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The 2009 Miami Book Fair offers a strange brew of talent
November 5, 2009Trade Day for Night
November 5, 2009Royale With Cheese, Please
November 5, 2009You’re Getting Verrry Sleeeepy
November 5, 2009Night of the Living Word
November 5, 2009Our Music Recommendations From Among the Official Sleepless Night Events on Saturday
photo by Ben ThackerLanzallamas Monofonica play the Rhythm Foundation stage.​Sleepless Night returns this Saturday to Miami Beach. Staying up all night there is nothing new, but the event is way more high-falutin', asking you to stay awake for things like opera and experimental dance. That can seem like a tall order in this town, but the last edition was surprisingly well-attended, and it's nice to at least say you did something cultural, no? (You can read a general explanation of it here.)I h
November 5, 2009Legendary Cuban Band Septeto Nacional Back After 76 Years
It's a measure of the new exile tolerance that a heralded band from Cuba is headed for Miami, and -- at least so far -- no one is talking about protests, pain or politics. ​The Septeto Nacional made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, where it won a Gold Medal by spreading the Afro-Cuban music made popular in the 1930s called "son." That was long before the Buena Vista Social Club Ry Cooder made famous. Now, they're not only going back to the Windy City, but the
November 5, 2009So Raw Organizers Switch It Up and Present a Show Tomorrow with Free Admission, Cheap Beer
via myspace.com/ridersofallahYussuf Jerusalem​We loved the So Raw festival, and it's heartening to know the cool people behind it have organized a couple shows since then. I'm happy to report this small trend is combining with that of the latest re-discovery of the American Legion Bar, in Legion Park on Biscayne and 64th Street. Get to know and love this place -- it's a rare spot within the City of Miami borders with no-hassle parking, extremely cheap drinks, clean facilities, and a seeming at
November 5, 2009London's Zuma and NY's Shake Shack to Arrive in Miami 2010
New York's Shake Shack arrives to Miami at 1111 Lincoln Road in 2010.​After facing success in London, Hong Kong, Istanbul and then Dubai, where does a contemporary Japanese restaurant go to continue on it's golden culinary path? Why Miami, of course! At least that's the way German chef Rainer Becker sees things, since he's expected to bring the first American Zuma to the main floor of the Epic Miami Hotel & Residences in downtown Miami next spring.PR reps couldn't comment on what the resto
November 6, 2009Miami Gets Its Very Own Eater
​Good news Miami! Food site Eater has deemed us worthy enough of our very own section on its site. Helmed by Miami Herald gossip columnist Lesley Abravanel, the Miami section of Eater is sure to keep us in the loop of the Magic City's foodie scene. Plenty of local blogs have also gotten some link love including Food For Thought, Mango & Lime and, of course, Short Order. In fact, critic Lee Klein is even has his own tag. But what does Eater mean for Miami? Who better to answer that question
November 6, 2009Silicon Beach: Local Geek Helps the Homeless
Robert Murray, local geek, is inspired to do good.​Robert Murray, a freelance Flash and iPhone developer, is practically a Miami native considering he's lived here since 1990. But it was a recent trip to New York City that inspired him to set up the city's first Social Media for Social Change event.Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) started out as a grassroots movement in the northeast with Bostonian Gradon Tripp at the lead. The idea was simple, but brilliant: if we're all talking o
November 6, 2009Ten Under $10 For the Weekend of November 6 - 8: So Raw Redux, Femme Fest, Sleepless Night, and More
photo by Jipsy / Nefariousgirl.comRadioboxer plays a FLIFF party at Cinema Paradiso​Friday, November 6*Like we recommended earlier today, the Jacobs Ladder EP release party at Churchill's in Miami tonight, where $10 entry also gets you a copy of the band's new disc. Click here for full details. *And the similarly recommended Astari Nite, plus a million other bands, at White Room in Miami tonight. We're actually missing full details on cover but it's either free, or definitely $10 or less.
