There’s a perception that the vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, is incompatible with fine dining. In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami’s tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.It’s doubtful many vegans have set foot inside…
Vegans are optimists. How else would you describe people who think they can change the world simply by eating sprouts and abstaining from gummy bears? As one of these people, I decided to go to the New Times Iron Fork chef competition with an empty stomach, despite warnings from my…
When you need a dresser, don’t march like a boring bourgeois zombie toward the nearest IKEA or Target. Why bring home another lame piece of furniture when you can score one with character and history, sometimes for the same lump of loot? North Miami is a neighborhood brimming with troves…
Just days after Halloween, witness a quiet, threatening beast that has struck fear in the hearts of millions: the wild artist. The Cabinet of Dr. Strange is an art installation and performance created by Livio Tragtenberg, a Brazilian composer and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. It will be at Lincoln Road and…
If financial crises and layoffs have you down, what better diversion than a film about financial crises and layoffs, right? Everyone knows that money meltdowns are way more palatable when A-list actors at the center of drama. Get your fill of headline-based fantasy — brought to you by a star-studded…
Just days after Halloween, witness a quiet, threatening beast that has long struck fear in the hearts of millions: the wild artist. The Cabinet of Dr. Strange is an art installation and performance created by Livio Tragtenberg, a Brazilian composer and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. It will be at Lincoln Road…
You’re slowly sinking under the water’s surface, eyes open, watching the aqueous mirrored ceiling slip further and further away. Citrus-colored angel fish flit to your left and sea anemones cast out spindly appendages to your right. A marlin with a halo-like glow swishes past, grazing your skin with its slippery…
There’s a perception that the vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, is incompatible with fine dining. In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami’s tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.Celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian’s Tudor House, which opened…
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, which opened Thursday at the New Theatre as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, is the latest proof that there are infinite variations on how parents can fuck up their kids. The play, as directed by Ricky J. Martinez,…
[jump] Matthew Ragas, who played Link Larkin, Tracy’s love interest, seemed to have been born to play the delicious crooner heartthrob. Handsome and coordinated, he came pretty close to actually making us swoon when he strutted out in his sexy fitted silver-gray polyester suit, electric guitar slung over his shoulder…
Rumor has it that celebrity chef Ralph Pagano, who’s been chef de cuisine at South Beach’s swanky STK restaurant inside the Gansevoort Miami Beach for the last year, just put in his two-week notice on Monday. The buzz is that he will take an executive position at Gulfstream Park’s restaurants…
We don’t have a problem with hair-hoppers, unless of course they’re sitting in front of us during the Actors’ Playhouse production of Hairspray, the musical, at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. Set in 1962 Baltimore during the height of the segregation/integration conflicts, Hairspray tells the story of racism through the eyes…
Schneebett, German for “snow bed,” is a three-part installation that opens at the Miami Art Museum this Thursday. Based on the dying days of German composer Beethoven, it’s not the first thing we expected from an artist named Enrique Martinez Celaya. But the seed of this creation was actually planted…
There’s a perception that the vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, is incompatible with fine dining. In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami’s tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.The menu at Tapas y Tintos in midtown…
There’s a perception that the vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, is incompatible with fine dining. In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami’s tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.I hadn’t been to The Forge on Miami…
Spring Awakening is a misleadingly cheery title for the Tony Award-winning musical New World School of the Arts premiered last night at the Colony Theater. Teen suicide, incest, and abortion make us think the original play’s alternate title, A Children’s Tragedy, might have been a better fit. But it did…
An art installation based on the dying days of a German composer is not something we’d expect from an artist named Enrique Martínez Celaya. But the seed of this creation was planted in the artist’s boyhood. Though born in Cuba and raised in Spain, Martínez Celaya at an early age…
We don’t have a problem with hair-hoppers, unless they’re sitting in front of us during the Actors’ Playhouse production of Hairspray at the Miracle Theatre. Set in 1962 Baltimore during the height of the segregation and integration conflicts, Hairspray tells the story of racism through one dancing, cake-loving teen’s eyes…
Tall heels and red jeans, or Christian Dior boutique evening gown? Yes, figuring out what to wear to Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Symphony for the Dance Floor might be tricky. The Margate native has created an art piece that melds the multisensory nightclub scene with classical symphonic elements. The show mingles choreography,…
To vegans, the frights of Halloween Horror Nights have got nothing on the idea of unknowingly savoring pulverized pig parts in the form of the gelatin or glycerine commonly found in so many candies. But that doesn’t mean our plastic jack-o-lantern buckets have to go empty, or even that we’ve…
Contrary to popular belief, vegans love cupcakes. In fact, we probably love cupcakes more than the average omnivore. We go months on end conscientiously filling our plates with leafy greens, quinoa, tofu, and vibrant seasonal fruits. We stopped bothering to look at dessert menus at traditional restaurants ages ago. We see…
Have you been forced to wear secular scents since running out of the signature perfume of your favorite patron saint? Well then, it’s time to make a run to Trois Rivieres, a friendly, handy Haitian voodoo supply store in North Miami. There you can replenish all your heavenly parfums at…
