That magical moment is fast approaching: Our new, improved Best Of Miami 2010 edition is all set to hit the newsstands and online newsstand. Each year, when selections are released, it angers everybody from advertisers to food bloggers to regular folks who hold strong opinions on matters such as these…
Local rapper Swazy Styles’ made-for-summer jam “Birthday Suit” is definitely a polarizing song. The title alone looks ludicrous on paper, for one thing, and then there’s the fact that the song is built on a maddening, note-for-note sample of the Tetris theme song. Still, the song’s mash-up of tinny dance music…
For the past two years, Ex Norwegian has quietly been gaining national traction on the strength of some classic guitar-driven power pop that sounds as though it came from anywhere but here. Anyone still mourning the late, great Alex Chilton can take some comfort in knowing some of his musical…
UPDATE:Earlier tonight, we received a text from Dhafir Harris that tomorrow’s backyard brawl is off. Government interference, apparently. Via text, Harris explains: “Do 2 The Rapid Growth of BkYrd Fights DADA ran n 2 legal issues wit the local Authority’s.”Kimbo Slice’s short lived career in the Ultimate Fighting Champhionship notwithstanding,…
Let’s start by dispensing with the Willow jokes. Yes, the band took its name from the jumbo-size character played by Val Kilmer in that movie about mystical dwarves. Still, our MadMartigan guys finally got their asses into the studio to record some music.Without sword or sorcery, the rock and roll…
Letters from the issue of June 10, 2010
Donna Milo: Sex-changed and bound for Congress
Some of us are still recovering from Memorial Day Weekend, and we’re still sifting through the annual deluge of mixtapes that the weekend brings. Poe Boy, I.M.G. and Strong Arm DJs (Entice, Kronik, and Mister Hustla) used the weekend to flaunt their diverse roster of artists in a 15-track mixtape…
From time to time, we at Short Order like to offer a helping hand to our friends in the restaurant business by coming up with snappy new slogans for them to use — free of charge! Flip Burger Bar: For when the other 35 burger joints are just too darn…
Ultrachic is a Miami band of Venezuelan ex-pats who rest at the crossroad of contemporary Venezuelan rock, uniting the golden age of acts like Sentimiento Muerto, Dermis Tatu, and Desorden Público with the newer crop of outfits like Zapato 3, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Caramelos de Cianuro. Actually, fans of…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 tries to understand how a transsexual running for Congress can be against gay marriage.A few weeks ago,…
In this week’s Time magazine, John Cloud reports on a soy product that not only tastes like chicken, but shares textural similarities to a real bird too (Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat). Scientists at the University of Missouri are behind the new food; it was announced this…
As waves slap the shoreline, littered with empty beer cans, Fane Lozman points to a pair of derelict sailboats anchored in the water near Pelican Harbor Marina on the 79th Street Causeway. The former Marine turned civic agitator fixes his gaze on a hairy man reading a book on the…
While most of the big-deal shows rolling through town lately have tended towards the loud and brash, this Saturday at Grand Central marks an evening for gentler souls. In honor of Poplife’s anniversary, the party returns to its Anglophilic indie-loving roots for a show headlined by Surfer Blood and the…
Charlie: How do you like your steak?Diane: Sitting in a pool of its own blood. Diane and Charlie Levine were on their “fourth or fifth date” when this conversational snippet took place. On the couple’s website yourmeattooth.com, it is noted that this “marks the moment they realized that they shared a…
State senate candidate Kevin Burns knows a thing or two about mounting debts. After all the former North Miami mayor played an instrumental role in convincing Miami-Dade County courts to create a mortgage foreclosure diversion program two years ago so folks like him stay in their homes. At the time,…
Sexlets: Viagra chewing gum, anyone?
Letters from the issue of June 3, 2010
Uncle Luke pioneered Southern rap
North Miami and Houston join forces for the sake of a brand new mixtape that mixes the flavors of two distinct artists. On one hand there’s Layce, a multifaceted rapper/producer/engineer and overall good businessman who’s representing Miami. Then on the other, you have Chingo Bling, a very animated, marketing-savvy rapper…
According to our tireless reviewer Esther Park, this year’s Best of the Best concert was even more intense than the last. With so many big-name artists scheduled to perform every year, there are always unexpected changes, pleasant surprises, and, it seems, a crazy sprint through the final leg of the…
Ah, Hialeah, Hialeah. You truly are the city of progress. One of my new friends on Facebook is Hialeah Cares, an unknown identity in the vast cyberverse of anonymity who has riled up Mayor Julio Robaina’s most vociferous critics. The back and forth has been quite entertaining. The wall post…
