Brooklyn (New York City)

Johnnie Walker Teaches New Times How To Make Bitters

Growing up in a Nicaraguan household, my first introduction to hard liquor came from my dad's bottle of Johnnie Walker Red. Nicas love hanging out with Johnnie. He's a smooth cat who's been the master at concocting aromatic, amber spirits since the 1800s. At the tender age of 13, I became a full-fle ... More >>

Desert(ed) Landscapes

Ten Jameson and Craft Brew Pairings for St. Patrick's Day

Nothing says St. Patrick's Day like shots of Jamo, aka Jameson, Ireland's (and America's) favorite whiskey. This popular spirit is all over the place for this weekend's festivities, from its key role in Irish Car Bombs to pairings with pickle juice. But if you wanna get a little more creative - an ... More >>

LeBron James, Heat Shut Up Smack-Talking Nets with 105-85 Win

During shootaround prior to last night's game, Brooklyn's pedestrian, no-rings, Dopey-headed fool of a starting power forward, Reggie Evans, ran off his mouth about how the Heat's championship "didn't count" because of the lockout and how LeBron James was no different then a lot of other players in ... More >>

Alba: It's Ralph Pagano's World; We Just Eat In It (Photos)

Ralph Pagano is not exactly a wallflower. The chef, who can be heard weekly on the Paul and Young Ron Show on Big 105.9, has been on multiple television cooking shows, is an outspoken lover of the "ponies", and shows no shame in his love for a good mojito and a good time.So when walking into Alba, h ... More >>

Brooklyn Castle: The Agonies and Ecstasies of the Nation's Top Junior High Chess Team

Heat Throttle Nets 103-73, Don't Care "Where Brooklyn At?"

Your WORLD CHAMPION Miami Heat took on the newly-relocated Brooklyn Nets last night and proceeded to obliterate those Brooklyn/New Jersey/Whatever fools 103-73, proving that even if you move from a shitty state to a less shitty city borough, it doesn't change the fact that your squad is infinitely i ... More >>

Top Chef Elizabeth Falkner Hosts Pop-Up at Miami Culinary Institute

Top Chef Elizabeth Falkner is bringing her talents across the United States for a special three-day, pop-up event at the Miami Culinary Institute on August 23 to 25.Falkner has appeared on Top Chef Masters and The Next Iron Chef. The west cost resident is currently planning on moving her talents to ... More >>

Talib Kweli, Esperanza Spalding, Four Others Announced for Arsht's Live at Knight Series

From the Prince of Brooklyn to the baddest 'fro in popular experimental jazz ... The Adrienne Arsht Center has just announced the six-act lineup for its inaugural Live at Knight concert series. Jumping off in October with Talib Kweli & Res's Idle Worship and ending seven months later with Esper ... More >>

"Bath Salt" Leads to "Rapin' Mona Lisa," According to A$AP Mob and Flatbush Zombies

See also "A$AP Rocky Announces LongLiveA$AP 2012 Tour With Fillmore Miami Beach Show." It had been 62 days since Miami's last zombie attack. But now we have to restart the counter. A$AP Rocky and his A$AP Mob just released "Bath Salt," a dark banger with enough evil swag to make you eat a face off ... More >>

Public Image LTD Announces 2012 Tour With Miami Show at Grand Central on October 5

See also John Lydon and "Ten Raging Punks Who Crashed the Daytime Talk Show Circuit." After spending the mid-1970s repeatedly slapping the Queen with the knobby end of his spit-soaked Sex Pistol, pioneering British punk John Lydon (AKA Johnny Rotten) decided to take a break from all that endlessly ... More >>

Fifty Shades of Dark: Free Beer Tasting Tonight

Let's put it this way: Fifty Shades of Grey, much like Real Housewives of New York City, Justin Bieber, or the KFC Double Down, is one of those pop culture phenomenons that we can't wrap our heads around. If given the opportunity to spend the night with a controlling young businessman who wants to t ... More >>

Hipster Dust: Spices Packaged Like Drugs

Purchasing prepackaged food and dining out do seem a little mainstream. So does grocery shopping. This poses quite the conundrum for the young and über-authentic. Which is why (actually probably not why) out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, comes Hipster Dust, an "addictively natural" vegan spice mixtu ... More >>

Miami-Dade County Just Overtook Brooklyn to Become America's Seventh Most Populous County

Miami-Dade County saw its population grow by 58,331 residents between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2011 according to the United State Census. That adds up to the fourth largest numeric growth by any county in the country. These estimates also make Miami-Dade the seventh largest county by population in ... More >>

Chris Paciello ratted on mob bosses, new documents show

Miami's New Pop-Up Gallery Gives Us Wood (In a Pile)

​The centerpiece of Sam Trioli's outdoor pop-up art exhibit in Wynwood might look like a wood pile, but in reality it is... well, a wood pile."When you see a wood pile you see pure function," Trioli explained. "It is also a very temporary structure. You build a wood pile and it disappears the next ... More >>

Top Five Second Saturday Art Walk Parties in Miami

​Art sucks. Get drunk. Music sucks. Dance harder. The lights are too bright. Turn them all off and let the bass drown your body till your heart rattles in your ribcage. Throw your phone against the ground, quit paying your internet bill, never trust a wireless modem, and check out these five Se ... More >>

Little Dragon Bringing "Free-Range, Organic" Electro Tunes to Grand Central October 22

