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Calle Ocho 2012 music and entertainment guide, March 11

Calle Ocho 2012: An 11-Stage Music and Entertainment Guide

​It feels like only yesterday that we were shaking our hips with Gloria Estefan in a record-breaking 119,969-person conga line at Calle Ocho. But that was March of 1988, Reagan was in still office, and Miami New Times was only a fortnightly newspaper, not the massive multimedia empire that it is ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do This Weekend Under $10

Via facebook.com/surferblood​America's 9.1 unemployment rate got you down? Yeah, we're pretty bummed about that shit too. But at least the weekend's here, and there's plenty of stuff to do that's under $10. Treat yourself to a free Surfer Blood concert, or maybe tackle $0.99 beers at Miami's old ... More >>

Cuban punk rockers Gorki and Gil used music to take on Castro

Via facebook.com/surferblood​America's 9.1 unemployment rate got you down? Yeah, we're pretty bummed about that shit too. But at least the weekend's here, and there's plenty of stuff to do that's under $10. Treat yourself to a free Surfer Blood concert, or maybe tackle $0.99 beers at Miami's old ... More >>

Faking the Funk

The pundits say a new day has arrived for Miami's arts scene. Don't believe the hype.

Shake

We are the United States

Cuban Missive Crisis

For years the infamous Wasp Network collected reams of data on Miami's anti-Castro forces -- and the sundry, sometimes bizarre, attempts to infiltrate them

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of August 17, 2000

DeFede

Used, Abused, and Alone

Kulchur

Another round of Los Van Van insanity

Miami Maestro

Roberto Torres is the leader of the band, the singer of the songs, and the keeper of the Cuban musical flame

Night & Day

June 17 - 23, 1999

Letters

June 17 - 23, 1999

The New Miami Sound

It's straight from contemporary Cuba and it has taken root in a most unlikely place: Little Havana

Radio Free Miami

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

Isla de la Musica

The biggest surprise at Havana's Cubadisco '98: A burgeoning retinue of Americans hoping to cash in

Death of a Bandleader

The biggest surprise at Havana's Cubadisco '98: A burgeoning retinue of Americans hoping to cash in

A Little Help from His Friends

The biggest surprise at Havana's Cubadisco '98: A burgeoning retinue of Americans hoping to cash in

Images of Exile

No money. No filmmaking experience. No hope for commercial success. Minor details didn't stop Joe Cardona and Alex Anton from exploring their Cuban heritage.

Calendar for the week

No money. No filmmaking experience. No hope for commercial success. Minor details didn't stop Joe Cardona and Alex Anton from exploring their Cuban heritage.

Notes from the Underground

Impoverished and imperiled, Cuba's independent journalists stubbornly cling to the notion of a free press

Calendar for the week

Impoverished and imperiled, Cuba's independent journalists stubbornly cling to the notion of a free press

King of Clubs

Club Tropigala's heritage dates back to nineteenth-century Cuba, but when the curtain rises, this could only be Miami

Happy Birthday to the Blacks, the Hispanics, and the Anglos.

Much like the city itself, Miami's centennial celebration gets color coordinated

Letters

Much like the city itself, Miami's centennial celebration gets color coordinated

Land of Opportunity

Dade's property tax assessment appeals system features sloppy record-keeping, a lack of oversight -- and a whole lot of money for those who know how to ask for it

Capitalist or Commie?

How a Miami businessman got rich doing business with Cuba - and lived to shout about it

A Man Out of Time

Repeatedly sideswiped by fame, singer-songwriter Dennis Britt braces for one last lunge at the big time

The Next Wave

A dedicated group of Latin Americans breaks the sound barrier with rock en espanol

Tears of a Clown

Fredgie's quest for kids' show success hasn't exactly been a barrel of laughs -- but then again, it sure is a funny business

No Peace for Paula

In Cuba she was a symbol, the Madonna of the Counterrevolution. But in Miami, it's a different kind of fight for Paula Valiente.

Nuclear Countdown

Valdez is dreaming again