Little Havana

Dining in the Dark at Catharsis Restaurant: Fun With Food

​Last Wednesday I had a dining experience that can only be described as orgasmic. Before you think I suffer from objectophilia or start calling me a foodshagger, let me explain that the event was intended to enhance and titillate the senses. I'm willing to bet good money that I am not the only per ... More >>

Occupy Miami's March On Brickell In Pictures

Jacob KatelCaribbean Vendetta​Hundreds gathered in Jose Martí Park yesterday in Little Havana, tromped east on Calle Ocho into Brickell then paraded through downtown Miami in a protest march that heard just as many "Sak ap fets?" as "Que bola aseres?" alongside chants of "End The Fed," and "If yo ... More >>

Dwyane Wade Dominates Flamingo Senior Rec League, Miami Kiwanis Club In Lockout Ad

via YouTubeGotta keep the skills sharp somewhere.​The gritty rooftop "Miami Kiwanis Club League" might be every bit as much a fantasy as the idea of seeing The Heatles destroy the NBA again before Christmastime -- but damn if it doesn't look like a hell of a fun game.Dwyane Wade dominates for a "L ... More >>

The Condome: New Marlins stadium gets a rubber coating

via YouTubeGotta keep the skills sharp somewhere.​The gritty rooftop "Miami Kiwanis Club League" might be every bit as much a fantasy as the idea of seeing The Heatles destroy the NBA again before Christmastime -- but damn if it doesn't look like a hell of a fun game.Dwyane Wade dominates for a "L ... More >>

Eating Through Little Havana With Miami Culinary Tours

Laine DossMiami Culinary Tours guide Grace Della leads us through the food and lore of Little Havana.​It's another scorcher of an afternoon in Miami. The sun beats down as I meet Grace Della and Mirka Harris from Miami Culinary Tours.I'll be taking their Saturday-afternoon tour of Little Havana, a ... More >>

Six lies about the Marlins stadium

Laine DossMiami Culinary Tours guide Grace Della leads us through the food and lore of Little Havana.​It's another scorcher of an afternoon in Miami. The sun beats down as I meet Grace Della and Mirka Harris from Miami Culinary Tours.I'll be taking their Saturday-afternoon tour of Little Havana, a ... More >>

Viral Video Asks "Why The Hell Would You Want to Live in Miami?"

​Xtranormal's do-it-yourself computer animated videos with their monotone computer voices are the latest mini-trend in viral videos. Geico has even used the site's video making service in their commercials. Usually the videos pit someone naive against someone irate, and it was only a matter of tim ... More >>

Bond Trisransri Is at It Again With 2B Asian Bistro

John Zur​When Bond Trisransri opened Mr. Yum, a Thai and sushi restaurant in the middle of Little Havana, in 2009, it seemed about as likely to flourish as escargots in Indiana. However, the success of Mr. Yum has led Trisransri to open Thai and sushi restaurant numero dos, 2B Asian Bistro, down t ... More >>

Short Order's Comments of the Week, 8/9 - 8/13

Courtesy of Wikimedia​Happy Friday Short Orderers. Our blog week would not have been complete without you and your opinions. Here a list of this week's best comments. 1. and 2.A pair of Short Order readers participated in a comment duel after reading the Overrated Eats: Versailles post. "Kendall J ... More >>

Pitbull Scores Official Mascot Song For World Cup 2010

​Once upon time it seemed like Pitbull was possibly just too Miami to make sense anywhere else. Well, we were wrong to think that. His blend of Little Havana swagger, dance beats, and lusty raps went truly global last year with the success "Calle Ocho (I Know You Want Me). His role as a major ... More >>

Inky Goodness

​Once upon time it seemed like Pitbull was possibly just too Miami to make sense anywhere else. Well, we were wrong to think that. His blend of Little Havana swagger, dance beats, and lusty raps went truly global last year with the success "Calle Ocho (I Know You Want Me). His role as a major ... More >>

Spam Allstars at Hoy Como Ayer, Bardot, and Sound Theory Live

via myspace.com/spamallstars​ Fuacata! Spam Allstars are getting it in tonight at their weekly residency at Hoy Como Ayer in the heart of Little Havana alongside Rumberos De La 8, a bangin' Miami percussion group with members from Cuba and Puerto Rico produced by DJ Le Spam. Doors open at 9 p.m. a ... More >>

Calle Ocho 2010 Street Food In Pictures

Jacob KatelPigs on sticks.​Calle Ocho 2010 brought fire to the streets of Little Havana on a hot Sunday in Miami. Stands built into the sea of people sold everything from meat on a stick to empanadas, Mexican, Honduran, Cuban, Spanish, Jamaican, and many other nation's specialties.The roast pork p ... More >>