​Ikea, Volvo, and electro-pop music -- that's what we think about when someone says Sweden. And speaking of the European Union's third largest country by area, Swedish indie outfit Little Dragon is almost here! Earlier this year, the Gothenburg-based group released its third studio album, Ritu ... More >>

Friends and Lovers

Free Music: South Florida Spitter J'lynn's "To the Top"

Photo by Sneek Peek​From Brooklyn to the Sunshine State, rapper J'lynn Irving, who simply goes by J'lynn, splits his time between New York City and the South Florida suburbs. Three years ago, J'lynn moved to SoFla with his mom and started working on his rap career. Influenced by fellow New Yorke ... More >>

Shock Tarts

Antibalas at North Beach Bandshell April 30

Ursula 1000 at the American Legion March 4

Brownsville is Miami's most blighted neighborhood

Questlove Blinded by the (iPhone) Light at Bardot's Basel Finale

Victor Gonzalez via iPhoneSecret photo of Questlove at Bardot.​Questlove with M1BardotSunday, December 6Better than: Anything starring Jimmy Fallon.Our tolerance level for pretentious Brooklyn scenesters and celebrity star fuckers reached its boiling point Sunday night. And we're done covering DJ ... More >>

Goon Squad

The Weekly Wrap: Heat Food, Quinoa and Tacos

American Airlines Arena carnitas tacos​Busy this week? See what you missed on Short Order ...Brooklyn Water Bagels is coming to South BeachA look at the D Rodriguez Ocean grand opening.Lee Klein asks: What's up with those NBC Feast rankings?New chef over at The SetaiLove quinoa? Here's a recipe.Me ... More >>

Matt and Kim at Culture Room October 14

School of Seven Bells Will Pick Your Pockets With Guitars October 16

​Hidden somewhere in the thick mist and jagged rock of the Andes Mountains, there's a secret training academy for professional pickpockets and it's called the School of Seven Bells. Now, maybe this whole thing is a myth, but no one really knows. Even Interpol and the NYPD refuse to fully deny the ... More >>

Yeasayer at Fillmore Miami Beach October 5

Ninjasonik Gonna Get Internet Bitches Pregnant at Grand Central

via deckalot.com​With your anemic attention span fed on endless helpings of Adult Swim, Count Chocula, and hot chronic, maybe a night of partying alongside Brooklyn rap punks Ninjasonik doesn't sound all that exciting. Well, bro, you need to get off that jaded hipster ish because these three cro ... More >>

Tony Rohr, Alexi Delano Make For Two Stellar Techno Bookings in Downtown Miami This Weekend

Alexi Delano Plays Space on Saturday​The weekend has two stellar bookings in store for Miami's techno heads: Tony Rohr at the Electric Pickle on Friday night and Alexi Delano at Space on Saturday. Brooklyn-based producer Tony Rohr boasts releases on esteemed labels like Cocoon, Clink, and Wea ... More >>

MGMT, Serj Tankian, Louis C.K. Announce Fillmore Miami Beach Dates (Not Together)

via facebook.com/mgmtMGMT does the Fillmore Miami Beach a couple week after Yeasayer.​Here are three more nuggets of awesomeness from New Times' Best Endangered Live Music Venue, the Fillmore Miami Beach. Nearly every week brings a new announcement of a major act there, and one more chip away at B ... More >>

Film the Right Thing

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart headlines Poplife's anniversary party June 12

London via MIA

Sleigh Bells' Treats Streaming at NPR, Yet Another Great (Partial) South Florida Project

Get ready to hear a lot about Sleigh Bells' "Treats" and possibly even hear it too​Get over to NPR for an exclusive stream of Brooklyn electro-rock duo Sleigh Bells' debut album, Treats, like now now. As Sound of the City's Zach Baron points out, an anticipated album that should be in the dictiona ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Pan-Seared Sheepshead Fish at Altamare

​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.

Pitchfork Captures Surfer Blood Playing "Floating Vibes" in a Sunoco Station

Surfer Blood's "Floating Vibes" clip, filmed by Pitchfork and currently streaming here, could be an official video judging by its multiple camera angles and gratuitous product placement. No pajama shots like their last one, though. Read a liveblog of the thrilling action in the garage (did Weezer ev ... More >>

Adultnapper Plays Electric Pickle on Friday

​Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Francis Harris a.k.a. Adultnapper has emerged in recent years as one of the most idiosyncratic and compelling producers of the international techno scene, a curious thing considering the man is a former punk-rocker who once admitted to hating dance music. His iconoclast ... More >>

Surfer Blood Enter Remix Chamber to Benefit Haiti

​Current NPR darlings Surfer Blood already got a co-sign from Brooklyn electro-house producer Drop the Lime when he spoke about the bands he spins when not spinning for cash in an interview last year. Now the DJ, who rolled through Miami last month, has taken his adoration to the next step by remi ... More >>

Your (Abridged) Guide to Art Basel

Three Days, 75 Shows, 600 Hours of Music

To the Max

French-Kiss the Black Lips with a Closed Mouth

Head Spins: DJ A-Train

From Stone Groove to Back Door Bamby and all points beyond.

A Change Is Gonna Come

Kosher Got You Down

These "sushi" rolls will amaze -- and it's all kosher

The Zion King

Bissaleh Café

Familiarity Breeds Contentment