A pastelito de guayaba is a delicious, flaky, puff pastry filled with semi-gooey guava paste. To make it, you seal the dough with egg wash, bake it, then brush it with syrup for a finger stickin’, flake-stickin’-to-lip experience. They can be found at most any Latin bakery, coffee shop, or convenience store…
The Marlins Super Saturday event features a post-game concert by Of A Revolution, otherwise known as O.A.R. The band has toured the world for the past 14 years helping a mostly white college audience jam out and sing along to reggae-inspired tuneage. According to band saxophonist Jerry DePizzo, the group…
Furry bodies, segmented tails, whiskers from hell, transluscent brown wings, antennas of doom, beady black eyes; these are the visions restaurant inspectors must see in their nightmares.Luckily most of us don’t have to bear witness to these images of living disgustitude.On the other hand, we might be consuming the results…
It’s easy to feel good about having texted money to Haitian relief efforts after the January earthquake. The unfortunate reality might be that those moneys didn’t contribute to much of any actual relief.Tonight and tomorrow at Tap Tap, the public is invited to a free screening of a Frontline documentary…
For lots of South Florida folks an annual Memorial Day weekend pilgrimage to the Keys marks the beginning of summer. Hell yeah. One Dade County stop we recommend on that journey is the Last Chance Saloon in Homestead. On your way south, the adjacent package liquor store is the perfect…
STUCK ON MY FULLTIME 5-24-10 from cali stylz on Vimeo.Nobody does Memorial Day Weekend like Dade County. But, where it used to be just South Beach that saw all the action, this year more than ever the mainland will be a major part of the festivities. From the Best…
Candy, we love it, but that doesn’t mean it’s all good, at least not to everybody.In fact, there are certain popular confections, some of which have been around since the 1800s, that continue to engender hate for their flavor profiles. Somebody call the molecular gastronomists. Maybe they can explain it…
For some folks, Monday Night Raw is the time of the week that’s set aside for sex without contraceptives. For the men and women of the WWE, it’s almost the same, except with a thin layer of spandex covering their you-know-whats, million-dollar pyrotechnics, and an arena full of fans scoping…
The BP Oil Spill is now responsible for the closure of slightly more than 22 percent of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico’s “exclusive economic zone” according to the NOAA Fisheries Service. The map above represents the most recent closure data.Monday, we surveyed local toques at a meeting of…
Local Impact is a Miami-based nonprofit that networks the arts community with social organizations. In the spirit of this mission, recently it put together a program where mostly Miami bands threw down for the Easter Seals of South Florida. Older folks with varying degrees of Alzheimers were treated to sets by Xperimento,…
The W South Beach’s Living Room bar has a new bottle on the menu. It’s called fenom, and it’s a modern day absinthe bottled and distilled in France. The traditional form of the liquor is green, wormwood, highly alcoholic, and reputed to have hallucinogenic properties. Fenom is clear, has a…
Rat Pack Now are a South Florida-based music and comedy tribute act featuring a Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator. They perform around the country for corporate events, trade shows, country clubs, and are regulars at the Fontainebleau, where they have a show booked in July.We found…
Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill in Midtown Miami is a busy place on a Friday night. As Lee Klein says in his review of the place, “A tsunami of near unanimous praise has catapulted Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill to the top of Miami’s dining scene at breakneck speed.” Here’s a behind-the-line…
Now that the BP Oil Spill has hit the Mississippi Delta and toxic seas lap at unprotected marsh, Miami’s eyes are on the slick with greater fear for our coastline than even before.We spoke to more local chefs, a restaurant owner, and a fisherman too for their reactions to this…
The BP oil spill has put all of South Florida in an officially declared State of Emergency. Not long before that announcement was made, we reached out to seafood industry folks like Chef Jonathan Eismann and one of his longtime purveyors, Christopher Twiss, as part of our continuing coverage on…
Joey’s Wynwood Italian Café isn’t just the gustatory champion of Miami’s art district, it’s also as cheap as you are. Starving artists, broke freelancers, assistant district attorneys, and hungry spangers rejoice! Even we can afford to eat here. A bowl of in-house, handmade spaghetti with a juicy, herbed up tomato…
Swazy Styles is a Broward County rapper whose song “Birthday Suit,” has a beat that recalls the song from Tetris, one of the most popular video games of all time.The song has been added to programming lists at radio stations across the country, and is repped heavily down here by…
A shark can smell a single drop of blood in one million drops of water.Twenty-nine days later, and oil continues to flow from a hole 5,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. BP’s actions continue to threaten the Gulf and maybe the Atlantic’s commercial fishing industry. Today, the fishing ban widens…
This year at Artopia we awarded Gustavo Matamoros of subtropics.org a Mastermind Award for his audio experimentations.This Sunday, May 23, explore the meaning of sound at Emergency Radio Battery-Check Nightime Event, a “performative installation” that asks you to bring your own radio, tune it to 1610 AM, and walk around…
The Burger Beast threw a National Hamburger Month party at Q American Barbeque last night. Despite an evening thunderstorm that dropped lighting from Buena Vista west, a crowd still came through eat, and have drinks.The menu featured a whole lotta burgers, like The Benedict, with Canadian bacon, fried egg, hollandaise…
Crossfade Live presents live concert audio from the last nine minutes of Agnostic Front’s set from Friday’s show at Churchill’s. They were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of their first album, Victim In Pain. They closed out their all old-school set with “Gotta Go,” “Crucified,” and then Vinnie…
Ice Billion Berg is the young Trick Daddy protege on a trajectory to becoming a major name in the rap game. He has over 12,000 twitter followers, a dedicated fan base around the world thanks to the web, and Dunk Ryder Records behind him. Ever since “Fuck The Other Side,”…
