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The Empire Strikes Back

You can’t keep a good Max down

A Real Jah-Breaker

Reggae messiah Bob Marley gets two 50th birthday parties here in Miami

Letters from the Issue of August 14, 2008

"Anyone who claims to play poker for a living in this state is a wannabe, a jerk-off, and, furthermore, a degenerate."

No Time to Cool Down

We need the Heat to blaze it up

Taking Relief Efforts by Storm

We need the Heat to blaze it up

A Grill with Cheap Thrills

Scorch Grillhouse and Wine Bar is a good neighborhood restaurant

Another Prime Spot

Scorch Grillhouse and Wine Bar is a good neighborhood restaurant

Legend-to-Be

Mr. Haka brings Latin rap to a bus stop near you

On a Fishy Mission

Mr. Haka brings Latin rap to a bus stop near you

IQU

Mr. Haka brings Latin rap to a bus stop near you

Letters from the Issue of January 30, 2003

The Cuba embargo takes it on the chin

The Top Texan

Houston's is brash and fresh and delivering it up your way

Letters from the Issue of November 7, 2002

In Denmark we really know how to get stoned

Lawnboy's Own Story

The Miami Book Fair International

Why Recycle?

It feels good to do it. But recycling doesn't always save money or protect the environment.

Pitts' Theory that Conservatives Think They're Oppressed Black People Immediately Confirmed by Conservative

Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. was in fine form this morning with a column plundering a particularly troublesome line of thought amongst many conservatives that they're now basically an oppressed minority.  Indeed, sometimes [the Conservative movement] feels as if it is no longer ... More >>

Jacobs Ladder Tour Diary, Part Three: The Austin, Texas Chronicles

​Jacobs Ladder is almost at the end of their national tour. Click here and here to read past installments of the band's tour diary -- and to hear their music, check out their MySpace page. These installments were penned by the band's bassist, Sammy Gonzalez.Wednesday, September 2: General Thoughts ... More >>

Morons of the Week: Murderer Haunted by Text Messages, Tea Party Protesters, and Cesar Carasa

We had some strange and creepy ones this week. Let's get down to it: Isn't Google image incredible?​5. Paul Edwards, busted for murder by his alleged victim's beyond-the-grave text message. So cops investigating a missing female sent their top suspect, her boyfriend and Miramar reside ... More >>

Mixtape Of The Week: Layce & Chingo Bling - 305 To 713

​North Miami and Houston join forces for the sake of a brand new mixtape that mixes the flavors of two distinct artists. On one hand there's Layce, a multifaceted rapper/producer/engineer and overall good businessman who's representing Miami. Then on the other, you have Chingo Bling, a very anima ... More >>

Chino y Nacho at Grand Central for the Premios Juventud VIP Tour Tonight

​Are you literally giddy with excitement over Premios Juventud tomorrow, and tickets to the show be damned? Or perhaps all Spanish language tunage isn't necessarily your thing, but you do like to get down to the dulcet ghetto-tones of reggaeton. You know, do a little perreando. Get your boricuada ... More >>

Machete Music Tour Celebrated Kickoff Last Night at Mia at Biscayne

Jowell y Randy​As I'm sure you know by now from previous posts this week, last night was Premios Juventud and some of Latin music's biggest names convened on the 305 to take part in the festivities. Sounds like a good time to hit afterparties, no? Well, that's exactly what I did. In particular, I ... More >>

Glaciers That Won’t Melt

Jowell y Randy​As I'm sure you know by now from previous posts this week, last night was Premios Juventud and some of Latin music's biggest names convened on the 305 to take part in the festivities. Sounds like a good time to hit afterparties, no? Well, that's exactly what I did. In particular, I ... More >>

McDonald's-In-The-Morgue Ad Coming To Miami

As our sister Houston Press blog reports, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is running a television ad that comes right out and says it: McDonald's food is so unhealthy it can kill you. The ad opens with an obese man on a gurney in the morgue, a half-eaten burger in his dead hand. As ... More >>

Crocodiles Cancel Its November 3 Show at Grand Central and Rest of US Tour

Photo by Alexandra Kacha​Only this morning, Crossfade hyped the upcoming Crocodiles concert at downtown cool kid club Grand Central with a hyperactive blurb about the San Diego band's recent single "Kill Joe Arpaio" and the Arizona sheriff's angry, Twitter-driven counterattack. This evening, thou ... More >>

