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January 14, 2010Dexter Star Battles Cancer, Keeps it Secret
netmen via flickr ccMichael C. Hall, star of the Miami-set TV series Dexter, announced yesterday he has cancer, but has kept it a hidden from fans since last year. The 38-year-old said he was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma -- a blood cell disease --and that he's now in complete remission. "I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition," he told the UK Telegraph. "And I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care." His publicist Crai
January 15, 2010Silicon Beach: Tripatini Connects Travelers
Tripatini is international in scope but was founded here in the 305.​Tripatini, founded last year in March by Miamians Jose Balido and Dave Appell, is a unique social networking site for travelers. The website launched in late August and was dubbed "Facebook for travelers" by the New York Post. Silicon Beach spent some time on the phone with Balido discussing the fledgling but already buzzing online community. "We sensed a need in people who communicate about travel," he said. "There are many
January 15, 2010Spam Allstars Are From Cuba, According to MIT College Radio
​Gotta love college radio.Listen to this: The Spam Allstars are Miami as fuck. Everybody knows that. Well, everybody in Miami. In Cambridge, Massachusettes, not so much. At least not on Spherio, a weekly radio show on WMBR, the MIT university radio station. Their January 8th show, archived online, evidences Spam's true origins. How did we find this? Tradecraft .... and dumb luck. Here's a transcript:"We're gonna jump directly into some music here. One of the bands that has recent
January 15, 2010Democratic Voter Gains in Miami Could Erode Republican's House Majority
​Sometimes I'm not entirely sure if we understand "democracy" here in Florida. Besides some presidential election in 2000 that people are still talking about, we could also point to the fact that in the past ten years only six incumbent members of the Florida House have lost their bids for re-election. Considering that there's 120 seats in that body, it's sort of mind boggling.Of course we can partially thank the Republican's aggressive gerrymandering for that. It's resulted in massive majorit
January 15, 2010Musician Carlos Bertonatti Charged in Fatal DUI Key Biscayne Crash; Bikers Outraged
An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne yesterday. via Rolling Stone Police say Carlos Bertonatti was drunk when he plowed into a cyclist on Sunday.​Carlos Bertonatti, a 28-year-old who lives on Key Biscayne, was arrested yesterday near his battered Volkswagen after a short police chase.Officers say Bertonatti was drunk when he slammed into Christoper Lecan
January 18, 2010Hoods Keeps it Real for Hardcore This Saturday at Churchill's
​What the hell happened to hardcore? It's right up there with hip-hop, these days, in the constant hand-wringing and state-of-the-genre analysis by its fans. The mid-2000s, MySpace, and regrettable haircuts came along and.... Voila, a genre that used to be famous for its no-nonsense rage became a morass of sub-sub-genres tangled up in skinny pant legs. Most of what passes for "hardcore" now on the all-ages circuit sounds like weak death metal, bearing little resemblance to punk, or even to the
January 18, 2010Miami/Fort Lauderdale Ranked Seventh Best Place to Start a Small Business
Or how about a leftorium? ​Want to open that family-owned erotic bakery you've always dreamed of? How about a boutique that specializes in footwear for dogs? A cleaning service that sends maids dressed as the clients' favorite Star Wars character? Whatever the small business idea, conditions seem to be getting more favorable to realize it. A Portfolio.com/BizJournals survey ranked the Miami/Fort Lauderdale metro area as the seventh best place to open a small busin
January 18, 2010The Sidewalk Chef is Cooking Under Fire at MDC Wolfson
Jacob KatelThe Sidewalk Chef on Ocean Drive.​ We've been bringing you updates on the continuing adventures of Sidewalk Chef Shashank Agtey since May, 2009.We've told you the story of his humble beginnings, and rise to fame. Short version - A wealthy Bombay, Indian whose vision doesn't meet air force standards is dropped off in Miami by his father at the age of 17 with little more than the shirt on his back. He starts as a dishwasher for Meyer Lansky's The Forge and works his way up the ranks o
January 19, 2010Silicon Beach: Crisis Camp Miami Helps Haiti Through Technology January 23
​Haiti is in sheer survival mode right now and technology is helping in ways that will not only benefit earthquake survivors in the coming weeks, but also in the years to come.Geeks have been pondering since last weekend -- the first series of Crisis Camps for Haiti took place in D.C., Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Denver, Brooklyn and London on January 16. A "camp" is an informal gathering where techies gather to brainstorm, share and develop ideas. In emergencies, they provide "data, informat
January 20, 2010New Times Looking for Food Bloggers
Miami New Times is looking for bloggers with some professional writing experience and interest in food/drinks/restaurants to contribute to our award-winning coverage. Please email Chuck.Strouse@miaminewtimes.com with a resumé and three or four of your best clips. No phone calls please.
