Traditions are kept alive by constant change. The roots music of the 21st Century is being created as much with electric guitars, sequencers, and laptops as with drums and flutes. That's one of the ideas behind the Rhythm Foundation's Heineken TransAtlantic Festival, whose 2013 headliners include Argentine-Uruguayan electro-tango group Bajofondo...
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Pepe Billete has always been proud of his Miami hometown. From openly admiring the city's famous culo to delving into more serious political issues like the meaning of "Hispanic," Miami culture is more than just an influence in his comedy; it's the foundation of his work. So it's no surprise...
Adding a state-of-the-art casino with 1,035 slot machines has turned one of Miami's oldest parimutuel sites into an enormous money maker. Last year, Casino Miami Jai-Alai, located near Miami International Airport, collected $17.3 million in third quarter revenue compared to $1.8 million for the same period in 2011. No wonder...
This year, New Times received an press pass to the Blacks' Annual Gala, one of the ritziest events in the Miami Beach social calendar. Now, why New Times would receive such an invitation remains a bit of a mystery. It's not exactly known as a paper that pays loving homage...
Alejandro Cartagena shot his "Car Poolers" series by waiting for pickup trucks to drive under a highway overpass in Mexico. The resultant photographs, which we saw last week at Kopeikin Gallery's booth at Miami Project, show fleeting but surprisingly intimate glimpses of laborers in the beds of the trucks, heading...
Searching for the source of your fatigue, chronic illness, indigestion, obesity, or even attention deficit disorder? Go with your gut, proposes Dr. Steven Lamm, MD, the "house doctor" on ABC's The View and author of the new book No Guts, No Glory.No Guts is a relatively short guide that packs...
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Each week, Miami dating expert Nikki Novo gives us advice on finding love in this hopeless place. Today: How to meet potential dates, even if you're not perched on a barstool and wearing beer goggles. You're sitting at Miami's hot new bar, dressed to the nines, sipping on some overpriced...
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Miami’s Top Ten Fritas Cubanas
What did our mothers tell us about overindulgence? "Oh no, don't worry about it. We swear we're just going to have one more cup of this tea," we all said back in 2010 while we were busy here in Florida electing anyone remotely connected to the Tea Party. Next thing...
For almost half a century, Frederick Wiseman has been directing some of the finest documentaries ever made. In more than 40 films, he's taken his camera everywhere, from slaughterhouses to a school for the blind, a ballet company, abusive relationships, and into zero gravity. Tonight at the Coral Gables Art...
Damn, Ultra Music Festival is a mad house. Everywhere you look, it's neon titties, the bottom half of an ass, or some kind of sexy rabbit hoppin' around with a lollipop in her cheek. Last year, we introduced "The Seven Ravers You Meet at Ultra Music Festival." But this time,...
To understand biodynamic agriculture, consider egg labeling. "Free-range" stamps previously suggested eggs laid by chickens raised on pastures. Then, it turned out, they were laid by chickens with access to the outdoors. Whether they spent time outside was (and still is) arguable. As demand for sustainable eggs increased, farmers evolved the lexicon...
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So, remember that flap over Gov. Rick Scott adopting a shelter dog, naming it Reagan, using it for campaign publicity, and then dumping it on another family as soon as he was inaugurated? Yes, we know it's hard to keep Rick Scott scandals straight.Well, its appears to have cost Brian...
The killer arrived just after lunch. Clutching a sawed-off shotgun in a leather-gloved hand, he slipped through the back door of a long, stucco dental office. But then, because he wore a ski mask and the afternoon burned hot, he coughed. Down a narrow hallway at the front of the...
Miami is not a city that lends itself to summary. This town is too vast in its varying shades of weird beauty and visceral energy, its myriad colors and countries splashed about the streets. From Doral to downtown, from Hialeah to Homestead, from Miami Gardens to Miami Beach, there is...
Each week, Miami dating expert Nikki Novo gives us advice on finding love in this hopeless place. Today: How to avoid sabotaging your first night out with someone special. You have the perfect outfit. Your date actually confirmed. And you're just minutes away from your first outing with a pretty...
A couple of years ago, an interracial couple told Miami actress Christina Alexander that several churches had refused to marry them. This sparked an idea -- for a one-woman show about equality told from multiple points of view, connecting the historical and emotional dots between interracial and gay marriage. The...
The Art Directors Club is not a pioneer in turning 92 and then moving from New York down to Miami Beach, but they are doing it with a touch more style than your bubbe did in her fuchsia tracksuit. The ADC, which champions forward-thinking design and visual arts, is bringing...
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It'd been a while since Chris Brown acted up. But it's Grammy season, and that means Breezy's in fight mode! According to TMZ, Brown allegedly "jumped" R&B crooner Frank Ocean last night outside of Westlake Studio in Los Angeles after the Grammy-nominated Odd Future crewman reportedly blocked Breezy from exiting...
The ABCs of Death Movie Review: Horror Anthology Is a Stiff
This is barely news anymore, since they've been doing the same thing for years, but it appears things haven't gotten better.Once again, the Miami Herald will force staff members to accept an unpaid weeklong furlough before June 30...
Terrazza executive chef Stefano Riccioletti was struck and killed yesterday morning by a motorist in an apparent DUI hit-and-run just steps from the restaurant he helmed at the Shore Club Hotel in South Beach. Riccioletti was thrown about 30 feet onto the driveway of the Shelborne South Beach on Collins Avenue at 18th...