Five Wackiest Electronic Music Genres You've Never Heard Of

myspace.com/anamanaguchiAnamanaguchi is freaking us out!​The best thing about electronic music is its limitlessness. Having thrown aside the sonic limitations of rock's overdone guitar-bass-drums combo, synthesizer music can sound like virtually anything. And it does. Electronic music has spaw ... More >>

Arturo Carvajal, Miami Doctor, Sues Houston's Restaurant For Not Teaching Him How To Properly Eat Artichoke

Your average person knows how to eat an artichoke: Using your teeth, you scrape the meat from the bottom of each leaf. But Miamian Arturo Carvajal, a doctor with a family practice in Hollywood and litigant in one of the stranger lawsuits we've ever seen, was mystified by the vegetable.

Restaurant Designer Karen Hanlon Talks Sugarcane, YOLO, and More

Yesterday we met Karen Hanlon, a restaurant designer whose work can be viewed as dining art. Today she talks Sugarcane, Houston's and sphinxes.Vibe Lounge​New Times: What is the most extravagant design you have worked on?Karen Hanlon: I designed the Hard Rock Cafe in Myrtle Beach, SC.  It was ... More >>

Karen Hanlon: restaurant designer extraordinaire

Yesterday we met Karen Hanlon, a restaurant designer whose work can be viewed as dining art. Today she talks Sugarcane, Houston's and sphinxes.Vibe Lounge​New Times: What is the most extravagant design you have worked on?Karen Hanlon: I designed the Hard Rock Cafe in Myrtle Beach, SC.  It was ... More >>

Miami Needs Indie Food Shops and Restaurants

Lee Klein​Fries. Cupcakes. Cocktails. You won't find that trio at any chain restaurant, be it fast food, fast casual, or whatever the latest corporate cookie cutter term for frozen food is these days. China Grill Management isn't interested in covering such eclectic territory, nor is Houston ... More >>

Allen Stanford's Ponzi Trial On Hold While Court Decides If He's Too Crazy To Continue

Stanford at one of his cricket tournaments.​Not to say, 'we told you so,' but when a guy's behavior leads us to write about his similarities to maniac SNL character Bill Brasky, there's a good chance he's got some mental issues. Before he ever got arrested for running an $8 billion Ponzi out of a ... More >>

Less Than Six Degrees to Holland's Chef Rudi Sodamin

Photo by Riki AltmanDid you miss the first part of our chat with Rudi Sodamin, Holland America's consulting master chef? Read it here to discover the celebrity circles this guy travels with.Who is the most famous chef you've ever worked with?Twenty years ago, when I was with the QE2, I worked with t ... More >>

Miami is One of the Angriest Cities in America

You wouldn't like us when we're angry. ​Nothing pisses us off more than these statisically-flawed, silly little city rankings lists. Just in the past few weeks we've learned that Miami is one of America's most rude, vain, and miserable cities. Fittingly, Men's Health now tells us that when it come ... More >>

Grammy Winner and Cocaine Convict Bruno Mars Announces Miami Gig With Janelle Monae

​Straight from scoring a gold-plated gramophone statuette for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at last Sunday's 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, Hawaiian pop crooner Bruno Mars and his bouffant hairdo were pleading guilty to cocaine possession in a Las Vegas courtroom. Back in September, the Mars man g ... More >>

Rick Scott Owns the World's Ugliest Custom Cowboy Boots

via The Buzz These boots were made for gawking. ​This isn't Texas, and no one really expects our governor to tramp around in cowboy boots. Maybe wearing the "official" Florida shoe, the flip-flop, would be appropriate, but cowboy boots? Well, it turns out Rick Scott has a thing for boots th ... More >>

Hank and Cupcakes at Bardot May 5

via The Buzz These boots were made for gawking. ​This isn't Texas, and no one really expects our governor to tramp around in cowboy boots. Maybe wearing the "official" Florida shoe, the flip-flop, would be appropriate, but cowboy boots? Well, it turns out Rick Scott has a thing for boots th ... More >>

Now's Your Chance To Own A Very Tacky Piece Of Allen Stanford's Ponzi Empire

Wave goodbye to that $3 million desk, Allen.​You've got to give Allen Stanford credit for thinking big -- instead of sinking his $8 billion Ponzi scheme profits into the usual uber-rich guy stuff, he bought himself the entire Caribbean nation of Antigua, sponsored giant cricket tourneys (despite b ... More >>