January 20, 2010Super Bowl Strip Club Debauchery: Disco Rick Teaches You How to Politely Make it Rain
He's mellowed a lot.​Not sure if you heard, but the Super Bowl's coming to Miami. Since the Dolphins didn't make it, we care nothing about the on-field contest. Far more intriguing is the galaxy of debauchery that will be descending on our innocent city for the big weekend -- including almost a thousand strippers from around the country. We must try to keep our composure during this baby-oil-and-g-string invasion. And nobody knows more about South Florida strip club etiquette than retir
January 21, 2010Next Season of Bad Girl's Club to Be Shot in Miami, Looking for Locals
Watch the video above, because words really fail to describe the true essence of Oxygen's orchestrated train wreck of a reality show Bad Girls Club.Essentially, seven women with personal, behavioral, and even psychological problems are forced to live in a house together for four months with cameras rolling. For the first four seasons that house was in Los Angeles, but for its fifth season the show is making its inevitable migration to Miami. CAN. NOT. WAIT.Of course the producers don't have to l
January 21, 2010Drink Motor Oil, Piss Whiskey
January 21, 2010Raising the Bar
January 21, 2010Sneak Review: The Cape Cod Room
A bite-size morsel of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Starters are too pricey (most go for $12 to $24); entrées are too prissy! Why go to all the trouble of decorating your restaurant Cape Cod-style and rack up the expense of flying distinctive fish from Massachusetts and Maine, only to present the seafoods fancy-Miami-hotel-restaurant style?The Cape Cod Room 5937 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305.864.1262.
January 22, 2010News Roundup: Sex Offenders Might Be Saying So Long to Bridge
County commissioners OKed a new, less harsh law concerning places where sex offenders may live. It's expected to supersede many of the stronger municipal laws and, more important, finally get those sex offenders out from under the bridge. [Herald]Former Miami Police Chief John Timoney has a new job in the private sector. He's now senior vice president of business development and consulting and investigations at Andrews International, a security company. [Herald]If y
January 22, 2010MP3s of the Day: New EP From Green Sky, Playing a Sweat In-Store This Saturday
​Pity the hapless hipster who wanders into Sweat Records this Saturday night looking for a copy of Vampire Weekend's Contra. In an unusual but welcome change, the evening's in-store takes a turn away from the mellow indie and towards the grimy, in a four-band show organized by local trio Green Sky. The group's downtuned, sense-dulled guitar onslaught is distorted and fried enough to seem positively Torched, and well, that's no accident. Miami's best stoner rockers made good are an undeniable i
January 25, 2010Front of the House at the New Nikki Beach Restaurant, South Beach
Jacob KatelGiant prawns.​Nikki Beach Miami (1 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach) is the flagship for a global enterprise that boasts outposts in exotic and far-flung locales such as Koh Samui, Qatar, Cannes, and Cyprus.The South Beach branch started it all in 1998, and the father-and-son Penrod team has kept it alive and made it a force in world sexy-beach culture.Recent renovations to Nikki Beach Miami include an updated interior, greater emphasis on dining, and a redone club.
January 25, 2010Silicon Beach: Sushi Samba, New Times Tweetups Wrap-Up
Photo courtesy of @miamishinesSomething to tweet about: scrumptious rock shrimp at Sushi Samba.​Last week was buzzing with two great tweetups. On Wednesday, Sushi Samba held its first nationwide one, which Silicon Beach announced earlier in the month. Tweetup guests in Vegas, Chicago, New York City and of course Miami locations connected over the twittersphere simultaneously with the hashtag #sstwtup. The conversations were projected on a big screen and visible to all.Miami's restaurant in So
January 26, 2010WMC 2010: Hard WMC Pool Party with Erol Alkan, Boys Noize and Busy P, March 25
Erol Alkan headlines Hard's first-ever Miami event.​Hard has been bring electro-house to the masses in Los Angeles ever since blog-house exploded over the scene. Sometimes the events can go down as epic, but the event's organizers have had a few blemishes too. We've got to say, we wondered when the organizers would expand the party to Miami, since the city's status as a dance music capital makes it an obvious choice -- they've already put on satellite events in New York and San Francisco.But y
January 26, 2010Tomorrow: Taste of the Garden at Miami Beach Botanical Garden
​If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here's a taste of what you're missing. Click here to subscribe.For a taste of the garden, head for the Miami Beach Botanical Garden.No, you won't be munching on the orchids, bromeliads and assorted tropical and sub-tropical plants that bloom all over the 4½-acre paean to the natural beauty of South Florida. You'll actually be chowing down on the fruits (and meats and fish and veggies) of the labors of some of Miami best
January 26, 2010Green Sky and Shroud Eaters
January 28, 2010New Times' MasterMind Awards finalists
January 28, 2010Astari Nite Celebrates Its EP Release This Friday
photo by kara StarzykIf it is true (as surely it must be) that in the world of pop music there is nothing truly new under the sun, then surely a budding pop star has no choice but to steal from the best of everything that's come before. Okay, so stealing from everything might make for a bit of a racket. But a little selective expropriation, on the other hand, can work wonders for a band.Take Miami's Astari Nite. Not only have they freely cribbed from '80s-era Manchester (especially Joy Divi
January 26, 2010Who Dat Chef?
