Brooklyn (New York City)

Shake Shack Launches Mast Brothers Chocolate Bar

The king of the antibiotic and hormone-free black Angus beef burger patty, Shake Shack, recently launched its first-ever dark chocolate bar. For $9 a pop you get fancy wrapping with a New York backdrop, paying homage to the first Shake Shack location in Madison Square Park and the scenery that surr ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain No Reservations: Last Stop, Brooklyn

After eight years of travel to far and exotic places, Anthony Bourdain has ended his tour with No Reservations "in a place as strange as Brooklyn" (That, by the way wasn't Bourdain, but one of the opening lines of Sophie's Choice by William Styron).Brooklyn is indeed a strange place. The "fourt ... More >>

French Horn Rebellion at Grand Central September 14

ASAP Mob and Flatbush Zombies' "Bath Salt": An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

ASAP Mob's first official video is here, and they're feeling hella zombified. The just more than 4-minute clip lends some dark visuals to the track "Bath Salt" featuring New York's Flatbush ZOMBIES, so that's like a big up to our own crazed, drug-fueled city of sin. It's creepy and it's kooky, it' ... More >>

Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee's Messy Mix of Authenticity and Awkwardness

Lester's Owner Dan Milewski and Wife Host Tax-Deductible Dinner To Help Miami Artists and Writers

Lester's owner Dan Milewski and his wife Nina are hosting a fundraiser dinner at their home on September 5 to benefit artists and writers of The Miami Rail. The dinner starts at 8 p.m. and costs $75. And because it is a fundraiser for charity, the cost is tax-deductable.It will be held at the Milews ... More >>

EL-P and Killer Mike's Into the Wild Tour at Grand Central August 23

Tanlines at Bardot July 19

Prepare for Hurricane Season: Learn Canning at Williams Sonoma July 22

Canning and preserving foods may be a hobby for hipsters in Brooklyn, but it's actually practical for us here in Miami. With the very real threat of hurricanes and the zombie apocalypse, every good South Florida resident should be prepared to go a few weeks without electricity, and canning is an ef ... More >>

Robb Bank$ at Green Room June 27

For Father's Day: Thor, Whisky of the Gods

If you're looking to spend about $200 on a special gift for dad on Father's Day (June 17) -- one that he can wring quite a bit of pleasure from -- this just might be it: Thor, a new 16 year old single malt Scotch whisky from Highland Park's Valhalla Collection."We wanted to create an exciting new ra ... More >>

Kings County Pizza Sells Da Real Brooklyn Slice

Brooklyn is located in Kings County, New York, and Kings County Pizza is located in North Miami Beach. The small slice of a restaurant is owned by a couple with roots in Queens and Long Island, but the pizza is touted as "Brooklyn's Finest." I'm not sure I'd go that far, but Kings' certainly serves ... More >>

Almond & Sea Salt Chocolate From Brooklyn for V-Day: Yo! Eat Me!

Laine DossMast Brothers Chocolates -- Wynwood just got sweeter.​Mast Brothers Chocolate is a small boutique factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that makes artisan chocolate.The chocolate is made in small numbered batches from beans specially selected by the brothers who own the company, Rick and Mi ... More >>

School Lunch: French Fries Still a Vegetable, But New Rules Are Better

​Yesterday, First Lady Michelle Obama ate a cafeteria lunch at a local D.C. area elementary school as a sign of support (and photo op) to mark the new USDA nutritional standards for public school lunches. These rules, which must be implemented by July, 2012, aren't perfect (French fries are still ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys' homecoming show at Churchill's Pub November 26

Beat of the Drums

The Knocks Will Make You Feel Real Good at Grand Central September 3

​Brooklyn-based electro-pop duo and production team The Knocks took its name from those early days when the constant broom-thump of neighbors in adjacent apartments communicated a rhythmic command to "shut the fuck up." Now, though, people are begging DJ B-Roc, JPatt, and their flirty, summertime ... More >>

MartyParty Talks Smoking Purple Pot, Making Purple Music, and Freaking Out on Fun

​For millennia, only a supersmall slice of the world's human population could legitimately claim to have rocked out to the color spectrum. Of course, we're talking about those special party people with the strange neurological condition known as synesthesia. And, uh, certain recreational weed smo ... More >>

The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. Opens Tomorrow

One bagel please, hold the Larry.​Authentic bagels will finally be available in South Beach starting tomorrow, when The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. debuts at The Shops at Alton & Fifth in South Beach. The first 50 folks to show up at opening time -- 6 a.m. -- will receive six free b ... More >>

Guinness with Guerrillas

Brew at The Zoo: Meet Your Beer

Photo by JipsyRemember last year's Brew at the Zoo? Probably not.​Miami New Times and Zoo Miami's Brew at the Zoo takes place April 30. Before then, we'll showcase a few of the breweries pouring for your drinking pleasure. All in all, over two dozen beers are scheduled to be poured, with more ... More >>

Tweed Ride

The Death Set at the Vagabond, March 4

Photo by Brock Fetch, via the Windish Agency​​The Death SetThe VagabondFriday, March 4, 2011 Better Than: Drinking to the usual indie-dance playlist going on in the other room of the club.The 50-odd people who managed to wander in to the Vagabond's main dance floor area last night for the D ... More >>

Apocalypse Brownsville: A Business Owner Fends Off Dying Crackheads and Prostitute Amputees

