A media titan who made billions buying up everything from Graceland to American Idol, is poised to become the Tsar of Miami Beach nightlife. New York businessman Robert F. X. Sillerman has made a significant investment in the Opium Group — owners of Mansion, Set, Mokai, Cameo, and Opium at…
Venues on Lincoln Road come and go like Sunday morning hangovers. Just take Vice Lounge, a restaurant and club at 330 Lincoln Road that’s been closed for about a year now. The good news: If you wanna gamble your life savings on the volatile nightlife market, It’s now up for…
Mansion hasn’t been on the best terms with the underground lately. But the South Beach nightclub’s newest import should bring a smile to the face of even the most discerning EDM aficionado. DJ Craze will be bringing his champion style to the decks for a new monthly residency, kicking off…
Ultra Music Festival may have caught a little flak for expanding its Miami presence to two weekends, but nothing can stop UMF from total world domination. Did you know the Ultra brand takes its good time to four continents? There are Ultra fests in Brazil, Chile, Spain, and even Seoul,…
A lot’s happened in the 15 months since Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from NBA power forward Kris Humphries. Humphries went from E! to ESPN, averaging 11 rebounds per game in the 2011/2012 season that helped secure a lucrative two-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets worth $24 million. He also…
Mansion and Cameo may grab all the headlines, but the Opium Group’s other megaclub SET was always about providing ultra-exclusivity and privacy to its VIP clientele. Like any other South Beach beauty, though, a little nip and tuck is needed every now and then to stay looking “fresh.” So after…
DJ Craze ain’t like those other DJs. A repeat offender on our Best of Miami lists and six-time DMC champion, he was even recognized by Time Magazine as America’s Best DJ in 2001. Basically, Miami is lucky as fuck to have him, and you should never, ever sleep on one…
What you know about the science of marijuana? We’ve been asking policy makers the same thing for decades, tirelessly fighting for a little leniency from the long dick of the law and its perpetual screwing-over of non-violent, tax-paying, responsibly recreational pot smokers around the country. But it always seems to…
After all the drama about canceling the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival, the festival will not be “contained” or cut back to just one week. In the end, with tickets already sold and acts being announced, the City of Miami commission was willing to see how a six-day, two-weekend…
Long before the rapper Rick Ross allegedly started “selling dope straight off the iPhone,” the drug dealer Ricky Donnell Ross, a man the Wall Street Journal called “a mastermind of the crack-cocaine trade,” was pushing 100 kilos of Nicaraguan blow per day and building a $600 million criminal empire under…
As usual, the City of Miami commission meeting convened at 9 a.m. today. Amid discussion of telecommunication contracts and waste management, our municipal pols will also decide whether vice chairman Marc Sarnoff was correct when he called Ultra Music Festival fans a “urinating, defecating … throwing up” mob of “kids…
We here at Crossfade have been trying to get Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff’s side of the Ultra Music Festival story for approximately 48 hours. Today, we finally got a chance to talk to his spokesperson about the commissioner’s attempt to curb Ultra’s second weekend. “We are not talking about shutting…
Contrary to Marc Sarnoff’s alarmist claims, EDM fans aren’t all “kids on some sort of mind-altering drug” with a fetish for “urinating, defecating, or throwing up” on the streets of Downtown Miami. Just take Irvine Welsh, the 54-year-old Scottish author of Trainspotting and 11 other books. He’s been a strident…
Marc Sarnoff still hasn’t returned repeated calls to Crossfade about his anti-Ultra Music Festival stance. But considering Tommie Sunshine’s push to get EDM fans to call and email him, we’re pretty sure he’s been busy the last for the last few 24 hours. However, we do finally have a response…
Despite Ultra Music Festival’s annual $79 million contribution to the local economy, City of Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff believes the “event will be disruptive to the local business community and area residents due to noise, nuisance behavior of festival goers, and grid lock traffic.” After all, as he fear-mongered during…
Yesterday, Crossfade broke the news that Commissioner Marc Sarnoff had introduced a resolution “disapproving” of the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival.We still don’t entirely understand whether the commission could actually force the festival to cancel its second weekend, and repeated messages Crossfade left with the city attorney and Sarnoff…
It can’t be Ultra Music Festival without a little bit of drama. This time it comes from Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff who has introduced a new resolution “disapproving” of the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival.The resolution, which the commission will consider on Thursday, claims the “event will be disruptive…
Is Rick Ross a gangsta? Well, he’ll be playing one on cable television. An omnivorous student of gangland myths, the larger-than-life rapper is finally taking his flair for the dramatic to the small screen, joining the cast of Starz’s Magic City, a late-1950s crime drama set in Rozay’s real-life hometown,…
Three reasons Ultra Music Festival 2013’s gonna be epic, beat freaks. 1. The EDM megafest has expanded from three days to two whole uhntz-uhntz-ing weekends. 2. Swedish House Mafia and Deadmau5 are gonna be the primary party starters. 3. The just-announced Phase 1 linuep, including 13 extra DJs, 13 additional…
Has the apocalypse been averted? Or are the end days still upon us? The Mayans’ calculations may have been a lil’ off. But Miami hip-hop crew ¡Mayday! remains convinced that the Armageddon is imminent. Specifically, a rotting plague of walking corpses hungry for human flesh. And the ¡Mayday! plan for…
Story Nightclub has only been open for, like, a week and a half, and it’s already made the front page of TMZ for a hilarious celebrity nip slip. Our homies Cultist reported that Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara came down to the new SoBe club to party with Kaskade, but ended…
Kat Stacks says: “Freedom baby.” That’s right … The supergroupie and former Tootsie’s Cabaret stripper (who scored 2010/11’s Best 15 Minutes of Fame by claiming to have humped the entire Young Money crew, Soulja Boy, Bow Wow, and basically every other rapper who ever rolled through Dade, Broward, or Palm…