November 6, 2009Ten Under $10
November 5, 2009Food News Roundup: Cuban Coffee, Allergies, Low Fat, Ice Balls, Super Brawl, and Local Milk
According to organizers, attendance at Americas Food & Beverage Show up 10%. [Herald]Australian reality-tv star Tabatha Coffey loves Cuban food and Cuban coffee. [NBCmiami]This blog beat the Herald on the Natural Choice Vending interview by over two months. [Herald] [ShortOrder]Miami company releases two new products to help allergists determine and create plans to deal with patients' food allergies. [Earthtimes]Dr. Ewald Horvath, interim chairman of psychiatry at the University of Miami Mil
November 10, 2009Miami Judge Rules Bolivians Have Case Against Leaders Of 'Black October' Massacre
In January, New Times brought you the story of a handful of indigenous Bolivians who traveled to Miami to seek justice against two well connected former leaders who were in charge during a bloody massacre outside La Paz in 2003. AP Photo An Aymara woman mourns in 2003 after the Black October massacre. ​The Bolivians claimed that former President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada and defense minister Carlos Sanchez Berzain -- who now resides in Key Biscayne -- ordered the army to gun do
November 10, 2009Archive Diver: 1988 Classifieds and Memories of Old Miami-Dade
via Miami New Times archives week of November 9 - 15, 1988​Full time, nights, bilingual, new club...guess in some ways Miami Beach hasn't changed much at all since 1988.The classified clipping at right was pulled from a November 1988 issue of the Miami New Times. The first two listings don't name the place that's hiring, but maybe somebody out there on the worldwide information superhighway remembers a joint named Scratch.If so leave a comment, tell us a story.On a different, but related note,
November 10, 2009Rat Shit and Roach Eggs: Top 5 Places Not To Eat This Month
​(Sing to the tune of Home On The Range)Home, home, down in DadeWhere the rats and the roaches lay eggsWhere seldom is heardHow inspectors find turdsWhere you eat and are expected to pay.Who likes getting rat hairs in their teeth? How about a roach leg stuck to your lip?Here are our Top 5 places NOT to eat at based on Emergency Order Shutdown dispositions that were the result of routine food inspections less than a week ago.And your winners are:
November 10, 2009Mean Streets
November 12, 2009Letters From the Issue of November 12, 2009
November 12, 2009Shop Till the Prices Drop
November 12, 2009Paint the town
November 12, 2009Chill, Buddy. It’s the Weasel
November 12, 2009The Kitchen Was on Fire and the Poetry Was Free
November 12, 2009A Film 80 Years in the Making
November 12, 2009Grapeland Water Park Hosts Food Drive For Thanksgiving Homeless
via miamigov.com​ Just cause your cousin in Milwaukee can't swim in November doesn't mean you can't. This is Miami dammit, home of 89 degree Fall Sundays.Grapeland Water Park (1550 NW 37 Ave) is open, and since Thanksgiving is coming up, they're also collecting canned goods for the Miami Homeless Assistance Program.The food drive takes place the weekend of November 21.Adults who bring three canned goods (leave the canned bads at home) get in the park for the $5 admission price of a kid. Kids w
November 11, 2009Let the John Timoney Boot Party Commence!
Whitney Roux​Well, that didn't take long. WSVN and the Miami Herald report John Timoney is hanging up his Miami Police uniform. He'll be gone by the beginning of the new year. Esquire once dubbed him "America's Best Cop." Miami New Times crowned him the nation's worst cop. But rest assured, Timoney will be some jurisdiction's top cop, maybe even one close to the Magic City.An Irish immigrant who grew up in New York City, where he joined the police department and rose through the ranks to
November 11, 2009Miami Book Fair: Ann Louise Bardach on Fidel Castro's Death
​Back in the 1990s, Ann Louise Bardach -- who speaks Sunday at 11 a.m. with Gerald Posner at the Miami bookfair, made herself infamous in Miami by scoring a huge interview with Fidel Castro for Vanity Fair. Later, she nailed American hypocrisy toward terrorists when talking with Magic City mad bomber, Luis Posada Carriles -- who masterminded the shoot down of a Cubana airliner. That work was published in the New York Times. In her new book, Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and
November 12, 2009Interview: Chef Doug Rodriguez Gets The 10
Chef Doug Rodriguez​Oft labeled the "Godfather of Nuevo Latino," bestselling author and Chef Douglas Rodriguez has also been heaped with praise by Newsweek and Zagat, among others. But folks 'round here mostly just know him as "That guy who takes the flavors of Latin America and whips them up into delicious food fiestas."Fans of OLA, his Latin Fusion resto in The Sanctuary, are all abuzz about his forward focus on Cuban cuisine, but what they may not recall was that Rodriguez's Miami reign wit
November 12, 2009Creek 28 Restaurant's Chef Kira Volz and Her New Chef's Garden
Jacob KatelChef Kira Volz as backyard farmer.​ In a three way partnership between The Market Company (Lincoln Road farmers market, Upper Eastside Green Market, Doral Farmers Market etc.), Paradise Farms (organic produce farmer for the restaurant industry), and Miami Victory Gardens (ready made raised bed gardens) Creek 28 restaurant in the historic Indian Creek Hotel on Miami Beach has just installed two raised bed vegetable gardens for the growing season.Chef Kira says they are using the rais
November 12, 2009Miami Book Fair: Achy Obejas
He has long been a stereotypical Miami character: The elderly exile who never loses hope of going home, who views life as a never-ending quest to topple "El Tirano."via Miami Book Fair​Then there's his counterpart: The compañero on the island who refuses to give up the revolutionary dream despite the world crumbling around him.The later is lovingly fleshed out in Achy Obejas' heart-rending novel "Ruins," set in the Special Period of 1994, when peas were ground to brew coffee and ropa vieja w
