Welcome to Fall! What’s the difference between an Independence Day barbecue and a Labor Day barbecue? Around these parts, about five degrees. Seriously: Why are two distinct holidays held in different seasons celebrated via the same menu of hamburgers, hot dogs, and the like? Thanksgiving has its turkey, Easter its…
Welcome to Fall! What’s the difference between an Independence Day barbecue and a Labor Day barbecue? Around these parts, about five degrees. Seriously: Why are two distinct holidays held in different seasons celebrated via the same menu of hamburgers, hot dogs, and the like? Thanksgiving has its turkey, Easter its…
During college, I boycotted mega stores linked to exploited workers and supported Ralph Nader. After college, I cavorted with wealthy Republicans and shamefully ducked in to Wal-Mart Supercenter from time-to-time. Hopefully, the idealism of the 100-some college students traveling to Miami for a protest at Burger King headquarters Friday will…
The Lexus Leprechaun Filed under: Flotsam Early last week the embattled John Timoney suggested that a friendly guy, of Irish ancestry, could walk into a Lexus of Kendall dealership, make friends with the owner, and be granted an indefinite test drive. Well, he didn’t say that. But he expected everyone…
Govind Armstrong is likely nursing a sore wrist this morning. The 36-year-old, ever-hunky chef/ co-owner of Table 8 was poolside at the posh Crown rental community (4041 Collins Avenue) last night signing copies of his debut cook book, Small Bites, Big Nights. And the line of adoring fans clamoring for…
John and Yoko would be proud A few dozen demonstrators gathered late Tuesday in South Beach to protest the war in Iraq and rally to bring the troops home. Waving signs that read “Honk” and “Bush, Cheney, send your own kids,” the 42 volunteers from the action group moveon.org were…
Fans of Miami chef Michelle Bernstein’s culinary creations no longer have to journey to her famed Michy’s Mediterranean-style bistro to sample a taste of her talents. Beginning September 13, Delta Airlines will be serving up an exclusively crafted series of the celebrity chef’s meals to its passengers. Well, those in…
Fans of Miami chef Michelle Bernstein’s culinary creations no longer have to journey to her famed Michy’s Mediterranean-style bistro to sample a taste of her talents. Beginning September 13, Delta Airlines will be serving up an exclusively crafted series of the celebrity chef’s meals to its passengers. Well, those in…
Hey honey, let’s you and me do something about that endangered status It’s animal month at the Miami Children’s Museum, and it’s about time that you learned that bears don’t eat out of dripping jars of honey, not all lions are cowardly, and leopards are good for more than those…
A Fish-Stomping Spree Filed under: Flotsam Accounts of a porpoise hacked by a machete or an alligator gouged by a boat would likely elicit swift responses from state wildlife protectors. But a recent report of an out-of-control fish-stomping episode in Sunny Isles Beach failed to spur much action. Tracy Hendershott,…
Forget about the X-Games. Check out this video of a 17-year-old Kendall skate rat named John Olin. It’s an entertaining waste of four minutes, three seconds: –Tamara Lush…
credit May we have this dance? Where to go on a Saturday night when you’re a lonely, Cuban, senior citizen (or a person who enjoys watching lonely Cuban Senior citizens dance the night away)? Lighthouse 37, baby (the lounge, not the restaurant). If you’ve ever doubted the aphorism: life begins…
One of these guys wants to suck your blood President Hugo Chavez deserves a second nod for the “Most Memorable Use of Metaphor by a World Leader Making Verbal Attacks” award for a pair of recent barbs; the first stemming from his September 2006 verbal salvo comparing President George W…
A self-described “Coldwell Banker Couple” have started a website called Miamism.com. The purpose of the web site is unclear, but it appears to focus on things like Mediterranean revival and vague diatribes on the housing market. I don’t want to be mean here, but the site’s content would lead you…
“What is this cafe au lait of which you speak?” Maybe it was a last minute favor. Stanley Fish, a professor of law at Florida International University, filled in as a guest columnist on the New York Times’ Op-Ed page this past August 5. The piece he contributed, “Getting Coffee…
I bought a shotgun some time ago from a private detective in the hopes that I would get better at shooting clay discs out of the sky. Don’t ask me why. It fills a void –like stamp collecting, or knitting, or alligator wrestling. But there is one major obstacle in…
This morning I decided to steer my Corn Flakes away from my usual peaches and strawberries and into the direction of my favorite yellow fruit, the banana. Funny, because one of our favorite bloggers, “’Klotz As In Blood,” was also going bananas about a story out of Tasmania. Indian police…
Danza Afrocubana The picture on the right doesn’t do it justice, but at least it’s in color. If you saw it in the Herald last week, in all its black and white, inch-wide glory, you would have absolutely no idea what’s so special about it. But Danza Afrocubana, by Cuban…
Who ever heard of a vegetable oil-aholic? “We have a saying in our company: “Our competitors are our friends. Our customers are the enemy.” — A comment made in the early 1990s by Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)’s then-president James Randall, as quoted in Fast Food Nation The Archer Daniels Midland…
Who ever heard of a vegetable oil-aholic? “We have a saying in our company: “Our competitors are our friends. Our customers are the enemy.” — A comment made in the early 1990s by Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)’s then-president James Randall, as quoted in Fast Food Nation The Archer Daniels Midland…
Don’t be alarmed, South Beach residents. The suspicious substance covering a Bay Road sidewalk — you know, the one that smells like shit and looks like what went down your toilet — is not what it seems. So says Mike Alvarez in explaining the stinky water with gobs of paper…
Take one of these and don’t call us in the morning We at New Times neither advocate nor condone irresponsible behavior, but we do understand that a bottle (or two) of wine, a few candles, and a dark, storm-drenched sky can, how should we say, get you in the mood…
