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By Edmund Newton, Alexander Zaitchik and Francisco Alvarado
Published:
May 29, 2008
Culture
Sweet Truth
A filmmaker's exposé peeves the sugar powers.
By Edmund Newton
If they gave an Oscar for the muckraking documentary that most riles the world's...
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By Thomas Francis, Brantley Hargrove and Michael J. Mooney
Published:
May 29, 2008
It's May 21, and residents of the Sunrise Lakes condos are getting a lesson in the virtue of punctuality. Though it's three hours before Hillary Clinton will arrive at her...
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The story went this way: Stuck at MIA en route to Houston, flyweight Miami Commissioner Johnny Winton gulped down 16 drinks — wine, whiskey, amaretto, and beer. Then he...
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Best? Give It a Rest
Another great "Best of Miami" issue (May 15), with a few exceptions, but one glaring fairy tale of note: Best Criminal Conviction of the Past Year. Do...
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We should begin with the time John "Bloodclot" Joseph dressed up as a retarded, wheelchair-bound Santa Claus and scammed horrified Staten Island shopping-mall patrons on...
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Standing in a weirdly calm commercial kitchen and looking both bemused and amused, Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazzara grabs a tray with two Polish sausages. Then he...
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"Everyone else who gets the one-hit-wonder tag had real hits," chuckles Nada Surf frontman Matthew Caws.
Caws should know about real hits. His band scored one in 1996 with...
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In the Sixties, while British Invasion bands dominated the Anglophone music scene, a group of young Brazilian performers took their own unique look at the possibilities of...
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Apakalypse
Walking Coma (Rhyme Network)
www.myspace.com/apacalypse
Hey! Not bad. This is some kind of paranoid hip-hop that has brewed in some thick blunt smoke,...
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It's natural that Foxy Brown is the object of Ali G's affections — with her foul mouth and short skirt, she epitomizes the fake gangsta-ism he parodies. At least she has...
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Prong's Tommy Victor recently remarked that metal bands can't play in standard E tuning anymore because they'd "sound like the Eagles." Not that Meshuggah ever had anything to...
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No Age, the axe-'n'-drums duo from L.A., has reconnected with the quirky and all-too-damaged spirits coursing through old-school American indie rock. Nouns' title stinks...
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The image of African music, as seen through American eyes, goes through phases. Right now we're in a retro moment: It would be easy to look at the deluge of compilation CDs...
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Long established as the most accessible act in contemporary prog-metal, New York's Dream Theater is probably more accurately described as a hard rock band whose members just...
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The apparent goal of this local-artist extravaganza, according to the tireless Oski Gonzalez and his cohort, the anonymous Queen of the Scene, is to present "culturally...
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This weekend, Down Home Southernaires hit NE 14th Street two nights in a row, to play two neighboring venues. The Vagabond and PS14 are nice venues for dancing and drinking....
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After getting Richie Hawtin down here outside of Winter Music Conference for a packed-to-the-gills one-off last December, the local promoters of Future Mob have scored another...
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Beyond the crush of Winter Music Conference, the folks behind Soul Simple Entertainment have been keeping it real for lovers of house music on that, well, soulful tip. They've...
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Ristorante Fratelli Milano's umbrella-shaded tables are tightly clustered together on pinched, pedestrian-clogged SE First Street. Two dozen indoor seats are just as closely...
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Philippe Ruiz, from Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France, began his stint at the Biltmore Hotel in 1999. Few local chefs can match Ruiz's resumé of Michelin-star...