November 12, 2009Ten Under $10 For the Weekend of November 13 - 15: Samantha Ronson, YACHT, and More
via theagencygroup.comYACHT plays at Poplife on Saturday.​Friday, November 13*Samantha Ronson DJs at the G by Guess Ultimate Remix tour, tonight at the Guess store at Dolphin Mall in Miami. Admission is free. Click here for full details. *If you're a fellow geek for archival punk rock, check out Battalion of Saints, a San Diego band from the '80s who were part of the whole early, early "hardcore punk" thing. They play tonight at Churchill's in Miami; cover is $10. Click here for full deta
November 13, 2009Where Food Meets Art During Art Basel
Photo by Jacob Katel​In what sounds like a modern version of a salon, 35 guests will join an artist and a chef at a private penthouse near Miami's Design District to dine, talk art and rub elbows during Art Basel. The occasion: "The Art of Gourmet," a dining and art event of three dinners and a brunch kicking off December 3. "The concept came out of our desire to create a new underground and spotlight some of the more creative elements in Miami," said Jason Inasi, founder of the group behind t
November 13, 2009Silicon Beach: Social Media Club South Florida, November Edition
Richard Tucker of Cruise Deals hearts Miami's social media community.​This month's Social Media Club South Florida was a massive tweetup to wish Social Fresh Cruise guests a warm bon voyage, Miami style. The event took place November 11 at the Doubletree Grand Hotel on Biscayne Bay.Joining the well-wishers were local organizations Refresh Miami, the Association for Women in Communications, the Public Relations Society of America, and the Digital Media Alliance Florida.The first two h
November 13, 2009Last-Minute Heads Up: Free YACHT Show Tonight (But Not a Full Set) in Fort Lauderdale
via theagencygroup.com​Well, this kind of steals the thunder of the band's big Miami debut tomorrow night at Poplife. But we just got word that the band is playing a free show at Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale tonight. Actually, we heard about it before, but since it was billed as just an "appearance" it seemed kind of murky if they were actually going to play a full set or not. Well, they're playing, but word is it's going to be a truncated set to satiate the all-ages crowd while not
November 13, 2009Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary Party at White Room on Art Basel Weekend
AudionA heads up to Miami's downtown cognoscenti: Michigan's esteemed Ghostly International label will be celebrating 10 years of forward-thinking music and subculture at White Room on Saturday, December 5. Founded in 1999 by DJ Sam Valenti, Ghostly has become one of the most highly-acclaimed international platforms for cutting-edge and genre-defying contemporary music and multimedia, along with its more dancefloor-centric sister imprint Spectral Sound. Ghostly's eclectic musical contingent will
November 16, 2009Food News Roundup: LandShark, Art Basel, No App, Bordeaux, Bahamas, and Benihana
Boston Culinary Group signed contract extension with LandShark Stadium to provide food and beverage services through 2021. [Hospitality-1st]AOL's Digital City restaurant recommendations for Art Basel include Mr. Chow, Hakkasan, Michael's Genuine, and Caviar Kaspia. [DigitalCity]An advertising agency specializing in part in food and beverage creates "No App For This" campaign for the Florida Keys to include Florida Keys "no app" iPhone app. [NewsBlaze]The Jesuit Volunteer Corps places volunteers
November 17, 2009Archive Diver: Coffee Gum, Caffeinated Gum, Ad From 1988
via Miami New Times Archives week of November 16 - 22, 1988click image for full size​Coffee gum. It sounds like a million dollar idea. Miami's Gregory Paul Inc. tried to capitalize on it back in 1988 by advertising in the New Times.The company's ad reads, "Each delicious piece of coffee flavored chewing gum contains caffeine equal to 1/2 a cup of coffee. Now you can enjoy a coffee break anytime, anywhere."Portable, instant energy sources are big business. Consider the trillions of dollars gene
November 17, 2009This Is It
November 19, 2009Take Me to the River
November 19, 2009MP3 of the Day: "Little Children" by Ice Cream, Playing Sweat Records This Saturday
​If cult movie messiah Alejandro Jodorowsky and PFFR co-produced a mass psychosis session in the secret subterranean tunnels that link Vizcaya Gardens to the Domino's at NE 2nd Ave. and 34th, then Miami-bred psychedelicists Ice Cream would be named official jam band. As the authors of artfully shitty recordings like "W.H.O.R.E.S.," "Meadow Where the Sun Was Born," and today's free track "Little Children," these inner-city Floridian freaks bang out a certain kind of joyfully creepy tunea
November 18, 2009Film Thursday: Miami Civil Rights Footage, Wes Anderson
Two very unique (and different) cinematic experiences for you today, both of which take place in places that get the Culture Blog's "Two Pipes Up" of approval.One is courtesy of the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives: a screening of historic footage of the Civil Rights movement in Miami at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (101 West Flagler Street, Miami). Here's a sneak peak, a television clip of Miami's first black city commissioner M. Athalie Range commenting on t
November 19, 2009Artist Jeanne-Claude, Cristo's Wife and Co-Wrapper of Biscayne Islands, Passes Away
​Artist Jeanne-Claude, wife and creative partner of Cristo, passed away yesterday at the age of 74 from complications of a brain aneurism. The husband and wife were known for their large-scale projects that transformed landscapes. While Cristo, as it seems to go, gets more of the credit, the project that brought the duo to Miami in 1983 was based on Jeanne-Claude's idea. The couple wrapped 11 Biscayne Bayislands in pink synthetic fabric.
