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Brooklyn

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Q&A with Michna, Playing Ghostly International 10th Anniversary Party at White Room on Saturday

    ​Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Adrian Michna a.k.a. Egg Foo Young started his musical career DJing parties and gigging in bands on the NYC bar circuit before migrating to Miami in the mid-'90s. It was in our neck of the woods that he co-founded the pioneering hip hop/electronic outfit Secret Frequenc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Brooklyn's Clever Collective Bake Sale for Art Basel Miami 2009

    Jacob KatelClever girl​The Clever Collective is an art consortium from Brooklyn who we saw set up in the driveway of a house on 29th Street between North Miami Avenue and NW Second Avenue selling cookies, lemonade, and custom bags.The bake sale benefits the Clever Collective and the girls procured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Miami Book Fair: Jonathan Lethem

    Don't let the glasses fool you; he's a literary super hero​For fellow writers, Jonathan Lethem needs no introduction. 1999's Motherless Brooklyn, the story of a detective with Tourette's syndrome, put Lethem on the map, but by that point, he'd already written four novels that breached the genre li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Surfer Blood Releasing Debut Astro Coast January 2010

    ​If you haven't been following the meteoric rise of West Palm Beach's Surfer Blood, it's definitely not too late to start. The band, who will be all over CMJ in New York this week, including the Brooklyn Vegan's showcase on October 22, make great indie-pop music, it's as simple as that.Well, its b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Urbanite Bistro Opens Downtown in Arts & Entertainment District September 10th

    Adam LarkeyLobster Mousse (click for full size)​ Downtown Miami's Arts & Entertainment District is getting another notch in its belt.The Urbanite Bistro (62 NE 14 St, across the street from The Vagabond), serving what a press release calls "eclectic bistro fare" is scheduled to open to the pub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    No Regular Play Perform at The Bunker this Saturday Night

    ​No Regular Play is the Brooklyn-based production duo of Nick DeBruyn and Greg Paulus (originally of indie darlings Beirut). Part of a new American generation of EDM producers rooted in more instrumentalist-based music forms, their experimental genre-bending take on house and techno defies all exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Home and Abroad: Jonathan Eismann Dishes on Steel Drum Squid, White Russians and Spaghetti

    Jonathan Eismann, Chef/Owner Pacific Time and Pizza VolanteBest Squid in Ho Chi Minh City, cooked over a fire in a old steel drum in the street, Best Pork Chops in history there, too.  Saigon Killer Pork Chops!Best Chinese and Dim Sum at a place right next to the Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok.B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Friday Night: Dieselboy at Black Sheep Bar

    Basshead Productions is celebrating its 8th year anniversary at Black Sheep Bar this Friday with a night of bass-heavy sounds, including an exclusive performance by American drum & bass legend Dieselboy. This best-selling Brooklyn-based producer was the first American to be voted into the UK-bas ... More >>

  • Music

    February 5, 2009

    Chairlift's "Bruises" Hurts So Good

    Catch the band Saturday at White Room.

  • Music

    January 22, 2009

    Miami According to Brooklyn

    The Vagabond's day manager and occasional bouncer sounds off on the club scene.

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Go S.E.E. the Notorious One

    Finally, the movie on Notorious B.I.G. hits theaters today and it seems that the anticipation for the film's release is running high. Notorious actors have been hitting the talk show circuit, Lil' Kim is up in arms about how she was portrayed, Diddy is being all dramatic on YouTube, and people are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Miami According to Brooklyn: Listen to Your Elders

    To read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. I want to talk this week about how the younger generation has no respect for the older generation. The younger kids coming up have no respect for the people who have been there, done that sort of thing. I would be a lot better off ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    PL0T Presents Tony Rohr Live at White Room This Friday

    The peeps from PL0T were pretty busy in 2008 providing Fridays at the White Room with a classy selection of hot international techno acts. There were intimate performances by Lee Curtiss, Seth Troxler, and Bill Patrick, among others. And there was that sleek visual ambiance courtesy of the multimedi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    Miami According to Brooklyn: Dating Advice

    To read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. Most of these guys who hang out in this club scene crap have no respect for women whatsoever. They're just out trying to get their dick wet, which is horrible. I see it every day. Women should be treated with a little more respect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Miami According to Brooklyn: On the Downtown Club District Homeless Problem

    To read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn (and to find out who, exactly, guest columnist Brooklyn is), click here. I want to talk about the homeless in downtown around the clubs and how fucking annoying they are. I'm so sick and tired of the begging and everything else. I'm not insen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Doughnuts and Beer at Scope International Contemporary Art

