 2011 followup. But for a record as brilliantly crafted as Helplessness Blues, it was well worth the three-year wait. The record’s up for a Grammy in the Best Folk Album category and it has…
Music Television is seemingly jumping onto the electro dance train, recognizing that beat freaks love making it rain web hits by reading about their favorite DJs on the internet — a practice Crossfade’s all too familiar with, Ultra. About an hour ago, MTV News posted its incomplete list of Best…
