A near emtpy fridge and a growling stomach have driven many men (women, and children) to desperate measures. And though there are plenty of things you shouldn’t eat after they’ve been sitting around a certain amount of time (pizza, sushi, meatloaf), there are foods with an infinite shelf life. Here’s…
Some people like weed with their vodka. They usually end up stupefied on the couch at the party staring at the wall and mumbling to themselves.Other people like herb with their vodka, for them, there’s Sonnema, a vodka with natural herb flavors added. Last week and over the weekend at…
Vivian Girls played Pulse Art Fair at the Ice Palace on Thursday night to a small crowd. They are an all girl 3-piece rock band from Brooklyn, NYC.The Vivian Girls shouted out a show they recently played in Lake Worth that they described as a lot of fun. They’ll be…
Miami’s art fair week 2009 saw a world of pedestrians on the streets of Wynwood; and where there’re tourists, there’s money, so no surprise that enterprising mobile BBQs left a trail of rib-smoke all weekend.Friday night, we found Chicken-N-Ribs on the Southeast corner of 22nd Street and NW First Place…
Professional South Florida food blogger throws a party and makes seafood gazpacho, ropa vieja, mac’n’cheese, multi-meatballs, and salad on a stick. [Foodalogue] A CSA is a way to buy farm fresh vegetables a week at a time. This week was Italian basel, romaine lettuce, zucchini and yellow squash, black sapote,…
Purvis Young is a self taught artist born in Liberty City in 1943 whose work started on the streets of Overtown with found objects and reject paint. His works now hang in the best museums in the world and his studio is right here in Wynwood.Saturday night at Purvis Young’s…
Last night at Aqua Art Miami (42 NE 25th Street, Miami), a locals-heavy party crowd came together over art, food, and music.Seattle-based Aqua is committed to bringing Miami a high-quality sampling of art from the West Coast and abroad with a concentration on young dealers and galleries and emerging artists.Palate…
The Okay Mountain Corner Store, now appearing at Pulse Art Fair (1400 N. Miami Ave., Miami), is possibly the greatest artwork ever conceived, an exercise in total hilarity, and really fuckin’ funny.The store is the creation of the Okay Mountain artists’ collective from Austin, Texas. It is a highly detailed…
We first told you about Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman’s Coffee Brake coffee truck in June. Well, yesterday we ran into the commish outside the Kelley Roy Gallery (50 NE 29th St., Miami), where she was parked and open for business, selling coffee, smoothies, and baked goods.Sally said, “Everything’s great. I’ve just…
The Bakehouse Art Complex (561 NW 32 Street) is a studio compound for over 70 professional, full time, working artists that has stood in Wynwood for the past 23 years. The 33,000 square foot facility houses indoor and outdoor studios, and exhibition galleries. The Bakehouse Art Complex is a not…
The Clever Collective is an art consortium from Brooklyn who we saw set up in the driveway of a house on 29th Street between North Miami Avenue and NW Second Avenue selling cookies, lemonade, and custom bags.The bake sale benefits the Clever Collective and the girls procured their prime real…
Leblon Cachaca sponsored last night’s drinks for the “Blue Print For Space” exhibit opening at Art Center South Florida (800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach). The exhibition features work by street and graffiti artists and is affiliated with the Primary Flight project, the world’s largest site-specific street level mural installation.Cachaca is…
Bullfrog’s GastroPod, a gourmet food truck, goes live today in Wynwood, 1/4 block west of NW Second Avenue on 27th Street.This stationary unit is the precursor to an actual moving vehicle that is currently in the Carolinas getting fixed up right.Is the chef ready for tonight, will the Gastropod go…
Blood roars forth with geyser-like ferocity from a cut atop the eye of a smashed-up loser. Hey, boxing is brutal — that’s why we love it. So what happens when four Cubans, a Dominican, and a Turk enter the squared circle? There can be only one champion in each of…
One thing about Miami its that it’s always Christmas here, ’cause you can ski fresh powder nostril-first any day of the year. But December does have its perks, and this Saturday there’s at least one amazing holiday experience that won’t land you in TGK. Santa’s Enchanted Forest (7900 Bird Rd.,…
One thing about Miami its that it’s always Christmas here, ’cause you can ski fresh powder nostril-first any day of the year. For actual snow, check out Snow Days in the Grove, where eight tons of that cold white stuff we’ve seen on television gets dumped all over Virginia Street…
When Lionel Richie was a kid, he ripped out his own throat, soaked it in honey, dipped it in star dust, and had it back in his body in time for lunch. Now that’s smooth. So it’s no wonder that his career has seen him soar to the heights of…
Roofless Records has got a cunt for Miami. A Megacunt.Friday, December 19 at the American Legion/Harvey’s By The Bay (6445 NE Seventh Avenue, Miami) at 9 p.m., for free, five groups you’ve never heard of will destroy, annihilate, poundfuck your eardrums into submission and then pee on your shoes and…
Sometimes when we’re feeling low we head down to the mall, hide behind a plastic bush, and throw pieces of food-court meatballs, ranch soaked lettuce, and mustard fries at people until a food fight erupts. Then we run up the stairs, film it, and post the results online. For legal…
A Chef’s Burger (330 NW 29th Street) is a Wynwood food truck serving eat in, carry out, and delivery (786-344-5825) of burgers, fries, wings, salads, sandwiches, chili, soups, deserts, and drinks. We drove past the truck, saw the burger banners flying on a hot Tuesday afternoon on a Miami Winter…
Last night, MOCA North Miami teamed up with Vanity Fair magazine to kick off Art Basel Miami 2009 with a big time opening party for their “Reach Of Realism” exhibit. The show examines and questions realism in the age of digital manipulation and staged reality. It was sponsored by the…
Art Basel week Miami 2009 is all about music and street art. The “Primary Flight” exhibit is fucking it up all over Wynwood, and so is Tony Goldman’s public art project Wynwood Walls, produced in concert with Deitch Projects of New York. Galleries on the Beach and in the city…
