Cheap Eats: Out of the Blue Cafe

Jose D. Duran The Midtown Steak Sandwich at Out of the Blue Cafe. Where: 2426 NE 2nd Ave., Miami 305-573-3800 What $15 Gets You: A sandwich, panini or salad with a drink. Located on the fringes of Wynwood, Out of the Blue Cafe feels oddly out of place among the…

Jamie Lidell at Heathrow Lounge July 18

Jamie Lidell Genre-bending musician Jamie Lidell will be stopping by Heathrow Lounge, a new UK-inspired club on South Beach, July 18. Who else could be behind this booking except the people from Poplife, which will be celebrating 9 years of bringing indie music to the masses that very weekend. The…

Gameboy/Gamegirl: A Hipster Mockery?

Gameboy/Gamegirl sans fourth member and beat producer Miami Horror. Here was what I can’t figure out about Australian quartet Gameboy/Gamegirl, are they embracing hipster culture or are they making an absolute mockery of it? With lyrics like “Vodka and cranberry/Shake it like it’s February/Gin and tonic/The shit is ironic,” it…

Bye Bye Saigon

After three years in business at 1831 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Little Saigon City has closed shop. Although the mom-and-pop Vietnamese restaurant regrettably included sub-par Chinese food on its menu, the unpretentious, home-cooked buns, phos, spring rolls and desserts were quite good, and very well priced. But as high food…

StreetWorks – Uncompleted Mural

Jose D. Duran On my way to White Room Monday night, I spotted a man painting a mural along the corner of NE 14th Street and 1st Avenue. It is basically at the entrance of Overtown, right along the corridor were you can find PS14, Vagabond, Ice Palace and the…

Rendezvous With A Rip-Off

Words of dining advice: Always ask how much the verbally recited daily specials cost. Or pay the consequences. For Peter and Neil, a vacationing couple from Danbury, Conn., the consequence was a nearly $300 tab for dinner at Rendezvous On The Beach (in the Beacon Hotel on Ocean Drive). They…

Last Night: Chris Rock at the Seminole Hard Rock

Chris Rock Chris Rock Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Seminole Hard Rock, Hollywood Better Than: CB4, Head of State, and I Think I Love My Wife combined. A friendly note to anyone planning to attend an event at the Seminole Hard Rock – get there as early as you can. And…

Fourth of Jose with Jose El Rey at the Vagabond

Jose El Rey If you haven’t seen local artist Jose El Rey perform live yet, you are missing one of the best spectacles out there. He easily won my heart over when I saw him perform at White Room earlier this year. And when he gave his cousin (niece?) Yarisleydi…

Herald Shills For The Dairy Industry

Did you know that pasteurized milk is “more natural” than raw milk? Or that lactose-sensitive people should not avoid all milk and other dairy foods? Neither did I until partaking of the Dairy Nutrition Quiz in yesterday’s Miami Herald health section (the “wellness” page, to be precise). Try this one…

Q&A with Celia’s Modesto Lacen

Modesto Lacen Modesto Lacen is the 32-year-old Puerto Rican actor currently playing Pedro Knight, the husband of departed salsa queen Celia Cruz, in Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz at the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center. This is the show’s first stop since a huge run in New…

Trial For New Marlins Stadium Starts Next Week

The trial to challenge the building of the Florida Marlins’ new ballpark is set to start next week. A postponement would’ve pushed the trial to September, but Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jeri-Beth Cohen rescheduled the trial so that it could start by next Wednesday. This is good news for the Marlins,…

Bike Blog – Mayors Determine Bikes Rock

June’s U.S. Conference of Mayors gave some love to bicyclists across nation. There’s much we may anticipate based on their proclamations. Here’s the short version: The broadly named Transportation and Communications Committee drafted a resolution titled “Ensuring Bicycling is Integrated into National Transportation, Climate, Energy and Health Policy Initiatives.” This…

Last Night: SummerFest 2008 at BankAtlantic Center

Sayre Berman Keyshia Cole Lil’ Wayne, Keyshia Cole, Akon and more at SummerFest 2008 Saturday, June 28, 2008 BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Better Than: Throwback hip-hop fest Power House from the ‘90s with a side of Pop Rocks and OE. For South Florida hip-hop enthusiasts, Saturday night’s South Florida SummerFest 2008…

Last Night: H2-Om at the Standard

All Miami yogis who are hip to the scene know about The Standard’s regular Friday soiree, H2-Om. I headed there last night, as this was the om-fest’s big night – three years in the making – ode to the Miami Yoga community. The shtick of the evening was the attendance…

Miami Heat Draft Recap: The Ghost of Harold Miner Has Been Exorcized

When NBA commissioner David Stern walked up to the microphone last night and said, “With the second pick in the 2008 NBA draft the Miami Heat select…” there was a collective sphincter-clenching angst that shot across Heat Nation. “Oh shit,” we all thought breathlessly, “are we going to hear any…

Last Night: Shop Miami 2008 at the Moore Building

Jipsy Kimmy Huynh for Ecoist. It’s probably one of the most anticipated events of the summer, Gen Art’s Shop Miami 2008, an event that packs local designers and boutiques into the Moore Building in the Design District. The event featured three floors of shopping bliss that was sure to please…

Documenting the Bi-Sexy Trend

Miami documentarian Claudia Forestieri is on to something. Or, at least, she’s picked a juicy enough topic for her latest project – which dives into what she calls “the bi-sexy phenomenon.” “A bi-sexy female is someone who is straight, but projects the image of bisexuality because it’s perceived as cool…

Nic Fanciulli at Back Door Bamby Ticket Giveaway

Nic Fanciulli In a sort of last minute booking, British DJ extraordinaire Nic Fanciulli is stopping by the Vagabond Saturday night for its Back Door Bamby party. Don’t know who Fanciulli is? Well let me expand your musical knowledge. He’s a British house DJ that is associated with acts like…