Last Wednesday night, we trotted down the Miami Beach Boardwalk past Miley Cyrus wailing away with Wayne Coyne for a small crowd of the most aggressive adults ever to elbow their way past doormen and cops. We weren’t interested in actually getting trampled to see Hannah Montana cover the Beatles…

Much like many Cubans in South Florida who longed for and spoke often of the pre-Castro Cuba of their memories, Miami-bred, Los Angeles based artist Stephanie Hutin is fixated on the pubescent period in her youth. It’s a place in time that is so unique, she says, “You cannot understand…

The name “Peter Marino” was on the well-moisturized lips of every privileged attendee at the New York Times-hosted International Luxury Conference at the Mandarin Oriental in Miami this week. And why wouldn’t it be? Of all the people on display during the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, the architect, art…

Come December, megaclubs on South Beach and party spots in downtown Miami vibrate with the sounds of international DJs while every hovel in town is pounding with the sounds of bands from all over the world just itching for their one moment in the Art Basel spotlight. But Miami’s also…

As we watch Ariana Grande — the miniature lady with the highest ponytail in pop since Madonna’s Blond Ambition tour — bellow into the mic on national television, like daily, we often wonder, “Did the bite-sized Boca babe actually swallow Mariah Carey?” It would explain why the American public is…

Art Basel hits our city each December like a ton of very stylish, possibly graffitied, definitely expensive bricks. People with cash flock here to snap up valuable artwork, culture nerds come for the quirky performances, and party animals get ratchet at each and every live music venue, because it’s still…

The Masterminds Behind Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village from Voice Media Group and Mitchel Worley on Vimeo. Flip-flops aren’t dancing shoes. But on any given afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, you can find too-tan folks working off hangovers by chugging Coors Light, jamming out to covers of Lynyrd Skynyrd… in flip-flops. That’s…

It’s not often that a band breaks up amicably. But Winter Haven-bred rockers Anberlin are consciously disbanding on good terms after 12 long years. Touring currently to promote its album Lowborn, the guys told fans well before the group took to the road that this would be its final one…

Last night in South Miami, the preview screening of Jon Stewart’s directorial debut Rosewater was attended by me, my parents, three of our friends, and just about a dozen other people. Rushing there after work, I assumed the place would be packed and I’d be sitting on the floor with…

The Cast of Lucky Stiff at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. If you grew up in a household where required viewing included the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies and Auntie Mame, then you’ll be glued to the screen and giggling with delight watching…

SuicideGirls cofounder Missy Suicide describes her most famous creation as a “beautiful sorority of badass babes from around the world.” In 2001, at 24 years old, Suicide, born Selena Mooney, along with partner Sean Suhl launched this, one of the earlier, still-running social networking sites from Portland, Oregon. If you’re…

Melissa Etheridge has always been a sort of mysterious character. Even though it seems her whole life is on easy display, there’s still something about her that makes you want to delve deeper, something that draws you to her metaphorical window. Two things the singer is most known for, after…

It’s just by chance that frontwoman of the fairly newly formed band the Psymatics, Brittanny Tyler Larevitzear, and drummer Danielle Romanowski both had dads who drum. Though their relationships with their fathers were very different — Larevitzear has never known her dad — the genetic need to beat definitely affected…

Maybe you’ve been going to the New Times’ Original Beerfest for the past 17 years and have a memory clouded by alcohol or maybe you’re a festival virgin and have no clue what’ll happen when your mega-brewski cherry pops this Saturday. Either way, you need to know what to expect…

What do you say to a person who’s given us ten years of booming beats and hypnotic melodies? Beer-soaked, deliriously happy evenings? Who’s brought almost everyone you’d ever want to see live — Tim and Eric, Henry Rollins, GWAR, DMX — to Fort Lauderdale? You say thank you. That’s exactly…

If you’ve never seen Tommy Lee strapped in and beating the skins in his 360 roller coaster drum machine, you’ve never lived. If you’ve never screeched along with Vince Neil playing “Home Sweet Home” on a disco ball-style grand piano, you don’t know emotion. Motley Crue is one of the…