    Walking into the Scope tent yesterday was like getting smacked in the face with an art stick. You know, in a good way. Inside, it was a visual sensory overload, with way too much for any normal, methamphetamine-free viewer to see in one trip. Riptide felt like a contestant on Supermarket Sweep, rush ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Miami According to Brooklyn

    (Photo by Justin Namon)"Brooklyn," as the current day manager of the Vagabond downtown is known, has done and seen it all around the South Florida music scene since arriving here from his native New York some 12 years ago. Younger types flitting around hipster nightlife know him as the improbably, h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    CMJ Music Marathon Wrap-Up, Part One

    (Photo by Justin Namon)"Brooklyn," as the current day manager of the Vagabond downtown is known, has done and seen it all around the South Florida music scene since arriving here from his native New York some 12 years ago. Younger types flitting around hipster nightlife know him as the improbably, h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    KAWS at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin

    (Photo by Justin Namon)"Brooklyn," as the current day manager of the Vagabond downtown is known, has done and seen it all around the South Florida music scene since arriving here from his native New York some 12 years ago. Younger types flitting around hipster nightlife know him as the improbably, h ... More >>

  • Film

    May 22, 2008

    Summer Grows Up

    The season of big-budget bangs uses its brain.

  • Music

    April 17, 2008

    The FIU Laptop Ensemble and Sam Pluta

    The season of big-budget bangs uses its brain.

  • Music

    March 13, 2008

    Gang of Green

    Six essential Irish acts that would win St. Paddy’s approval.

  • Music

    August 2, 2007

    Huáscar Barradas 

    Six essential Irish acts that would win St. Paddy’s approval.

  • Music

    July 26, 2007

    Latin in Manhattan

    This year's Latin Alternative Music Conference was a genre-bending confluence of reggaeton, folk, prog rock, and beyond

  • Music

    May 17, 2007

    Revolver's 8.5 Year Anniversary with Flosstradamus, Matt and Kim, and the Stone Figs

    This year's Latin Alternative Music Conference was a genre-bending confluence of reggaeton, folk, prog rock, and beyond

  • Music

    April 5, 2007

    The Rub

    It's the Motherfucking Remix Vol. 2.2 (Turntable Lab)

  • Music

    September 28, 2006

    One Self

    It's the Motherfucking Remix Vol. 2.2 (Turntable Lab)

  • Music

    August 17, 2006

    OC and the Juggaknots

    It's the Motherfucking Remix Vol. 2.2 (Turntable Lab)

  • Music

    July 6, 2006

    DJ ESE

    Side: Two (Embedded)

  • Music

    May 25, 2006

    Essex Green

    Cannibal Sea (Merge)

  • Music

    March 16, 2006

    Kudu

    Preview

  • Culture

    June 16, 2005
  • Culture

    June 2, 2005

    Seeing Red

    Growing up in the glare of communism

  • Music

    May 19, 2005

    Felipe and Forte

    Shaggy Black (Soft Abuse)

  • Music

    May 5, 2005

    The Stop Motion

    Shaggy Black (Soft Abuse)

  • News

    December 30, 2004

    The Deadliest Day

    Florida's Seabee reservists went to Iraq to help, not fight. But they fought and died

  • Music

    November 11, 2004

    Great Unknown

    What do Animal Collective sound like? Close your eyes and use your imagination

  • Music

    March 18, 2004

    TV on the Radio

    Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch and Go)

  • Finest Foods

    May 15, 2003

    BEST DELICATESSEN

    Wolfie Cohens Rascal House

  • Culture

    January 23, 2003

    Bush-Era Banality

    Few questions asked, little revealed in these productions

  • Music

    September 26, 2002

    Hip Clubs vs. Strip Clubs

    Clubbed searches for a level playing field & direct approach in Miami's dating scene

  • Music

    September 6, 2001

    Catch It Live

    Amor a la Musica

  • Music

    August 16, 2001

    Catch It Live

    The Funk Jazz Lounge

  • Film

    August 31, 2000

    The Bit Player

    Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

  • Shops and Wares

    May 11, 2000

    Best Asian Grocery

    PK Oriental Mart

  • Music

    May 13, 1999

    Best Electronica Label

    Chocolate Industries

  • Culture

    July 31, 1997

    Backstage Passes

    Chocolate Industries

  • News

    November 21, 1996

    An Unorthodox Style

    For Yehudis Levitin, painting was the path to freedom from the strict Hasidic world

  • Film

    November 2, 1995

    That's the Ticket

    For Yehudis Levitin, painting was the path to freedom from the strict Hasidic world

  • Culture

    January 19, 1995

    Starstruck!

    For Yehudis Levitin, painting was the path to freedom from the strict Hasidic world

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