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  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    New York City Cops Are $#*%ing Corrupt! The Proof: Black Lips' New "Raw Meat" Video

    Officer Cole licking that nightstick.​Score free tix to the Black Lips' Art Basel gig at Grand Central. Over the last month, the New York Police Department's been rife with scandal. In late October, a gang of current and former NYPD patrolmen were busted for a million-dollar conspiracy to tran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do This Weekend Under $10

    ArtOfficial's AO Logics​Welcome to November, a month of fun and games... Sorry, we're still psyched from last weekend's Gun N' Roses after-hours show at the American Airlines Arena. We've been saying everything in the tune of "Welcome to the Jungle." Damn you, Axl! While the cornrowed God's long ... More >>

  • Music

    October 20, 2011

    TV on the Radio at the Fillmore Miami Beach October 25

    ArtOfficial's AO Logics​Welcome to November, a month of fun and games... Sorry, we're still psyched from last weekend's Gun N' Roses after-hours show at the American Airlines Arena. We've been saying everything in the tune of "Welcome to the Jungle." Damn you, Axl! While the cornrowed God's long ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe Talks Occupy Wall Street and Impersonating Prince

    ​Even if Tunde Adebimpe has never been a household name, TV on the Radio, the band he formed with David Sitek in 2001, has persevered and thrived longer than many of their more conventional brethren. By putting out one fully realized musical art project after another, the New York group kept criti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Oh the (House of) Horror, Carnival Food at Its Finest?

    Lesley ElliottWelcome to the House of Horror. ​Well-rounded eaters will embrace a crusty corn dog just as happily as a slice of seared foie gras, and I absolutely fit within these parameters. In fact, what kind of food writer wouldn't appreciate the glory of greasy fries covered in chili and chees ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Dogma Features New Sandwiches (Photos)

    All photos by Laine Doss Dogma features old-school sandwiches in addition to its vast dog selection.​Dogma, the Biscayne Boulevard hot doggery that was recently purchased by partners Mark Soyka and Frank Crupi, has expanded its food options to include a full line of old-school sandwiches, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2011

    Weiner Eats Seven Hot Dogs, Takes Home $200

    Alexandra LeonThe first five contestants to show up.​On Friday, we stopped by Louie's All American Hot Dog Cart Showroom for the Hot Dog King's fifth annual hot dog eating contest. Unfortunately, Louie DiRaimondo was not in his regal garb, and the 15 to 20 person turnout was lower than expect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Patti Smith Brings Her Memoir Just Kids to Miami Book Fair Tonight

    Linda Smith BianucciProto-punk poet Patti Smith.​On Tuesday, counterculture queen Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Taking part in the finalist readings, she described it, saying: "My book is the story of my friendship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Surfer Blood Side Project Weird Wives Gets Pitchfork, Stereogum Love

    weirdwives.blogspot.comWeird Wives, the future of music in South Florida​Proof that Google Alerts work: We posted this item regarding Surfer Blood's noisier, sweatier side project Weird Wives on Tuesday morning. By about 5 p.m., Surfer Blood had linked to the story, and posted this Weird Wives EP ... More >>

  • Film

    October 22, 2009

    New York, I Love You has hits and misses

    weirdwives.blogspot.comWeird Wives, the future of music in South Florida​Proof that Google Alerts work: We posted this item regarding Surfer Blood's noisier, sweatier side project Weird Wives on Tuesday morning. By about 5 p.m., Surfer Blood had linked to the story, and posted this Weird Wives EP ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Downtown Lake Worth Hosts a Night of Free Music on Halloween

    via myspace.com/theresolversThe Resolvers​The revelry swings into high gear on Lake Avenue on Halloween as Lake Worth's inaugural Halloween Street gets under way that Saturday at noon. Organizers promise three stages of music, "Coney Island-style" freak shows, a psychic fair, a costume contests fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Nathan's Famous Inc. Sees Increased Profits, Miami Part of The Reason

    image via NathansFamous.comwhat's on your wiener? Nathan's Famous Inc.(NASDAQ:NATH), the Coney Island, Brooklyn birthed company known the world over for its hot dogs, used to "wholly own" the Miami Subs Corporation as a subsidiary.They sold it back in 2007 for $850,000 cash and "a secured promissory ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Hall Hoover Breaks Florida Hot Dog Eating Record, Gets Ready for Coney Island

