Book banners get ready! Cigar Afficionado magazine is rolling out a June issue packed with Cuba news that is sure to raise hackles in our banana republic. Last time the magazine did a similar series – in June 1999 — county bureaucrats pulled it from news racks at Miami International…
Something like that I often ignore the ball-busting demands of Fortune cookies. Pursue your wishes aggressively. Ummmm, ok. And online horoscopes are vague and inconsistent. And don’t get me started on a disappointing late night call to a psychic hotline – how long can you expect a girl to ignore…
The idea of Tigertail releasing a fifth anniversary “best of” volume of its annual poetry periodical was concieved early on in the publication’s life. “It was Mitchell Kaplan’s idea,” says Mary Luft, founder of the local cultural institution. So it’s only fitting that tonight, Tigertail will celebrate the launch of…
At about one o’clock a.m. last night, I got a call that the Umoja Shantytown had burned to the ground. The call came from an a friend, someone tied into the haphazard network of activists that came together around the common cause of the shantytown. “I’m in for the long…
T-Bone and his muse When people started screaming about the flames that swept through Umoja Village last night — a homeless shantytown in Liberty City — T-Bone grabbed his radio and ran. T-Bone was one of the 44 people who lived in the camp. He had been there four months…
Last year Congress negated habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo detainees. Now the U.S. Department of Justice has requested that a DC appeals court limit civilian lawyers’ access to Gitmo clients to three visits. The DOJ has also requested the right to read correspondence between lawyers and detainees. When it opened…
Chingo Bling in all his glory On Tuesday night, I found myself sequestered inside a cacophonous display of mediocre reggaeton and rap performances at Mansion on South Beach. The nightclub was hosting the third leg of the Cuervoton nationwide talent search showcase of “up-and-coming Latino talent in hip-hop, reggaeton and…
Kickin’ it As with most things organized by teenagers and twenty-somethings, Tuesday night’s Battle of the Kicks at Buck 15 started with a flurry of last minute phone calls to figure out the grand prize and tie up loose ends. Miami’s sneaker fiends lined up outside wearing their flashiest kicks…
In my upcoming restaurant review of Acqua, in the Four Seasons Miami, I write of having ordered a main course of Szechuan-glazed “White Marble Farms pork shank,” and then go on to explain that this pastoral moniker is a brand name cooked up by Sysco marketers for industrial pork from…
In my upcoming restaurant review of Acqua, in the Four Seasons Miami, I write of having ordered a main course of Szechuan-glazed “White Marble Farms pork shank,” and then go on to explain that this pastoral moniker is a brand name cooked up by Sysco marketers for industrial pork from…
Since the late 70s, Miami has endured hurricanes, homicides, and cocaine wars. The city is a survivor, to say the least. It also may be an example for another down and out metropolis, one with just as much character and potential: New Orleans. According to a Big Easy business magazine,…
Former Hialeah abortion clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez is scheduled to be arraigned today in a Broward circuit criminal court. She is charged with practicing health care without a license. New Times published a story about the clinic this past October. According to police, forty one-year-old Gonzalez and her business partner…
It’s unclear whether Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez declined the invitation or if it was rescinded, but at last night’s NAACP meeting at the Joseph Caleb Center, the man was not there. The uproar of last month’s meeting, which featured a defiant Roosevelt Bradley protesting the forced end of his…
MCR lead singer Gerard Way Photo by Santiago Felipe So how does a vaguely punk-oriented band, bred in the usual circuit of grungy clubs, adapt to platinum-sales and an arena tour? On Sunday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, warning signs taped to the entrance doors offered a clue:…
It seemed so small of former Miami Beach Mayor Seymour Gelber to take his last shots at Bea Kalstein shortly after her death last week. “Always very friendly” he conceded about the passionate Beach activist, “but insufferable” he felt it necessary to add. “She was a regular at my podium,…
Take a very young baseball team that has not yet matured into their prime, and a very old rock band that has ripened way past theirs. Put the two together, add fireworks, and you’ve got Super Saturdays, a promotional night meant to plump attendance at Florida Marlins games. It worked…
Loft. Ego Miami. These are just two of the ambitious titles that have folded in efforts to dethrone Ocean Drive as Miami’s quintessential city magazine. Now comes 944 Miami, a hipster magazine with editions in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County. Where others have crashed and…
The Biltmore Hotel’s Sunday brunch, generally acknowledged as among the very finest in town, is now, according to press materials, “expanded” and “enhanced.” As far as we can tell, the main difference is a finer fizz, as each week a different champagne from one of France’s top producers is poured…
The Biltmore Hotel’s Sunday brunch, generally acknowledged as among the very finest in town, is now, according to press materials, “expanded” and “enhanced.” As far as we can tell, the main difference is a finer fizz, as each week a different champagne from one of France’s top producers is poured…
A quick update from the Bike Blog for anyone needing a little reaffirmation of human kindness in Miami: Last week, I wrote about a couple of times when I’d gotten a flat while biking through Overtown – in both cases, friendly passers-by had immediately offered their help. This morning, as…
This is my first lesson in Drag Queen Time. I’ve arrived at the Laundry Bar in South Beach for the Queen Cabaret troupe’s rendition of “Chicago” at 10 p.m. – right on time. None of the drag queens are here yet. The show was supposed to start by 11:30, but…
Traffic along Bird Road slowed to a crawl Thursday morning. Blaring horns and rally cries could be heard echoing over the creeping vehicles around SW Tenth Street, long before the cause had come into view. The pink coquina façade of the International Bank was obscured by an ocean of umbrella-waving,…
