Boisterous Brunchers Can’t Bog Down Miami Chefs

A 50-pound pig is pumped full of brine for four days and then — around midnight on a Saturday — placed in a large wooden box just behind the Four Seasons Hotel in Brickell. The box is closed, covered in hot charcoal, and left for hours beneath a tent that’s…

Revolt TV Disses Miami’s Music Industry

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke calls out the brains behind Revolt Music Conference. I’m sick and tired of out-of-town entertainment moguls and executives…

Kill “Pitbullshit,” Fake DJs in New Video Game

Does Pitbull’s “Timber” make you wanna murder? Are you effin’ fed up with fake DJs like Paris Hilton getting paid $1 million per night? Time to play Ghosts ‘n DJs, a new, retro video game from a Spanish electronic music producer named Dr. Kuch. The mission… Rid mankind of all…

Seven Seas Restaurant & Fish Market: Little Haiti’s Hidden Gem

Don’t let its proximity to the Design District fool you — Seven Seas Restaurant & Fish Market is all about the food. More specific, this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it gem in Little Haiti features inexpensive and expertly prepared Dominican and American dishes. Owner Nicholas Paulino and his wife, Ana, are originally from San…

Loba in MiMo Draws a Pack of Admirers

Bathroom talk is usually off-limits during meals, but at Loba, a 3-month-old restaurant in MiMo, the lavatory is a conversation piece. That’s because apart from the complimentary dental floss (greatly appreciated), the wallpaper is composed of pages torn from the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. It’s no…

Katherine Fernandez Rundle Fails Miami’s Blacks

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke says Miami’s state attorney has fooled African-Americans in the city. On Memorial Day 2011, cops from Miami Beach…

Seed Food & Wine Festival Day: Miami’s Vegans Come of Age

With Seed Food & Wine Festival’s inaugural run all wrapped up, it’s clear that Miami’s plant-based culinary community was bigger, stronger, and way more dedicated than anyone probably imagined. Myself included. With five full days of plant-based soirees, celebrity hosts, chef dinners, and vegan vendors, this was no ordinary veg…

Gator Nation Hates Black QBs

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains the University of Florida’s problem with African-American quarterbacks. University of Florida quarterback Treon Harris has yet to…

Michelin Guide Miami: Who Needs It?

Lists are a big deal. Hate them or love them, they’re successful enough that corporate overlords at media companies of all stripes have handed down firm marching orders calling for lists with haste, creativity, and military-like regularity. But when the vaunted Michelin Guide for New York City — one of…

Cops Should Wear Body Cameras, and Maybe Commissioners Too

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke commends elected officials who support police body cameras. Local politicians and union bosses opposed to putting body cameras…

Miami Gastropubs Risk Steering the Trend the Wrong Way

Miami today is replete with truffle oil fries, Brussels sprouts studded with pork bits, and fried-egg-crowned burgers. From the beach to the suburbs, from north to south, scores of restaurants all serve the same predictably heavy fare under the gastropub banner. The concept was borne of England’s pub culture. Chefs…

Adrian Peterson Is Not an Evil Dad

Many people are shocked and disgusted by the alleged abuse Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson inflicted on his 4-year-old son. He’s been indicted in Montgomery, Texas, for reckless and negligent injury to a child because he whupped his son’s backside with a switch, leaving the boy with open wounds and…

Reader Mail: EDM Culture Is Poisoned

PLUR Warrior Can’t handle the beads: Everything about the article about Lady Casa and her move to bring “peace, love, unity, and respect” to EDM (“Kandi Kulture,” Ben Westhoff, September 18) shows why our culture will never be taken seriously as a youth movement. Or maybe I’m just bitter because…