    A new Florida record was set this year in the competitive eating-hot dog circuit. Hall Hoover, as in Hall "Hoover" Hunt, from Jacksonville ate 33 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the qualifiers for the Nathan's Fourth Of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, New York.The qualifi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    The Govind Burger

    The barrage of burgers continues unabated. Two more Five Guys  are poised to proffer their patties to the public -- one in the old Dogma space at Washington Ave. and 15th Street in South Beach, the other in Aventura Mall. But a bigger burger banner headline is that Govind Armstrong and the folk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Did This Miami Beach Holocaust Survivor Lie To Oprah? The New Republic Says Maybe.

    Herman Rosenblat, a Miami retiree, has for the last decade spread the amazing tale of how he met his wife. He even appeared on Oprah twice, and Ms. Winfrey dubbed it the greatest love story ever told. Rosenblat was a prisoner in the Nazi's infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. A young girl, a Jew ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2007

    Pacifists. Not Crazies

    Herman Rosenblat, a Miami retiree, has for the last decade spread the amazing tale of how he met his wife. He even appeared on Oprah twice, and Ms. Winfrey dubbed it the greatest love story ever told. Rosenblat was a prisoner in the Nazi's infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. A young girl, a Jew ... More >>

  • Music

    September 13, 2007

    Conflagration Proclamation

    World/Inferno Friendship Society just won't calm down

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2007

    Broadway Hits the Gables

    World/Inferno Friendship Society just won't calm down

  • Home Entertainment

    November 10, 2005

    Street Fighters

    The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it

  • Calendar

    August 4, 2005

    Girls on Film

    The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2005

    Cluckin' Good Time

    The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it

  • Culture

    April 21, 2005

    Sit-Com Macabre

    In this vision of the American meltdown, comedy can quickly become nightmare

  • Dining

    December 4, 2003

    Custard Gets a Southern Exposure

    Frozen custard, a favorite in the Midwest, takes a stand in the South

  • Calendar

    October 18, 2001

    Light & Aerie

    Architecture of the Night

  • Film

    May 17, 2001

    Food for Thoughtless

    Tobias Schneebaum is a weird guy, but that doesn't mean his story is compelling

  • Film

    November 16, 2000

    Life in the Pits

    Aronofsky's followup to Pi is a brutal personal movie about the horrors of drug addiction

  • Culture

    October 26, 2000

    The Man of Ink

    Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Stanley Whitman's Wonderful Life

    He was born to wealth, he built the wildly successful Bal Harbour Shops, and he always seems to get what he wants -- no matter what

  • Dining

    July 6, 2000

    The Zion King

    Bissaleh Café

  • Film

    February 4, 1999

    Man at the Top

    Bissaleh Café

  • Film

    May 7, 1998

    Game Theory

    Bissaleh Café

  • Music

    April 24, 1997

    Reverb

    Bissaleh Café

  • Music

    March 28, 1996

    Rotations

    Bissaleh Café

  • News

    January 11, 1996

    The Man Who Would Be Fidel

    For more than fifteen years, master Castro imitator Armando Roblan has been sending up El Tirano

  • Culture

    January 11, 1996

    A Boy Grows in Brooklyn

    For more than fifteen years, master Castro imitator Armando Roblan has been sending up El Tirano

  • News

    August 31, 1995

    The Further Importance of Being First

    A distant voice rises in protest: one more tunnel, one last trolley, one final shot at history

  • News

    August 25, 1995

    Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know

    Miami Beach gets down to matters of substance and boardwalk repair

  • Music

    August 25, 1995

    Rotations

    Miami Beach gets down to matters of substance and boardwalk repair

  • News

    August 3, 1994

    Swelter

    Miami Beach gets down to matters of substance and boardwalk repair

  • News

    March 9, 1994

    We're with the Band

    Superstars fly personal jets from concert to concert. Real rock bands rent a van and go. Natural Causes is a real band. They're renting a van. And we're going with them.

  • News

    November 17, 1993

    Swelter 31

    Superstars fly personal jets from concert to concert. Real rock bands rent a van and go. Natural Causes is a real band. They're renting a van. And we're going with them.

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