Gorge! Binge! Purge!

Go electro till you puke at the Revolver party when Miami’s favorite digital sound lab, the Schematic Music Company, invites you to Gorge! Binge! Purge! And if you don’t know about the duo behind Schematic, take note: Romulo Del Castillo and Joshua Kay have been flicking off the music industry…

Ruggish-N-Real

Snipers, impending war, and an economy that still has indigestion from eating dot-coms. But to listen to penthouse rappers like Busta Rhymes and P. Diddy telling us to “Pass the Courvoisier,” you’d think everyone is safe, rich, and happy, just like Diddy himself, “P. D-I-D-D-Y” in case you couldn’t spell…

The Preppie Pot Papers

The kitchen counter is covered in green. Two pounds of neon-bright, high-grade reefer next to its equivalent in cash, stacks of twenties totaling $8000. But three young men and one young lady, all white-Hispanic college students, are growing a bit apprehensive. The bud counts twenty grams short. “Razzmatazz,” the dealer,…

Culture Busing

Most of the politically caffeinated abuelitos loitering around Little Havana have no idea what they’re missing when the Heavy Shtetl Klezmer Band plays Miami Beach. And the typical Ms. Bal Harbour doesn’t drive the Benz to Overtown nearly enough to absorb the seductive rhythms of Afro-Caribbean folkloric dance. That’s because…