Calle Ocho

Image: Nine Artists to Watch at Calle Ocho 2018

Nine Artists to Watch at Calle Ocho 2018

Image: Ice Cream Thursdays, a Unique Ladies' Night, Celebrates Three Years

Ice Cream Thursdays, a Unique Ladies' Night, Celebrates Three Years

Los Aldeanos' El B Talks Cuba and Why “the Future Is Hip-Hop en Español”

By Jacob Katel
Mar 17, 2015

Conscious lyrics, heavy bass, and a big fuck you to Fidel were all in order for El' B's set at Calle Ocho 2015. The Cuban rapper, who is also a member of Los Aldeanos, performed an hour-plus set, showing the dexterity to rock it a cappella, turn thousands of people...
The Ten People You Meet at Calle Ocho

By Jacob Katel
Mar 17, 2015

It's no mistake that Pitbull's breakout hit was named “Calle Ocho.” Every year, over a million people show up for Miami’s largest street festival, making it one of the world's great wonders in human entertainment. Many nations gather under the beating March sun to dance, feast, and party at that...
Calle Ocho 2015: A Ten-Stage Music Guide

By Laurie Charles
Mar 5, 2015

Break out your #TWERKEA t-shirt and Puerto Rican do-rag. Stuff your face with mariquitas y chicharrón and $5 homemade party punch. Join the impromptu conga line and impress the mami or papi of your dreams with those tremendo reggaeton moves. That's right, Calle Ocho 2015 is here. For 38 consecutive...
The Bros of Calle Ocho Talk Miami Girls and Pickup Lines

By Laurie Charles
Mar 11, 2014

Sure, the mamis of Calle Ocho may be the highlight of America's largest pachanga, but the bros are just as enticing. And unlike the ladies who come out to the street bash just to shake their asses to some reggaeton, show off their pierced belly buttons, and eat arepas, most...
50 Things You See at Calle Ocho

By Laurie Charles
Mar 10, 2014

Calle Ocho. The only time of the year when all of Miami's papi chulos y chongas interesting characters (two million, to be exact) gather en masse along a 19-block stretch in the heart of Little Havana. Sure, every year's fest brings about its own surprises, but there are some things...
Daddy Yankee on the Mamis of Calle Ocho: "Most Beautiful Women in the World"

By Laurie Charles
Mar 7, 2014

Daddy Yankee is more than just a shade-bearing reggeatonero with a passion for mujeres Latinas ... The Puerto Rican papi runs a frickin' empire. The Big Boss is head of El Cartel Records. He peddles his own El Cartel tequila and DY fragrance line. He's even the commissioner of the...
The Mamis of Calle Ocho Talk Bros, Ratchets, and Pitbull

By Laurie Charles
Mar 12, 2013

Calle Ocho is America's largest Latin block party, where people from all over the world gather along 27 blocks to celebrate Hispanic heritage with music, food, and entertainment. Although Willy Chirino, DJ Laz, and Elvis Crespo were the ones putting on a show, the main source of entertainment was the...
Calle Ocho 2013: Blow-Up Dolls, Harlem Shakes, and DJ Laz Says: "Lil Wayne Can Suck My Dick"

By Laurie Charles
Mar 11, 2013

Miami is filled with interesting characters, to say the least. There's that guy who rides around on a motorized bicycle, that man riding the Metrorail jammin' on his violin, that dude who walks around Hialeah carrying a banjo and wearing a Stetson hat -- the list goes on. As always,...
Calle Ocho 2012: An 11-Stage Music and Entertainment Guide

By Victor Gonzalez
Mar 5, 2012

It feels like only yesterday that we were shaking our hips with Gloria Estefan in a record-breaking 119,969-person conga line at Calle Ocho. But that was March of 1988, Reagan was in still office, and Miami New Times was only a fortnightly newspaper, not the massive multimedia empire that it...