Pork Tacos! Real Michoacan Carnitas in Little Havana

Jacob KatelMmmmm tacos​If the words maciza (solid), cuerito (skin), buche (stomach), oreja (ear), tripa (intestines), lengua (tongue), or surtida (mixed) mean anything to you and your taco, then you're in luck.Con Sabor A Mexico: Carnitas Estilo Michoacan (542 SW 12th Avene) is open for business s ... More >>

Avant Garde en Español

Jacob KatelMmmmm tacos​If the words maciza (solid), cuerito (skin), buche (stomach), oreja (ear), tripa (intestines), lengua (tongue), or surtida (mixed) mean anything to you and your taco, then you're in luck.Con Sabor A Mexico: Carnitas Estilo Michoacan (542 SW 12th Avene) is open for business s ... More >>

Scat-a-Tat-Tat on the Silver Screen

Jacob KatelMmmmm tacos​If the words maciza (solid), cuerito (skin), buche (stomach), oreja (ear), tripa (intestines), lengua (tongue), or surtida (mixed) mean anything to you and your taco, then you're in luck.Con Sabor A Mexico: Carnitas Estilo Michoacan (542 SW 12th Avene) is open for business s ... More >>

Two Teenage Girls, Including a 14-Year-Old, Arrested for Little Havana Armed Robbery

Miami Police arrested four young suspects, including two teenage girls, on suspicion of robbing a Little Havana man at gunpoint early this morning.​Salene Cala, age 14, and Estefay Ferrera, 16, were arrested after police pulled their car over just after 6:30 a.m. They're accused of helping an ... More >>

Archive Diver: Monsters Of Rock with Metallica at The Orange Bowl in June, 1988

From New Times Archives Issue Week June 1 - 7, 1988 Texas might have "Remember the Alamo!" But Dade will always remember the Orange Bowl. Just think, this week in 1988, the Monsters Of Rock tour put NW 3rd street on smash. Wouldn't it be cool if Metallica rocked Little Havana nowadays? Yes, yes it w ... More >>

Carnaval on the Mile Time, Party People!

Raise your hands if you love street festivals.  Okay.  I can't see you...but then again, how could I?  Not sure what I was hoping would happen there.  Anywho, that most phenomenal of all street festivals is coming up and you know what that means.  Calle Ocho.  About thr ... More >>

Welcome Back, Locos!

A local band makes it big and returns home to rock.

Bay of Pigs Museum the Latest to Devour Green Space

A local band makes it big and returns home to rock.

Miccosukee Resort and Gaming

A local band makes it big and returns home to rock.

Letters from the Issue of February 8, 2007

"It seems rational. Wanna bet?"

Everyone Likes to Party

"It seems rational. Wanna bet?"

Tastes Like Chicken

"It seems rational. Wanna bet?"

21,000 Code Citations Can't Be Wrong

Three years into the Magic City's battle against illegal minutiae, residents want to know: quality of life? Whose?

BEST MOVIE SHOT ON LOCATION

Code 33

Maximum Partying Capacity

Code 33

BEST PEDESTRIAN EXPERIENCE

Flagler Street from Twelfth Avenue to Biscayne Bay

BEST CUBAN-AMERICAN WEBSITE

icuban.com

BEST ONE-NIGHTER

Fuácata at I/O

Shell Shock

Tortoise gets tortured; watching council meetings gets expensive

Black Gawk Down

Paint peccadilloes and a Trump soiree sans Trump

BEST PARTY TO KEEP THE VIBE ALIVE

Fuácata!

Hoy Como Ayer

What Did You Do in the War on Poverty?

Always fighting the good fight, Miami's politicians have been tireless in assisting the city's poor huddled masses

BEST URBAN BIKE RIDE

Always fighting the good fight, Miami's politicians have been tireless in assisting the city's poor huddled masses

BEST ONE-NIGHTER

Fuácata

Thursday evenings at Hoy Como Ayer

BEST LATIN CLUB

Café Nostalgia

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of October 11, 2001

What Art Thou, Little Havana?

Viernes Culturales is transforming Calle Ocho -- but into what remains a big question

Parental Consensus

Imagine what would happen if Hispanic mommies and daddies united with black mommies and daddies in petitioning the school district

Get Surreal

Surreal Saturdays

Exile on Eighth Street

A Little Havana cultural icon pays dearly for his principles

Art Out on the Town

Little Havana's Viernes Culturales

Best Club DJ

DJ LeSpam

Night & Day

June 10 - 16, 1999

Best Place To Slow-Dance

Café Nostalgia

Positively Eighth Street

Café Nostalgia

Program Notes 27

Café Nostalgia

Beaned!

Two brave men take an afternoon stroll down Calle Ocho -- with a coffee break at every single cafe cubano joint along the way