Hey, look at that. Playboy is more than just tits and ass. There are actually words. Interesting.If you can peel your eyes away from the buxom blonde for a moment, you’ll see that the gentleman’s magazine has released its Guide to America’s Best Bars (link totally SFW). Nineteen where chosen…
It wasn’t long ago that Toronto duo AutoErotique was known as VNDLSM, which closely resemble the name of another vowel-less Toronto DJ/producer duo. Perhaps it was because they signed to the Dim Mak label — also home to that other vowel-less Toronto DJ/producer duo — that the pair changed their…
You don’t always see them in the front of the house, but chefs, line cooks, and others who work behind the scenes are the force that makes sure food translates well to the plate. But there is something else we noticed: Much like other creative types, chefs love tattoos. So…
Surfer Blood, if you are going to vow never to play a venue again, you might want to stick to your word — otherwise someone’s going to call you out.Let us rehash the night that Surfer Blood played Poplife’s 11th anniversary party at Grand Central. The band members felt they…
It seems like the curse plaguing electronic music events took a vacation overseas to cause mayhem over at Germany’s Love Parade this weekend where 19 were killed after a stampede at the entrance of the event. Again, like Electric Daisy Carnival, organizers failed to provide adequate security and space for…
Have you ever been caught at a pool party or the beach without any swimwear? Skinny dipping not an option? The Standard Hotel has a solution for you, a swimwear vending machine stocked with limited edition Standard boardshorts by Quiksilver ($75), with designs inspired by the hotel’s four locations: Miami,…
Insomniac Events, organizer of the Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles, released a statement today saying all its future events would be strictly enforced as 18 and over.”Effective immediately, Insomniac has also established an ’18 and older’ policy for all of the company’s dance music festivals until such time as…
M.I.A.///Y/(XL/Interscope)By now, you are probably aware that controversial electronic artist M.I.A. has released a new album called ///Y/ (thus referred to as Maya from now on to preserve our sanity). After two highly praised album, Arular and Kala, M.I.A. has faced some serious blacklash, both from the New York Times…
The video has been out for a bit, but just in case you haven’t noticed N.E.R.D.’s new video for their track “Hot-N-Fun” features a custom painted Rolls-Royce by local art collective FriendsWithYou. Pharrell Williams said to MTV, “We told them we wanted something that was psychedelic, something that paid homage…
Oh, hai Miami! Not sure if you are aware, but we are in the nightlife photog business now with our new mini-site Clubchaser.com, where you’ll be able to check out how down and dirty Miami gets once the sun sets.This week our cameras stopped by Crystal Cadillac’s live performance at…
Are you so excited about the Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and LeBron James trifecta? Can you already smell a championship win in 2011? Then get ready because the Miami Heat may be counting its chicks before they hatch tonight at the American Airlines Arena for its Summer of Heat celebration…
Have you seen this month’s issue of Edible South Florida, featuring a seminude Dr. Richard Campbell, senior tropical fruit curator at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, lounging in a bathtub full of mangoes? Paula Niño wrote about it yesterday, but we didn’t realize he was actually soaking in a sea of…
Hey White Room. Long time no see. This is sort of embarrassing, because I used to talk about you all the time. Things seem to have cooled between us, but in reality I still think about you all the time and I don’t want to see you leave.I saw that…
Last week, we complained that local chef Andrea Curto-Randazzo was getting little airtime on this season’s Top Chef, which can be a good thing or a bad thing. Good because it probably means she isn’t going home anytime soon (the show is notorious for focusing the entire episode on the…
Restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog Eater does a series of food interviews with musicians, called Sound Cheque (get it?). This week, it interviewed Passion Pit bassist Jeff Apruzzese, who has visited Miami twice this year — the first time in March for Ultra Music Festival, the second time in June for a headlining…
Lexus is hawking its new brand of hybrid cars July 20 at Grand Central with an event it dubs “The Darker Side of Green.” Scary, y’all! The debate will pit environmental journalist Amanda Little (the proponent) against professional cyclist Chris Horner (the skeptic). All these shenanigans will be moderated by,…
UPDATE: Ultra’s organizers let us know about the fate of next year’s festival.UPDATE x2: Crystal Castles confirmed as part of the 2011 lineup.UPDATE x3: Ultra Music Festival will be taking place March 25 to 27, outside of the WMC dates.Monday, The Miami Herald reported that environmental cleanup of the contaminated…
Click here to view photos from Hole at the Fillmore Miami Beach.HoleThe Fillmore Miami BeachFriday, July 2, 2010Nobody can blame Courtney Love of being fake and insincere. She always wears her emotions on her sleeve, a rare trait in rockstars these days. Love is dying breed of iconic stars that…
This week, West Coast news agencies had a field day thanks to all the hoopla caused by this past weekend’s Electric Daisy Carnival, which took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum and its immediate surrounding grounds. The event is billed as North America’s largest rave, with over 185,000 attending the…
Nightlife photographer Merlin Bronques has made a career of documenting debauchery. These days, party photogs are a dime a dozen, but Bronques’ photo site, lastnightsparty.com, is still a pioneer of the art form. He is able to capture not only the people who inhabit the nightlife, but also able to…
Another episode of Top Chef, another episode of the same: Angelo and Kenny continue to whoop everyone’s ass, and homegirl Andrea floats around in contestant purgatory, which isn’t a good place to be. Her food is passable for now, but how long will it be before the judges start calling…
Miami Today reports this week that Southeast supermarket giant Publix is planning to open a new store in the Edgewater/Omni area at 1776 Biscayne Blvd. This is perhaps one of the most needed grocery stores in all of Miami-Dade. While the grocer has opened an excessive amount of stores in…
