Calvin Harris is a chart-topping pop superstar. In the UK, of course. In America, he earns a bit of a blank stare. Why? We aren’t sure. He proved he’s definitely able to compose killer hooks with tracks like “Girls,” “Acceptable in the ’80s,” and “I’m Not Alone.” And then you’ve…
Hey, Janet, we’ve got something to say. We really love the skillful way you beat the other girls to the preweekend party. Dammit, Janet, we love you! Every Thursday, Dammit Janet at the Electric Pickle becomes a live music and indie haven for the Wynwood set. No Rocky Horror corsets…
Annie Mac at Electric Pickle September 23
Will Deadmau5 have a stage to perform on next year?UPDATE: Ultra Music Festival will be taking place March 25 to 27, outside of the WMC dates.Rumors about Ultra Music Festival’s future keep piling up. We’ve sent the festival’s publicist multiple emails asking for comment, but Russell and Charlie Faibisch, two…
LIV’s signature sky boxes are mimicked at its Sun Life Stadium outpost. Last month, Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dee announced a partnership between Sun Life Stadium and Miami Marketing Group to bring the South Beach nightlife experience to Dolphins home games. Well, this diabolical concept has a name — LIV…
Last week, several Miami Herald editors and reporters wrote a letter to the paper’s management asking it to stop focusing on delivering quick news and return to its roots in well-reported investigative journalism. We’re not sure if this is the answer. But we are sure of one thing: the quality…
BBC Radio 1 host Annie Mac is a well-respected female DJ — a real rarity in the dude-dominated halls of clubland. Not that there aren’t great lady DJs out there, but people always seem to assume that a woman’s success is somehow linked to her looks. (Sample misconception: “She’s hot,…
Danny Tenaglia helps Space reopen on October 9.Space is still giving us the silent treatment, but it’s widely known that the nightclub’s reopening on October 9 with Danny Tenaglia. We never bought the news of an “Ibiza-style closing.” Considering that the club is closed during the beginning of the high…
Photo by Joan Leong/BravoEric Ripert and Tom Colicchio.So that’s it. Arguably, Top Chef’s most boring season comes to close. We started following season seven because local chef Andrea Curto-Randazzo was a contestant. But we had a feeling back during our pre-season interview that she wouldn’t make it far — something…
Courtesy of Cooking ChannelChef Michael Schwartz’s hogfish ceviche.Last night, the latest episode of Emeril Legasse’s new series, Fresh Food Fast, aired on the Cooking Channel (AKA Food Network 2). The episode, titled “Farm to Table,” featured local chef and James Beard Award winner Michael Schwartz.In it, Schwartz takes Legasse to…
via @pubbellyLast week, we introduced you to the new South Beach Asian-inspired gastropub, Pubbelly, slated to open next month. While we are always wary of giving a place too much hype before we’ve actually eaten there, we couldn’t help by notice a tweet yesterday from the restaurant that linked to…
Señor Stereo is what you get when you put together a Kendall boy and two Midwesterners. Individually, Danny Daze, Gigamesh, and Joe Maz have accomplished a lot, but it only gets better when they churn out disco-house tracks together. “We all have the same style, and we feed each other…
Let’s face it: Miami sucks when it comes to music blogs. Places like New York, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle all have better online music presence. That’s not to say there aren’t people out there trying. We already crowned Off the Radar the city’s best music blog, while…
Last month, we revealed that at this year’s Iron Fork event on October 21 we’d be handing out our first ever Short Order awards. While Best of Miami is picked by an ominous “editorial board,” the blog awards work a little differently. We asked a group of local chefs, food…
Hayley Williams of Paramore wearing hand jewelry by local model/designer Anna Mixon.Most young girls who arrive to Miami in hopes of being the next Gisele Bündchen or Naomi Campbell usually end up partying too hard and burning out before the age of 20. Just go to any South Beach nightclub…
Photo by JipsyThe man called Typoe.On Saturday, Miami’s jokester graffiti artist, Typoe, debuted his second solo exhibition “Bang Bang,” following last year’s “I Want Typoe So Effin Bad,” at the Spinello Gallery in the Design District. Few artists like him have the juvenile humor-meets-intellect that was pioneered by masters like…
Photo by Ian WitlenAlice Glass of Crystal Castles performing live at Grand Central, Miami.Click here to view photos from Crystal Castles at Grand Central.Crystal CastlesSaturday, September 11, 2010Grand Central, MiamiBetter Than: Your old-school Gameboy.Let’s discuss the elephant in the room: Why didn’t local artist Panic Bomber open for the Toronto…
With the season five premiere of Dexter on Showtime only two weeks away, it’s as if all the planets have aligned for any fanboy of the show. As 58-year-old author Jeff Lindsay told us over the phone, the fact that his latest novel, Dexter is Delicious, was released around the…
Photo by David Giesbrecht/BravoThe final four Top Chef contestants.So what do you get when you put a bunch of American chefs in Singapore? Confusion, apparently. Engrish, I can’t readz!!! Everyone’s favorite cocky bastard Angelo came in with guns ablazin’ only to be cut down to size before the episode was…
The hottest ticket this weekend might be for the Crystal Castle show, along with local artist Panic Bomber, at Grand Central this Saturday. Even at $40, we hear they are going fast! So being the awesome blog that we are, we decided giveaway a pair (that’s two tickets) to the…
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If you aren’t checking out Clubchaser.com, New Times’ slutty alter-ego, you are missing out on the regular documentation of Miami’s nightlife. Over the Labor Day weekend, our photographers caught all the action on both sides of the causeway. So let’s do a quick recap of all that was snapped. The…
