If you sometimes feel like a motherless child, try the following. This Friday, skip the after-work happy hour. Go home, make yourself a decent meal, then head over to the Knight Concert Hall for Sweet Honey in the Rock. If you know your Ketuvim, you’ll know that the name comes from the Psalms, ... Full Story »
You remember the space shuttle Columbia exploding upon reentry; 80s hair metal band Great White starting a fire that killed 100 people in a Rhode Island nightclub; Operation Iraqi Freedom beginning, and then “ending” one month later when a certain President pronounced, “Mission Accomp... Full Story »
The Miami Heat kicked off the year with a bang, boasting a franchise-best 6-1 record. Since then, however, they’ve been hit with a mild case of mediocrity, dropping games to top-tier teams such as the Cavs and Celtics, as well as bottom-of-the-barrel teams such as the Wizards and Thunder... Full Story »
Santa may have a sleigh and eight mangy reindeer, but the 2009 Winterfest Boat Parade has Kim Kardashian and Alonzo Mourning. This pair of hoops-loving celebs are the grand marshals for this 38th-annual orgy of seagoing Christmas spirit — call it Boats Gone Wild — which kicks... Full Story »
Two words: Monster Pussy. What image does that conjure up in your skull? We're willing to bet it’s not a delectably hip orange cat donning a purple T-shirt, like the one in Helena Garcia 's painting Monster Pussy . And hell, if it is, you wre born to attend the Wee Beasties art e... Full Story »
If you’re looking to be publicly flogged, spanked, and humiliated this holiday season — or, alternatively, if you’re looking to administer brutal discipline — show up tonight at Purgatory Nightclub (1000 State Road 84, Fort Lauderdale) for this month’s fetish party . T... Full Story »
These days, R&B singer and songwriter Lionel Richie might be best known for being Nicole Richie’s dad, but those over 30 will remember the string of hits he either wrote, co-wrote, or recorded since the late 1970s, including “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Say You, S... Full Story »
All of you poor South Florida grinches, it’s time to stop giving IOUs and leftover candy canes for Christmas presents. Well, that is, if you win at Seminole Gaming’s Super Jackpot Million Dollar Bingo Sunday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood). From ... Full Story »
Unlike most massive weekend-long smorgasbords of tuneage, the three-day Miami Music Festival is almost entirely focused on the local scene. With the exception of a few bands, such as Greenpoint and New York’s Big Suga, the festival will present 600 performances by South Florida artists r... Full Story »
In a world of Facebook, Skype, and text-messaging, old technology fades and new innovations emerge before you can say XBox . We write e-mails instead of letters, our exchanges as impermanent as the technology we use. (Except for, say, that unfortunate picture of you from Mardi Gras -- it was Full Story »
Lost in Yonkers swept the Tony awards in 1991 and that year also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Neil Simon play is a coming-of-age story set in New York. It’s a comedy, but it comes with serious drama and plenty of weighty characters. The main characters, Arty and Jay,... Full Story »
A turtle suns itself on a rock along the edge of a dark and placid comma-shaped lagoon that marks the center of campus. Casually dressed students carrying schoolbooks saunter across manicured lawns or slouch at patio tables outside the modest student activity center. A pleasant breeze rattles lea... Full Story »
This is addressed to everyone who was at the Max Fish pop-up bar in downtown Miami last Friday night, celebrating the ridiculousness of Art Basel Miami Beach. I want to thank the people who continually stepped on my shoes. I want to thank the guy who unintentionally gave me a vertical lap dance w... Full Story »
Just because an artist matures doesn't mean his fans will. So while Chris Palko, AKA Cage, may have experienced a personal epiphany that's taken his music in a new direction, he doesn't blame his fans for not wanting to come along for the ride. The rapper's latest, Depart From Me , is hard... Full Story »
Hating R&B is more or less the default setting for the critically inclined nowadays. Seriously, name a straight-up R&B artist you hold in anything better than mild contempt. John Legend? Usher? Ever since leading light R. Kelly became entangled in any number of crazy debacles, it seems that contempo... Full Story »
When rapper Noreaga turned into N.O.R.E. in the middle part of this decade, at first it was, honestly, worrisome. Longtime fans adored him as half of the killer Queens duo Capone-N-Noreaga, who in the mid- to late '90s helped take back New York's crown as the seat of real street rap. In the face ... Full Story »
Sean Paul's dancers are the ones you'll really be watching while he's onstage at the Hard Rock. That's because, as reggae fans know, Paul is not the most, well, vivacious of performers. But he is wicked in the studio, as his new album, Imperial Blaze , proves yet again. So even if he can't ... Full Story »
Given its members' myriad side projects, it's a wonder that we still get to see the Slackers proper live anymore, ever. It seems like each one has his own rock steady, dub, jazz, punk rock, garage or soul iron in the fire so that when the Slackers finally do tour as a whole, it's rightfully an ev... Full Story »
Chimaira's latest album, The Infection , crashed the Billboard album charts in April and landed at number 30. But no matter how well-received the Cleveland metal sextet's albums are — and credible metalheads line up to drool about them — listening to its CDs is like watch... Full Story »
DJ/producer Simon Baker has enjoyed a steady ascent to international fame in the past couple of years through a slew of infectious releases on high-profile labels, countless global tour dates, and a firm grasp on what makes people get down on a dance floor. As a DJ in the '90s Leeds and London cl... Full Story »
Rest assured, dedicated web 2.0ers: D.C. rapper Wale has not forsaken Twitter. One of the most committed Tweeters this side of Japanese schoolchildren, earlier this year, Wale swore off the message-posting website after a particular Tweet got him in trouble with influential U.K. journalist and bl... Full Story »
Half of this internationally renowned Spanish twosome Chus and Ceballos, DJ/producer Chus Estaban has garnered worldwide recognition through the duo's Stereo Productions label, in addition to chart-topping releases on the esteemed Yoshitoshi, Shinichi, and Defected imprints. High-profile remixes ... Full Story »
As one of the most consistently in-demand house-music icons, Roger Sanchez plays in all of the world's most fabled nightlife paradises: Ibiza, Mykonos, Las Vegas, and, well, South Florida. Miami in particular has been a staple market for the Dominican-American DJ/producer since he began dropping ... Full Story »
In either an extremely clever or perhaps just a brave bit of scheduling, the inaugural Miami Music Festival launches Thursday, less than a week after Art Basel Miami Beach. Despite the lack of recuperation time, though, this event is worth checking out if you truly want to support South Florida's... Full Story »
The best way to tell if a song's got what it takes to be a hit is to see how quickly and indelibly it sticks in your head. A song doesn't need that annoying kind of stickiness found in pre-fab pop but rather the kind that makes you hum after the song has stopped. And such is the case with the sta... Full Story »
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