This photo was taken in Brownsville on Wednesday.​For 24 years, Marion Schano and her husband Edward have owned an aviation business called Amtec Aviation Aerospace in Brownsville, a 'hood west of Liberty City with a population of 14,000 and shrinking. It's one of Miami's poorest neighborhoods, an ... More >>

Kasha Varnishkas Recipe From The Brooklyn Cookbook

​Kasha varnishkas is an Eastern European dish that mixes bow-tie noodles, kasha grain, and caramelized onions. It's a hearty dish served warm, and one that I grew up eating from time to time.When I was chef at an upscale take-out shop in Manhattan called Mangia, I made my own version of the dish, ... More >>

The Brooklyn Cookbook

​​This is one of the real gems of my cookbook collection, and I'm not just saying that because I'm from Brooklyn. Alright, maybe I am just saying that because I'm from Brooklyn, but how can you not be impressed with a selection of recipes that includes Mrs. Stahl's Knishes; Dee Dee Daily's Pigeo ... More >>

Post Hanukkah Wish: A Good Deli in Miami

​Some of the bloggers at Short Order are creating a holiday wish list for Miami's food scene. Click here to read some of our other wishes.Dear Hanukkah Harry,I realize yesterday was the last night of Hanukkah but I forgot about my most sincere wish! Please, please deliver me a local deli that has ... More >>

Lemonade Talks Doom, Digital Sounds, Sade, and Dancing

Photo by Alyssa Robb.​A gothic metropolis in sunny California, San Francisco is a city suffering from a schizo split. It's bred hippies, Hells Angels, and the Zodiac Killer. And five years ago, old San Fran gave birth to a certain psych-pop trio called Lemonade that luxuriates in the idea of swi ... More >>

ArtOfficial and Brooklyn's Tanya Morgan Tear It Up at Transit Lounge Tomorrow

​Hip-hop heads and lovers of live music alike, hold on to your f'n hats. Tomorrow's Saturday night festivities at Transit Lounge are going to be bananas. But don't take our word for it. Let ArtOfficial tell you."This event in particular is gonna be bananas!" says bassist Rafy Valencia. "We're flyi ... More >>

Brooklyn Water Bagels Coming To SoBe

Lee KleinAs a lad, I worked as a bagelmeister in Queens, New York, a large operation that provided bagels wholesale to various markets and restaurants around the city. This experience gives me an insight into bagels that many people don't possess. Like, for instance, you.Okay, now that my credibilit ... More >>

Bogus Bialy at Brooklyn Bagels

Lee KleinIt just don't look right.I recently purchased a couple of bagels and a bialy at Brooklyn Bagels, which is open for business in the Midtown 2 (between The Cheese Course and Primo Pizza, across from Shoppes at Midtown). Owner Ashraf Sahaltout ships his water from New York in order to capture ... More >>

Cookbook: Latin Chic Recipe For Labor Day

​Publishers don't generally send me cookbooks, but once in awhile one ends up in my mailbox. That's how I came upon Latin Chic: Entertaining with Style and Sass in 2005. The book, co-authored by Carolina Buia and Isabel C. Gonzalez, is bright with colors and photos, and stocked with all sorts of p ... More >>

MP3: The Drums - "Down by the Water;" Grand Central Show With Surfer Blood Sept. 18

​Sniffing the winds of bloggy change, it seems like with the turning of the seasons is coming a backlash to the wave of feel-good, dreamy beach-rock that dominated this summer. This is silly for several reasons:1) Backlash is hilarious when many of these bands have yet to release a full-length alb ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: A Slice at Steve's Pizza

Lee Klein​As a countdown to New Times' "Best of Miami" 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.

MP3: Meet Hooray For Earth, Grand Central's Opening Act For the Pains of Being Pure at Heart This Saturday

via dovecoterecords.com​While most of the big-deal shows rolling through town lately have tended towards the loud and brash, this Saturday at Grand Central marks an evening for gentler souls. In honor of Poplife's anniversary, the party returns to its Anglophilic indie-loving roots for a show head ... More >>

Lil Daggers Get Blitzed in Brooklyn

Six weeks ago, the Sin City's unelected, unofficial representatives of the undead, Lil Daggers, got blitzed in Brooklyn, made friends with all the zombies there, and eventually returned home a conquering horde full of Bushwick and Williamsburg's finest booze and brains. The bad news: No one remem ... More >>

Gristle, Chums, and Fiction

Nickodemus

Great Endangered Yaks

Q&A with Gadi Mizrahi (Wolf Lamb) Playing Electric Pickle on Friday

​Since alighting on Brooklyn's underground dance music scene with partner Zev Eisenberg in 2001, DJ/producer Gadi Mizrahi has emerged as one of the most influential tastemakers in the wider international network of EDM labels and collectives. As a DJ and co-owner of the Wolf Lamb imprint, he has ... More >>

The Best Under-the-Radar Rock of 2009, Part Three

​The Deep Dark Woods - Winter Hours Both the band's name and the album title may seem intimidating, but in truth, Winter Hours shines light on warmly-lit environs via easily embraceable melodies, supple arrangements and the most earnest of sentiments.Bap Kennedy - Howl On The ever affabl ... More >>

The Freaks Come Out at Night

Rollin’ with the Homies

Other Clubs Just Give Us Lemons

Red Sea Pedestrians

Stories for the tribe at the JCC.

Miami According to Brooklyn

A local hardcore legend has seen it all.

A Family Affair

Mary J. Blige is BFF with Carol’s Daughter

305 Fest

It's All Good Smell

Take-out Chinese: Must have paper carton, must smell like your childhood