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  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Metric Releases New Single and Announces Miami Show at the Fillmore on September 28

    After a week of dropping hints in the form of "mysterious video footage," behind-the-scenes interviews, and "fan interpretations" of its then-unreleased single, "Youth Without Youth," Canadian indie quartet Metric officially unveiled the track on ilovemetric.com and iTunes this week. Emily Haines ... More >>

  • Film

    January 5, 2012

    Actors and filmmakers to watch in 2012

    After a week of dropping hints in the form of "mysterious video footage," behind-the-scenes interviews, and "fan interpretations" of its then-unreleased single, "Youth Without Youth," Canadian indie quartet Metric officially unveiled the track on ilovemetric.com and iTunes this week. Emily Haines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    DJ Craze and Codes Are Cooking Something Up at Slow Roast Records

    There were strange sounds simmering over at DJ Craze's Slow Roast Records earlier this week. The Miami beat maker was holed up in his studio with Codes cooking up some dance beats. Here's how it all came together ... Codes was visiting Miami from New York City to celebrate Gran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Abby Wambach, Former Florida Gator Star, Leads US Against France in Women's World Cup UPDATE

    Abby Wambach celebrates tying the game against Brazil in the 123rd minute​UPDATE: Wambach scored the game winner in the USA's 3-1 win over France this afternoon.We've heard all the bogus excuses: "soccer is boring; women aren't good enough; if they aren't in bikinis, I'm boycotting."Accept it, dud ... More >>

  • News

    June 30, 2011

    Controversial Miami activist Max Rameau leaves town

    Abby Wambach celebrates tying the game against Brazil in the 123rd minute​UPDATE: Wambach scored the game winner in the USA's 3-1 win over France this afternoon.We've heard all the bogus excuses: "soccer is boring; women aren't good enough; if they aren't in bikinis, I'm boycotting."Accept it, dud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Max Rameau, Activist Behind Umoja Village, Takes His Project To DC

    via Take Back the LandMax Rameau​In 2007, amid the champagne-drenched corporate orgy known as the Super Bowl, a busload of reporters found itself on a very different kind of junket. Rather than locker-rooms full of millionaire fat guys, the journalists tiptoed through cardboard shacks populated by ... More >>

  • Film

    March 24, 2011

    Jane Eyre: Cary Fukunaga's version stresses the pursuit of independence

    via Take Back the LandMax Rameau​In 2007, amid the champagne-drenched corporate orgy known as the Super Bowl, a busload of reporters found itself on a very different kind of junket. Rather than locker-rooms full of millionaire fat guys, the journalists tiptoed through cardboard shacks populated by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Labor Day Bonus: Ten Recipes From Finalists in $100,000 Burger Contest

    Hey Burger Beast, how 'bout some blueberry mustard on that?​Sutter Home is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Build a Better Burger contest by holding its high-stakes burger cook-off on September 23, at Collins Park in South Beach. The prize money this year has doubled to $100,000 for the mos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Better Halves: Interview with Ottavia Busia Bourdain

    Ottavia BourdainOttavia and her husband, Anthony Bourdain, relax with some banana daquiris at the Raleigh Hotel pool on South Beach.​If you're familiar with food porn, Ottavia's last name should ring a bell. Her husband is print, television, and most recently Martha Stewart Living radio food porno ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Miami 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 a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Satchel Paige's Years in Miami

    Courtesy of Random House​Most baseball fans are familiar with Satchel Paige, the absolutely dominant Negro Leagues pitcher who played pro baseball for 40 years. In 1948, Bill Veeck, the legendary owner of the Cleveland Indians, finally gave the 41-year-old Paige a chance to pitch in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Sometimes Vampire Love Really Sucks

    So you're a 16-year-old girl, and you desperately want to break off the illicit internet romance you've sparked with a 44-year-old vampire. What do you do? The only logical thing you can do: tell him that you're secretly a member of an elite vampire-hunting unit and that staying together would ... More >>

  • Music

    July 3, 2008

    Kill the Noise

    So you're a 16-year-old girl, and you desperately want to break off the illicit internet romance you've sparked with a 44-year-old vampire. What do you do? The only logical thing you can do: tell him that you're secretly a member of an elite vampire-hunting unit and that staying together would ... More >>

  • Music

    March 20, 2008

    Blog Rave

    The Internet and the rise of the Day-Glo, electro-hipster-house smashup.