​He has worked in one of Miami's best known restaurants. He is getting set to helm a new kitchen. He is holding a golden tilefish. But who dat chef?
January 27, 2010Help Save the Wallflower Gallery!
via wallflowergallery.com​The Wallflower Gallery, downtown Miami's improbable pocket of bohemia, has faced any number of challenges during its existence. For one, it's a venue that doesn't serve alcohol, in a town bent on partying. It inhabits a lonely corner in a neighborhood that until very recently was a complete ghost town after dark. It's a multipurpose, nonprofit organization that lends its space to everything from live music to underground visual art to independent theater and beyond --
January 27, 2010Silicon Beach: Crisis Camp Miami Geeks Brainstorm for Haiti Earthquake Relief
Photo by Alex de CarvalhoGreat turnout at Crisis Camp Miami.​Crisis Camp Miami for Haiti, which Silicon Beach previewed in a post here, took place last Saturday at The Miami Herald building. Nearly 100 techies, journalists and other volunteers showed up, split up into groups and brainstormed ways in which technology can help Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.Among the ideas set in motion were: overhauling the We Have, We Need Exchange Wiki, which aims to help NGOs in Haiti with re
January 27, 2010Liberty City Filmmaker Barry Jenkins Interviewed on PBS
Miami-born filmmaker Barry Jenkins has been featured on PBS for his 2008 film Medicine for Melancholy, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and at Miami's own Borscht Film Festival. Although the film is based in San Francisco, Jenkins grew up in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood and was a running back at Northwestern Senior High, a school that has been labeled a "dropout factory" by Johns Hopkins University and where only 21 percent of th
January 27, 2010Secret Weirdness at Swampspace Gallery's Something Near, Somewhere Far
A plaster sculpture by Walter Latimer​Hidden down a narrow, semi-secluded Design District street that's not much more than a backalley, Swampspace Gallery (3821 NE 1st Ct., Miami) is the appropriately tiny exhibition and gathering place that fronts artist Oliver Sanchez' studio. Unlike most Miami art spaces, this one is the size of your living room and it even feels like a sorta secret hang out spot in a shared house. With a name chosen by a committee of neighborhood cohorts, Swampspace is dra
January 28, 2010CBS Evening News and Early Show to Broadcast from South Beach Next Week
​Next week CBS and its Super Bowl crew will invadeMiami and they're bringing their news shows along, and it's a homecoming of sorts for two of the eye network's biggest stars. The shows will also bring live performances to South Beach from Gloria Estefan, Justin Bieber and Wynnona Judd and Wyclef Jean (together).The Early Show, co-anchored by former CBS4 anchor and Miami-native Maggie Rodriguez, will be broadcasting live from Lummus Park on the Thursday and Friday before the big game. Harry St
January 28, 2010Head Spins: Laura (of Miami)
​For over 40 years now, clued-in and/or colleged-up Miami residents have tuned in to the now sound found down the FM dial at 90.5. Those, of course, are the coordinates of the University of Miami's own WVUM, undoubtedly one of the most adventurous radio stations in the nation. Like the majority of higher education stations, WVUM is staffed by an ever-rotating onslaught of students who pride themselves on broadcasting the kind of tracks commercial radio jocks couldn't and wouldn't dare let air.
February 1, 2010Minorities Report
January 21, 2010Art Miami Announces February Fine Art Spin-Off Fair
Art Miami was showing contemporary art in fair format long before Art Basel rolled into town, and now they're expanding with a second yearly fair focusing on fine art and antiques, according to ArtInfo. The Florida International Fine Art Fair will kick off next year in the same tent space in Midtown that Art Miami has called home for the past two years. Show director Nick Korniloff hopes that FIFAF (catchy) will compete with other big fine art fairs like The European Fine Art Fair
February 1, 2010O.M.D.
January 28, 2010Miami International Film Festival Announces This Year's Films
​The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced their program of films even though you, the general public, won't be able to buy tickets until February 19th. As usual, the 10-day festival has a strong Ibero-American focus, featuring many big screen creations from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. The program of 115 films is a lot to skim through so we thought we'd bring you some highlights. You're welcome. Hardcore film lovers can access the 16-page program here.This year, MIFF o
February 2, 2010100 Favorite Dishes: Thai Spring Rolls at The Asian Culture Festival
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.
