It's 11 p.m. on a pleasant early May evening at Havana Hideout in downtown LDub and Tom Regis and his boys are hitting a slow, bluesy version of "Mercy Mercy Mercy," the Joe Zawinul tune made famous by Cannonball Adderley. Jon Zeeman's guitar is easing away for some sly, muted trumpet work by Steve Ahern. Tom's shimmering at the keyboard on clouds of Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis, then everyone's down in N'awlins, drummer Gary Berman and bassist Ilkin Deniz popping a groove, and finally all pick up and bounce through the home stretch, a nice gavotte between cubist wafts of sound and the funk.

Two more standards round out the evening -- Miles's moody, soulful "So What" and Thelonius Monk's sprightly "Straight, No Chaser." The quintet dissolves, breaking down their gear and chatting with the crowd. In the space about the size of a public school classroom, walled off from the street by a long-ish tiki hut, with a scramble of tables and chairs on a sand floor under an open sky, the patrons have been right in the players' laps, practically. It's the way jazz should be -- a cozy, collective voyage.

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The sun beats down on the concrete and lifeless buildings right outside of Las Olas in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The least likely place anyone would suspect to find five strangers who stopped being polite and started getting real.

The truth of the matter is that all of those actual strangers standing in line are nice enough and fantastically unreal -- two concepts that go seamlessly hand in hand in Fort Lauderdale where, despite being the Sunshine State, it often seems like ninety-nine percent of the time, only one percent of the population have real tans.

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Alex Markow

"Um, where the fuck am I?"

It was a rhetorical question. I asked myself this as I stared slack-jawed at the driveway of a mansion I very well knew was in Weston. Out there, by myself, I was hunting down what was supposed would be a wild pool party full of Miami socialites, but all I saw were construction workers.

"Excuse me," I called through the window of my car, "I'm looking..."

Before I could finish, they waved me towards the back. So I had found the place after all.

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It was the mid '60s and the British Invasion was well underway. Aside from a handful of intrepid defenders - the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Byrds, and the Lovin' Spoonful in particular - it was lonely on the front lines of the American resistance. Fortunately, there was another band in those ranks, as well, a group from New Jersey. It was borne from the ashes of harmony act Joey Dee and the Starliters, whose instrumental ensemble included, at one time or another, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Neville, and future actor Joe Pesci.

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Miguel's "Adorn" not only made number two on our best songs of 2012, but it's actually like pure soothing sonic sexual bliss. But at the Billboard Music Awards tonight, as the red-skinned crooner belted out the sensual tune, he also belted out a body slam-leg drop on the neck of one member of the audience, and delivered a sort of kick to the head of another.

And in an attempt to jump -- not stage dive or crowd surf -- from one stage to another at the ceremony, he landed, crotch-to-face, on a chick who who now is certainly experiencing whiplash. When you're like 4'11, you cannot expect to sail through the air like Michael Jordan, Migs.

Keep clicking for all kinds of footage and a few of the funnier Miguel memes that came out of this mishap.

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Is Queen B 'bout to pop out another heir to the Throne?

UPDATE: E! is reporting that Beyonce is indeed knocked up! Bey and Jay's reps aren't saying, but it's looking more and more like there's another baby Carter on the way.

Can anybody confirm or deny -- definitively and with stern conviction -- whether or not Beyoncé Knowles and hubby-slash-rap music megastar mogul, Jay-Z, are having another kid?

Ever since B. told Oprah she was once more itchin' to procreate -- the couple welcomed their first child, Blue Ivy Carter, in 2012 -- the Internet has been monitoring her every last move in anticipation of the slightest sign that the pop R&B siren's eggs are, in fact, fertilized.

And now the content-starved masses may finally have the smoking gun that proves once and for all that Bey is with child.

Or do they?!

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Kristian Andrew

Mark your calendars, microbrew devotees. The Funky Buddha Brewery is officially opening its Oakland Park doors on Saturday, June 1. The best thing to happen to Florida's craft beer scene, the Funky Buddha is slated to have SoFla's largest capacity craft brewery, with the goal of ultimately housing over 30 handcrafted brews on tap.

Heralded Boca Raton brewpub head brewer and founder Ryan Sentz is upping the ante here with a full-scale production brewery and taproom based out of Oakland Park.

This is not only a huge deal for us beer lovers, but also for the city of Oakland Park itself. The 18,000-square foot Funky Buddha Brewery is set to be the anchor the city's new Culinary Arts District. Located on a stretch of Dixie Highway, between Oakland and Commercial Boulevard, the district will change the face of the city. With independent restaurants, a culinary school, European-style marketplace, a hydroponic farm with horticultural classes, it gives the city the cultural center it's been lacking.

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Sure Kim Kardashian is a first time mom with the spawn of Satan, um, Kanye. Sorry, brain fart. But you'd think she already knew, with Mason around and, you know, having 10,000 siblings, that there's no place like home for a newborn.

However, according to TMZ, KK is planning on bringing baybay Kimye (or, as we're banking on, North West) on tour with her man.

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"Noise is everyday fucking life," or at least it is according to the notoriously loud Kenny Millions, of experimental noise duo Death Fuk. And while Broward County is surely brimming with the sounds of "everyday fucking life" as well as contributions from a diverse range of talented and homegrown musicians, the 954 lacks a pulse on the noise beat that heartily thrives in Miami. It fosters festivals like the International Noise Conference, held annually for the past decade, or weekly series, like Be Creative or Die, where life becomes one big experiment in sound and performance.

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Steve Martin is a multi-talented legend, in a way that shames even Justin Timberlake. The comic icon has proven himself as a king of the funnies and master of the banjo. His music prowess is so that when talking to friends about his performance at Kravis Center on May 24, the main question is "to be funny or to play music?" Followed of course by "How much are tickets?"

I've heard stories of the beloved Woody Allen coming to Kravis and breaking hearts by playing his much adored clarinet the entire show without even stopping to complain about something or tell a silly story. Lucky for Steve Martin fans (a.k.a. everyone), his performance will not fall into this lame-ass category.

The 67-year old first-time dad (believe it) will be accompanied by his band the Steep Canyon Rangers and Edie Brickell as they present a night of bluegrass music with a comedic twang. Before we dive into a banjo headbang, let's take a moment to look at the man himself. Here are our five best Steve Martin musical moments.

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