Jay-Z and Kanye Announce The Throne Tour Stop in Miami November 15

​There's no doubt that Jay-Z -- even as hip-hop's retired-unretired elder statesman -- still balls like the best of 'em. Just last night Hova was makin' it rain at the Fountainebleau's LIV in Miami Beach, dropping more $100,000 on a single bottle of champagne in celebration of the release of his n ... More >>

Peter Bjorn and John's All You Can Eat tour at Bardot September 23

​There's no doubt that Jay-Z -- even as hip-hop's retired-unretired elder statesman -- still balls like the best of 'em. Just last night Hova was makin' it rain at the Fountainebleau's LIV in Miami Beach, dropping more $100,000 on a single bottle of champagne in celebration of the release of his n ... More >>

Oceanaire Seafood Room Modernizes Interior, Keeps $1 Oysters

​After three months of interior renovations, The Oceanaire Seafood Room at Mary Brickell Village has converted the glamour of an old cruise liner into a more modern, sleeker look. No longer will it feel like stepping into the ball room of the Titanic.Upon entering, the ambiance of Aruba blue and s ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Announce Full 2012 US Tour Dates With SoFla Show on January 20

​There was a time, circa 1991, when being a funky white boy meant doing whacked-out jumping jacks to the beat of "Suck My Kiss" while wearing a sock on your cock. But these days, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are grown-ass funky white men. The band's founding twosome, frontman-slash-resident hunk An ... More >>

Aventura's Romeo Santos Announces 2012 Solo Tour With Miami Show on March 1

​Over the last 17 years, Romeo Santos and bachata boy band Aventura have won the overflowing adoration of prepubescent girls, their mothers, and 35-year-old guys in white pants who love to dance. In the process, Santos and sidekicks scored a surplus of American Music Awards, Premio Lo Nuestro sta ... More >>

Miami food scene 2011: food trucks, great chefs, and real coffee continue the culinary ascent

​Over the last 17 years, Romeo Santos and bachata boy band Aventura have won the overflowing adoration of prepubescent girls, their mothers, and 35-year-old guys in white pants who love to dance. In the process, Santos and sidekicks scored a surplus of American Music Awards, Premio Lo Nuestro sta ... More >>

Miami's Top Ten Underground Rap and Hip-Hop Acts

Miami hip-hop? Yes N Deed.​New Yorkers still think they run hip hop. Canadians say, "It ain't dead. It lives in the North." L.A. radio plays more Pitbull than we do. Houston is still leaning off a never-ending cup of codeine. NOLA's doing it in the dark. Philly, Detroit, and Chi-Town are mad becau ... More >>

Miami's top ten underground rap and hip-hop acts

Miami hip-hop? Yes N Deed.​New Yorkers still think they run hip hop. Canadians say, "It ain't dead. It lives in the North." L.A. radio plays more Pitbull than we do. Houston is still leaning off a never-ending cup of codeine. NOLA's doing it in the dark. Philly, Detroit, and Chi-Town are mad becau ... More >>

Rick Ross Throws Birthday Bash at South Beach's Amnesia Nightclub on January 29

It's your birthday, Rozay. Don't hustle too hard.​Say "Happy B-Day!" to The Boss. On Saturday, January 28, 2012, Miami rapper, superhefty hustler, and Maybach Music impresario Rick Ross (born William Leonard Roberts II) turns 36 motherfuckin' years old. We imagine the Big Man intends to celebra ... More >>

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Announces Solo U.S. Tour With South Florida Concert on May 13

​Holy nostalgia, it's 1991 all over again! Pearl Jam's de facto captain, legendary singer-songwriter, and uke-man extraordinaire Eddie Vedder is bringing his one-man show to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, May 13. Announced earlier today, the grunge rock godfather's solo ... More >>

Rick Ross's Birthday Bash at Amnesia Miami January 29

​Holy nostalgia, it's 1991 all over again! Pearl Jam's de facto captain, legendary singer-songwriter, and uke-man extraordinaire Eddie Vedder is bringing his one-man show to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, May 13. Announced earlier today, the grunge rock godfather's solo ... More >>

Madonna Announces 2012 World Tour With Miami Concert

​For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn't even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna's 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who'd be totally willing to blow their ... More >>