The Florida Marlins and veteran right-handed pitching legend Javier Vazquez have agreed to a one-year deal worth about $7 million, according to Bleacher Report and many others. But is a former pitching threat-turned-New York Yankees bench warmer enough for the Marlins to win the pennant? Or even a few more…
If we could live in any other city in the world besides Miami, it’d probably be Berlin. But while we wait on that work visa, we’ll have to settle for a popular German dance party. Broken Hearts Club Berlin started as a monthly event where “DJs, musicians, artists, and music…
Electro-alternative pop beats and female rap vocals aren’t normally lumped together. But for the better part of five years, Philadelphia’s Amanda Blank has effortlessly combined the two worlds in her hipster-approved dance music. In 2006, the 20-something party girl was featured on Spank Rock’s “Bump,” and generated indie-alt blog buzz…
Julian Chang: Designing Man
Chris Hubbard: Saint Peter at the Rock Club
or more than 20 years, the phrase Baba Booey has been a battle cry for fans of the Howard Stern Show. It originated in the summer of 1990 when Gary Dell’Abate, Stern’s longtime show producer and friend, mispronounced a cartoon character’s name. In his new book, They Call Me Baba…
Black Friday is a vicious “holiday.” It’s a wretched display of hyper-consumerism, and anyone–who isn’t homeless–that spends the night outside of a big-box retailer deserves to choke on a wishbone. Saving a few bucks on a 42-inch LCD television is rad, but not if you risk giving passers a migraine…
On July 26, 1990, Howard Stern called his show producer, Gary Dell’Abate, into the studio, to discuss animation art collecting. Dell’Abate was interested in the growing 90s fad and contemplated buying a Hanna-Barbera piece–either Quick Draw McGraw or his Mexican donkey pal, Baba Looey. However, Dell’Abate didn’t say Baba Looey on…
First Lady Michelle Obama is in Miami today, and she wants to educate young children on the importance of a healthy diet.Students at Little Havana’s Riverside Elementary will welcome Mrs. Obama and local area chefs at 2 p.m. to discuss what schools are doing to improve cafeteria lunch options.The school…
Miami Book Fair or WWE Survivor Series? Intellectually stimulating discussions or cheap recurring story lines? That was the dilemma we faced last night, but ultimately chose wrestling as a sort of sociological experiment. And watching grown men pretend-beat the shit out of one another proved quite telling about the current state…
When Darius Rucker sang the line, “I’m such a baby ’cause the Dolphins make me cry,” on Hootie & the Blowfish’s 1995 breakthrough song, “Only Wanna Be With You,” he may have been referring to the team’s 1994 heartbreaker against the Chargers. Then-kicker Pete Stoyanovich missed a 46-yard field goal…
Juliette LewisSpecial Guest Joe PerrySun Life Stadium, Miami Dolphins TailgateThursday, November 18, 2010Better Than: The DolphinsLast night, the Miami Dolphins lost–the Bears shut them out, actually. And believe it or not, Crossfade was at the game. However, nothing about the NFL’s Thursday night marketing scheme felt like football. We mingled…
Ricky Martin’s new memoir translated
Fess up: Are you a Facebook friend hoarder? Or do you really know 900 people? Our hunch is that you just feel guilty about declining anyone’s friend request or removing BFFs from middle school. They’re not really your friends. At best, they’re acquaintances. It’s time to nix them from your…
Thanksgiving: a glutton’s favorite holiday and a vegetarian’s worst nightmare. Love it or hate it, we’re a week away from miserable flight delays, Salvation Army Santas, and arguing about politics with distant family relatives at the dinner table; we love the Holidays. And this year, we’ve got plenty to be…
The Miami Dolphins are on fire, y’all. A win against da Bears on Thursday night will make two-in-a-row for the team, tying their season-high win streak for the first time since beating the Bills and Vikings on consecutive weeks in September. Reason enough to party, right? Hell yes. And with…
The Miami Music Festival (yawn) came to a close on Sunday, as the Miami International Book Fair kicked off its week-long series of literary events with George W. Bush (read about it). But tonight via satellite from the New York Public Library, however, Jay-Z and Dr. Cornel West are scheduled…
We bet a five-cent aluminum can refund that you didn’t know it was national Recycling Day. Sure, this green-friendly holiday isn’t as popular as other made-up ones like Valentine’s Day or Halloween, and Google isn’t commemorating the day with a doodle, but “recycles” is trending on Twitter.Keep America Beautiful is…
See the full 22-photo Vivian Girls slideshow. Vivian Girls Miami Music Festival: Tom Tom Magazine Showcase Gemma on Lincoln Road Saturday, November 13, 2010 Better Than: Swindling the doorman of a traditionally pretentious South Beach nightclub into letting you forego a cover, and walk into the joint wearing shorts…
Where were you last night? Did you hang around Cafeina for the acoustic Taylor Guitar showcase, or get your Christian on at the Urban Inspired Gospel gig inside the Hyatt Ballroom? Whatever the case, there were a bunch of options last night, and Miami Music Festival’s Friday night showcases highlighted…
Mickey Mouse is one shady rat. We think he’s running a cocaine operation under our bleeding noses and using hot Disney employees–both current and former–to run around Hollywood and make booger sugar look cool. OK, so maybe Mickey’s not responsible, but nevertheless, we found three skinny broads with an affinity for…
When Ricky Martin announced he was gay earlier this year, two things happened: (1) we cashed in on a $50 bet we made in 1999, and (2) any rumors that Ricky Martin — who’d been out of the public eye for quite some time — had died, were laid to…
