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Chuck Martinez, Willy Bermello, and Peter Yanowitch, the masterminds behind the Grand Prix Americas -- the three-day racing extravaganza that commandeered the streets of...
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What happens when Santa Claus lands his sleigh in North Miami? A whole lotta elves ditching the North Pole for the Dirty South. Either that or it's time for Quick Hit Records'...
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It was not for food that I first, about a year ago, went to Wah Shing Chinese restaurant. It was for karaoke, which had suddenly become hugely hip among my younger friends....
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Maid in Manhattan, in which Jennifer Lopez goes from pauper to princess, comes not from a screenplay but from a handful of self-help books and fairy tales and fashion...
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Three songs into Night Time!, Dan Zanes's new album for kids, the former Del Fuegos frontman teams with Father Goose (West Indies emcee Rankin' Don) to trade lines and duet on...
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Notes from a network executive's forthcoming biography, pilfered from the desk of an editor at a major publishing house. This was hard to read, as it was scribbled in crayon...
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"Huh-lo?" mumbles Alvin Midas when he answers the phone on a recent sunny afternoon at the statewide headquarters of the group that aims to legalize pot. Midas isn't the...
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Malian vocalist and composer Salif Keita was an early victim of the dreaded West African Bombast Virus. This insidious disease can have devastating effects on an artist's...
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South Beach's favorite (and only) Austrian/German pub and eatery, formerly a teeny, cavernous room on Alton Road and Ninth Street, is now housed in a far roomier space two...
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The first image most of us had of music and the Third Reich was watching each von Trapp tyke sing "auf Wiedersehen, good night," bow off the stage, slip into the night,...
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All throughout our childhood, those Saturday-morning Schoolhouse Rock jingles assured us that three was the magic number. Journalist and radio producer Gustavo Noguera likes...
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Theater has always had a rabble-rousing role at the margins of society. Plato mistrusted poets and art in general. Aeschylus got himself exiled when his plays criticized the...
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The sun beams overhead and an azure Atlantic is just visible through a verdant screen of palm trees and bougainvillea bushes to the west. Lush topiary covers the east side of...
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Last Saturday, New Times celebrated its sweet fifteenth anniversary by coming out with some great big cakes, a few thousand friends, a few great bands and DJs, fabulous food...
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To my knowledge, I only cried twice on the job in the years I was a waitress. The first time occurred when my closest girlfriend, a fellow server at a certain deli in my...
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Of all the movies you could be spending your December with -- and there are many good choices, from Oscar-bait to better-than-expected sequels like The Santa Clause 2 -- why...
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The long arm of our faltering economy has reached out and touched this New Year's Eve. But don't worry -- you'll be the beneficiary. Most clubs and restaurants on South Beach,...
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A few weeks ago I invited readers to submit ideas that might be helpful to the City of Miami, which, being the poorest big city in America, needs all the help it can get. This...
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End-of-the-day cocktails at Chris Blackwell's Marlin Hotel set the tone for an easy evening before the night grind. The sour apple martinis are a little bitter, but our barman...
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Not the way I like to think about starting the new year: Marina Polvay, food writer, cookbook author, and PR rep for local restaurants, passed away on December 2. A colorful...