February 2, 2010Paula Sladewski Murder: Sketch Released of Suspect
​Nearly a month after the body of aspiring model Paula Sladewski was found in flames in a dumpster, North Miami Police have finally released a sketch of a man they say witnesses last saw her with.Sladewski was visiting Miami with her boyfriend, Kevin Klym, to catch Lady Gaga's New Year's Eve concert. That Saturday night, the two went to Club Space in downtown Miami. After a fight, Klym was kicked out, and surveillance video showed Sladewski leaving the club alone around 7:20 a.m.Witnesses say
February 2, 2010Help Flash save the Wallflower Gallery
February 4, 2010Head Spins: Laura (of Miami) is WVUM's queenpin
February 4, 2010Letters from the issue of February 4, 2010
February 4, 2010Pitbull headlines the Pepsi Musica Super Bowl Fan Jam
February 4, 2010Video: Tuesday Night of The Living Dead
Amateur scientists have told us that if you go too long without eating, your brain will start feeding on itself. That's kind of how Miami is when it's not tourist season. For local musicians it can mean ritual cannibal death. Miami thrives as a playground for the rich, famous, and tourists, which is why all this NFL bullshit is fucking awesome and will end up benefiting the local music scene. So if you're sitting home now, smoked out, lazy, bored, morose, go outside, take a guitar with you, an
February 2, 2010Video: Sweat Records Featured on National PBS - Long Live Vinyl!
Music's push into the digital age has, if strangely, benefited one medium: vinyl! With no more middling-quality CDs to horde, more people are realizing what the hardcore collectors have always known. Records sound warmer, there is more opportunity for interesting art work and packaging, and they're a hell of a lot more pleasing to collect and display. Plenty of labels are now offering vinyl releases packaged with a digital download code for your iPod, and the most successful record stores in the
February 3, 2010Karelle Levy on Tonight's Krelwear Reopening and Her Upcoming Solo Exhibit
​Fresh off a fashion show in Costa Rica, designer and artist Karelle Levy spoke with us about her Krelwear boutique that reopens tonight and her solo exhibit at the David Castillo Gallery next week. Her fashions are silhouette-skimming, "toobular" knits cropped for Miami's oppressive heat. The seemingly contradictory pairing of yarn with a tropical climate is the kind of delicious contradiction you'd expect from an artist born in Paris, raised in Miami and Sweden, and educated at the Rhode Isl
February 4, 2010100 Favorite Dishes: Old Dirty Dawg at gastroPod Miami
Paula Niño​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.
February 4, 2010Super Bowl 2010: Rihanna, Nas, Pitbull, Black Eyed Peas and More Performing this Weekend
We gotta feeling it's going to a jam-packed music weekend.​So it's coming: a giant tsunami of NFL athletes, super fans, and über-celebrities that's about to engulf the magic city with over-the-top poolside parties and non-stop open bar access. And as much as Super Bowl XLIV weekend is all about tailgating parties, cheap beer, and Garth Brooks, we're in Miami, baby, and we do it a little bit differently here. With free concerts and invite-only performances from artists such as NeYo, Nas,
February 4, 2010O.H.W.O.W. Named 26th Best Gallery or Museum in the World by Juxtapoz
​O.H.W.O.W. has been around for less than two years, but it's already gained an international reputation. So much so that Juxtapoz magazine named it the 26th best gallery or museum in the entire world.To give you an idea of how impressive the honor is, the Louvre -- yes the Louvre, with the Mona Lisa and the Venus De Milo and all that jazz -- sits just five places ahead of O.H.W.O.W. at 21. "This gallery doesn't get the recognition it often deserves. Located in the middle of Miami, O
February 4, 2010Miami Is the Fifth Least Drunk City in America: Yes, You Read That Correctly
​According to a new study by the listicle-loving Men's Health, Miami is the fifth least drunk city in all of America. Yes, 100 of America's biggest cities were tallied up and arranged from most drunk (which happens to be Fresno, California) to least, and Miami came in at 96.See, we really aren't as thunk as your drink I am.USA Today says that data from "death rates from alcoholic liver disease, booze-fueled car crashes, frequency of binge-drinking in the past month, number of DUI arrests, and
February 4, 2010Jersey Shore Will Shoot Next Season in South Beach, According to Report
Reality TV princess Snooki was in Miami over the weekend, and declared on her Twitter, "I'm comin asap I'm movin to Miami!"Looks like she'll get her wish, as MovieLine.com is reporting that season two of breakout MTV hit Jersey Shore will be shooting in South Beach.The site claims that season two will begin shooting in May, and they cast will be staying in a house off Lincoln Road that MTV has rented and is currently renovating.An earlier report claimed that producers had sent a letter to the ow
February 9, 2010
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