It’s a busy weekend in Miami’s club land, so get ready to party all weekend long. This comes as a relief, seeing how the past few weekends, the choices out there have been less than stellar. So it’s a bit of a surprise that at the height of the summer…
You wouldn’t have noticed it Wednesday night unless you listened closely, but House speaker Nancy Pelosi waited 40 minutes to mention Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. It was a major diss. It hurt. The reason: Pelosi was speaking in Coral Gables to an audience of about 1,200 wealthy Floridians –…
Matthew Garvin This is what happens when the right tries to go left. In one of those “had to be in Miami” moments, Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s tour bus was involved in an accident at 55th and Biscayne Boulevard. When we heard the new here at the New Times,…
Want to take a stab at possible food poisoning at home? Then why not learn how to make fresh sushi at home? Lincoln Road restaurant SushiSamba dromo has brought back its monthly Sushi & Sake 101 classes, taught with the help of executive sushi chef Shoyo Iida. According to the…
So in continuation with yesterday’s post, today we bring you our sit down with Tallahassee duo Dead Prez. They chat to videographer Jacob Katel about “the white man,” Al Sharpton and throw a rhyme or two our way. Check it out! – Jose D. Duran…
In May, we posited that southern hip-hop and Fox News share much in common. Possessing both an anti-intellectual streak and a populist one, they’re beloved by red-staters and hated on by the coastal elites, be they liberals, hipsters, Ghostface or Nas. The piece concluded: If you’re still not convinced that…
In Touch reports that legendary Hall of Fame Dolphin quarterback Dan Marino is going to be a contestant on Dancing With the Stars this September. In a related story, I’m reporting that my childhood has been crushed into a fine powder. Former Fin Jason Taylor just got done wrapping up…
Local turnable deity Craze will be stopping by The Vagabond (30 NE 14th Street, Miami) for its weekly Thursday night Money Shot party on August 14. Freshly off of Kanye West’s Glow In The Dark tour (or How I Completely Ripped Off Daft Punk’s Live Show and Called It My…
Rock the Bells came and went, but we still have plenty of extra goodies to share with you, including some sit-down discussions with some of the performers that videographer Jacob Katel was able to document. In the first video, New Times catches up with Georgia MCs B.o.B. and Playboy Tre’…
The last few weeks have been important for the drafting and solidification of the Master Plan for the Bicycle Action Committee. Amidst conceptualizations and revisions, a solid plan is in development to make sure that Miami is on an effective path to Bicycle Friendliness. An important factor for its development…
Longtime Miami residents remember the stunningly gorgeous Danielle Knox from the TV news – Knox was the morning news anchor at CBS4/My33 in Miami. Even in that buttoned-up role, you could tell that Knox was a beauty with brains. When she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy in March,…
Oh, the heat. It’s starting to becoming insufferable to be outdoors. Even if you make your way to the beach, the sand is too hot to stand on for more than five seconds and the water isn’t cool enough to offer an escape from the soaring temperatures. Even at night,…
Justin Namon Nas performs at Rock the Bells at Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami. Click here to view the full slide show. Last Night: Rock the Bells 2008 featuring A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Method Man & Redman, Mos Def, etc. Saturday, August 2, 2008 Bayfront Park, Downtown Miami Better…
Marco Kornfeld Zelda comes to life — er, sort of — at Yasumicon 2008. Click here to view the full slide show. On most days like Saturday, kids are racing to get away from the heat by jumping in to the nearest body of water they can find. But the…
Sayre Berman Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington performs with the band during the Projekt Revolution tour stop at the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach. Click here to view the full slide show. Projekt Revolution with Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, The Bravery and more Friday, August 1, 2008 Cruzan Ampitheatre,…
What makes a world-class city? According to Eye On Miami, a city can have all the stadiums and museums it wants, but if it can’t provide its citizens with basic needs and services, achieving world-class status is out of reach: You can build a hundred stadiums but as long as…
In a time of such economic strife, I say screw the beef! Instead of dinner out on the town, I suggest one blow their shrinking wads of indulgence-flow on the savory, sweet nectar of catastrophe — booze. Yet, New Times doesn’t want you to waste your hard-earned cash on crap,…
Manny Ramirez is headed to the Marlins! A deal is close! Sources are saying it’s only a matter of time! Here we go! Ready? And…. the deal is dead. The Red Sox sent him to L.A. instead. Sad trombone sound Okay, so the Manny to the Marlins thing didn’t happen…
There is only one word that could describe last weekend: Boring. It was so boring, personally I went to bed most nights by 1 a.m. Come on Miami! I know we are at the height of the low season, but that doesn’t mean we have to get lazy. Unfortunately, things…
UPDATE: Sorry, Fish fans dreaming of a summer watching Manny being Manny in Dolphin Stadium. Looks like the ManRam will be looking for the best place to take a leak behind the outfield wall in sunny Chavez Ravine instead. According to ESPN, the eccentric slugger is headed to the Dodgers…
In yesterday’s Miami Spice post, New Times food critic Lee Klein compared the dining deal to the sort of bargain he usually encounters when he brings his car in to be repaired. In Part 2, he breaks down the Spice choices to the best and worst deals. There are 106…
Each year around this time, upon being handed my first Miami Spice menu of the season, I think of Ernie. Ernie is my car mechanic. “Broken radiator hose,” he’ll say with a furrow across his brow. “That’ll cost you 300,” and without even looking up to see the stunned look…
