White People in Rap Music: A Five-Part History

Miami’s rap scene is making headlines once again, this time for a music video showing an 18-year-old unsigned hellion waving AKs and pounds of cocaine in the air. Stitches, named for his sewn-up Glasgow Smile tattoo, has garnered more than 8 million views for “Brick in Yo Face” on WorldStarHipHop…

Happily Ever After?

What do fairy tales, botany, Jungian psychology, musicals, and New York City have in common? Seemingly nothing, but if you allow yourself to go just a little insane, you’ll find they all come together quite beautifully onstage. At least that’s the goal of the latest production from SoBe Institute of…

Sensory Overload

Depeche Mode once said, “Words are very unnecessary,” and while the ’80s synthpop group certainly didn’t mean that in regard to three painted bald dudes shooting colorful streams of goop onstage and toilet paper into the audience, it really does fit the conversation about Blue Man Group. The silent trio…

Turnt Up, Tone Up

Everyone knows the best way to burn calories is with a fun activity that doesn’t even feel like exercise. Every time you hit a dance floor, you’re toning your thighs, working that middle, even warming up those arms. Any style of music will do, as long as it’s bumping, but…

Do the Jane Fonda

Before Dirt Nasty was doing coke like it was 1980, before Riff Raff was embarrassing white people everywhere, before Miley Cyrus was rappin’ about bad life decisions, Mickey Avalon was the king of late-night, dirty-sex, skinny-white nastiness. He might not be someone your daughter should ever touch with a 20-foot…

Earl Sweatshirt, Hip-Hop’s Most Interesting Rapper

Meet Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt. Only 20 years old, he has a life story that already unfolds like an historical drama, and his skills as a wordsmith go arguably unmatched. He’ll perform at Revolution Live this weekend, so we listed just a few reasons Earl might be the most interesting…

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

Could it be? Is that the taste of freedom hanging in the air? Why yes, we think it’s true. The weekend is so close, we can almost touch it if we stretch our arms really, really far. Before you know it, the weekend will be through, so make the most…

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

This weekend brings a lot of chances for change. Instead of the usual, why not try something new? Why not help beautify the city or support the arts? Why not get some dank food while you’re at it? Put on your ugliest prom dress and hit the streets. Go see…

Dueling Pianos

Have you ever seen ten piano aficionados killing it at the same time? No? Well, of course you haven’t. That sort of thing doesn’t just happen. It takes a lovely, brilliant mind to orchestrate such a feat of musical prowess, and luckily, Barry University (11300 NW Second Ave., Miami Shores)…

Shape Magazine Names Two Miami Trainers as Hottest in the Country

We’re Miami. We know we’re hot, and so does the whole world, but now, it’s official. Shape Magazine just counted the 50 sexiest male trainers in the country, and two of them are representing us and our scorching endless-summer bods. Who are the gorgeous fellas ready to sweat and sculpt…

Liberty City Gets a New Public Mural and You Can Help

Liberty City is about to get a facelift, and you can be a part of the operation. An historical mural is set to grace the bus stop at NW 22nd Ave. and 56th St. Designed by Bernisha Fleurinor, a senior student in the medical magnet at Miami Northwestern Senior High,…

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

It’s a holiday weekend, and actually, we mean that in more ways than one. A lot of people will be heading to church Sunday morning. Meanwhile, a lot of people will be higher than they’ve been all year. It’s also time to celebrate wax, a music fan’s favorite dying medium…

Bringing it Back

Some people would say vinyl is a dying musical medium, but those people would never be true music fans. Everyone knows real records are the coolest little pieces of plastic a music geek can buy, offering a rich, warm sound unparalleled by MP3s and all other digital mediums. You’ve never…