Al Capone

Milestones in Beer History

Tobacco Road Celebrates Its 99th Anniversary on 11/11/11

​Considered Miami's oldest bar, Tobacco Road was once a speakeasy, a gambling den, a gay bar, a strip joint, and blues bar. It has survived Al Capone, Prohibition, the Great Depression, deadly hurricanes, the Mariel boatlift, race riots, cocaine cowboys. And next Friday, Tobacco Road celebrates ... More >>

Miami Is Vice

​Considered Miami's oldest bar, Tobacco Road was once a speakeasy, a gambling den, a gay bar, a strip joint, and blues bar. It has survived Al Capone, Prohibition, the Great Depression, deadly hurricanes, the Mariel boatlift, race riots, cocaine cowboys. And next Friday, Tobacco Road celebrates ... More >>

Luke's Miami pop quiz

​Considered Miami's oldest bar, Tobacco Road was once a speakeasy, a gambling den, a gay bar, a strip joint, and blues bar. It has survived Al Capone, Prohibition, the Great Depression, deadly hurricanes, the Mariel boatlift, race riots, cocaine cowboys. And next Friday, Tobacco Road celebrates ... More >>

Shame on China: Top Chinese Food Scandals

via Flickr kyle simourdSwine flu is the least of China's worries.​We Americans are a whiny, complaining bunch. If our spinach is contaminated with E. coli, we raise our flabby arms to the sky and demand that all those yucky greens be recalled. What we don't understand, and what Republicans have be ... More >>

Miami Beach Candidate Steve Berke Wants Casino At Convention Center

via Steve BerkeBerke's rendering of a casino at the Miami Beach Convention Center.​Schemers and dreamers have plotted for years to bring gambling back to South Beach, once the site of high stakes poker games featuring the likes of Al Capone and Meyer Lansky. Sure, local and state laws stand in the ... More >>

Live Recordings With Garcia, Birdman's Clambake, and DJ Heron at Tobacco Road's Parking Lot Stage

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Bugsy's Boss

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Killer machines to Duchamp: the year's best art shows

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Collection Agency

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Gambling back in Miami Beach?

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Scarface Gets a Retrial

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Mob Rule

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

History Miami Museum commits to crime

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Felonious Funk

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Gangster's Paradise

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Tobacco Road turns 97. What would you like to do before you're that old?

​Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he'd have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami, but they make a great fuckin ... More >>

Sandwich Slingers and Zingers

Two sandwich shops. One is tops, the other flops.

A Chicago's Trifecta in Coconut Grove: Bakery & Deli, and Soon to be Steakhouse

Jackie SayetCorned Beef, kraut and banana peppers, the guts of "The Chicago Fire," a twist on the Reuben sandwichThe new Chicago's Bakery & Deli has only been open one week, but its performance has already received rave reviews and even a few regulars.  There was such a fuss brewing on the ... More >>

Scarface Comes Home

Al Capone's would-be grandson spills family secrets.

Sarnoff Shmarnoff

Commissioner Marc's claim to a famous bloodline just might be fiction.

Law Library Checks Out

The county is closing law libraries faster than whorehouses

Posh Cocktails

The county is closing law libraries faster than whorehouses

Renaissance Swamp Man

Lucky Cole likes nudes. Who doesn't?

Tobacco Road's 94th Anniversary Party

Lucky Cole likes nudes. Who doesn't?

'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night

Lucky Cole likes nudes. Who doesn't?

Terrorist or Trickster

Did a career criminal foil a potentially catastrophic attack on Miami? Or was I just duped?

Mixed Asian, Mixed Results

Did a career criminal foil a potentially catastrophic attack on Miami? Or was I just duped?

Timeless Road

Did a career criminal foil a potentially catastrophic attack on Miami? Or was I just duped?

Boneyard Boogie

Did a career criminal foil a potentially catastrophic attack on Miami? Or was I just duped?

Off the Popular Path

Seek out Tangerine for stellar starters

Steel Appeal

Once a haven for gangsters, the Forge took its time learning to serve steak bloody

The Iguanas

Yep Roc Records

Letters from the Issue of March 6, 2003

From Cuba and public debates to advertising and private parts

BEST PLACE TO SIP A SUFFERING BASTARD WHILE RESEARCHING THE HOFFA DISAPPEARANCE

Lagoon Restaurant and Lounge

Back-Door Gal

Stop! If you can see the entrance, it ain't cool

Features from the Back Lagoon

Lagoon

"I Rode for Lansky"

Miami Beach's premier crooked jockey reminisces

Best Reissued Book By A Local Author

Up for Grabs: A Trip Through Time and Space in the Sunshine State

The Power of Samson

A power-crazed mayor, angry citizens, a state attorney's investigation. Is this any way to run a city?

Best Tennis Courts

The Biltmore Tennis Center

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of February 24, 2000

Dish

What's That on Your Plate?

Close Encounters of the Swamp Kind

If the customs and legends of Loop Road seem strange, you probably don't live there

Yarns of Yesteryear

If the customs and legends of Loop Road seem strange, you probably don't live there

Rude Boy Invasion

If the customs and legends of Loop Road seem strange, you probably don't live there

Swelter 27

If the customs and legends of Loop Road seem strange, you probably don't live there

Swelter

If the customs and legends of Loop Road seem strange, you probably don't live there

Kerry Out

If the customs and legends of Loop Road seem strange, you probably don't live there

When the Beach was Hot

Eisenhower was president, shark-finned Cadillacs ruled the highways, and Miami Beach was the nightlife capital of the Western Hemisphere