Art Basel Miami 2009 Street Music Video

Here’s our video from the week of Art Basel Miami 2009. It features footage from the streets of Wynwood, Notorious Nastie, Primary Flight, Lynn Yohana Howard, Laqui, Art Miami, Art Loves Music, Pulse Art Fair, Fountain Art Fair, Os Gemeos, Tony Goldman’s Wynwood Walls, Shepard Fairey, Jim Darling, Dave Tree,…

South Beach Wine & Food FIU Student Interview: Caroline Karlberg

Last year, the more than $2 million generated by the South Beach Wine & Food Fest was handed directly to FIU. The university has been a partner in the event with Southern Wine & Spirits since the beginning and has continued to reap the ever-growing rewards of its wise investment.Of course,…

Sobe Wine & Food Fest Releases More Burger Bash Tix for Sale

News Flash: The South Beach Wine and Food Festival has expanded the site for their sold out Burger Bash event to include more of the Ritz Carlton South Beach’s prime real estate and is releasing more Burger Bash tickets for sale.The post-sellout sale will sell out quick, so, act fast…

Restaurant Roll Call 2009: Opened, Closed, and the Future

OMG 2009 is sooo eight days ago.Here’s our Miami New Times Restaurant Roll Call for last year.We’ve rounded up the openers, shut down the closers, and written our predictions for the new year into existence.Note to foodies: If Wikipedia can do it, so can we. Please comment us with any…

100 Favorite Dishes: Mozzarella, Tomatoes, and Eggplant at TIMO

100.As a countdown to the Best of Miami 2010, Short Order is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your own nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.TIMO in Sunny Isles does Italian right. Take for instance their dish of bufala mozzarella with clay baked roma tomatoes and eggplant…

Nerd Alert: How To Record Streaming Audio Free with Mac

Ever like a song on a band’s MySpace enough that you want to be able to hear it anytime, without going online?How about digitally recording live radio broadcasts as they’re streamed on a radio station’s website? Wanna do that? Wanna record streaming audio for free on a mac?All you need…

Red Snapper Ban Angers South Florida Fishermen, Diners

Fish much? Not anymore. New federal regulation outlaws fishing for Red Snapper in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.The U.S. government says the red snapper population off the Atlantic coast is at 3 percent of what it was 60 years ago, and is still dwindling.Fishermen disagree. The one NPR spoke to…

Where the Fruit is Spicy and the Land is Red

Southwest Miami-Dade is a universe unto itself. Far removed from the urban core, its denizens still carry the distinct 305 swag, albeit heavily tempered by a deeply entrenched agro-centric history. Some folks say the recent spread of subdivision hell is choking out the Redland, and they’re right. But Miami’s bountiful…

America Made Beautiful

America’s boots rained their steel-toed march of death on the heads, hands, and backs of nonviolent protesters fighting for civil rights in the Amerika of our not-too-distant past. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of their leaders, and he was jailed, beaten, set upon by attack dogs, and assailed with…

Live Blogging the South Florida Freeze 2010

Agriculture is big business, but at the end of the day Mother Nature still makes the rules.The Florida Freeze of January 2010 threatens our $100 billion fruit and vegetable industry and may drive up prices down the road. Earlier today we spent some time in the fields of South Dade…

Great Taste Of The Grove This Weekend

Did you know that the Great Taste of The Grove is the largest single-location culinary event in all of Coconut Grove?Well, according to the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce it is, and that’s who’s throwing the party, this weekend, with free admission, for the Peacock Park festival’s 20th anniversary.Food tickets…

The Top 10 Dead Rock Stars Alive in Miami – With Videos!

“It’s the story of your life, and the end of it’s your death, and every word that’s in between is just a waste of breath.” – SubhumansTheir rotting, worm ridden flesh fills the air with the stench of death, but we just can’t help cracking the casket on our favorite…

Top 10 Ways To Eat an Overfished Species: Red Snapper

The Federales have deemed the Atlantic coast’s red snapper population overfished.January 4, regulations went in place to outlaw angling for them.The government says that red snapper populations are at 3 percent of what they were 60 years ago.Many fishermen say that’s bogus intel, and question the tabulation methods used.We’re on…

Video: Anthony Bourdain Burns 6 Tons of Cocaine

Bourdain, cocaine. Hey, that kind of rhymes.No reason why the Travel Channel’s No Reservations star and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain shouldn’t burn 6 tons of fresh, uncut, powder cocaine with the Director of National Security of Panama.Yeah there is. He’s a TV chef. Why the hell is he burning all…

Video: Anjell, “A Girl Has To Do What A Girl Has To Do”

Have you ever been on the “Plug The Band” section of Backpage.com?Today we found this amazing video of Anjell singing her future classic, “A Girl Has To Do What A Girl Has To Do.” The song is produced by Tad Sharpe for Batovision Digital Entertainment.Click here to Anjell’s full ad…

Rats! Restaurant Emergency Shutdown Orders for December 2009

An emergency order disposition to a routine food inspection at a restaurant means “conditions have been found that endanger the health and safety of the public requiring immediate closure of the establishment. “Here are three restaurants whose facilities were temporarily closed by health inspectors in December 2009.1. The Oasis Restaurant…

Top 5 Artie Lange Eating Pics; Get Well Soon, Artie

What’s fat, funny, loves dope, and makes Howard Stern laugh?We haven’t seen Artie Lange in Miami since January last year, when he was promoting his book Too Fat to Fish at Book & Books in Coral Gables.He was hilarious — a cool, humble dude who signed everybody’s books and took…

Whole Foods Coral Gables, January Events

Ah, the supermarket, that great bastion of packaged foods and conditioned air, perfect lines of consumer bliss, and walk-by coupon dopamine hits.Whole Foods has shopping down to a science, and the key is interactive marketing.Welcome to 2010. Here are some events you might enjoy checking out in January at the…