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LuckyRice: Asian-Inspired Food and Cocktails in Paradise

The Raleigh Hotel's gorgeous poolside oasis was the setting for the LuckyRice festival, where neatly two dozen of Miami's best chefs gathered to serve Asian fare while the city's finest bartenders mixed cocktails with Bombay Sapphire East gin. The result? A sophisticated soiree filled with upscale and delicious food and...
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GastroPod’s Medianoche Is the Ultimate Nocturnal Snack

Jeremiah Bullfrog has been hard at work lately. The chef and owner of GastroPod recently announced he would open up shop in Aventura Mall while almost simultaneously reaching his fundraising goal on Kickstarter to keep his converted shipping container in Wynwood going. The mastermind never stops creating or thinking about...
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Dominique Ansel’s Chocolate Oyster: Trick or Treat?

The 14th annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival might be over, but we're still recovering from Death by Chocolate, the late-night cocoa soiree hosted by none other than donut creator Dominique Ansel. While many of the guests at Death by Chocolate were secretly hoping that Ansel saying his doughnut-hybrid...
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SoBeWFF 2015 Recap: The Best and the Worst

As the sun sets on the 2015 edition of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, it's time to take stock of the weekend. The festival saw an improved Grand Tasting Village that had better flow in the massive tasting tents. There was also a roster of new parties that...
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Sean Penn Is Mighty in the Strained Gunman

In the action thriller The Gunman, Sean Penn, at age 54, looks neither old nor young. He’s been in training to look this age for a long time. Even as a relative kid, in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, his sailor-on-shore-leave mug had a wry, quizzical roughness to it;...
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Bravura Anthology Wild Tales Lays Bare Everyone’s Awfulness

There are two kinds of humanist movie. One kind shows human beings struggling against the most unspeakable horrors, sorrows, or injustices and still, somehow, emerging with their essential goodness intact. The second, thornier type portrays people doing terrible things to one another — screaming, cheating, and generally making life hell...
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Sam Adams Speed Coaching Tonight in Doral; RSVP Now For a Slot

Long before the recent craft beer craze, with hundreds of small breweries opening around the United States monthly, there was Jim Koch. As co-founder of the Boston Beer Company, Koch is the leader of the company that brews Samuel Adams beers, the country's largest-selling craft beer.Even with that distinction, the...
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Bravo’s Best New Restaurant: Tongue & Cheek Advances

In what was a tense competition, Tongue & Cheek emerged victorious after a rough start on last evening's episode of Best New Restaurant. The SoBe restaurant competed against Austin's Porter Ale House for the "Battle of the Burgers." Once again, Tom Colicchio was joined by Maggie Nemser and Jeffrey Zurofsky...
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Miami Artist Magnus Sodamin Is Obsessed With Size

Miami Artist Magnus Sodamin is obsessed with size. Large canvases, broad brushstrokes, sides of walls, Sodamin's chaotic aesthetic is barely contained by the large surfaces on which he paints. There's nothing too big for Sodamin, in 2014 the artist wrapped an entire roller coaster. Sodamin debuted his first solo show...
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Paddy Johnson Schooled Locals on Net Art and the History of Blogging

Would you call your Instagram feed art? Are the 140 characters you spin on Twitter poetry? According to Paddy Johnson, founder of Art F City and a featured speaker in the Miami Rail's Visiting Writers Program, these forms of blogging are analogous to art. Last week during her Knight Foundation...
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Bullygate Ends With Bills Signing Richie Incognito

Richie Incognito is officially out of timeouts -- and so ends one of the most ridiculous suspensions in National Football League history. This weekend, the Buffalo Bills decided to take a chance on Incognito, signing him to a one-year, $2.25 million nonguaranteed deal. The signing of Incognito fits right in...
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Ryan Martin on 180 Degrees at DRB: “This Is an Actual Gastropub”

Chef Ryan Martin quietly took over the Democratic Republic of Beer's location at 501 NE First Ave. about six months ago, changing nearly everything about the beer hall. That could explain the new name: 180 Degrees at DRB. Martin explains that the beer-bar-turned-gastropub has retained its DRB label because of...
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Miami Contemporary Dance Makes “Light” of Anniversary Year

Ray Sullivan's Miami Contemporary Dance Company, one of Miami's most celebrated and inventive dance ensembles, celebrates its 15th birthday with a premier performance at the Colony Theatre this weekend. Sullivan has entitled the evening "Light." He offers his audience not only a mediation on light but also portrait of the...
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Bar Fight Ends in Severed Ear, Accusations of Taser Abuse by Miami-Dade Police

On December 30, New Times published a yearlong investigation showing local cops routinely broke department policy on Tasers: using the weapons on skateboarding teenagers, shocking the mentally ill, even killing 18-year-old graffiti artist Israel "Reefa" Hernandez. The most disturbing finding, however, was evidence that Miami Police Officer Vincent Miller had...
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Macchialina to Launch Red Sauce Sundays, Open New Outpost

After enduring nearly a year of suffering from the construction on Alton Road, Macchialina Taverna Rustica has some exciting news to share. Not only has the restaurant's view improved significantly, but also, beginning February 8, it will debut a "Red Sauce Sundays" menu. What's more, owners Michael Pirolo (chef) and...
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Miami-Dade Police Secretly Tracked Local Cell Phones Dozens of Times Last Year

For years, Florida police agencies have secretly purchased mysterious devices called Stingrays. Manufactured in Delray Beach and sold for up to $134,000, the machine lets cops track cell phones. And even though Stingrays were bought mostly with anti-terrorism money and pitched as emergency-only options, local court records hint that police...