Rick Ross remembers the day he discovered the identity of his greatest enemy. In 2011, after suffering two seizures in less than 24 hours, the Bawse found himself sitting in the waiting room of a very expensive doctor’s office. “I was the only black dude, and the rest was 55-…
Let’s just say it: There aren’t a whole lot of black people in country music. In fact, if you do a Google image search right now for “black country music stars,” Darius Rucker pops up on the front row four times. Charley Pride shows up once. Country singer Clint Black…
Video by Adam Hendel It was a headline that made a nation collectively tilt its head like a confused puppy: Mama June to Appear at Florida Strip Club. What? When? How? And, most of all, why do we care? These questions remain difficult to answer, but the universe doesn’t slow…
The bartender and the photographer are similar people. They are both present and not — there physically, yet separated from their subjects by a barrier or sorts. They observe the vulnerable and can be witnesses to intimate moments. One probably sees more vomit in their line of work, but, then…
Mama June is the matriarch of one of America’s most bizarre, beloved, and tragic reality TV families. And this Saturday, she will be appearing at the Crazy Horse Gentleman’s Club in Pompano Beach. And that, unfortunately, is a factual statement, and not a random assortment of very sad words we…
“I don’t look like someone who used to do anything,” John Mulaney told the crowd in his 2012 Comedy Central special New in Town. “I look like I was just sitting in a room on a chair eating saltines for, like, 28 years.” But though the baby-faced entertainer may not…
Walking into SunFest is a bit like thumbing through The Cheesecake Factory’s menu for the first time. Your eyes start to water before you even make it to the pasta section. There’s so many choices your stomach starts to turn at the thought of making a decision. And they haven’t…
It’s the one part of music festivals we can all agree suck: the bathrooms. Whether you’re squatting in a hot porta-potty, or waiting in a concrete bathroom for 30 minutes for a stall to open up, small bladders and big concerts don’t mix. And while SunFest might not have solved…
The South Florida festival scene is getting stronger. The last two months have brought our tip of the state Ultra Music Festival and Tortuga Music Festival. And the next few weeks will bring us West Palm Beach’s SunFest and Tampa’s Big Guava Music Festival. When it’s all said and done,…
There’s something special about a local band that makes it big. Fans feel a unique connection to the hometown kids who manage to do what so many can’t. In Broward and Palm Beach Counties, we don’t have many national acts to be proud of. But one of the bands that…
The inaugural Shock Pop Comic Con came to the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center on February 14, 2015. And in a way, it was everything you’d expect from a Valentine’s Day date. Expectations were high, it cost a pretty penny, and – in the end – just about everyone involved got…
If a karaoke bar had a baby with Dave and Busters, and then that baby grew up to have another baby with an even larger Dave and Busters, you’d probably have something close to Shout, the new 6,500 square foot karaoke complex in downtown West Palm Beach. The karaoke compound…
Last year was only the second time Mad Decent Block Party came to Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale, but despite its short South Florida history, it’s easily one of the most anticipated shows of the year. In 2014, the tour grew by 9 cities from the previous year. And now…
Before Marilyn Manson was making parents nervous and teenage closets darker, we was a skinny goth kid going to Broward Community College, playing scary music in dark Broward County dive bars with his Fort Lauderdale band Spooky Kids. Soon, his band would change its name, sign with Trent Reznor’s new…
Mo is something special. The middle-aged blonde bartender grabs a fresh Bud Light from behind the bar, reaches back, and sticks the business end of the bottle between her butt cheeks. She tenses for a moment, and then yanks it out with a pop. “Drink!” she yells, slamming down the…
The United Nations could learn a thing or two from Ultra. Imagine how much more effective Ban Ki-moon would be in bright pink booty shorts that said Slut across the butt. Hold up, Iran, before we drop these sanctions on your ass, allow me to drop the beat. The people…
Downtown Miami’s 32-acre Bayfront Park is swarming with some 60,000 glistening, glittered bodies. The lights on Ultra Music Festival’s Main Stage make the Vegas strip look like the ass of a dying lightning bug. The minimally dressed millennials are dancing like they’re mad at the ground, and Snapchating every second…
Remember those roller rink birthday parties we used to have? Man, they were fun. There was pizza, a DJ, and you could always “accidentally” bump into Becky when no one was looking. She deserved it and everyone knew it. Well what if we told you that all those beautiful memories…
The crowd at Culture Room was young last Friday. They wore tattoos and t-shirts and darted in and out of the venue for quick cigarette breaks in between sets. Someone not familiar with the Black Lips might have assumed the band was some up-and-coming act after looking out at the…
Welcome to Fort Lauderdale! How was the flight in from [insert boringly shaped state here]? We hope the humidity didn’t catch you off-guard. It’s a very wet heat down here in South Florida. Also, it’s one of the hit-and-run capitals of America. But we don’t need to talk about that…
One of the worst things that can happen to your favorite stand up comic is wild, unbridled success. Once they start selling out arenas, the end is near. There’s something about reaching the top that triggers that self-destructive part of the brain that’s usually a bit more pronounced in all…
So you and Trent just crushed an extraordinarily prodigious calf workout after successfully sneaking into LA Fitness. You’re on your way to scoop Doug from his house when you get a text from McKinley saying he just found a debit card on the ground. It’s Saturday. The sun is out…