  • Music

    December 20, 2007

    A-Sides and Ewun

    The Internet and the rise of the Day-Glo, electro-hipster-house smashup.

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    Home Groan

    It's the tops in Florida. And the banks are eating it up.

  • Calendar

    December 7, 2006

    One Tight Aperture

    It's the tops in Florida. And the banks are eating it up.

  • News

    September 28, 2006

    Daddy's Girl

    A local millionaire learns a valuable lesson: Don't sleep with your daughter and then sue her

  • Calendar

    August 3, 2006

    Kick It up a Notch

    A local millionaire learns a valuable lesson: Don't sleep with your daughter and then sue her

  • Home Entertainment

    July 6, 2006

    Bond in a Bikini

    DVD releases for the week of July 5, 2006

  • News

    May 18, 2006

    He Ain’t Pelé

    What if the world's top soccer player came and nobody showed?

  • Film

    January 19, 2006

    Now Playing

    The Libertine

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2005
  • Music

    May 19, 2005

    Universal Rhythm

    Childhood friends are spreading timba across the land via Tiempo Libre

  • Music

    January 27, 2005

    Smunk Man

    From the JBs to Van Morrison, Pee Wee Ellis continues to do his thing

  • News

    May 27, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of May 27, 2004

    Proud white trash, neocon conspiracies, and clueless reporters

  • Music

    March 4, 2004

    WMC Events

    Listings, listings, listings

  • Music

    April 18, 2002

    Playing Is Praying

    Omar Faruk Tekbilek finds the divine in the downbeat

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    El Lanzador

    Vicente Lopez was almost the Cuban Koufax

  • Film

    May 17, 2001

    Under Ogre

    Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

  • Shops and Wares

    May 11, 2000

    Best Big-And-Tall Shop

    Rochester Big & Tall

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    A Real Blowjob

    Aim giant fans toward the ocean. Irrigate Africa. Fire NOAA. And other paranoid rants from the feds' conceptually challenged file.

  • News

    November 26, 1998

    Rebuilding Beethoven

    The New World Symphony hopes to start a classical music revolution with a bunch of kids and a big idea

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    The Don

    Adrift in Miami's fierce political maelstrom, Donald Warshaw is one cool customer

  • News

    December 11, 1997

    The Jockey Club's Wild Ride

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • Music

    July 31, 1997

    Remember the Alaimo

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    News of the Weird

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • Music

    August 15, 1996

    Turning Tricks

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • News

    May 30, 1996

    Reverb

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • Culture

    April 18, 1996

    The Old College Try

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • Film

    April 11, 1996

    Eyrehead

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • Culture

    January 18, 1996

    Don't Have to Live Like a Refugee

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • Music

    October 26, 1995

    KMFDM Blows Your Top

    For two decades it was a chic hangout for South Florida's most well-to-do. Now it's a money pit with a sordid story to tell.

  • News

    October 5, 1995

    Among the Young

    Shave your head, ditch your classes, chug your beer, duck your parents, thrash your music, and don't let anyone mess with your teenage life

  • News

    May 25, 1994

    The Great Bistro Brawl

    At first Cassis restaurant looked like a South Beach gold mine for its owners. Then the bottom fell out. Now come the investigators and allegations of corruption.

  • Music

    November 10, 1993

    Seven the Hot Way

    The late, great Satchmo has his brilliant early years resurrected by a band of local jazz stars

  • Film

    May 19, 1993

    Fried Rhys

    The late, great Satchmo has his brilliant early years resurrected by a band of local jazz stars

  • News

    February 5, 1992

    There Goes the Neighborhood

    Residents of Miami's "Upper East Side" have no problem with Haitians yearning to breathe free. It's those seedy Biscayne Boulevard motels that they can't stand.

  • News

    August 14, 1991

    Politics and Power

    Residents of Miami's "Upper East Side" have no problem with Haitians yearning to breathe free. It's those seedy Biscayne Boulevard motels that they can't stand.

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