Clubs : USA : FL : Miami: Mansion Nightclub

About Mansion Nightclub
Miami Beach nightlife visionary Eric Milon, who previously established the Living Room as a glamorous tropical waypoint for east-coast A-listers and European jet-setters in the early '90s, now present us with Mansion, a club that has become the prime destination for Hollywood celebs and the hippest crowd in South Florida.

In its latest $2.5 million dollar makeover, Mansion transformed itself into Mansion 360, a visual experience which surrounds guests with lighting displays, video projections and a whole host of live aerialists, contortionists and performance artists, all set to music.

Set in the massive 1235 Washington Avenue space that was originally built as the French Casino in 1936, and has housed such legendary nightclubs as Glam Slam, Club Z and Paragon. With six bars on two levels and a main-room stage to host fashion shows and live performances, we predict Mansion will continue to rewrite South Beach nightlife history for years to come.

Mansion Nightclub Review By Vique M. : Miami, FL
Umm- can I say WOW, WOW, WOW! Mansion nightclub closed its' doors for less then two weeks and re-opened with a sold-out, two night event with Deadmau5 as the headliner and was nothing short of A-MA-ZING! I scoped out the new Mansion 360 on Saturday night and I can honestly say that Mansion has made a comeback.  The Opium Group spared no expense in the renovations that included all new LED lighting throughout the entire club, LED screens flanking the DJ booth, a whole new lighting system on the roof, and a state of the art sound system that will have your heart bumping to every beat.  What I saw on Saturday was not just a DJ on stage doing his thing- it was a grand production!

For those who have frequented Mansion over the years know that the iconic club was long overdue for a make-over and what a make-over it was.  The club has stepped up its game and reclaimed its spot as one of the hottest clubs on South Beach- LIV and WALL beware.

From the moment I stepped inside the doors I was in awe of all the changes.  It literally was a 360 transformation.  Where the DJ previously stood in front of the club has been replaced with what is now a platform that takes the DJ center stage into the crowd, making him a not just a DJ, but a master of ceremonies taking command of the entire club.  The walls are now interlaced with LED strips that dance to the beat of the music that extend all the way to the roof- creating an entire show of lights.  As one patron stated,  "I was getting housed by all the pretty lights"- Hector Martinez.

There were lasers beaming out from all over the club, midgets covered in silver dancing on tables, trapeze dancers flying high above dressed in nothing but silver shorts and tassles, and a guy in a robot costume covered with lights walking through the crowd. Every which way you looked there was something to please your auditory and visual senses.

As for Deadmau5, he was INSANE! It was a remarkable show with no dull moments. The whole performance was packed with high-energy beats as the international superstar dropped some of his latest tracks like "Reward Is Cheese", "Tiny Dancer", and classics like the club anthem "Ghosts and Stuff".  The whole performance was spectacular.

Mansion 360 is back with a vengeance- If you missed the unveiling and haven't stopped by, I suggest you check it out this weekend.


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Gear : Scents : Le Labo Solid

Our mornings are so rushed we often skip steps, both intentionally and not. But smelling great is crucial, so Le Labo’s Solid Perfume comes along with you through your workday, small enough to toss in a pocket or bag and apply (or reapply) on the go. Flip open the metal rod to reveal to 0.14 oz of alcohol and paraben/phthalate-free wax fragrance, then rub it and apply sparingly. It comes with one of 14 fragrances and is refillable with Le Labo’s two-pack of solid refills.


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Gadgets : Ramos Alarm Clock

Let’s be honest here, if we all had our way there is no way that we’d get out of bed in the morning. We’d all pretend we’re cats and sleep for the majority of the day, only getting up to eat and drink. It is very easy to hit the alarm clock and go straight back to sleep, but with Ramos you can’t actually do that — you have to physically get out of bed to turn the thing off in the morning.

Ramos isn’t like other alarm clocks with their fancy unlimited snooze functioning, instead you get a limited number of times that you can hit the button before it won’t work anymore. Once that time comes you have to get out of bed and bring your smartphone to a separate Bluetooth-enabled beacon to enter a ‘defuse code’ which will finally turn off that wretched siren you call an alarm.

The point of the beacon is that you’re supposed to put it in the place you tend to go to first in the morning. That could be the bathroom, the kitchen, or your office if you happen to be working from home. Once you’re there you might as well get started on the day right?

Unless you’re just like me, in which case you’re perfectly capable of wandering straight back to bed and falling asleep instantly.

The alarm thing isn’t all it can do, though. Ramos can also be integrated with smart home systems to make waking up a more pleasant experience. Sick of waking up to a cold house? Why not have the heating come on just before your alarm goes off? Maybe you can slowly turn the lights on, or possibly even have a cup of coffee ready to drink when you head downstairs. That all depends on you actually having a smart home system, but it is pretty damn cool that using Ramos means you won’t have to manually reset the timers if you decide to get up at a different time one day.

