Back Door Bamby
So, we brought in Louie Vega, who is also a friend and who had done the two-year anniversary in 1998 at Groove Jet… It was a phenomenal night … […]
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Last Call at Warsaw / Notorious South Beach Club Closes
One of South Beach’s legendarily decadent nightclubs was laid to rest in a blaze of glory on Friday, May 25th, when the Warsaw Ballroom pulled the velvet ropes for one final fling. Gerry Kelly, Maxwell […]
DJ Stryke | Miami’s Top DJs
I started off as a classical pianist, but after moving to the States, through my cousin in New York and two of my Uncles here in South Florida, I discovered DJing … […]
DJ Ryan | Miami’s Top DJs
One of the bars was next to the DJ booth, and I always worked that bar. I would watch them all throw down for hours, and I thought to myself, “I can do that” … […]
DJ Roland | Miami’s Top DJs
I would say the ’80s played a big part in my musical taste. I remember growing up listening to Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and The Cure, just to name a few … […]
DJ Craze | Miami’s Top DJs
The first DJ battle I entered in at a club called The Zoo in Coconut Grove. I was 15 years old and it was one of the first times I’d ever been in a club … […]
DJ Chicco Secci | Miami’s Top DJs
I have so many good memories, but for sure Michael Capponi’s parties at Amnesia. They were unreal; best people and celebrities ever … […]
DJ Mark Leventhal | Miami’s Top DJs
How do I answer that? DJing for three Prince shows. DJing for the Lenny Kravitz concert. Every night at Fat Black Pussycat. DJing Madonna’s house for New Year’s … […]
DJ Cedric Gervais | Miami’s Top DJs
My cousins were in the rave business, and I was mixing in my house every day, practicing. One day they gave me a shot to play in front of 3,000 people … […]
DJ Stephan Luke | Miami’s Top DJs
My place in the grand scheme of things is to provide people a soundtrack to their lives, to help them forget their problems … […]
DJ Ani Phearce | Miami’s Top DJs
My current sound is very eclectic. I may be doing an Urban set at Amika, a House music set at Crobar or a Rock ?n’ Roll set at Wasabi … […]
The Masters of Midnight | Miami’s Top DJs
The transformation begins at midnight, that mystical hour when Miami’s soul erupts in a sensual rhythm and its heart begins to beat with a singular pulse … […]
All-Night News Boy | The Agony and the Xctacy
The esoteric lure of South Beach nightlife. Sensually inviting, conceptually intriguing. A thin veil of merriment that drapes across the landscape masking a torrential maelstrom of cheap hustles and lustful desires of the flesh churning […]
All-Night News Boy | Can You Smell Me?
On the barren plains of modern nightlife, where the relentless pursuit of sex and small-change notoriety is elevated to an exalted and perfectly hideous art-form, the nightlife voyeur is presented with a dazzling array of […]
All-Night News Boy | Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
You never really thought of yourself as an addict, but one day you come to realize that’s exactly what you are—just another clubland junkie hooked on the sleazy, dime-store thrills of nightlife. An utterly offensive, […]
All-Night News Boy | Tabloid Celebrity Worship
South Beach, as always, remains at the forefront the new American religion—the replacement of society’s true and meaningful values with a twisted form of tabloid celebrity worship. The Grande Dame of Deco never seems to […]
All-Night News Boy | Painted Ladies
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the greatest show on earth—Miami Beach—a town conceived as a fantasy, framed in flamboyance and occasionally touched by the darker urges of humanity. An island paradise where the pure of […]
All-Night News Boy | Jungle Fever
Life is not always fun and games. Unless, of course, you live here in South Beach, where each night is a disgustingly glorious wonderland of savage music, mystical … […]
All-Night News Boy | Miss Hawaiian Tropic
Dogs dropping dead on the sidewalk … shrubs bursting into flames … summer in South Beach is hot. The fun city all-stars showing a distinct lack of nocturnal initiative during the dog days of summer, […]
All-Night News Boy | Form over Substance
Cable sewage. Four hundred channels of proletariat sludge. God, this TV is depressing … Trailer-trash screaming at the top of their lungs; teens having sex with their grandparents; a brother who’s really his sister’s father—has […]