I once thought Biscayne Times editor and publisher Jim Mullin was a principled, smart journalist. I don’t anymore. Jack King’s June commentary “Miami’s Media Muddle” in the BT should embarrass both Mullin and the writer. It calls Miami New Times “a shadow of its former self,” says the staff is “down…
He passed away a year ago this month. Here are some of his observations on culinary matters:’Fussy eater’ is a euphemism for ‘big pain in the ass’.Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: ‘I’m saving food!’ Then a month later…
This is old news, but bears repeating: The version of 2 Live Crew does not feature Luke. Ok, that’s out of the way. But as the remaining members of the group — Fresh Kid Ice and Brother Marquis — told Miami New Times last year, that doesn’t really matter. Luke…
Clouds of screaming devil birds rise from the swamps and descend on the flesh of the city to feast on the blood of our people. Mosquitoes suck.Will a Miami Ceviche keep them from biting you? Short Order called several Peruvian joints out of our extensive restaurant database to find out…
TV news is hurting. The best are deserting us. Nick Bogert, the WTVJ smart guy who has provided some politics and substance along with the gore on the local airwaves, will depart for Chicago this fall. He’s covered everything from hurricanes to the fall of commissioners such as Joe Gersten,…
To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. It’s the middle of June, so that means it’s about time for the monthly Keirin Cycles open sprints. The event takes place tomorrow night, June 11. At last month’s events, we had a debut local screening of Maca…
The Hukilau is a little slice of tiki culture a.k.a. the best current approximation of a mid-century approximation of Polynesian culture. Think aloha shirts, high socks, flip-up sunglasses, wood carvings, fruity drinks of uncommon potency and lots of music. In this specific instance we are talking about surf music, specifically…
The soul great Betty Wright is one of Miami’s best not-so-well-kept secrets. Starting out as a gospel singer with a family group, in the mid-1960s Wright switched over to R&B. Her robust mid-range belting and knack for picking funky beats and melodies made her a hit, and Wright quickly racked…
Black Joe Lewis, the elusive, effusive frontman of, well, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, boasts only one studio album to his credit. And already, the myth-making has commenced — because, really, how could such an otherworldly blend of punk-fueled raw soul come from an ordinary human?Lewis picked up the…
Each year, upon issue of New Times’ Best Of edition, readers, bloggers, and foodies greet our restaurant and food selections with catcalls of derision. Which is just as it should be. But if we are to end up with differing conclusions, let’s at least start from the same page. Here…
Hollywood cops and politicians are hot on the trail of a “bold graffiti master” defacing their city’s walls, or they might be — once they figure out they’re actually after not one guy but a crew.Yep, yesterday the overall feeling of security among South Florida’s graffiti writers improved an estimated…
(To the tune of Adam Sandler’s Lunch Lady Land)Open up at 6 a.m.Got on my sage green polo Served croquetas de jamonCon un poco de amorGot no clue why we sell gallon jugs of milkJust know everything’s doing fineDown here at the Publix Cafe stand Yes I wear this net…
Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed and Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into…
Moving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to see past top sellers. Top Sellers for the Week of June 1 – 5:Sweat Records, Miami 1. Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix 3. Rational Geographic Vol…
Wish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend’s biggest shows. The biggest thing going in Miami this past weekend was the Poplife 10-year anniversary event, which luckily barely escaped the day’s torrential rain. But still, nada about…
Dwyane Wade’s former business partner has been talking crap about him to anyone who would listen, so Wade had no choice but to play defense and file a libel suit. The details of the Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Danielle Staub’s torrid early years in Miami just gets weirder and weirder:…
A former US State Department employee and his wife have been busted in Washington D.C,. spying for Cuba. Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, worked for Fidel Castro for 30 years, according to an indictment handed down by the US Attorney General’s office this afternoon. Myers had top secret…
What do you get when you cross a bass line that can’t decide between bubblegum bouncy and driving like a Mack truck, guitars that go from subtle to psycho in one second flat, keyboards that quiver like a speedball junkie, drums that alternately whisper and crash in conversation with the…
Kurma ChameleonAnokha Restaurant number two has apparently bit the dust. When it first opened a decade ago on Commodore Plaza in Coconut Grove, this was a very good place for Indian food. Over the years it slipped little by little, and then last year moved to Virginia St. We wonder:…
A summer night in 1999, my friends David, Cali and I rode out to Mezzanote in Coral Gables. He said it was a party, but it looked like a restaurant and sounded like cool music. The DJ was in some corner by the door to the busboys chamber, his name…
You’ve spent weeks alone indoors, cultivating the kind of sun-neglected sickliness that, in certain circles, passes for goth authenticity. And now, it’s finally time to take your proud pale ass into the streets. But don’t worry, no one’s talking daytime hours. Just join your fellow doomed and Vitamin-D deficient for…
I went to a fancy French restaurant called ‘Deja Vu’. The headwaiter said, ‘Don’t I know you?’ ~Rod SchmidtHave you heard about the new restaurant on the moon? Great food, but no atmosphere. ~UnknownA cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. ~Morey AmsterdamA gourmet…