Like many other gadgets of this nature, Ramos is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter to make the product a reality. Pledging $99 (£63) will get you a Ramos alarm clock next May, which is quite a bit less than the estimated retail price of $130 (£83). Of course actually getting one is dependent on the campaign getting the $100,000 (£64,000) funding it requires.


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News : 106 & Park Ending Soon

BET has announced that the final episode of its long-running music video show 106 & Park will air on December 19. After 14 seasons, the series will move exclusively to BET.com for all of 2015. However, the show will still produce special events like their annual New Year's Eve show 106 & Party. Stephen Hill, BET's President of Music Programming, said that the entirety of BET's staff "have been touched by 106 & Park."

"We have pride in being involved with the show that has welcomed almost every movie star, music superstar and fresh-faced talent you can name (you can even throw in a first lady)" he said in a statement. "It’s been a great 14-year run as America’s top music/variety show on cable. And now that very valuable brand is going to take its talents to the digital realm."

You can read the rest of his statement over at BET's website, and be sure check out a recent 106 & Park highlight when Future admired his SPIN cover on the show.


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Videos : Taylor Swift : Blank Space

Taylor Swift has been called a prodigy, a “feminist’s nightmare,” and – most annoyingly and most often – boy-crazy. People are so obsessed with Swift’s supposedly too-active dating life that there’s an entire wiki dedicated to her ex-boyfriends. Timelines of her relationships have been published by Billboard, Business Insider and Glamour magazine. Any song that Swift releases immediately sparks speculation about which famous ex is featured therein – her creative output always somehow ends up tied to a list of men.

It can’t be fun for a young, talented, wildly-successful woman to constantly have her music bonafides attached to her love life. So when a Vanity Fair reporter asked the singer-songwriter last year if she was “boy-crazy”, Swift called her out:

For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated – a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way – that’s taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.

And now, in her new Blank Space video, Swift performs the very unflattering image that the public has foisted upon her, as if to say: You want boy-crazy? I’ll give you boy-crazy!

This is the Taylor Swift we’ve been waiting for: the Taylor Swift who smiles while she offers up a hearty “fuck you”.

The video for Blank Space is a sort of dystopian feminist fairy tale: Swift is surrounded by woodland creatures and dressed in gorgeous gowns. She has picnics of champagne and sweets, all while in the company of a generically handsome, if unremarkable, man. (Blank Space, indeed!)

But things swiftly go awry in fantasy land with her Ken-doll boyfriend – he texts someone else, the bastard. Swift goes full-on Fatal Attraction: she screams and cries with a mascara-streaked face, throws a plant at him, cuts up his shirts, tries to chop down a rather large tree upon which she had carved their names, bashes his expensive car with a golf club and wields one very large knife in a crime against pastry.

“Got a long list of ex-lovers, they’ll tell you I’m insane,” Swift sings in the middle of her meltdown. Finally, when her prince is passed out in the driveway – we don’t see why – she doesn’t wake him up with a kiss but with a firm bite to the lip. He then drives off in a rush ... and another generically handsome man drives up to take his place.

Swift has made no secret that Blank Space is about the media depictions of her relationships with men. “There’s been sort of a sensational fictionalization of my personal life”, Swift said in an interview about the song.

They’ve drawn up this profile of a girl who is a serial dater, jetsetting around with all her boyfriends and she get them but she can’t keep them because she’s too emotional and she’s needy. Then she gets her heart broken because they leave and she’s jilted, so she goes to her evil lair and writes songs about it for revenge.

Swift sings in Blank Space that she’s “a nightmare dressed like a daydream”, and indeed, this video – where the men are interchangeable, the girlfriend is crazy (and crazy hot), and the joke is on anyone who takes her image too seriously – is a certain kind of feminist daydream. It’s a world where the narrow and sexist caricatures attached to women are acted out for our amusement, their full ridiculousness on display. And for those who would try to pigeonhole Swift as little more than the sum of her dating life, the real nightmare is the woman behind the character: a woman who has full creative control over her image and isn’t afraid to use it to mock your efforts to stereotype her.


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Singles : T.I. : About The Money Feat. Young Thug

Listen To : T.I. : About The Money

The first time I can remember hearing T.I., he was rapping alongside Killer Mike on Bone Crusher’s “Never Scared,” and they’ve linked up a few times over the years. And this morning, Killer Mike showed up to breathe some fire on “About The Money,” T.I.’s new single with Young Thug. This sadly is just one of those remixes that doesn’t really alter the song at all beyond the one additional verse. But it’s worth hearing anyway. It was already a good song, and now it’s a good song with one more good verse. Check it out above.


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