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Night&Day
Four Hands Are Better than Two
Double your pleasure at the Two Piano Competition.
By MARA LEVENTHAL
Published: March 13, 2008
The concept is something like doubles tennis for pianists: Every two years, piano teams from all over the globe meet in Miami for the Dranoff International Two Piano...
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Night&Day
Calle of the Wild
You can’t deny the Calle Ocho festival, even if you try.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: March 13, 2008
It’s Sunday, and you’ve got your usual weekend chores. Shopping for groceries, doing laundry, and catching up on sleep await, but who are you fooling? Today’s...
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Metro
Silly Wabbit
So a guy in a bunny suit walks into a bar ...
By Janine Zeitlin
Published: March 13, 2008
Eddy Rodriguez, a stocky 50-year-old, wears a white bunny suit, a yellow vest with polka dots, and a Day-Glo green cowboy hat. Just outside the Gap clothing store on Grand...
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Metro
Field of Schemes
The steroid scandal keeps injecting Palm Beach County.
By Michael J. Mooney
Published: March 13, 2008
Grass doesn't get any greener than on the fields of Major League Baseball spring training, when vivacious, young hopefuls play catch with millionaire all-stars. That was the...
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Riptide
Gossip 101
"How many times can you rank the hottest sororities? It just gets meaner and meaner."
By Mara Leventhal, Brantley Hargrove and Isaiah Thompson
Published: March 13, 2008
Gossip 101 Filed under: News If there is a special corner in Hell reserved for the producers of Fox's family-destroying hit reality show The Moment of Truth, then Matt...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of March 13, 2008
"Miami-Dade County government is badly in need of a federal enema."
Published: March 13, 2008
Missing Pedigree Missing papers: In regard to "TV Guise," Francisco Alvarado's February 28 Riptide story about Miami city Commissioner Marc Sarnoff: For your information, a...
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Music
La India, Pitbull, and Menudo ...
Celebrate Carnaval Miami at Little Havana's Calle Ocho.
By José Dávila
Published: March 13, 2008
It's mid-March, which means it's time for Carnaval Miami's legendary Calle Ocho street party. The free event — this year celebrating its 30th anniversary — attracts...
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Music
Large and in Charge
Fat Joe returns with The Elephant in the Room.
By Ben Westhoff
Published: March 13, 2008
It's Grammy weekend, and Fat Joe, the self-described "Susan Lucci of the Grammys," is boycotting the festivities. He's in L.A., but he's not going to the Staples Center's main...
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Burner
Blue Beat
Mike Relm brings turntablism to the unhip masses.
By Ben Westhoff
Published: March 13, 2008
Mike Relm is single-handedly introducing turntablism to parts of middle America on his second stint with Blue Man Group, opening its current production, How to Be a Megastar...
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Burner
Gang of Green
Six essential Irish acts that would win St. Paddy’s approval.
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: March 13, 2008
With another St. Patrick's Day upon us, we'll once again don the green, approximate some lame Irish accents, and prepare to ingest massive amounts of oddly tinted beer. Worthy...
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Burner
What You See Is What You Get
Jeremias keeps it real.
By José Dávila
Published: March 13, 2008
Like neo-folk songster Devendra Banhart, London-born singer-songwriter Jeremias grew up in Venezuela, a country that once counted with a high population of hippie expats. And...
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Livewire
Jolly Badfellow and Hang Jowls
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: March 13, 2008
Fort Lauderdale's Jolly Badfellow boasts an old-school punk style something like Jabbers duking it out with early Green Day. But there's a real knuckle ball: the upright bass...
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Livewire
The Mood
By Arielle Castillo
Published: March 13, 2008
Three-fourths of this high-energy quartet hail from South Florida, including its charming, boyish frontman Marco Argiro. All legs and arms, the natty 25-year-old doubtlessly...
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Livewire
Astari Nite and Rimsky
By Arielle Castillo
Published: March 13, 2008
Saturday night's Eclectic Sounds Unite event at Studio A is something of a locals-only extravaganza, featuring an unlikely mishmash of Miami-bred acts playing everything from...
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Livewire
Badfish
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: March 13, 2008
The difference between a cover band and a tribute band is the difference between a slut and a prostitute: One plays with all sorts of people's stuff simply because it's fun;...
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Rotations
Albert Castiglia
These Are the Days (Blues Leaf Records)
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: March 13, 2008
The Bonzo Dog Band, an eccentric Sixties British group with a penchant for silliness and satire, once released a song whose title begged the theoretical question, "Can blue men...
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Rotations
Kreamy 'Lectric Santa
1980 to 2007 6 Song Retrospective of Unreleased Material II (Digestive Systems)
By Abel Folgar
Published: March 13, 2008
If you've never owned a vinyl album, I feel very sorry for you. Plainly put, you've never actually enjoyed music in your life — you just think you have. In truth, your...
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Rotations
Todos Tus Muertos
Greatest Hits (Nacional)
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: March 13, 2008
Today's pop scene would be a much poorer place without the Nineties rock en español explosion that brought bands like Aterciopelados, Maldita Vencidad, Café...
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Rotations
Saba
Jidka: The Line (World Music Network/Riverboat)
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: March 13, 2008
Though this Somalian-born singer-songwriter shares a few vocal similarities with Shakira, she has a distinctive style. Not unlike the Colombian pop star, Saba mixes traditional...
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Cafe
Chain Reaction
Like its brethren, Abokado plays it safe.
By Lee Klein
Published: March 13, 2008
Mary Brickell Village still isn't much of a village, with many of the storefronts as empty as the concept of a downtown urban mall. Think of it more as a quaint clustering of...
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