Grilling With Beer: Spare Ribs, Brats, and Braised Red Cabbage

Happy Memorial Day, Miami. If there’s sun — and the forecast calls for an end to this damn rain — you will want to grill out with an ice-cold beer in hand. But when you’re sipping on that brewski while the blazing-hot charcoals reach proper temperature, consider using beer as…

NOLA Brewing Company in New Orleans: A Photo Tour

When it comes to local beer in New Orleans, two brands that come to mind are Dixie and Abita. Neither is brewed in the city, with Dixie contract-brewed out of Wisconsin and Abita brewed on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. But there is one beer in New Orleans that…

Wilco Takes the Fillmore Miami Beach, Caps the Show With Cow Bells, May 15

See the full 26-photo slideshow of Wilco at the Fillmore Miami Beach — plus “Wilco’s John Stirratt on the Music Industry, Piracy, and Southern Manners.” Last night, Chicago-based alternative country rock band Wilco performed at the Fillmore Miami Beach for a packed house. Founders Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, and company…

Miami Triathlete Manuel Huerta Makes 2012 Olympic Team

Making it to the Olympics is a lofty dream for most athletes, but for Miami triathlete Manny Huerta, it’s now a reality. Last Saturday, Huerta competed against 70 other athletes, including six Americans, from across the globe in the ITU World Triathlon held in San Diego, finishing in ninth to…

Free Local Beer Tonight at Lokal in Coconut Grove

American Craft Beer Week is the mother of all suds lovin’ celebrations. Lokal Burgers & Beer in Coconut Grove is embracing this momentous occasion by giving over its taps to beers brewed locally in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Starting at 6 p.m., newly-opened Due South Brewing Company from…

Top Five South Florida Beer Blogs

This week, our feature story takes a closer look at Miami’s quickly rising craft beer scene. But besides the homebrew clubs and restaurants, there are the writers who are blogging about craft beer in South Florida.We want to recognize the following blogs in honor of American Craft Beer Week. Some…

Donald “Duck” Dunn, Legendary Bass Player, Dead at 70

Donald “Duck” Dunn, the famed session bass guitarist for Memphis-based Stax Records and R&B band Booker T. & the M.G.’s, died in Tokyo after performing at the Blue Note night club with fellow musician Steve Cropper. He was 70. Dunn was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1941. He met future…