Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed and Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into…
Moving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to see past top sellers. Top Sellers for the Week of June 1 – 5:Sweat Records, Miami 1. Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix 3. Rational Geographic Vol…
Wish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend’s biggest shows. The biggest thing going in Miami this past weekend was the Poplife 10-year anniversary event, which luckily barely escaped the day’s torrential rain. But still, nada about…
Dwyane Wade’s former business partner has been talking crap about him to anyone who would listen, so Wade had no choice but to play defense and file a libel suit. The details of the Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Danielle Staub’s torrid early years in Miami just gets weirder and weirder:…
A former US State Department employee and his wife have been busted in Washington D.C,. spying for Cuba. Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, worked for Fidel Castro for 30 years, according to an indictment handed down by the US Attorney General’s office this afternoon. Myers had top secret…
What do you get when you cross a bass line that can’t decide between bubblegum bouncy and driving like a Mack truck, guitars that go from subtle to psycho in one second flat, keyboards that quiver like a speedball junkie, drums that alternately whisper and crash in conversation with the…
Kurma ChameleonAnokha Restaurant number two has apparently bit the dust. When it first opened a decade ago on Commodore Plaza in Coconut Grove, this was a very good place for Indian food. Over the years it slipped little by little, and then last year moved to Virginia St. We wonder:…
A summer night in 1999, my friends David, Cali and I rode out to Mezzanote in Coral Gables. He said it was a party, but it looked like a restaurant and sounded like cool music. The DJ was in some corner by the door to the busboys chamber, his name…
You’ve spent weeks alone indoors, cultivating the kind of sun-neglected sickliness that, in certain circles, passes for goth authenticity. And now, it’s finally time to take your proud pale ass into the streets. But don’t worry, no one’s talking daytime hours. Just join your fellow doomed and Vitamin-D deficient for…
I went to a fancy French restaurant called ‘Deja Vu’. The headwaiter said, ‘Don’t I know you?’ ~Rod SchmidtHave you heard about the new restaurant on the moon? Great food, but no atmosphere. ~UnknownA cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. ~Morey AmsterdamA gourmet…
Pool Party taught us about the universal truths that aren’t always the same. They taught us that coffee and sex were equivalent entities.They showed us how to do it right sometimes by doing it like a warrior every time. Now they show us how to be careful of scissors this…
The details of Real Housewives of New Jersey’s star Danielle Staub time in Miami during the ’80s just keeps getting more and more scandalous. Her ex-husband Kevin Maher, who she met at a drug party down here, sold his story to Star and claims that not only was Staub a stripper, but…
To celebrate the upcoming release of their 12″ three-way single, Miami Bass Warriors have released their newest track “Bro, That Chick’s a Basser.” If you saw their performance at this year’s Calle Ocho, you might have already heard it, but this is the actual studio cut, free from the background…
Robert Ruano, Miami’s director of grants and sustainable initiatives, spends a lot of money dining out and traveling on the taxpayers’ dime. According to copies of the reimbursement forms and receipts Ruano has submitted to the Miami’s finance office between 2006 and January this year, the city has picked up his…
No Justice Sloppy reporting: I remember the William Fenzau murder case from The First 48, but I don’t get the angle of Francisco Alvarado’s May 28 story, “Rush to Justice.” How did the TV show rush the detectives? Where in the article is there anything to substantiate this incredible claim?…
The Cuban Five Resurface in Miami
Texas might have “Remember the Alamo!” But Dade will always remember the Orange Bowl. Just think, this week in 1988, the Monsters Of Rock tour put NW 3rd street on smash. Wouldn’t it be cool if Metallica rocked Little Havana nowadays? Yes, yes it would. This week in 1988 also…
Just before 9 a.m. this morning, someone was walking near Pelican Harbor — the water next to the 79th Street Causeway — when they noticed a bag bobbing in the murk.Something didn’t look right, so they called 911. Miami Police pulled out the bag around 11 a.m. Inside, they found…
Atlanta-based trio Last November plays two gigs in South Florida this weekend, hitting an early all-ages gig tomorrow night at Respectable Street Cafe in West Palm Beach, and then Transit Lounge in Miami on Friday. The group first got together in high school, when they bonded over playing acoustic versions…
To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. What I want to talk about this week is how I miss Miami. For the past two months, I’ve been living back in Ft. Lauderdale again. I was really excited to move back at first because my true…
*As being reported on this site and others, Brosia has closed in the Design District. Lots of folks liked it, and the outdoor patio was one of the coolest, but I, for one, won’t miss the wavering service and uneven cuisine.*Maison d’Azur has shut its’ doors at the Astor Hotel…
In the crowded race to for the city commission seat being vacated by Joe Sanchez, perennial candidate Frank Carollo has amassed $95,275 in campaign . The guy’s run before.Vitals: A 39-year-old certified public accountant with a perfectly symmetrical pompadour. Qualifications: Ran three times for the state House of Representatives –…