November 19, 2009Pedal Power
November 19, 2009The Soundtrack to Your Game
November 19, 2009Cranksgiving Bike Race for Charity Tomorrow
​I remember the first time I saw a fixed gear bicycle. It was 2003 in Berlin, and the kid had had it for a week and had already been in like six accidents. No brakes? I thought he was nuts.But now the movement's pretty much universal, and here in Miami this Saturday, the movement is giving back. Rydel Deed of Miami Fixed Gear and Tony Blazejack are hosting the first annual Miami Cranksgiving to benefit the Camillus House.Meet at Government Center (101 NW First Street, Miami) at 2 p.m. to regis
November 20, 2009Ten Under $10 For the Weekend of November 20 - 22: 2 Live Crew, Tobacco Road's 97th, and More
​Friday, November 20*Everyone raised here likes 2 Live Crew, pretty much. So everyone we've mentioned this party to is excited about the fact that the group is playing for just $10 tonight at White Room in Miami. Click here for full details. *Tonight is day one of the 97th birthday celebration for Tobacco Road in Miami! Lots of local favorites play, and admission is $10. Click here for full details. *Lake Worth songwriter extraordinaire John Ralston plays at Lake Worth ven
November 20, 2009Silicon Beach: Refresh Miami, November Edition
Rafael MontillaGeeks in a tropical setting.​Held November 18 at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove, Refresh Miami was tame but very tropical. The location just about upstaged last month's meeting at the Mayfair Hotel, what with the Mutiny being a grand dame of the 1980s, notorious for drug activity and crazy parties when Coconut Grove was still something of a wild animal.The infamous property got a makeover in recent years and has come a long way. It was the perfect setting for this month
November 20, 2009Troubled Miami-Dade Agency Gets Revamped
Alex Izaguirre​Miami-Dade County commissioners are gearing up to revamp the Miami Metro Action Plan Trust, the social and economic redevelopment agency created in the wake of the racial riots that rocked the county during the '80s.On December 1, the commission will vote to reconstitute the trust into the Miami-Dade Housing Civil Rights Oversight Board. It's primary mission will be to investigate public housing discrimination complaints. It will no longer dole out taxpayer funds.MMAP was respon
November 23, 2009Showcase Schedule Is Up for the Miami Music Festival
​With all the Art Basel hype (only one week away, woooo), you can be forgiven if you forgot our previous announcement about the Miami Music Festival. In its inaugural year, it's a three-day shebang styled after bigger industry conferences like SXSW and CMJ, with simultaneous showcases at a bunch of different venues, and panels and workshops with industry folks. You can also be forgiven if that last sentence makes you really skeptical, considering how other large-scale local music festivals hav
November 23, 2009New DJ Mix by Andres Amadeus, Opening for DJ T at Electric Pickle on Wednesday
​DJ Andres Amadeus has been a staple of Miami's electronic dance music scene for several years now, holding court at various hotspots around town including Badrutts's Place, Segafredo, Delano, and Skybar, where he presided over the weekly Soultech sessions and its slew of cutting-edge international techno bookings. In 2008 Andres joined top industry players like Carl Craig, Roland Appel, Martin Buttrich, and Marcus Worgull during various Winter Music Conference parties, and in 2009 he's spun a
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